Legacy of the Descendants III: The Black Beast Strikes!

The Unmei Desert- a familliar terrain-the foursome's first obstacle when they were hunting Yaketsukuyona. The foursome had tried to forgot the hardships of that adventure, but Gale smiled when thier thoughts drifted to it. All those moments- falling in love with Mizu, getting Rakurai to open up, befriending Shinji and Jinsoku....her first kiss. All of those moments were etched into her heart.

Altair was abou two metres ahead of the rest, Skylar struggling to keep in line with him. He seemd unfazed by the heat, not even stoppping for a cool drink. Gale nudged Mizu. "You gonna take your shirt off this time?" she purred sarcastically. Mizu grinned at her.

"Well, I could but-" he paused to point to the sky. "Sunburn." He smiled flatly. "Besides, when did you get so horny? That's my job!" he yelped. The group erupted into laughter, although Skylar only smiled meekly, not aware of the past the four hunters shared, and Altair managed a thin smile, ever serious.

"I got so "horny" ever since the tundra!" Gale retorted with the same sarcasm as Mizu, not giving the group a chance to catch thier breath over the laughter. This time, Skylar was able to make the links and joined in, finally understanding.

"It's here!" Altair interrupted, his cold and serious voice acting like a blade through the cheery atmosphere. He gestured to a slim, jagged, vertical crack in a gargantuan mound of desert rock to their right. He was first to enter the cave, sending his raven into the cave before him, as it was unsafe to keep it on his arm, in the even that a monster should attack. Besides, juding by what the man had said earlier, the raven always found its own way back to him.

(rest comes tomorrow)