Ayumu himself simply sat outside of a shack, continiously hearing soft complaints about leaving and a small child sounding annoyed as he was tapping the ground with his foot, waiting and looking at a watch that he had been carrying along, a strangely shaped Verdant and Sea foam panty laying on the ground outside as he was trying to realize what was going on exactly. He was going to train with the Namekian known as Namorel, yet here he was waiting outside to a rather questionable scenario to his own eyes.
Manifesting a small spherical ball of energy, Ayumu couldn't help but feel that everything he had been training was slowly coming to flourish as his hands were charging more and more energy forwards, he was near a breakthrough. Atleast he was certain of this if he kept his progress up and he kept trying to compress, solidify and manifest the energy from within to spill outwards. But today was going to be a rather interesting fight, one that wouldn't be anything that the namekian had done before, he was completely certain of this. Spending his time to see if he was able to manipulate his energy correctly, he would then start to give a soft call. "Come on, wake up, it is time to get out of that house Namorel and get to training. You cannot dissapoint the people you made proud right?" Smiling contently as he hoped that he caught the man in an awkward position in this morning.
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"Wha- where the hell am I? Oh yeah, that's right...", Namorel spoke to himself as he rose to a seated position, the bed he had found himself on was somewhere between rock hard and quaintly comfortable. Taking a glance around, the mother of the young zoan lamia he had saved was resting on the other side, how he ended up in this situation, his memory did not serve to him well. Rising to his feet and sliding on his gi, he would take a piece of nearby cloth and wipe at his face, variously oily substances rubbing off with moderate ease. He would leave the room quietly as to not wake the adult, female zoan as he left.
"You know, you have the patience of a stoned cat.", he would scoff at the old man as he left the building, meeting him at the entrance. nodding to the old man man, he would speak up again, "Alright then, throw it at me. I've had a nice rest and feel ready for anything." Taking a ready stance, the Namekian's ki would well at his core, unsure what the old man had planned to throw at him, either way it couldn't be any worse than that dragon, he was an unexpected mess, on the tower of all places too. His hands would rest carefully behind his hand and his posture would take a more alert stance as he glared into the distance, his antennae scanning intently for any unknown power levels that were around.
Ayumu would simply do a few stretched for his legs as he would then direct him to the tower that they were at before, but instead of going anywhere up it, he would walk past it towards the north for a solid six minutes as the forest grew thicker and thicker untill they ended up in a large blackened area with a massive hole covered by a black, seeping energy that had no signature to say the least before Ayumu threw a small stick towards it that was morphed and torn apart into small pieces. Small fleshy sticky bits showing up at the sides where the parts of the sticks had ended up as they morphed.
"This isn't too complex really." Ayumu proclaimed as he looked at the hole in the ground covered by the fleshy darkness as he would laugh to himself with a gaze towards the Namekian. "I do not have any strong ranged techniques, i am going to need you to ask your questions when you can and then go down into the hole with me. Because we have a little cause for concern in this area." The man would point at the darkness as the hole further down had a few creatures crawl along the sides of the hole downwards. "Except for our visitors."
Knowing full well that things would get a little dangerous, Ayumu would give himself a moment to breathe before collecting a total of twenty small pebbles to throw and carry along, sticking a small hat with a flashlight to his forehead that he could turn on by clicking the right side of his head. "If you need any water, please do tell me, i got supplies for up to three days for if we get stuck down there." He would proclaim, waiting for him to break the hole open with an energy blast, which he would instantly jump after into the hole. Hoping that namorel would realize that it would close rather quickly if left alone, or atleast that he would follow his example and jump the moment he jumped when his Energy had opened it up.
Praise be Namorel his ranged collection, Ayumu thought to himself.
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Namorel would waste no time to fall in line behind the old man, after all he knew what was going on and the Namekian clearly didn't... hell he still couldn't remember how and why he woke up in the bedroom of the lamia zoan after all, surely it had to do with the returning of the young one, but his memory was still hazy concerning that. Regardless, there was another task at hand to be dealt with and Namorel was intent to learn what he could. Following Ayumu in the general direction of the tower, only to pass it without much intent on it and deeper into the bamboo forest, the thick green stalks soaring overhead as they were in sight of a clearing ahead.
