The Black Sands

[Ultrawolf]

Dusk followed the guard to a lookout post.
"Hmm I don't see anything...."

Sudden darkness overwhelmed the outpost.
Some large mass had covered the sun causing an eclipse.
Not the moon. No the moon did not look like that...what was it?

The ground quaked.
"What?"
Dusk stumbled around.
The lookout post began to fall. Before Dusk began to fall he looked once more out at the Black Sands. He beheld a floating pyramid.

[Tobias]

Tobias stopped as the pyramid loomed overhead.

"What, praytell is that?!?!??!"

[Girkon]

"Woah now that is very unexpected" Girkon chirped as he was beating the crap out of the guards. He could feel it in his skin, even without his sword the magical energies eminating from the pyramid were beyond any normal means. "Somehow this will not end well for any of us."

[Ultrawolf]

Beams of energy ejected from the pyramid and began to make their way to the Outpost.

Dusk stared at the pyramid and his mind began to race.
He opened his mouth to shout something, perhaps a warning.
It didn't matter much.
The beams were down upon the outpost in an instance.
Buildings bursting into flames. The whole town under attack.
Fire everywhere within split seconds. People dead before they could blink. Everyone was dead. Save Dusk, Tobias, and Damion.

They seemed to have been lucky enough to be in a dead zone. The beams missing them barely. Everything else laid to waste.

The ground began to quake. A portal emerged in the burning remains of the town.


Elsewhere:
The last guard was defeated at Girkon's hands. As the last guard took his final breath, the ground quaked near him as well and a similar portal materialized near him.

[Girkon]

Girkon took deep breaths as his foes lay defeated. Mostly dead or injured, but it was a moot point as the pyramid had made sure of the towns destruction. "Hmph this takes the fun out of it all." Girkon then rose his hand into the air and as if giving a mental call, his sword flew back to his reach. Grasping and sheathing it he looked to the portal opening before him. "I know dad....I can feel it. Strong magicks in the air. I say it almost feels like home heh heh." As he pondered this he looked around, seeing no place for him to escape to should the pyramid attack again. Girkon stepped back and braced himself. "I hope i'm right about this." Wasting not a second more girkon took a leap and fell into the portal. Hoping the other side would not rip him to shreds.

[Ultrawolf]

The portal did not rip him to shreds. Instead it transported him deep within the pyramid. Surrounded by darkness, yet he could hear a clattering and a clicking of some creature or creatures moving within the darkness.

Torchs erupted with light surrounding him. Scorpions crawled around the ground. Ahead of him lay an archway into another, larger room. To his left a smaller arch into another room. To his right were stacked vases and urns.

[Tobias]

Tobias steps through the portal, only to be taken to a different city in all. As he passes through, he watches a lone warrior stride through a different portal.

He felt the feeling of familiarity click in the back of his mind.

The sword lay in fire, unchanging in the unsurmountable heat. a nearby explosion gleamed on, and the sword was gone. The wanderer had reclamped his weapon onto his back, and felt everything coming back into focus. The pain in his leg seemed to recind even more, as he walked into the portal, following the man who strode in behindhim.

[Girkon]

*huff Huff Huff* "Wow what a trip....almost too much for these eyes o mine heh heh." Girkon collapsed against a stone wall whereever he was. Surprisingly the travel through the portal had left him drained, not physically but spiritually. "I see....it has a much stronger lure to the unnatural. It's nothing...but I have a feeling it will cause trouble if I stay too long." Girkon looked at one of the scorpions with hungry eyes. He quickly scooped it up and tore at it's outer shell. He took small ravenous bites out of it. A hunger in him almost driving him into a state of frenzy. No sooner had that happened, that he composed himself and got out of that room he was in. "Dad...there is something very wrong about this place...I can sense it. It's almost benign, yet wishes to have us go on. For once i'm glad I have you around." Suddenly he could hear a sound from down the hall. Girkon crept closer with a tense eye and baited breath.

[Damion]

Damion was more hesitant than the wanderer, walking a full circle around the portal and examining it from all sides. Carefully, he picked up a burning chunk of wall and poked it through the rear side of the portal, to see what would happen.

[Ultrawolf]

Tobias entered the Pyramid's interior behind Girkon.
The chunk of wall hit him in the back.

Girkon could hear a chittering, the sound of more scorpions or other creatures no doubt. Yet the chitting seemed to get louder as he crept down the hall. The sound stopped suddenly. Then a large claw smashed through the wall in front of Girkon. The chittering increased again.