"Well... as a guy, what can I say? Feel free to run around naked any time."
Roger smirked, shrugging as he walked on. There wasn't even a response before he stopped, though, frozen in his tracks as he beheld the veritable wall of verdure, eyebrow almost hopping straight off his head with the speed he raised it.
Looking up, he found that the wall was taller than he was. Taller, in fact, than he would be on his toes and stretching his arms up. A most uncomfortable notion.
The girl asked what it might be, seemingly to empty air. Roger hadn't much to do but to answer thruthfully.
"Beyond a wall of greenery? I haven't the slightest idea." He said bluntly, then grabbed her by her upper arm. "But I do suggest we leave as soon as possible. Natural phenomenae we'll have time for later, and I'm getting seriously bad vibes here. Trust me, I never vibes. Therefore it is safe to assume that when I do get them they're to be heeded. We are not far from the beach: according to Murphy's law, this is where things should start going bad for us."

((I put in a HUGE picture in the 'appearance' part of my first post.))

Lenore raised a brow. "Oh, who's getting jumpy now?" She teased, though she happened to be having the same very bad feeling, and it showed on her face. Not a normal sort of feeling, but as he had described it, a vibe. Something that made your senses tingle.

"What if you're just getting worked up over nothing?" She looked up at him, eyes growing wider the longer they stood. "We just have to find the shelter. Where are we supposed to go to get away from this 'vibe"? What if we just fall into trouble anyway?!" Now she was a bit panicked, optimism failing horribly.

"Well the grass is always greener right?" asked Conner, rhetorically, "Do you have anywhere to go? Like a little fort or something somewhere? Cause I got nothing. I did find some hot springs though, if only I hadn't been interupted by that scream I would of gladly taken a nice dip," he added as he turned to look at the mountains, "I wonder if the cave system in these mountains has a terran opening? If there is we would have a place to stay." Turning back he added, "I didn't mean to embaress you by the way. Its kind of obvious your in shape," Conner said as he held his pale white arm up to her darker one and seeing that there was an obvious gap between muscle masses, "See what I mean?"

Kitten didn't see much difference at all, except for the tan of course. "I-it doesn't really matter who's stronger." She said with a reassuring, and partially embarassed, smile. However, it abated slightly. "And...no I don't have any where to go...I'd just been walking along the beach when I found your footprints...and I-I decided to f-follow them." She scratched at the back of her head, hoping he didn't think she was crazy.

"I d-don't like to be alone...But I have a really hard time with making friends..." She shrugged her small shoulders as she spoke. "I guess it takes stranding on an island in the middle of nowhere in order to get me to speak up." She laughed nervously.

"Well...anyway, I guess we could go look for caves..." She nodded. "I'll be kind of slow because of my injury, but I won't complain and I'll keep up as best as I can." Kitten smiled again.

"Thanks for the compliment," Conner replied as he moved his arm away from Kittens, "I don't know if that is the smarted thing, following random footprints but it didn't turn out bad this time, thats for sure. Hey, atleast you have made one friend, me and what ever speed is fine with me, I'm just glad to have someone to talk to," he added, as he reached out with his right hand to help her to her feet, "If you need to you can lean on me." Next he started off slowly towards the growing mountain range, "What do you think will happen to us on this island?" he asked trying to start a conversation to pass the time. Using his left hand, he knocked back the last remaining branches and leaves as they stepped out of the forest at the base of the small mountain.

"If we die, we die, and that's that. If we stand around here, though, we never even tried to prevent it. I suggest we continue in the direction we were headed from the beginning."
Roger looked towards the forest edge and made to take a step in that direction. However, he found his balance disrupted, one of his arms not quite being where he left it. The arm that gripped the walking stick was now considerably closer to the ground, and the stick itself seemed stuck in the ground. Pulling it out with relative ease, Roger crouched down and looked at the ground.
"Ah. That's not very good."

"Honestly...I have no idea what might happen to us on this island..." She felt far more ocmfortable talking to him now. "But hopefully, we won't be stranded here for long." She moved past him to look up at the base of the mountain. "Wow...It's beautiful...in that huge and ominous sort of way." She rolled her shoulders back to relieve some of the tension in them. "I'll let you lead the way since I'll probably get lost." She laughed softly. "Though things work out to some agreeable end, I still have the worst luck in the process of getting to that end."

Her leg throbbed a little at the thought of climbing, but what else were they supposed to do? She was optimistic, but not utterly stupid. There could be animals that were worthy to be cautious of...or worse, there could be people from the ship who weren't as friendly as Conner was.

She counted herself lucky.

"Lead the way!" She said, playfully ushering the boy ahead of her.

"You sure seem to say that a lot. I'm not quite as accepting of an early death as you." Lenore took two quick steps in the same direction, already ahead of him and happy for every inch they moved farther away from the wall o' eerie vibes, when she noticed his hesitation. Turning back to him as he crouched down, she placed her hands on her hips, and opened her mouth to question the pause when he spoke.

