Descend and Ascend

[nintendonut1]

Everything within John froze up. He looked for a twitch, a glow, something to indicate that it worked. He didn’t know what it looked like, on account that he was kind of dead when it happened to him.

The pause lasted too long. It didn’t work. They did something wrong and it didn’t work. Wax’s howl dug into him, and he sagged to his knees, eyes wide and horrified by what he had done—

But then points of light surrounded Nepeta, and blue eyes drenched in tears turned up to watch the show of lights and color.

When she settled, John did so too, leaning back against the wall, his eyes fleetingly shutting in the largest amount of relief.

“It worked,” he breathed out an answer to Wax’s question. “She’s okay… she’ll be okay.”

Thank god. Thank all the gods in all the universes ever.

[ryocker]

Eyes filled with fire, Wax's expression slowly began to perk up. "...she's okay... SHE'S OKAY!!!" he screamed, wrapping his body around John, forgetting his ember tears. "Man was I worried- Nepeta's okay! She's alright!"

His sharp looking teeth were stuck on grin. He was just too happy to truly care- he just had to be happy! No two ways about it! "GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR GOALS, GIRL!" he shouted, unusually loud for someone made out of black slime. "I'm not even sure she can hear us anymore- I just know she deserves that."

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John limply rocked in Wax’s rowdy embrace, only leaning back to prevent getting burned by his fiery tears. Relief quickly washed over him, and he let the horror completely melt away as Wax celebrated.

Soon enough, he straightened up when he heard soft beeping. Catchaloguing Nepeta’s claws for now, John brought out his lunchmuffs, digital keyboard popping up under his fingers and screen flashing into view from his glasses, allowing Wax to clearly see it. He smiled at the olive green text, responding immediately.

-- arsenicCatnip [AC] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at ??:?? --

AC: :33 < john! john are you there?
AC: :33 < please say something
EB: nepeta!!
EB: oh god you're okay.
AC: :33 < oh good! h33 h33, i felt like you might be worried about me
AC: :33 < but dont be! im just fine!
EB: holy shit i got so scared you don't even know.
AC: :33 < oh... im sorry to have made you f33l that way
EB: so, is this how it works? you leave this body behind?
AC: :33 < oh my body is still there?
EB: yeah!
AC: :33 < just kind of
AC: :33 < sl33ping i guess?
EB: uhhhhh.
AC: :33 < i guess so! im here floating in this bright blue place
AC: :33 < oh yeah!!! i have wings now! i furgot to mention that!
EB: oh, skaia, right?
EB: nice!!
AC: :33 < yeah its skaia, h33 h33! *ac flies around with her new wings showing them off*
AC: :33 < anyway
AC: :33 < i have some business to attend to
EB: lucky!!
AC: :33 < so i will s33 you in a little while!
EB: okay, so, does this mean we'll meet back at the communal hive?
AC: :33 < yeah, i will be back there, and i will have a surpurrise for you!
EB: another surprise??
EB: oh man, i'm excited!
AC: :33 < i am full of surpurrises john!
EB: your surprises are always the best!
EB: oops i mean,
EB: surpurrises!
AC: :33 < h33 h33! i think you will appurreciate this one the most!
AC: X33 < s33 you soon, meowrail!
EB: by33!!

-- arsenicCatnip [AC] ceased pestering ectoBiologist [EB] --[/size][/b]

[ryocker]

Wax was a bit shocked at first- technology wasn't exactly something any monster world he could've come from had to offer. ...okay, maybe ONE. But Wax wasn't from there.

Giggling a bit, Wax read through the sudden holographic screen, amazed by what he was looking at. "Man that's an amazing pair of earwarmers." he noted, smiling at Nepeta's playfullness. Man, he missed her already.

Once the byes were said, Wax laughed quite the bit. "That's our Nepeta, alright! Still alive and well- Oh, ah... except in here..." he quickly noted, scratching the back of his head. "Anyway, I'm guessing we're done in here, so let's scramoose, yeah?" he grinned, heading out.

Once they were back outside of the heart temple and were back in familiar cave territory, Wax snapped... strange as it seems with lucid fingers. "Oh yeah, almost forgot! I've been meaning to ask you something- what were those... sparkly things you and Nepeta got after you toasted those... those imps back there?" he asked, scratching the top of his head. "And what exactly do they do?"

[nintendonut1]

"Heh, yeah..." John chuckled as he put his lunchmuffs away. "Her dream self is woke up, with some pretty sweet-ass powers!" He stood, gingerly noting the blood still on his pants but tried to ignore it. "I went through the same thing. We'll be seeing her later, after she attends to her business, whatever it is!"

He nodded to Wax's proposal; there wasn't much else left to do in here. He tried not to be remourseful when he glanced back at Nepeta. She was okay. He would see her soon.

"Huh? Oh!" John replied, "That was grist! In our game, we use it in alchemizers to build things! It's kind of complicated, haha."

[ryocker]

Wax's slime movement suddenly stopped. "...that almost sounded like... Wait, you guys have been using alchemy, the process of taking two or more objects and turning them into a single unit?!" Oh man. Alchemy was completely awesome! that stuff had to be cool- what's better than taking a pair of objects and meshing them into a single source?

Man, simply having a friend capable of being able to use Alchemy somehow was cool- Wait. any two objects...

"John, this... might be a bit of a sick move," Wax began, eyeing him in a... almost freaked out manner. "but I think I can supply you with something to alchemize. What do you think?" Wax crossed his arms, waiting for an answer. "And no- it's not going to be something you can find just anywhere- it's something so rare that I'm one of only a few who will give it to you- and you've actually got me on your side!" he chuckled, grinning.