An almost unnatural darkness resonated from this clearing, an inky black hole sitting at the center, filled to the brim with some unknown fluid of the same colour. As Ayumu pressed a stick into it, the matter was completely gone in a matter of moments, realizing what Ayumu wanted him to do, Namorel focused his ki, aiming at the hole with intent as the air around them shook violently, a shock wave of multiple blasts erupting across the surface of the hole, pushing aside any and all instances of the inky black matter that held itself there. Keeping up his assault, he would wait for some direction from Ayumu before pushing further past this point.
As the shockwave tore a hole into black oozing mass that was presenting itself into the top of the mirror, Ayumu reached out towards Namorel to jump down with him under his armpit, hoping to land down into the small area that was called the hallway of darkness to the people at this point as he manifested a small spherical ball of energy. Attempting to light up the entire hallway they were in as a carefully paved tiled passageway was surrounded by broken and sharp stone pieces that jutted out of the sides and the ceiling, Ayumu taking a quick look around as a large gate stood infront with a thick piece of wood that normally required somebody at the strength of a thousand farmers, maybe even two thousand farmers to lift! Yet to make things even worse... There was a constant sensation that somebody was watching them as Ayumu would cough lightly and speak. "It seems that we have found a neat little thing haven't we?" Ayumu would proclaim as he then gazed towards the ceiling where the attempts at covering and tiling it had been forsaken for expanding it further and further.
"Now, Namorel, what is our plan? Do we move on or do we inspect the area that we have landed in?, I can only see a small collection of bones to the back and a few small collections of darkness from the light that is shining from this sphere, so take it!" Tossing him one of the balls of light from his cluster of magic as he kept it functioning even if he grabbed it before making one for himself.
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Namorel would watch quietly as the black oozing mass split into a clearing at his attack towards it. The situation grew curiouser and curiouser as the time persisted. What precisely was this old man getting Namorel into? First s climb of the tower the prior day and now bringing him to whatever this was. "What exactly are we doing here? This looks like something out of one of those horror books you seem to covet in your collection.", Namorel's curiosity far too much to contain as he gazed into the split hole, wondering what the hell was going on here.
Without thinking too much on it, Namorel would descend into the veritable abyss with Ayumu, taking in the non euclidean geometry that made up the structures as he continued downwards. The sharp stone and other sediment that erupted from every direction felt almost wrong, as if they were coming upon something that was out of the ordinary... however that was rather clear when they arrived at a mass of black ooze after all.The light Ayumu offered made it a bit easier to make out details where they landed, but none of it really made much sense to the foreign Namekian as it was.
The gate was rather interesting though, led to by a tile base and held closed by a rather large slab of wood. There must be a good reason this place has been kept closed for as long as it has after all. Not responding immediately, Namorel would produce his own ki, lighting up smaller areas so he could examine, picking up a piece of loose tile and slipping it in his pocket before returning to the old man. "I doubt there is much to learn in here that won't be found further in, if something follows us I'll deal with them.", Namorel would speak, more interested in what lie behind the gate rather than whatever may be lurking in the dark here.
As Namorel would speak of interest about the wooden gate, Ayumu would motion towards the gate allowing him to open the gate first, with a brilliant smile on his face as he nodded carefully. "Yeah, i do not mind if you would be the first one to open it." Which he would let him do if he doesn't take too long, upon which he would try to open it himself but because of his lacking strength... He would probably fail, but show that there was no traps.
Upon opening the large door, a spherical room with a small pond in the middle would be located, radiating energy towards the outer corners as small depictions of creatures were written on the walls, demonic runes, runes from namekian tongue, even the language Majins had been speaking to each other for a while in that awkward shift between the Common tongue and their own and back again. "It seems that we have a little bit of a mystery here, do we not?" As Ayumu would then take a closer look at the area.
There seemed to be a total of five races that had been located around the area if you took a look at the bigger drawings, smaller ones being excluded for how much faded they were. Majins with a Square symbol, Namekians with a Tree, Earthlings along with their hybrids with a Circle, Arcosians or Changelings depending on your native tongue had a Arrow head, Saiyans, bleeding into the earthling side rather early also were using a small fire symbol.
The pond in the middle had a small tower that was continiously emitting a glowing water that couldn't be seen as anything but a small mystery as there were was a button on the shaft itself that would cause a rather interesting scenario. A single button with no mark on it. The shaft had the symbol of a earpiece with a ball at the end, seemingly a test left behind by some other race to test the brains of the people in the vacinity.
