*12 Stones of Magic*

[Tamber]

Rhea's eyes widened at the sight of the tiny tooth-shaped rock. It was quite interesting, and she began to wonder where it came from, and how it had come to be so powerful. The lioness picked the rock up and examined it, looking around it for a way inside. She then echoed the winged lion's words. "Yeah...how do we get it out?"
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Kaemon felt a bit more at ease with Indigo safe and out of the picture. But he could still see the cloud, and by this time, he could tell that someone or something supernatural was controlling it. He only wished he had gotten the chance to ask his bird.

As the wolf watched suspiciously, he was amazed to see the cloud suddenly disappear. With that, a large animal began to fall, a long, tiger-like tail flowwing behind it, and the animal then appeared to land easily upo its feet from a hundred feet in the air.

The wolf stepped back and out of the way as the tiger landed, and seeing the cat, his hair stood on end a bit, as it often did when he was aroused. Part of Kaemon wished for his birds to stay away and protected, but his wishes got the best of him. It was instinctive for him to look for assistance when threatened, so his strongest two birds besides Indigo, Tenor and Ace, appeared upon his shoulders. He was a bit disappointed in himself for this, knowing the birds were at risk. But he still had that part of him that was just greatful they were there in his company.

The tiger didn't speak for a good while, which peeved the wolf. "I suppose you're waiting for me to speak?" he said in his slightly annoying voice. "I'd expect you to start the converesation, since you were the one who fell from your fabulous cloud to see me," Kaemon said sarcastically.

[Kirsui]

She knew they would ask. Lumiar would have asked herself if she wasn't the one telling these things to ther current traveling companions.
<<Why... We have to break it.>>
She glanced at them both.
<<When I told I could not find these stones alone, I was not lying. What I could do to that stone is to make it easier to break it, but I do not have the power to do the actual breaking.>>

The white lioness walked up to the tooth shaped rock and circled around it. When she had made a full circle, she took a deep breath and slowly begun to blow on the stone. At first nothing seemed to happen, but when looked closely one could see something sparkle in the air that she blew out of her mouth. When the air touched the stone, a layer of frost appeared on it. Afer a few more moments there was ice on it.

Lumiar closed her eyes and stood still, continuing to blow on the stone. Surprisingly enough the ice didn't form only to where she blew, but it begun to appear on other parts of the rock too. She kept this going until almost every part of it was covered in ice.

And then she stopped.
<<The rock is froze from the inside>> she told without opening her eyes.
<<A sharp hit, and it would break.>>

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Skell stood still, watching in amusement at the canine's reaction. There were birds around this canine now, when a moment ago there had been none. If the dark tiger wasn't badly mistaken, this canine had created them.

Then the canine spoke, and Skell smirked faintly.
"I assume you sent that feather ball of yours to spy on me...?" he stated, ignoring the canine's words.
"Interesting creatures, these ravens are..."
He paused, the smirk disappearing as his bright red eyes narrowed slightly.
"Why are you here, dog?"

[Tamber]

Seeing Lumiar freeze the stone was quite incredible. Rhea had never seen the lioness use any powers before. It was bewildering, and she almost wihed she could see what else Lumiar could do.

Then the lioness suggested that if the rock were to be struck sharply, it would break open. Rhea was eager to see just what this rock looked like and how powerful it really was, so she was the first one to react. She reached behind her and picked up a good-sized rock. Clenching it in her fist, she slammed in down toward the rock, opening her paw at the last second so the rock struck the tooth-shaped one fiercely. Rhea looked down to see what looked like a dark, shattered tooth, and someting truly amazing underneath its shell.
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The wolf shrugged at the tiger, a smirk growing on his face at the fact that he thought Indigo had been spying on him. "Well, I don't know about spying, per say. You have to admit, a speedy, black cloud out in the middle of everything is something to be curious about, right, tiger?" The wolf glared at him with his signature patronizing expression.

"As for what I'm doing here, I don't see why that's any more pressing a story than the reason you're here, hm?" The ravens on his shoulders began to loosen up a bit, feeling more comfortable and stable i the situation, and knowing no one was too hostile...yet, anyway.

