Trees & Murder

Another Poe? It wasn't exactly a threat, but even slicing a mere Keese in half was more fun that finishing off one of these unfeeling abominations. While Sienna was contemplating the best way to see if it truly felt agony, Wiki had already skipped ahead and roasted a Baba. She was... a tiny bit jealous. Even if Babas didn't have eyes, watching them bounce around decapitated was nonetheless an extremely pleasant sight.

Simultaneously, the Poe took the chance to fling an orb of flame at the one Deku Scrub not already on fire. This one seemed a bit smarter than the three that were slaughtered earlier. Still, Sienna could have cackled wildly at its arrogance. Even if she didn't have time to jump out of the way, her gauntlet shot up fast enough to take the impact of the magical projectile. She winced at the heat, grunting slightly, but even as the flames licked across her wooden skin, she did not catch fire. How gravely this Poe underestimated her, Sienna thought. She could see the sudden fear in its eyes--the phantom shocked that any Deku Scrub would be cunning enough to negate its one lethal weakness. Before Sienna could pounce upon it, it disappeared into thin air. Even its lantern was gone. "Coward."

Wiki seemed to have put out her flames. If this Poe was smart, it would target the weaker of the two. If this Poe was smarter, it would try to take out what it perceived as the bigger threat. She smirked. Both hands braced on her glaive. Her eyes closed. There came the sudden whooshing sound of a Poe appearing--right behind her. She spun with wild fervor, her entire body launching force into her pole as it cleaved the air in a wide arc. The beast was too close to meet her blade, but the blunt pole tore into it with a grotesque-sounding smack. Homerun. The Poe went soaring to one of the nearby platforms, bouncing off the ground. Sienna leaped high into the air, her feather rippling with power.

She fell towards the Poe as it tried to recover. Knowing it couldn't disappear fast enough, it instead blasted another ball of fire up at its assailant. Sienna's armor ate most of the blast, but it was too late. Both feet crunched into the Poe's face with obscene weight, a split-second before she twisted her feet, squashing it further. The ghost's entire head seemed like a pancake, a split-second before it vanished in a poof of smoke. She grinned. Whether or not it was pain, she couldn't be sure--but, "That look of agony was unmistakable," she responded to Wiki, regarding Poes. Her voice almost sounded cheerful... which, in of itself, was chilling.

Still... she winced slightly, feeling at her calf. The bark had charred a bit. Not enough to force her to limp, but enough that wearing armor over it was... uncomfortable, to say the least. That's what she got for being so reckless, she knew, but she wasn't about to start being a pansy because of one stupid Poe. There may be more still waiting in this corridor, lurking in the fog. Ravager was no longer growling, but, he wasn't always right.

"Let's be honest, most things are going to be just a little upset when you're killing them," Wiki said, staring at the ground where Sienna had crushed the poe. All of these wasted rupees. Sienna's amused response did not rank as high of a sin as this. Wiki continued to stare for a little longer than she should have. "There's that whole thing about mental anguish being expressed in physical pain. Who knows." Wiki shrugged. She glanced at the other scrub's leg. As Sienna moved her hand over it, not only did it make Wiki immediately want to be excused, but she wondered if the other scrub needed any bandages. She thought better than to offer, though.

Wiki looked at the Wolfos again before wiping her head. Boy that thing made her nervous. She could write an entire paragraph about how it was... uh... big... and... large.. and.. the main reason why she was having issues not being distracted right now. Because it was terrifying.

She shook her head before continuing down the corridor. To be fair, Wiki had already gotten what she had came here to achieve.. whatever came after was a bonus. The largest bonus however would be getting out of here, since she was lost. Really lost. Incredibly lost. "Sienna.." Wiki began. ".. .. can I ask you a deeply personal question?" She paused for a few moments to really let the air stale up a bit. "... Do you know the way out?"

"Most things, yes," Sienna admitted. Her eyes narrowed, staring at where the corpse had just vanished. There were other monsters which felt nothing, of that which she sure. She knew from experience. No matter how brutally she ripped out their tongues, stabbed them with their own broken femurs, and gouged out their eyes by hand, they never flinched, never felt anything. It was so utterly disappointing.