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With a heavy push, Namorel would put his weight into the gate,only moving it a little at a time, but making progress nonetheless. The creak of the aging wood causing him to wince some as the sound echoed a hundred fold in the mostly empty room. Taking a moment to recover, Namorel would stumble into the second room, the layout catching his attention almost instantly. The various sculptures, the text, and the fountain. Pacing around to each area, he would examine them, stopping at the Namekian section to run his fingers over the text, taking a moment to decipher what of it he could.
He would return to the center once more, standing by the fountain when the button caught his eyes, standing out as a means to progress perhaps? Pressing it with a heavy hand, Namorel would waist aside for something, anything to happen. "What exactly are we expecting to come from this room? The layout is peculiar and the text spread over various languages makes one wonder if there is something that we won't be able to decipher.", Namorel's voice echoed further, but not as badly as the gate prior. His question was a serious one as he had a knack for screwing things up without a second thought at times.
Ayumu was glad with the area he was able to see in the vacinity, slowly whistling as he took it all in, his smile widening carefully as he then saw the entire area turn a dark red. Everything became a dark red as all five of the walls would light up, Ayumu giving a soft shriek as he looked around, seeing that they were all lit up with their symbols and violently emitting energy and power.
Yet after a moment as Ayumu tried to process what was going on, he then answered one of the questions as he pointed towards the Majin wall as those were one of the latest races to have entered circulation in the human earth. "It seems to speak about their wonderfull growth and the power to overcome any conflict, as if they are strong and seperate links in a big chain of fate itself." Before the majin side lost its colour gradually, the next one that was starting to fade away was the Arcosian one, Ayumu pointing towards that one as it seemed to take a bit longer before it would fade away. "The arcosian one seems to be talking about the concept of war and a long lineage of battles and dictatorships, but nothing more than fearmongering in all honesty you know?" He would elaborate before giving Namorel some time on what he wanted to do.
Apart from the giant five sides in this spherical room and the glowing puddle in the middle that had the button that started this... There was no way out anymore! it seemed that at this point, with the door hidden away and no other direction open to escape from this room, they were perfectly locked into this spherical case of doom! Unless they had an idea or a solution at hand?
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The Namekian would be taken aback as the room began to shift with the press of the button, each wall taking up a bright crimson glow, emitting a light and power that was vastly unique to what his the room from outside.. an almost uncanny difference really. Ayumu himself seemed shaken some by the outcome of the button press. The only part of the room that seemed to remain a constant was that of the fountain with the button, keeping its radiance and position as everything else began to shift and change in some way or another.
Taking a step back from the fountain, Namorel would listen carefully to Ayumu as he watched the statues begin to lose their colours and identities some, one at a time. "Each area has a history and a symbol connecting them to earth somehow, right?", the Namekian's thoughts were scattered as the secret to this puzzle could either be hidden in the significance of the races or involve the fountain that started it all, yet he was unsure which was the case. As he waited for Ayumu's thoughts on the matter, he would crouch over the fountain, using his ball of ki, he would try and peer into the water, hoping to find some key to solving this riddle in the water or the fountain itself.
As you peered into the water, there was a large collection of balls sitting at the bottom, a small collection of five with each having a collection of stars. 2 stars, 3 stars, 5 stars, 6 stars and 7 stars, but two balls that were located on the pillar itself seemed to have no stars drawn on it at all. The surrounding area itself seemingly shifted in colour once again, going from a bright red into a brilliant purple as the arcosian one was starting to fade out at this point, Ayumu thinking to himself carefully on what was going on, seemingly inspecting the walls that surrounded him in great detail as he then spoke "Only three are lit up, the namekian one seems to talk about traditions but the saiyan and earthling ones seemingly just talk about war and people having fought for the greater good, some even talking about the great events that happened hundreds of years ago. There is no information about this puzzle from what i can notice! i am truely sorry but have you found any information whilest looking around?" Ayumu asked, a sense of panic in his voice as he kept checking his own overly filled memory on what he knew and didn't know, hoping that he could fix everything by the time the last ones would lose their colour. The Namekian side this time starting to slowly fade in colour.
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"I think I found something over here... they are rather similar to the Balls you spoke of in your book, but one and four are missing., Namorel would speak, lifting one of the balls from the water, taking the seven star ball and pondering it for a moment, the uncannily perfect shape, size, and design of the ball were more than interesting to him... for that matter, what he had read of these magic balls on Earth were rather similar to the legends of the Dragon Balls on Namek, yet these were far, far smaller than the stories back home told of.