She leaned slightly, wondering just what it was they were looking at, a familiar voice in the back of her mind echoing that it would most likely be very bad and very apparent very soon."What do you mean 'that' - what's 'that'?"

[Hmm I cind of lost where the others our on the Island. If someone could tell me I would be greatful.]

Randee drifted from sleep for maybe an hour. He finally realised that this journey the vehicle was taking would take all day. He jumped of before slowly walking along side it and making his way to were he had seen the door open before. As it moved he searched for anything that looked like a handle till he could see a red LED light from between the hulls platelets. He placed his finger their until it stopped moving and noticed the door open slowly.

Randee stepped back and kept his space as he watched as he could see some sort of human sized android inside. It steped out onto the ground before finding it self on the floor.

�Error!� It responded in its electronic voice. Randee had from behind the door pushed the android onto the floor before getting into the vehicle. He then pressed the same LED and watched as the door closed. Inside he could see many LED lights flashing and flickering with many leavers and handles. He decided best to not touch anything.

On one of the screens he could see a map and a blip showing were he was. Also it shows other objects on the map but Randee could not make sense of the coding it used for what the objects were. He sat tight as the vehicle lumbered on.

"Quicksand." Roger smiled grimly. "We're going to die."
He let his words sink in for a few seconds before he rose, patting Lenore in the back as he turned around with a hearty laugh.
"Just kidding. If we're careful, and you go first, we might just survive."

"Might, he says," she mumbled, noticing about an inch's worth difference from her former viewpoint. Some times Lenore had wondered what it would be like to be even shorter than she already was. Now, not so much.

"Well, stay still. If we move around a lot, we'll sink faster, right?" Lenore looked around, careful to follow her own advice. "Here, try to stay balanced. Gimme your stick thingie for a second," she said oh so eloquently, taking it from his hand and pushing it into the sand around them to see if it sunk after a moment, leaning within her reaching range as far as the additional attention to keeping her lower body still would allow. She glanced down. Another three or four inches had disappeared into the sand. Why was it speeding up?!

"Geez, this would be an embarassing way to die! Murdered by sand. At least maybe we'd get mummified naturally and perhaps be discovered years and years later to be given a proper burial, but really. Mummies aren't so cool that I want to become one! Sand free lungs for me, thanks!" She babbled on nervously until she found the ground - the edge where the quicksand, well, could quicksand really end? Tapered off, she supposed, and where the stable ground began again. She twisted the walking stick into the non-quick sand, pulling herself out slowly. She stumbled out of the quicksand clumsily, then hopping up, positively beaming. "It's not that hard at a-" A pause. "-uhll..."

The, turns out, relatively small quicksand pit that Roger was still currently sinking into had sped up its proceedings considerably again.

"What's with this place?! I'm telling you," she began once more as she leaned over and over, nearly on the tip of one foot to hand the walking stick back to him, "there's something wrong here! Try and pull yourself out!" She fell back onto her other foot as her balance on the one faltered, then she stood straight again. Lenore had never had much grace, but her clumsiness was something of a minor problem at the moment, compared to the obvious one at hand.

Reyana searched for the rip on her dress, scowling when she ran her hand across it. The material that was supposed to be there was missing. She cast a glare upwards, �It�s probably hung on the tree ... I�ll get it later.�

She let her multicolored eyes rest on her friend as she spoke. Humans on the island? If that was true, then it would bring about loads of fun. The blonde shivered with excitement as a grin slowly crept across her face. �Really?� she asked laughingly. �This ought to be good, then.�

Forgetting about the horrid rip, Reyana allowed herself to be pulled along by Damara, nearly tripping over a rock as she spaced out. As if not to anger her friend, she managed to keep her balance without staggering the slightest.