"...No," Sienna admitted, indifferently. She hardly cared about being lost. This place was above ground, so she figured she could smash her way through walls until one of them let out into fresh air. That would come later, if necessary. For the time being, she was certain there were more things in here to slaughter... and whatever that curse was, it seemed to be getting worse. Her body was getting heavier. There's no way a bruised leg could have anything to do with her feeling weak. No, that would be far too logical. It must be a curse--the same curse that prevented her from maiming Wiki.

With a hop, she hurled her body onto Ravager. Though she didn't want to admit it, she didn't exactly want to go jumping around on this leg just yet. Instead, the Wolfos leaped her across the platforms and towards the other end of the room. Her glaive outstretched, she cleaved almost effortlessly through a Baba, before landing smoothly on the far side of the room. The plant's head popped off, pathetically, bouncing and rolling across the tile floor before falling impotently into the ground. Sienna grinned, maliciously.

There had to be something bigger here, though... something powerful... Sienna was sure of it. There must've been something greater than Keese, Poes, and Babas--at least a Stalfos or a Moblin... something...

So this was it. Wiki had broken her #2 rule of dungeons: don't get horribly lost. Her #1 rule was to not die... so... that was important too. She might be breaking that soon though. Karma really did hate her, didn't it? The universe was unkind and often cursed her... but, Wiki was feeling pretty alright. Sort of. Maybe. Her head was fuzzy for a lot of different reasons. Half because of her still recovering thought organ and half because of.. ?? A mystery. Let's move on.

Wiki thought it was sort of ironic that the only foes Sienna had encountered thus far had been those presenting no challenge. For a woman who seemed to literally get off on killing, she wasn't really getting the best prey. She watched her hop onto her large beast and then dash across the room, killing another Baba with ease. Wiki involuntarily winced. To be fair, if it was anyone who deserved to get maimed, it was Wiki. And whatever the universe has in store for her that's just how it was going to be. (( )) Sheesh. All of this killing and that fact she was probably going be ripped apart by KNUCKLES the strangest Deku she had possibility ever seen was making her more pessimistic than usual. Gross.

The other scrub didn't have time to contemplate the details of her probable death, as she heard knuckle-dragging stomps echoing in the distance. She winced, looking towards the metaphorical mine-field. She hopped back to whatever platform had the door on it and waited. She tapped her foot. She heard grunting, so it was alive at least. Thankfully. Wiki was so tired of Poes and skeletons and spiders and other awful beasts. She patted her robe. There was a bunch of plant guts on it and Wiki made a face as her bare hands touched them. She cleared her throat and waited for whatever was coming.

Entering the room was not the hobo Wiki wanted, but instead the ... huh,it wasn't a Moblin one usually found in the forest area, totally one of the more skinner types that talked sometimes. Wiki had .. maybe.. sneakily taken a few things from while she was talking to Sienna. What?! It was there.

This one did not seem interested in talking. Wiki was always interested in talking."Uh, hello!" She said, waving to the creature. "So, as you can see, just, walking around. Nothing to see here, just doing the treasure hunting thing, doin.. the.. you're... you're not paying attention to me are you and the one behind me is probably just looking at you with those crazy eyes of hers and imagining your jugular spilling blood on the floor -- " the Moblin pulled out a - what was that a knife?! "What sort of Moblin uses a pocket knife?!" Wiki yelled. The Moblin moved closer and Wiki stepped back, making sure that if the thing jumped at her she'd be able to leap out of the way. Her voice got more shrill. "-- Do you even speak the same language as I do?!"

Sienna was ready to advance further... but Wiki was being left behind. Glancing behind her, the girl seemed to be nowhere in sight. Most of the room was still masked by the green fog. Had she finally fled? It would have been a perfect opportunity to do so. Sienna shrugged. It wouldn't be too difficult to find an arm to break elsewhere... Not to mention the liability of it all...

...Sienna grunted, quietly. She admitted to herself, reluctantly, that she was looking forward to someone being willing to do it. A bit. Wiki was probably still at the opposite side of the room, flailing around and rambling nonsensically. But, it was difficult to hear over that sound...