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"Uhhhh, yeah, I guess that's what it is!" John answered, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. "It kinda involves these huge-ass machines and cards and junk. Personally I think it's stupidly complicated, but eh. Lotsa things in life are complicated I guess..."

Wax cut his rambling off, and John straightened up. "Oh! Oh wow, rare building material?? Dude, lemme have it!"

[ryocker]

"Alright," Wax answered, a serious look on his face. "but don't forget that i told you this was gonna get a bit sick." Wax closed his eyes and did what seemed to be a form of rejuvinating pose, like meditation. soone afterward, the crater on his left side began to close up, and Wax started to become very, very tense. His left arm had shrunken back into his body, and it seemed like he was trying with everything in his being to take whatever was in his shoulder out.

Involuntary bursts of flame started spitting out of his right crater, Waxevius's... whatever it was starting to become visible from the open hole. it looked extremely red in his now horribly spascious left half- and in a final act of removing that thing, he stuck his right arm into the hole, took a huge breath, and pulled it out with a disturbing POP coming afterward.

Wax limped over, left half a giant crater, a large round black orb convulsing in his right hand. it was billiowing smoke and small bits of fire- the center of it was completely red colored, the result of massive heat being stored inside of it. The strange little orb was also doing something a bit sick- convulsing, spitting a bit of fire when it would shrink.

What Waxevius just managed to pull out of his body was a Magma Pouch, a higher Ignewax's source of fire attacks. But for the purpose of SBURB and ITS COMPLETE AWESOMENESS, it shall be called a MAGMUS SPHERUS when reffered to by SBURB players. "Haaaaah," Wax huffed, the ball in his hand still spitting up. it seemed like it would never stop doing that (hint: it never will). "Hoooo boy, that... that was a lot more work than I wanted to put up with for one day." he sighed, eyeing it. "And careful- it might have a protective layer, but this thing is one hot potatoe regardless. You don't want to put your fingers on it, to say the least."

[nintendonut1]

"Ooh..." John flinched back a bit, biting his lip at the display. Geez... he wouldn't have been so eager to take it if he had known Wax would be put through this. Still, when the MAGMUS SPHERUS was offered to him, the only right thing to do was to take it.

"Aw man... I can't wait to see what we can make with this thing!" Taking Wax's warning into consideration, John used a very small, very brief, but very hearty breeze to sweep the ball of heat into a sylladex card. There it would be safely kept until he needed it. "Thanks!"

[ryocker]

"Not a problem," Wax grinned, slowly sealing up the hole he made. "And don't worry- It's not that big of a deal. My whole body's regenerative, including my magma sacks, so it's kinda like a Lizard giving his tail away for those who need it."

Before long, bubble started to blow up from the craterless side, then proceeded to open up to a large burst of fire- his crater, and missing magma sack, had been reformed. "See? Nothing huge!"

Just before he continued along, he got another idea. "Oh, and I'm also gonna have to ask you a favor- can you figure out a way to make that thing emit stronger fire? Possibly strong enough it becomes blue?"

(OOC- yeah, I know. they need an Alchemiter to do all of that stuff- What are the chances one's lying around in the caves? XD)

[nintendonut1]

(heh, not very likely. XD We'll discuss alchemizing fun at a later time)

"Oh... right! Okay." Man, after everything he saw the ignewax go through, one would think John would recognize Wax's self-regenerating powers. Haha. Sometimes he thought he wasn't as smart as people gave him credit for.

"Hmm... well, I'd be able to tell you once we get an alchemizer," he replied, shrugging. "I think Jade and Dave are working on getting that set up. Not sure, though?"

As they entered the regular caves again, he glanced around furrowing his brow. "Ngh... it's gonna take us forever to get back to the surface."

[ryocker]

"Need the thing to Alchemize with, huh..." Wax visibly sighed. "The only reason i bring it up is because I sorta need a more powerful one for a certain something i want to accomplish."

That's about when John mentioned "it taking forever." "Hey now, I thought you'd LIKE talking with a monster for a change, rather than beating one up." he laughed, looking down on his friend. "Don't worry- Hop on my back. I can get us up pretty fast, as long as my heart's burning strong. The hotter, the faster I move!"

[nintendonut1]

"Hmm... well, I'm sure we can figure something out! I'll keep you posted once we start alchemizing!"

John bit his lip anxiously, thinking he had offended. "Aw shit, no, I didn't mean it like that! I just kinda, you know, miss the open sky. Haha, I guess it's a windy-boy thing." Upon thinking about it, he noticed that he HAD spent more time outdoors on this island than otherwise.

"Huh? Oh, really?" John quickly lit up, clamboring onto Wax's back. "Ahaha, sweet! Let's go!"

[ryocker]

Once John had clamoured ont his back, Wax bent over. His slime trail began to extend ouward- and he skillfully moved his magma Sacks toward the back, a set of Craters popping up. Before too long, Wax looked like a huge Jet-ski.

"Hold on to your pants, John!" Wax joked, actually having full grip on the boy. Fire began ejecting itself from his backside, and he himself pushed his slime forward at an alarming rate- all in all, they were going much faster than originally.

[nintendonut1]

"WhhhhoooOOOAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA~!!"

Holding onto Wax tightly, John laughed with wild abandon as they rocketed through the caves. Upon reaching the entrance, they blasted into the sky and the heir of breath whooped and hollered.

And, briefly, he seemed like any normal 13-year-old.

(OOC: are we done here?)