Re: Master of the Forge [Zorlo]
“What do ye want, missy. I've seen many a weapon, but if ye don't tell me what ye want, then how can I know what ye want?”
Zorlo stepped back as Raisha stepped forward. She looked Reorx in the eyes and opened her lips to speak, but was interrupted by the dwarf himself.
“Ahh…” he spoke, looking directly back into the Reaper’s gold eyes, “ye eyes are sharp n’ focused; always glaring into the distance at the never-there. Such eyes demand a weapon that can reach as far as they could see, yet able to be useful up close, don’t ye agree, laddie?”
Reorx squeezed the shards in his hands as he turned to the Reaper’s brother, who stood just left of the fencer, partly obscured by shadows.
“His eyes are the same as the girl’s,” the woman in soft purple made her way over to him, moving gracefully, as if she were gliding over the floor, “sharp, glaring eyes, filled with the wisdom and experience of numerous lifetimes.”
Rain smiled at Elune, answering Reorx at the same time, “I do not know. Raisha should answer, as it’s her preference. I may not be able to say what she wants.”
Raisha smiled at the dwarf as he turned back towards her, “I usually work with either a blade or a gun…but I’m not sure if the shards you have in your hands are enough…”
“Aye...” Reorx looked down at the silvery-blue pieces in his hands and then raised his head, narrowing his eyes at the shard that the reaper kept around her neck.
“Something stirs.” Elune glided over to the master of the forge and placed her hand on his shoulder.
“Aye…” the dwarf responded, looking at the Goddess of the Moon, “these pieces are very special--powerful, even, ‘cause of what they hold, but the pieces alone won’t be enough.”
The Reaper bowed her head.
Reorx turned away and moved further into the cave, sifting through various pieces of paper and cloth--obviously searching for something.
Raisha looked up at him and sighed softly, not sure if anything would work out.
“Do not despair.” Kurenkento, the Neko god, slowly walked over to her and pointed a finger at the dwarf, who stood up and smiled, holding a large roll of paper in his hand, “Look.”
“Come!” Roerx beckoned them over to his position while clearing a nearby table of its contents and spreading the large piece of paper on it, weighting it down with small rocks.
“Aye, come n’ have a look at this. Quickly, now!”
On the paper were three drawings--diagrams of a peculiar contraption, with a myriad of lines and incomprehensible writing pointing out different aspects of it. Off to the side of each drawing were what seemed to be complex Mathematical equations written in the same words as the other writing, but using similar symbols as in Earth’s subject.
“This is something that I’ve been trying to figure out how to create for a long while. It’s close enough to a gunblade, ‘though I’m not sure what to call it quite yet.”
Rain bent over the table and looked closely at the drawings while running his fingers over the equations.
“Wait,” he said suddenly, “you said that you were trying to figure it out. What’s the problem?”
“Look ‘ere,” the dwarf pointed out a section on one of the lower diagrams on the paper, “I’ve been trying teh make it sleek n’ streamlined, but if it has teh be like that, there’d be only a few bullets that’d fit in. If I switched it around…”
Reorx pulled up a quill out of nowhere and began writing on a clear space on the paper.
“If there were none of these endless-ink quills around, I’d go insane, I tell ye.” He chuckled before continuing on his previous subject, “see, if I switched it around to take a wider range of bullet sizes, the blade will have trouble folding in, according to this equation I just wrote up ‘ere.”
I see, Raisha looked down at the diagrams, her interest was thoroughly grabbed, these equations help in pinpointing ‘what piece goes where’.
“But ye see,” Reorx looked at the siblings with a wide grin on his face as he placed the shards at the center of the paper, “there’d be no problem now! Isis shall act as the source of yer gunblade’s power!”
“Isis…?” Raisha blinked at him.
“Aye! Did ye not know?! There be a powerful soul trapped inside these gems! That’s where the metal gets the power and colour from! I sensed it and I sure Elune sensed it too!”
The Goddess of the Moon nodded as the siblings looked at each other; neither of them had known. Raisha was especially flustered; she had held Hellfire and then Celestia for all these years, but she had no idea…
“There be only one problem,” Reorx continued, suddenly serious, “I need some special materials for this, and I feel that I should put ye three to some testing tasks before ye receive yer new weapon.”
Rain and Raisha turned to him.
“Aye! Hahaha,” the dwarf laughed while writing something on a smaller piece of paper, “you two won’t disappoint at all! I can tell by the looks in yer eyes.”
Reorx handed the paper to the fencer who had begun to read. As he did so, his smile turned into a wider grin.
“Those are the materials I want ye to go out collect for me. It should be a challenge for ye all, since me lad’s smilin’ like that. Ye should start at the town north of here--there be some wild horses on the nearby plains--taming and seizing them should be yer first test as I’m sure ye three are not goin’ te walk all the ways ye have to go. Ye’ll get to the rest as ye go on, but I’m still sure that ye three won’t disappoint us at all!”
The siblings looked at Zorlo, who had safely tucked away the paper.
“Ready Rai? Rain?” he asked.
The Grim Angel nodded as Elune glided gracefully over to Raisha’s side.
“The Moon and Forest shall be guides to you. You need not fear,” she smiled.
OoC: I’m not sure what materials are on that list, or what ‘tests’ lie in the distance @_@; I also didn’t have them leave yet, because I wasn’t sure if Elune, Reorx or Kurenkento had anything to discuss with Zorlo or vice versa. I'm also not sure if I did Elune and Reorx right >.>;