...Wait, what was that sound? A deep rumbling, mixed with the scratching, skittering noise of insects. Sienna grinned. It was something big, that's for sure. Ravager was abruptly commanded through the doorway and into the next room.

An explosion of sound echoed forth, massive insect wings flapping with such ferocity that Ravager was flung paws over head, back into the room of platforms. A high-pitched screeching filled the massive corridor. The wing-beats sent the fog flying downward, clearing the area. Sienna was flung from her mount, her metal clashing hard into the tile. She bounced off one platform with a grotesque THUNK, before skidding to a stop onto another one. She struggled to recover, groaning as she pushed off the floor. She looked to her left, seeing the most massive Mothula her eyes have ever beheld--and it looked as nearly as pissed off as Sienna. Glancing to her right was... a Moblin, apparently? And Wiki? Ravager was alive, but limping...

Clutching her glaive, Sienna rose to her feet, eyes narrowing. Finally, a real fight.~

Wiki wanted literally nothing to do with the giant .. no. She wasn’t even going to think about it. What a disgusting creature. She eyed it out of the corner of her eye… didn’t Sienna have a goron tunic? Wasn’t that something she had spied when she was … uh.. .. The moth was honestly horrifying. This wasn’t just something that was being brought up as a distraction. That thing was massive.


Wiki glanced over at the Wolfos. Would it die? Good. Wait. Then Wiki couldn’t use it as an excuse anymore. Shit. Wiki looked back over at the Moblin. She had gotten distracted thinking about the Wolfos again. She didn’t want to admit that it might have been popping up in her mind a little too often in this dungeon. (( )) She rolled her eyes and decided Sienna can take care of the giant bug for now.


She circled around with the Moblin until it was facing the massive pit. She rolled her eyes. Was it really this stupid? Probably. She tried to recall the spell she had read… and couldn’t. So instead she pointed at the ground the Moblin was heading towards. In a flash, a beam of flames shot up, wounding the thing. Of course that wouldn’t kill it. Wiki dodged out of the way of it swiping at her, making sure to gain some distance from it by jumping onto a platform she knew didn’t contain a Baba.


“Seriously, am I being mugged in a dungeon?!” Wiki yelled. Technically she was the one who had stolen.. but who’s to say this crook hadn’t taken this stuff from other people? Exactly.


She quickly pulled out the scroll again and looked it over. Just in time she put it away to see the Moblin jump out of the fog. Wiki started yelling obscenities and making various noises of distress as it landed on her, pinning her to the ground. What a piece of shi—oh my god it stabbed her. There it goes. Right in the side. Shanked in the side. Wiki’s eyes shot open, partly in pain and partly because she remembered the spell. Did this count as contact? Getting a knife twisted – yup he was definitely twisting it in there and it was not coming out – counted as contact with a weapon.


Luckily, the next time the Moblin struck… it missed. Who knew shanking someone was a technique? She kicked the beast off of her and grasped at her side, making sure to continue to kick it before pointing at the ground, roasting it alive. Wiki laid back and looked up at the giant moth above her. She looked at the sap bleeding out of her side. She groaned, taking a moment before getting up and grasping onto her diaphragm. It hurt. It really hurt.


She pulled out her bow and arrow and fired at the stupid moth creature’s eye. It of course missed the eye and hit its body, but it still squirmed in the air and let out a shriek. It began to dive down erratically and Wiki went back to lying on the ground. Half out of being a smaller target and half because she was tired and needed a break from this entire situation

No sooner was Sienna back on her feet than she launched off her platform and onto the one nearest the beast. Stupid thing probably didn't even realize how much of an advantage it had. With a ferocious motion, Sienna's massive glaive tore through the air in a high arc, like the most terrifying baseball bat imaginable--only for the flickering beast to whip back at the last moment. Sienna hissed, mixed with anger, adrenaline, and the pain of charred and now bruised body being pushed further than any sane person would push it. She was utterly pissed, and she loved it.