She looked straight ahead as they walked, imagining creative ways to play with the new toys. �I love the idea of killing, especially humans. If they don�t put up a worthy fight, then it just proves how superior we are compared to them. Humans deserve to die anyway.� She sighed. �Though, these collars are annoying...�

~~~

"Finished," Kieran declared as he gazed proudly at his boomerang. He managed to make the edges sharp enough to cut through things such as thin tree branches, but he doubted that it would serve as much of a weapon. Oh well, he knew he had to be careful anyway.

He stood, stretching. "Now, time to go find food."

Alice looked at Jules, relieved that all three of them were still in one piece. �Pleased to meet you, my name's Alice,� She looked curiously at Xi for a second, before smiling in appreciation. �I suppose this means you both don't mind if I come with you... To your camp. I'll help with gathering supplies and stuff, obviously!�

She looked excited, like a kid at Christmas, Alice hadn't even been camping before and being stranded on the island was starting to feel like somewhat of an adventure. If you minus the running and the screaming and what could turn into painful death, this could actually be fun!

�Where's the campground then?� Alice was a little nervous about leaving the cave, after all she had just reached safety; the two boys had to have kept going once the girls vanished into the cave.

((Big apologies. Internet died, internet still dead. Using friend's computer. Will probably not be able to write all too much. -.-'' Even if connection starts working again I will be gone wednesday and a couple of days ahead.))

Aya

Aya walked around a little while longer, her feet sore and tired from walking in the dirt with no shoes. She had been following this same stream for a while now, so she decided to take a rest and wade her feet in the water. Wow... This water is nice and cold... Almost unnaturally cold for this kind of area... "Oh well!" Aya said to herself as she stood up and walked in the stream, seeing where it would lead.

Tehkis

"I swear I have seen this tree before..." Tehkis mumbled to himself as he passed yet another tree. But also... Whats with all these stumps of trees... Has someone been choping them down for something? Maybe theres someone here that could help us... I can only hope... Tehkis looked at one of the stumps "Hmm... It looks like it was cut clean off..." Tehkis said under his breath. Guess I'll just keep looking around and see what I can find...

((Is there any interest in continuing this?))

((It seems to have died. No one's really doing much in the way of replies to keep it going. x_x))

((But then again, they never do, do they? Oh, well. I'll just find another RP, then... until that one crashes and dies, as well.))

((Okay, well if it's dying let's start it back up!))

Jules glanced over her shoulder to stare through the opening of their cave. The sky was streaked with purple and pink clouds as the sun set behind the tall mountain. Already visible, a handful of stars could be picked out in the deep azure sky. The trees began to grow dark and the fireflies stated their pressence. The sound of a million bugs swarmed through the air. Daylight was waning.

"If we're going back to the camp, we have to leave. Now," she said sternly, moving over to the opening and looking around. "We have roughly a half hour before we're stranded in the dark."

After the others hurridly gathered their few belongings, Jules led them out of the cave and into the throng of trees. The cicadas were almost deafening as they walked through the jungle. If Jules hadn't been so concerned about getting to camp before dark, she would have admitted that the adventure so far had been quite thrilling.

Just then, her ears perked up at the sound of movement. The definite snap of twigs and the crunching of leaves gave it away. She held out her arms to stop her colleagues from continuing forward. She shushed them quietly and waited patiently. It was either an animal... or someone else on the island.

Her sharp eyes darted from opening to opening in each break of the trees. Anything could be hiding in the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment, but Jules didn't want to discover that the hard way.

~*Damara*~

Damara shrugged as she walked, pouting her lips. "Well I haven't heard a decent scream in years, Perra. You wouldn't give me that pleasure," she said, reaching up to run her finger along his chin. She smiled. A small close lipped smile that would have made a human wet their pants with fear. But Perra. He was too strong. Her tactics didn't work on him. She pulled away and stared ahead. "I don't know if I'm interested in seeing how the human race is progressing. I want revenge. They made me this way and then they banished me?! It's unacceptable!" Her hand curled into a fist, as she raised it emphatically.

She quelled her passion, though, and unclenched her fist. "The collars..." she'd tried to get it off. It was more than annoying. But she'd been shocked into submission and then injected with some drug. The next thing she knew she was opening her eyes at the base of the volcano, having been out for days. She didn't know how she'd gotten there either. She fingered the intrusive object encircling her neck.

She stepped on a twig, hardly wincing when it stabbed her bare foot. It cracked and she continued, stopping suddenly. There was something there. Something interesting. Something different. Something human. She smiled again. The same closed lipped smile from before and turned to Reyana and Perra. Her eyes should have told it all.

~*Xi*~

Xi stopped. She too had heard the twig snap, and was curious as opposed to weary. Her first mistake. Suddenly, out of the trees winded two white tendrils, grabbing hold of her and slamming her against the tree. She coughed as she flailed and struggled, her soft skin being scratched by the rough tree bark. She grasped at the sword in her hand, trying desperately to get it at the right angle to cut whatever was holding her.

She raised the metal object, moving the object around in her hand before bringing it down with as much force as she could muster in her awkward position. It worked. The tendrils were cut and Xi sagged to the ground, breathing hard from fear. "Definitely not friend," she gasped. But she wasn't going to wait around to see what monster had just attacked her. She took off through the trees, beckoning Jules and Alice to do the same.

~*Damara*~

Damara stepped from the shadows, staring wide-eyed (and open-mouthed) and the two chunks of hair lying at the base of the tree. "She cut my hair..." Slowly her eyebrows twitched into a frown. "She will pay." Without waiting, Damara took off after the girls in hot pursuit.

~*Xi*~

Xi splashed through the river as she ran through it. She couldn't leave any trace that she'd been there that way. The water would, after all, go back to it's original position once she lifted her tennis shoe from it. However, the splashing did work against her. She panted, looking behind her, and it was then that she passed them. Two people--a boy and a girl--walking in the opposite direction.

She skidded to a stop. "Don't go that way! There's some sort of monster over there!" she exclaimed, pointing back the way she'd come and the way they were headed. "Come on, you've got to run!"

A large white spike came towards her again from the trees and she ducked, before scampering off down the river. If that spike wasn't enough to get them going, then nothing would.