[Kirsui]

Lumiar's ear twiched at the sound of movement. Quickly she took a small step backwards, and a short moment after that she heard the impact when stone hit stone. The angelic lioness tilted her head upwards slightly before letting a faint sigh. She smiled and opened her eyes, to see the "black tooth" shattered into smaller pieces.

So far so good. Lumiar approached the shattered rock, bewaring of the razor sharp edges. She saw from her eyecorner as Rhea stared at what the black tooth had hidden inside, and then turned her full attention to what indeed it was.

Among the shattered pieces of the black rock there laid a perfectly round stone. It was about half the size of a paw and its shining surface was bright yellow. Though it couldn't be seen in the full day light, Lumiar knew it was glowing the same colour that the stone was. Surrounding the stone was a golden frame, and from this frame came a black leather string with which it could be carried like a necklace.

<<I think that as it was you revealing this beauty>>, Lumiar begun, picking the yellow stone and placing it down in front of Rhea, <<it would be should be you to carry it too.>>

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Skell smiled pleasantly with a chuckle at the canine's reply.
"Why I am here...?" he asked, tilting his head to the side sligtly.
"Let me tell you why I'm here, dog... I am tracking a small group of felines, lions as a matter of fact."

He paused, inwardly grinning at what he was letting out of his mouth. The grin didn't reach his expression, but the pleasant smile remained.
"It happens to be that this said group is up to no good. I would stay away from them if I was you. Last time they met a canine the poor thing was found torn into small pieces the next day."

He now allowed his smile to widen slightly and become a grin.
"SO, as I said... If I was you I'd stay away from them. You'll recognize them easily, they contain at least one pure white lioness as well as a winged lion. Not very easy to miss, don't you think?"

[Judas]

The assassin remained silent through the entire ordereal, he didn't have the strength to break this rock. But it seemed someone in the group had, none other than Rhea. "Good job.." the angel lion remarked with a faint smile.

As turned his gaze the savanna around him, nothing in the area had changed and the mountain had remained silent for now. Perhapse it was calming down, though the assassin didn't want to take any chances as nature is unpredictable at best.

"So, where do we find the 11 other stones?" Altaïr asked, he asking an afull lot of questions now, but he just wanted get through with this quest so he could go back to his normal duties.

[Tamber]

Rhea was wide-eyed at what she saw. The beautiful glowing yellows and golden colors were so much to behold. The stone was like a large marble, with beautiful leather attached to it, waiting to be found and worn proudly. Imagine her happiness and surprise when Lumiar allowed her to hold it herself. Rhea could hardly believe her ears. This rock was, for the time being, sort of her's.

"Oh, wow," she said happily. "Awesome! I'll keep it very safe...promise." She picked the stone up with her paw, feeling the smooth surface and gazing into the bright yellow light it let off. She placed the leather cord around her neck and looked down to the stone with pride as it fell against her chest comfortably. Rhea felt incredibly powerful and important holding this treasure. She couldn't wait to see what would come next in this journey.

She then sat back and waited for a reply to Altaïr's inquiry.
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The so called "tracking" of the group interested Kaemon. Why would this group be no good? What threat did they pose to the tiger? And why was the tiger the one looking for them so vigorously?

The wolf chuckled slightly with the tiger. "No, not hard to miss, perhaps, but not necessarily frightening, either," he said with a shrug. "Regardless of what they've done to canines before, they wouldn't be seeing the same old puppy in my company.

"If I may be curious," he continued, "Exactly what has this group done to prove that it is 'no good?' What, or who, are they threatening?"

[Sarafina]

Ravenna watched the others in shock. She wasnt eaxactly watching where she was going at the moment. She tripped over a rock and rolled into view of the others. "Ugh..." shesaid softly. She looked at the others and gulped. "I....I" she couldnt say anything. She shook her head and looked at them. She was frozen at the moment. Her body layed on the ground and she sighed. She wanted to be dead right now.