Elsewhere, Ravager was whimpering softly, trying to comfort his paw. He wasn't smart enough to know it wasn't actually broken, but it nonetheless hurt. With a bit of pain, hopped towards the far edge of the room--from where the Mothula came--and laid down to rest his limb. His normally ferocious eyes seemed a tad sad, now... Maybe he was disappointed he couldn't fight, too. Maybe he was sad that he hadn't eaten or drank since they entered this place. Or, perhaps, he was really just a mere animal that didn't like walking around with a sore limb, and couldn't even begin to fathom how masochistically insane his Master was.

Sienna's glaive tore through a crowd of Morths that spewed towards her, knocking most of them away like gnats. A couple managed to drop onto her platform, however, then pounce onto her armor. "What grotesque things," Sienna groaned, her hand shooting towards one. She could feel those grotesque eyes glaring into her. They were so desperate, like little ducklings asking her if she was their mother. It would've been enough to make her vomit, had she eaten anything in hours.

The little black ball of spikes was soon hurled back at its true mother, shortly followed by a second. The beast dodged the first, then flinched slightly as the second one hit its abdomen. Out of nowhere, Wiki's arrow came soaring across the room--stabbing firmly into its core. There. Sienna tore forwards, finding the opening she had been searching for. Her glaive tore through the air with a flurry of ferocious, unbelievable strikes. A gash tore across the beast's body, another bounced off its pincers, a third cut through its left wing, and--as it began to fall--a fourth slice shot across its right wing.

Sienna grinned wildly--madly--her face exposed as her eyes enflamed with an insane passion. It was falling. She would crush it, of that she was certain. Roc's Feather rippled as she launched herself towards the beast, seeking to slam into it mid-air. As it fell, however, its insect legs scrambled wildly in Sienna's direction. She wasn't expecting the damn thing to kick her, much less in the face. Both her and the beast fell back in opposite directions from the impact, but--acting purely on adrenaline-fueled, instinctive fury--Sienna's hand shot out, clutching the Mothula's leg so hard it was a wonder the thing didn't entirely snap off.

Before Sienna even realized it, she was falling rapidly into the abyss that filled the room. For whatever reason, the colossal moth was frantically trying to soar upwards. Was it trying to escape Sienna? Even the ruthless woman herself was a bit confused--was there something else down here? The frantically-beating wings were so massive that they probably could have carried Sienna effortlessly, under normal circumstances, but with their injury, both the moth and the warrior were falling downwards--not fast enough to be lethal, but not slow enough to be comfortable. It was like some form of grotesque, screeching parachute, and Sienna's vicegrip clutched on the beast's limb with all the power she had--which, needless to say, was still a fuckton.

Wiki looked over at the Wolfos without getting up, the thing looked injured and she wondered if it would survive. Wiki wondered for a moment how much its pelt would get her. Her eyes flashed at the thought, looking towards the pocket knife.. ... before getting distracted by the fact Sienna was plummeting to the bottom of the pit. The Deku shot up and looked off the edge of the cliff. She scratched at her leaves. How mad would Sienna be? Probably incredibly. Well, that made her decision easy.

She looked over at the dead Moblin, then at the Wolfos. "So uh, aren't you supposed to like, jump down there or something? Aren't dogs loyal?" She spoke to the Wolfos, mostly because she wanted to talk to someone to distract herself from the fact she was leaking sap everywhere and everything hurt and she wanted to go to sleep. "Hey! I'm talking to you!!" She grabbed the pocket knife off the Moblin and walked over to the edge again. "... Stupid dog."

She got up and stomped her foot. This entire situation was such horseshit. This is what she got for following her dick, a stab wound to the side and hardly anything to show for it.

Wiki looked down at the abyss again, then at her side, then down at the abyss. Was it worth it to even follow Sienna down? She could have sworn that she felt sweat bead up on her forehead.

She took a large breath and then began to make her way down, extra slow and carefully by scaling the pillars. Wiki was so dumb. She was so stupid. This was literally the worst idea in the history of worst ideas. Wiki felt the pillar begin to crumble. Her breath stopped in anticipation of her death (or something worse) ... This was so stupid. She was stupid. .. But then a thought came to her mind and her eyes widened, before she tightened her grip and continued downwards.

The darkness was getting overwhelming... and Wiki squinted her eyes. Shit. There was no way this was natural shadow, Wiki couldn't see much in it. As she descended to the bottom of the pillar, she felt... floor? Oh thank goodness.

