Shadows of the past

[Shadow]

Shadow nodded, his mind away thinking about the layout of the cemetary. "Hmm.... crepsley...crepsley... Shadow stood up. "i think there is someone of that name around, but he'd be in the other end of the cemetary..."

((do you want to find him? or do you want to make the plot thicken...))

[Cloud Strife]

strife took a glance at his watch and smiled,"well...i need to go...see ya!" in the real fact, he wanted to leave shadow and ariadne together and enjoy the quietness. strife whistled and Snow came swooping down. strife got on his pegasus and smiled at shadow and ariadne,"
adios!" Snow took off and soared into the night smoothly.

[Shadow]

Shadow nodded. "See ya." Looking at ariadne, he sighed. "I dont think anyone by that name is buryed here, But we can search if youd like." he looked at his familyies grave's one last time, nodded his head to them, and looked away. "Come on, if he's in here, then he'd be at the far end."

[Ariadne]

Ariadne waved goodbye as Strife flew away on his pegasus. She then turned to look at Shadow and nodded. She suuddenly grew pale again. And her hands started trembling slightly. Ariadne nodded at Shadow. "yeah..lets get moving."

[Shadow]

Shadow Shrugged. "allright, lets go." he began to walk towards the far end of the cemtary, using the gravestones for support. Eventually, they made it to the other end. shadow stood as tall as he could, trying to get a better look of his surroundings. his face paled with shock.
"uhhh... Ariadne... You'd better get over here and look at this..." he pointed to a grave in another row, which was open.
Walking over to it, Shadow knelt shaking his head in disbelief. "t-this grave was opened... from the inside..."

[Ariadne]

Ariadne followed Shadow silently. Her eyes roamed the cementary but she couldnt find that gravestone. As they came to a stop Shadows face became extremely pale. It was as if he seened a ghost. Shadow then pointed to a gravestone as she walked towards it she read the fatal gravestone of "Alexander Crepsley." Ariadnes face turned pale as well. It wasnt even the fact that she had found it it was the fact that the grave was open from the inside. Ariadnes legs began to tremble. She never heard the words Shadow spoken to her. Her senses began to fail her so did much of her strength. Ariadne fell to the floor on her knees. Her arms were the only support she had as tears fell from her face. "Th..th...that cant be." Ariadne mumbled.

[Shadow]

Shadow caught her as she fell, loking at her intently. "ariadne... are you ok?" He shook his head. "dont worry, As long as Im around, you will be safe from bodily harm. but..." he trailed off. this man obviously wanted to harm her mentally. lets hope we can prevent the seeds of maddness from being planted... "Dont worry ariadne, you and I will hunt this man down and Destroy him, no matter the cost. he looked up at the sky. It had begun to rain, softly, but cold. "Come on, lets get out of this rain... " he looked at her and sighed.

[Ariadne]

Ariadne didt get to fall to the ground since Shadow had cought her as she almost fell. Ariadne looked at his face and sighed. "How can I be...okay." She said through sobs. Ariadne gave him a small smiled and embraced Shadow. "Thanks Shadow...for everything." She whispered in his ear. She then let go of him. And began walking slowly. The rain didnt bother her at all. She felt as everone of the cold soft drops fell against her body. Ariadne ran her hand through her hair and wondered how she will get out of this. But she was thankful that Shadow will be by her side.

[ghoul]

Some distance away from the pair, the hungry dead were rising from their graves. This was no easy task for them, their half-rotten muscles straining to dig through the dirt that has been weighing them down for what seemed like eternal rest. One of them had succeeded, a tad faster than the rest, maybe because he was a fresher corpse, maybe because his body was just that much stronger than the rest. Whatever the reason, this one made it out, and felt the presence of prey nearby. An incoherable groan escaped his decapitated throat as Quincy Flaberjast, as his gravestone read, dragged his way towards the pair of visitors of a defiled grave, running a rotting tongue across his teeth, making sure that they are sharp as ever, perfect for biting something in half, a human limb for example.

[Shadow]

Shadow returned the embrace. "anytime." He wathced her begin to walk away, but movement alerted him. Shadow turned, and upon hearing the groans of something terrible, he dahsed over to Ariadne. "Ariande! Prepare for battle!" He pointed, and even though the... thing... was moving at a slow pace, it was still moving. Shadow looked at it again, categorizing it in his memory and finding a match. "its a Zombie! Weak against fire and light. Nothing else will be able to destroy it, and water will only make it angry." He searched in his pouches..."what! Impossible!" he looked at ariadne. "I have run out of flashes and flames, and I cannot summon elements." Shadow looked around. "but if i can light something on fire..." He picked up a large-ish branch, equal to about half of his arm's length. He felt the end. "dang... its wet... " He kept an eye on the approaching undead, but his voice went to ariadne. "can you make fireballs? If so, then throw them at our assailants as you retreat. they cannot be killed, not permanently anyways, except by sunlight... But they can be burnt." he uttered a short laugh. "if you can summon the element of light that would be great... but i dont even know if the king can do that..." he sighed. "so we are probably going to have to wait for sunlight or run really fast." A gleam caught into his eye. "but i would like to see if we can defeat some of them... And I hope to god that they arent magic resistant..."