He would shake his head for a moment, clearing any extra thoughts from his mind as there were more important matters at hand. Lifting one of the blank balls in his free hand a thought would come to mind that may be what he was looking for. Dropping the seven star ball back into the water as his attention turned completely on the blank one, he would run his claw over the surface, trying his best to mark a crude star into its surface, connecting the lines in a pathetic attempt at imitating the other balls without proper tools. with the barely legible star completed, he dropped it into the glowing water with the other five, taking the second unmarked ball on the pillar and proceeded with the same process as prior, this time with smaller stars as he would have to fit four of them on this one, marking as deeply and carefully into it as he could. With it finished, he would drop this ball into the water as well and hope that something would come of it, should it fail however... he had another stupid idea in mind.
As namorel lifted one of the balls from the pillar, seeing that the top and bottom part were floating in perfect peace, he would notice that when one of the fixed ones was dropped into the water, the parts started to degrade faster. The walls lighting up all at once and then degrading all at once as Ayumu spoke in a panicked voice before the fourth one was dropped into the pond, a sudden moment of silence as the lights started to slowly activate themselves.
Ayumu took a soft moment to breathe as he then looked towards a door that had formed in the wall, the darkness completely faded behind them as there wasn't even a door to make their way backwards, just a long passageway forwards as he couldn't help but feel that they got through on the skin of their teeth. "Well, It seems that you figured it out, good on you there." He spoke proudly. Attempting to slap his palm on the back of the namekian, being much weaker than him, he probably wouldn't react to the hit itself, but the compliment, he was curious how the Namekian would react to his fatherly attitude towards him. "Proud of you. But what is reason you thought of the dragon balls? were they really that similiar? The ones on that floating pillar just looked like grey balls to me, so i was honestly stumped!" Laughing to himself, Ayumu would note that further ahead was a small hatch that seemed to go deeper but it was tied up by a bunch of vines needing removal.
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Namorel gave a sigh of relief as a calmness seemed to overcome the room as soon as all seven balls were in place, everything, even the air almost feeling frozen to him for a moment as the room shifted again, everything altered form how it was prior as a door formed in the wall, their only exit it would seem from this room they had gotten themselves almost trapped in. Namorel would take one more lap of the room, examining the sculptures and the like one more time now that all shifted, before following the old man to the door that had newly formed, their passage to whatever comes next.
Namorel would feign the impact as Ayumu hit his back, playing along with the old man's attitude with a grin as he rose to his full posture once more. "Five of the orbs had the markings on them when they sat in the water, it was a bit too obvious once you realized which numbers were missing... I'm just surprised the stone was soft enough to mark into, even crudely.", the Namekian would reply to the older human's question regarding the solution he came to. In truth, he wondered if he had really needed to write on the stones as it was and if it was the water that conducted the results regardless, either way it was the prior room and he was sure the next few would not prove as simple solution wise as the last.
As they continued onwards, the Namekian would carefully examine the passageways again, his eyes scanning for any indication of history or reference to what may have been the origin of this maze of puzzles. When they arrived at the hatch, Namorel would test the firmness of the vines for a moment before taking his claw and cutting at them, in attempts to free the hatch enough to be opened. His guard would be up in case something to exception to his actions.
As you took a look around the room finally, you saw that most drawings had ended up becoming a more cheery version, ones that were about war having turned to peace, humans having turned to productivity, majins having unified, saiyans just protecting people instead of desiring power and even namekians standing in unison for a single man that stood powerfull. A few words explained why one man could stand with so many on his back, but such an ability was forbidden to many.
"That's pretty neato!" Ayumu proclaimed at the way he had figured out what the puzzle meant as he then started to look forwards, giving a bit of information that the stone on the ground here was actually kept clean, but that was something Namorel was able to spot himself too if he took a bit of time. There were a few gaps that seemed to want to be filled up, but that wasn't a case of some outside force, just a lack of slight detail towards it. It was almost as if somebody forced a mason to do this quickly or the magic that did these tiles was used in a hurry to set it all up.
After Ayumu spotted the namekian testing the firmness, using his claw and cutting them, the hatch opened with a thick rust scent starting to wave upwards along with a loud, painfull screeching sound that burned even Ayumu his ears as he covered them before then taking over on the opening if he had too. The passageway down itself had a loud set of noises from the bottom, as if somebody was trying to stay away and figure out what was going on by hiding further down, yet it wasn't too easy to make such a notion at this moment, they would have to find a way to peek down to find the true answer.