A lone torch lit up in the distance and Wiki choked. It was near a door. She looked around. Did Sienna die? The thought distressed her much more than it should have.. then she remembered that she also wanted to break her arm and was in a 50/50 on whether or not she'd care.

Several seconds after the lone torch lit, another lit on the opposite side of the door. Then, in sequence, a myriad of torches lit up the room, pushing back what was not darkness, but some sort of dark fog--denser, darker than that which had occurred in the room above. It was so thick that a foul stench--like rotting fruit--could be smelled faintly, even by the two Deku Scrubs who lacked proper noses.

On one side of the room, the gigantic Mothula's corpse laid twitching, lodged awkwardly between one of the pillars and the wall. If Wiki could see it, she would soon realize it was not yet a corpse. Sienna's glaive lodged through its midsection, and at least a foot deep into the dirt beneath it, pinning it to the ground. All--or at least most--of its leg laid beside it, either ripped or sliced off. Sienna herself was standing on its chest--or equivalent of one, anyway. There was a cold grin on her face, as she callously, idly, tossed one Ember Seed towards its eye--gauged its reaction, absorbed its agony--and then another. She wanted it to hit, of course, but seeing it squeal in agony as it tried helplessly to dodge the flaming seeds was just as amusing.

Sienna locked over her shoulder, a bit of joy vanishing from her grizzled face as she saw Wiki. "Give me a minute. It is not yet blind.. I think." She turned back towards the beast, tossing another seed.

The room seemed to have a handful of Deku Babas lining the floors and the pillars, hardly a threat. As Sienna idly tossed seeds into the monster's face, she began to--oddly enough--begin to make what was her equivalent of small talk. "There is something yet worse," she admitted, indifferently, "I'm sure of it." Her eyes remained fixed on her victim of the moment, tossing another seed. "...Maybe you can feel it. Magic. Undeath. It permeates this level."

After tossing another seed, the beast finally let out not a screech or even a whimper, it just finally fell limp... a black charred blob where its eye had once been. Sienna sighed--a mix of pleasure, satisfaction, and disappointment in her voice. All good things must come to an end. She kicked its face a couple more times, ensuring its death was complete, before finally ripping her glaive out of its corpse with a grotesque sound. Her boots hit the dirt with a thud, before she moved towards the door.

"...I bet," she began, almost playfully, "...it's in the room after this one." Hearing Sienna seem even vaguely happy would have unnerved any normal person who knew her. Apparently she had enjoyed the last bit of torture particularly well. It had made up for all the worthless excuses for monsters she had found thus far, or so Sienna thought.

Meanwhile, Ravager slumped in place, watching the hole. He sighed in a very canine sort of way, then rolled onto his side. He knew his Master, well enough to know that she was the most dangerous thing in this strange place, and that she would come for him... soon... right?

Wiki plugged up her snout. Her sense of whatever smell she had was already better than most scrubs... so this... this was not good. She was about to make a great, awesome, and totally witty quip, but she had the sudden urge to vomit. So she did so, right by the door. So attractive. She blamed it on the decor, since it was shit. And the fog, since it was also rancid.

Disgusting.

She looked down at whatever she vomited up, expecting the same assortment of meat based food products Wiki had eaten the night before. But then Wiki looked down.. her eyes went wide and she shivered, that was definitely not food, that was definitely sap, Wiki was definitely not feeling well.

She looked up when Sienna spoke, not realizing that her hand had gone to the wall to steady herself. She wiped her snout with her cloak. This.. this thing needed to be washed soon.

"Uhh.." Wiki began, looking at Sienna. She absentmindedly looked at her hand. The amount of battering she had gotten in the past couple of months had probably been more than she had in the past couple of years. "I mean, yeah, it's the sort of feeling you get when you realize you're lost in a dungeon and about to probably die." She was more or less responding to Sienna... but talking to herself. She stopped, watching Sienna kill more things. Wiki gulped. There was some blood substitute taste still in her mouth and she didn't like it. Wiki also got the thought Sienna was probably into that sort of junk. She didn't like that thought. But then Sienna said the thing and you never say the thing around Wiki. ((referrin' 2 the boss.. cocment... )

She ran up to Sienna, putting an unfortunately bloody sappy hand on her .. weird pauldron thing. She was trembling. She also looked incredibly nervous. "... I ... I really wish you hadn't said that." She said, before realizing that she had gripped Sienna on accident. Whoops.