[Ariadne]

Ariadne looked up and back at Shadow as she heard his alarmed voice. She saw him pointing at something in the far distance and squinted her eyes to see the form of movement. He said of something being a zombie. Ariadne sighed. "Just great!" she said sarcastically. She wasn't in much hopes today and then to top it all off she was going to get attacked by zombies. "Stupid dead people" she mumbled. Ariadne looked back at Shadow and took a few paces back so there side to side. "I know how to make a light beam." Ariadne suggested. "Not as powerful as a light ray though. But I do know how to make fireballs."

[ghoul]

Quincy picked up his pace, dragging most of his weight on one leg, seeing as the other one was nearly coming off. The pair noticed the Undead nearing them and one of them began saying something in a language long forgotten by the reanimated corpse. "Aeiouy" said the being, attempting to communicate something to the pair. "Eat..." the zombie managed to force out of its misshapen mouth as he got within an arm's length of the girl.

Right then, more shapes began to appear behind Quincy and all around the pair of alarmed visitors. It was not wise to end up in a graveyard when the Dead walk. The shapes began to close in upon Ariadne and Shadow, forming a tight circle. Gurgles and other unclear sounds could be heard all around as the zombies anticipated a fleshy meal.

At one point in the circle, a small squabble broke out as one of the Undead tried to push its way through the crowd. An angry fellow of his swung at the unfortunate creature's neck, sending his head rolling off to the feet of the mages. A dull roar rose from the direction from where the head came as several walking dead lunged at the body, content with rotten flesh on the contrary to that of the living.

[Shadow]

((do you prefer zombie, or undead?))
Shadow, seeing the head, kicked it, and sent it flying away. preparing a magical defense, he turned to araidne. "i think we are going to have to retreat. This isnt going to work, but we are going to need to fight our way out." he looked at the first one that had reached them. "that looks like the strongest, most...recently killed... one, Ithink we sould focus our efforts on him fir-" he leapt to the side as one of the zombies lurched forward, and crescent kicked it into the ground, were it fell apart. kicking the parts, which were still moving, aside, and noted how the others fell amongst eachother. "hmm.... we can use this to our advantage..." He smiled, and formed a Solid 'disk' of energy. He pushed that into the group, where it flew around, cutting zombies in half. Noticing the zombie go for ariadne, he shouted out;" On your left!" But his attention divided, and the disk disapeared. he closed his eyes. "we could use Chao's help here...." shadow re-inforced the magical sheilds around him and ariadne, and whistled four times, simultaneously sending out a mental call. Chao.... you are needed... greatly...

[ghoul]

((I don't exactly see how anything could fall apart by it being kicked...))

The disk wreaked havoc among the zombies. Their torsos fell off of their legs, as the two separate parts clumsily attempted to continue their way towards the mages, one of which was still seemingly dumbstruck by the scene, the other fighting madly. The legs clumsily tottered back and forth without a body to direct them, while the body tried to crawl towards its prey using only its hands. Meanwhile, only more zombies appeared out of the graves. Over ages and ages of burying their dead at that cemetery, the Avaren residents have created quite an army of Undead, all in different stages of rotting. Some were skeletons, their pearly bones showing through remains of what once was clothing. Others were the dead buried within the past month, their skin pale and only beginning to be touched by mold.

Quincy, using the opportunity of the man being preoccupied with the rest of the zombies, swung at Ariadne with full power, using a force that had been demonstrated some time ago. Simultaneously, two other zombies did the same to Shadow, another one lunging at him, teeth bared, hoping to get the first bite.

[Ariadne]

Ariadne watched as the zombies got closer and closer to her. One even mumble .."Eat" She watched as their decaying body got closer and closer to her and Shadow. Shadow was quik to act, but Ariadne wasnt. She couldnt move she was literally frozen with fear. Until the lead zombie decided to swing in her direction. Ariadne grabbed the large-ish branch Shadow had discarded a few moments ago and swung at the arm that was being swung at her. She then swung with the same branch at two other zombies that were going to attack Shadow. The swing was directed at the two zombies mid-section.

OOC: Since the body is decayed it would be very easy to kick it and it falls apart, such as what happened with