Wiki quickly corrected her mistake and moved towards the door, opening it to.... and predictably fancy stairwell that totally didn't lead to a boss room oh who was Wiki kidding it totally contained a path to a boss.

She closed her eyes. If she ignored it.. it would all go away.

"Y.. you know I would really hate to die without getting an answer," Wiki said, starting to walk down the stairs. She moved down the stairs, hopping as she did so. Way too high stairs for a Deku Scrub, let alone one who was uh, not doing so great. "I mean you are the only reason I came down here." Wiki blinked, and then quickly pulled up her hood. Yeah, yeah now it was her turn to hide her face. Mostly because the torches were bright...but the darkness around them was increasing. It was really giving Wiki some weird sort of magical veritgo. Plus, not being able to see beyond the torches was... it was unnerving, really. Is this really what Hylians and other lesser races had to go through? Gross.

Sienna watched the girl with an inquisitive look. She wasn't particularly satisfied with the fact she was getting distracted from her prize, but heard Wiki out anyway. Sienna was just in that sort of mood, now. The way she was pathetically, vomiting up sap--it was cute, in an endearing sort of way. Considering how good of a mood she was in, it almost made her smile.

She wasn't entirely sure why she began to seriously consider it. Was the broken arm so appealing? Was it how Wiki would be willing to have it broken? Was Sienna touched by the wish of someone who was probably about to die? Nah, probably none of those. "Sure," Sienna said, reluctantly, but coldly, "Afterward. Survive this." She looked up the stairs, her boots pounding up them a step ahead of Wiki. Her eyes narrowed at her prize and she, too, lowered the mask over her face, albeit for different reasons. "...Breaking your arm would only be fun if you were alive."

In truth, Sienna wasn't actually sure if Wiki would survive or not. There were probably fairies somewhere around here that would be willing to help out a fresh Deku corpse, she guessed. Probably. Maybe.

As they neared the top, Sienna abruptly scooped up Wiki and carried her in one arm--trying, barely, to keep her spikes from stabbing into the girl's hide. The girl was wobbling and could barely keep up--it was annoying having to wait on her, though Sienna began to wonder why she even cared if she left the girl behind...

Before she thought on the matter further, though, Sienna abruptly realized something. Her strength had come back in full, rather than the, say, three-quarters she had a minute ago. Killing the Mothula was fun, but that wasn't it. Was it the mask? It must've been the mask. It must've been the fog. "Put cloth over your mouth," Sienna commanded, glaring at Wiki in her arm. "This fog--"

She was interrupted as a terrible, high-pitched sound--was it even organic--echoed from the next room. Whatever that monstrosity was, it knew they were here. Sienna wasted no more time. She rushed up the last few flights of stairs, before tackling into the colossal, moss-covered, silver doors that surely contained the most foul beast in this place. Her calves and thighs worked like monstrous levers against the stairs behind her, as her one shoulder heaved forward the 20-foot tall metal door.

There came the ferocious sound again, echoing. A thin layer of the fog rose up several feet around this colossal, 200-foot wide circular room. Gigantic paintings of ferocious creatures lined across the walls, but that was nothing compared to the humongous, three-headed Baba--a DiaBaba, was it?--that filled the far edge of the room, its roots dug deep into the patchy ground and mud beneath it. Her eyes beaming, Sienna abruptly dropped Wiki--maybe onto her feet.

Before Sienna even began to charge in, however, echoing laughter erupted from one of the paintings--wait, from the painting? A phantasmal, Hylian-like figure with a skeletal face broke forth, riding atop a gigantic, flying, golden-brown beetle. So, one of these was probably the magic undead vibe. Another was probably the fog. And the beetle seemed like it could definitely make things rumble. Great. But which one was shrieking?

The figure soared overhead on his flying beetle. As soon as his raspy, ghastly voice began to speak, however, Sienna came to the very abrupt decision that she didn't care. Her hand shot into her pocket, grasping an Ember Seed. Winding up for a helluva throw, she hurled it with tremendous speed up at the flying phantom--hitting his thigh, causing him to hiss in pain. Sienna roared, "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Seriously, was he going to get the hell down here and fight, or fly around like a jackass on his little bug?

No way. Her eyes went wide. Every organ in her body felt like it was about to burst... but to be honest, it could also be internal bleeding at this point. Sienna had said yes - it was like Wiki had acquired a rare jewel on the journal of "things I did today". More importantly, if she ever got to see that weird-haired asshole, she could tell him she banged his sister. (( )) ... Then of course she was reminded of the fact that her arm had to be broken. She gulped. ".. yeah." She looked towards the top of the stairs, heart beating faster. This.. this was a rare and special occasion. "Yeah! Yeah! Uh, yeah so, actually sort of hungry, steaks been on the mind so maybe we could grab a quick bite before w--"

Suddenly she was scooped up. The feeling was strange but not unknown to her. Wiki was unsure if she liked it. If it was anyone but the woman who just took the bait agreed to her offer then Wiki might have set them on fire. She closed her eyes momentarily, not realizing she was basking in the moment of being shuffled around by literal canon ball arms until Sienna spoke again. Wiki's leaves stiffened. Great, poison gas too? What an excellent situation.

There was no time to ponder the gas, as Sienna bolted to the top of the stairs in pursuit of a loud noise. Dekus make such weird noises when you bounce them up and down and set them on fire. Yeah, Wiki was making a lot of those noises. Now that her wound was bouncing against and grating up against armor she was in a lot more pain than before. T-thanks Obama.

Sienna did not drop the other Deku onto her feat. Wiki fell flat onto her face, clutching at her side. She was in no condition to fire her bow. The Deku looked up at the giant three headed Deku Baba before flashing her eyes onto the phantom running around... before immediately closing them at the loud screaming of Sienna. She had a concussion do you mind?!!

A sigh escaped her. Wiki... Wiki had no time for this.

She struggled to get onto her feet, but she made it (barely) and pointed her finger below the DiaBaba, setting part of it on fire. It screeched, spitting onto the flames in an effort to quench them. Another one its heads flung itself at the pair. Wiki glanced at Sienna before dodging out of the way, whistling an arrow in the direction of the revealed eye in the mouth of the flailing Baba.

Wiki clutched at her side, making an effort to hobble around for a total of four seconds before the beetle riding combo boss slammed against her, knocking Wiki into a far wall of the room. She coughed up some more sap from her lungs. Even with some of the apparent blockages dislodged in her lungs, that combined with the gas was making it hard for her to do that stupid whistle thing too.

Great.

Sienna was absolutely elated as the beetle-riding combo-boss slammed into her ally--as, of course, it meant the fool had to dive down near the ground. Roc's feather rippled as Sienna launched herself into the air. She initially spun her glaive forward from her left side--but swung her body so that her spine became parallel to the ground, causing her blade to swing high in an arc perpendicular to the floor. With a ferocious CRACK, her weapon tore into the beetle's beating wings--a shrill cry echoing out of its mouth as it struggled to stay airborne, its phantom rider stumbling to keep balance. Sienna herself clashed into the ground, barely bracing herself from her own reckless leap. A moment after she landed, so did the beetle, so heavy the ground around it shook with a tremor--so great it shook the nearby Wiki and Sienna.

Sienna breathed heavily, pushing onto her feet, clutching the minor wound on her calf--before pulling her hand back, forcing herself. willing herself to believe in not her own body, but solely the destruction of her foes. No sooner did she rise onto her feet, however, than one of the Diabab's smaller heads dove towards her with a ferocious snarl. The pint-sized tank barely had time to brace herself as the gigantic plant-face smashed headlong into her shoulder. A terrifically catastrophic impact sent Sienna soaring back--and the plant-head recoiling in pain. A spew of green blood--or sap, Sienna didn't care which--splurged out of the beast, spilling off the spikes in Sienna's armor.

Barely managing to catch herself on the ground, Sienna tumbled and skidded into a standing position. Thankfully it seems most of the impact against her sent her flying, rather than actually injuring her arm--pushing, not punching. This stupid plant didn't know how to fight. Not instinctively. She began to wonder if some unseen, terrible force was controlling it--forcing it to kill. Probably the obnoxious phantom guy. Sienna didn't care. Her only goal, her only drive, and the only thing filling her mind was the passionate desire to slaughter every single thing in this room...

...well... almost everything, at least.

Wiki mostly watched the spectacle from her position on the ground. She clutched at her stomach. How come whenever things were going alright for her, the universe took it away? If she wasn't busy leaking from every other part on her body, she probably would have started crying. But she still had some pride left. Some. She looked over at the flying beetle, the phantom, and then back to Sienna. .. She was pretty sure that the other Deku could handle herself, and by extension the thing Wiki didn't want to deal with. The tremor made Wiki feel sick, but she wasn't vomiting in this post, no sir-ee.

She aimed her finger at the head that just attacked. It was close enough to the ground that the flames managed to set it ablaze. It howled, and Wiki was more than elated... until it shook off the flames and put itself out. Wiki was no longer elated. She carefully rose to her feet, looking around the room. She had a feeling that setting everything on fire would not end well for her. Wiki made a wise choice, as it would not have ended well for her. Instead, Wiki focused on intermittently setting parts of the giant Baba on fire, whistling out an arrow in its direction when she felt like she could breathe, and stealing glances at Sienna whenever possible.

She just wanted this to be over soon. Her entire body ached. She wanted to go home. ... but then Wiki remembered she didn't really have a home. ... She wanted to go to the nearest bar and sleep under a bench and hope that if someone found her they'd just let her die. Or maybe they'd be nice and take her to a healer or whip a fairy at her. Yeah, there we go.

Looking at all of this stupid fog and shadow was seriously messing with her. Not to mention the fact that she had lost way more blood/sap/etc than something that weighs so little should. Wiki went back to laying on the floor near the wall, half out of choice and half because she couldn't stand on her feet anymore. In the back of her head she wondered how much Sienna would judge her. Would the other scrub even care if she died? Probably not. Wiki shrugged. It's not like she would care about the other scrub's death too much either. A shiver went down Wiki's spine, suddenly feeling cold as she contemplated the fact that literally no one would miss her if she were to die here.

She shook her head. The universe was too much of a bitch to let her die. Besides, she had people to fuck with. She just.. needed a nap.

The burst of flame caused the giant beetle to flail and twist wildly off course, flinging the phantom riding it high into the air. Sienna launched towards him--only for her attack to wildly miss as he suddenly began hovering. No, of course. It made perfect sense to ride a goddamn giant flying beetle if you already had the ability to fly on your own. Sienna's boots hit the ground with a thud, snarling furiously at the three monstrosities she was now facing. With the only other target down for the count, all three monstrosities charged towards the last remaining target... beetle launching, phantom shooting a shadowy orb, and Diababa lunging down with two heads at once.

A glaive swung ferociously through the air. Sienna's vision became red. Wiki's became black.

...

...

Quite a while later, Ravager limped out of the dungeon, carrying two unconscious Deku Scrubs on his back. Both were covered with sap, oozing the grotesque green fluid slowly onto the fur that carried them. Part of it was their own, and a portion was the shower that exploded from Diababa's violent death. A gigantic beetle horn was lodged in the wedges of Sienna's armor, cutting an inch or two into her wooden hide. The shaft of her glaive had been snapped, its splinters still lodged in her fingers, with the blade nowhere to be seen. In Ravager's fangs was gripped the hilt of a sword--of black blade, shimmering with a ghastly aura. Sienna accomplished what she set out to do... barely...

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In case we never made it apparent, this is a dungeon run of the Forest Temple.

Two players plus two characters means we get 80 roops.
- Wiki is getting Jinx using 35 of these roops (plus 5 of her own). She learned it from the scroll she found.
- Sienna is gaining a Muscle Band using 45 of those roops (plus 10 of her own). (I'm going to pretend like she's always had it.)
- Finally, Sienna earns 8 extra roops from being a Lv4 Outfitter (or Blacksmith, whichever).