"Fucking asshole," Dekres grunts, half surprised spitting out blood.

He swings his now clenched fist at Cedric's midsection.

Kane winced a bit "Okay, note to self:also avoid getting on Cedric's bad side...and the dweller's."

Cedric got the full force of Dekres punch, but barely felt it through his rage, he stumbled backwards and readied himself for another punch.

"WHOAH!" shouted Elzia grappling Cedric to the ground "No in-fighting dammit!" but he struggled aginst her and said "Let me at him!!!!" Eliza just smacked him and said "You know the rules, follow them!" and got up and Eliza waved her hand, removing Dekres's voice and said "Until you learn to be nice, Dekres. You are not allowed to speak. Hope you remembered sign language."

Jericho emerged out of the darkness his hands two flaming orbs.

"What's going on guys?"

Fucker! Dekres screams inside his head.

He sticks his middle finger up at Eliza as she turns away from him.

And now I live in my own fucking head!

"Fuck the rules! I've had enough." Cedric yelled, storming back through the room they had come from and heading towards the doors, cracking his knuckles as he went.

Jericho chased after Cedric.

"Woah, wait slow down, calm down brother. You're not really going to take what any of those guys seriously are you?"

Zeke howled the unearthly howl that had become something he was almost proud of. The sound echoed throughout the building and caused everyone to go quiet and face him. At least he thought the Dweller was facing him.

" Would you all fucking calm down? Can you all still smell the decayed bodies? the brimstone? yes? imagine that 1000 times worse and you've got an idea of what this is like for me. If any more of you fight I can remind you why people used to fear werewolves." Zeke snarled as he walked on, ending up standing beside Eliza.

He saw Cedric walking away. " Going to give up Cedric? I expected you of all people to be the last one to give up. "

Cedric stopped, letting Jericho catch up. He let out a long sigh and looked over his shoulder at Zeke.
"No... To both of you." He mumbled, but stayed where he was.

Jericho glared at Zeke,

"Don't fuel the fire man. Litterally"

Jericho's hands were still ablaze.

At the top of the stairs the Dweller pressed his hands against another blank wall and pushed another secret door open. On the other side was a very highly vaulted alabaster antechamber that led to a set of huge oaken doors. On the walls were two large oil paintings, larger than any Eliza had seen. They were of a large steam ship, obviously an ocean liner. One was this ship at port and the other was the same ship on the open water, the sun setting in the distance. Eliza pondered the images and the Dweller piped up and said "The Titanic. They said she was unsinkable, and they were in fact totally right....the Star Spawn couldn't bear to see such a majestic ship rot beneath the ocean. So they plucked it up and brought it here" the Dweller then opened the massive door and pointed downwards. At the balcony's overlook Eliza could see down into a massive chamber far to large for the building itself. "A spatial time flux allows it to fit inside. This room exists partially in another dimension. That right there is the Titanic in all her glory" and how glorious it was. It was seamlessly clean and glimmered beneath them. It was whole and untouched, and the smoke stacks nearly reached up to the balcony. To either side a stair case led down towards the ship's deck. "We will have to cross the ship to reach the other side and go back up." commented Eliza, descending the stairs whose railings were thin and fragile.

"Don't worry about it." Cedric mumbled to Jericho, using water magic to douse the flames in his hands. They stood there as everyone followed Eliza up the stairs and into the next room.

Jericho hugged Cedric,

"I guess we should follow Eliza then."

" You do realize I can still use magic in this form? Zeke practically sighed, " It would be a stalemate at best my friend. I'm just trying to get people to focus on our task. It's not as if the world is going to be fucking destroyed or anything."

Zeke walked away and entered the room where the Titanic was. He was stopped momentarily by the sheer scale and beauty of the thing, before his mind snapped back onto the task. He didn't think that the railings would hold his weight, so he leapt down and landed at the bottom with a thud.

" Nothing of interest to report at the bottom! He mentally yelled up to Eliza.

Damien spouted some random facts he knew about the titanic. "The titanic could actually have been the unsinkable ship. there were just two problems with it. one: the ship was completed in two halves, which were then welded together. however, the welding job was done poorly, so it already basically had a giant crack down the middle. also, the steel they used had a higher than normal concentration of carbon and sulphur, which made it all the more brittle."

Cedric nodded. They both walked up the staircase after the others, and entered the next room. Inside was a huge ship.
Wow... Cedric leaned over the stairway slightly, getting a better look at the name on the side of the ship.

Jericho's response to Zeke was just laughter.

"Damien, shut up, you might scare Cedric."

After hearing Damien going on about the Titanic he began to wonder something.

Would Eliza put me in a straight jacket if I punched him as well? he wonders, or at least done something to shut him up, he's becoming to like Cedric for my liking.

Eliza reached the bottom and walked into the promenade of the ship. "Dweller, can you lead us through?" he nodded and said "I think if we cut into the ballroom then up we should be good." and stepped into a hallway where a hatch door was open.

Damien touched the ship. "Damn, what would have happened if the titanic had never sunk?" He noticed Dekres looking at him maliciously and said, "Don't even try it. You would be out cold before you even hit the floor."

Cedric took a shortcut over the banisters, keen to get away from Dekres and Damien, who was still talking. He landed on the deck with a thud.
He wandered over to the staircase where Eliza had already gone inside, while hearing another thud, which was no doubt Jericho following behind him. They both went down the hatch and caught up to Eliza and the Dweller.

Kane appeared behind Cedric and the furry bipedal canid wonder known as Jericho "So...what's the plan?"

Eliza slipped through the carpeted hallways following the Dweller down hallway after hallway. Down staircase after staircase before he wrenched the door open into the Ballroom. "Oh, its actually pristine. I always thought they left the chandelier smashed on the floor." commented th Dweller looking around. It was large and a highly vaulted glass dome above them held a huge sparkling glass chandelier. It would have empty and vast but for the multitude of the petrified human statues. "What are those?" the Dweller chuckled and said "Fault of our magic. When we teleported them there was a hiccup and the humans still on board and underwater were turned to stone." Eliza tapped one very lightly with her finger and brushed off some basalt dust. "Try not to tap too hard on them, we aren't sure if there is anything inside of them. A few of these I think are skeletal guards. They wont attack me, but they will probably consider you robbers and attack." Eliza shrunk away from the petrified waiter who ahd a peaceful expression on his face.

Aloran:

OOC

Kane simply followed behind everyone else

Cedric stood in the middle of the ballroom, looking up at where the chandelier used to be. Behind him Jericho tapped on the head of one of the statues.
"They sound hollow to me." He said, knocking on the statue. On the 3rd knock, a skeletal hand broke out of the stone, grabbing Jericho around the neck.
"Shit.." Cedric grabbed the hand and slowly prised the fingers away from Jericho's throat.

I'm getting threatened by an apprentice? he laughs silently.

I'd love to see him try and see what he gets, he thinks with a snarl, without it spreading to his face.

Eliza turned to see Jericho struggling with a black stone skeletal hand wrapped around his neck. She went immediately into a panic mode and, fearing for everyones safety, lashed out with a powerful wave of force magic crying out a draconic phrase in order to give it extra strength "Ventas Servitas! the force wave rippled out and flung the stone thing across the room shattering it against the wall. A glassy stone skeleton began hobbling across the room, bones sliding like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Ewan had left the nightclub after a short conversation with Satan. She actually wasn't as bad as her reputation made it sound... The color scheme, however, was what Ewan had expected... Lots of red. His hair practically disappeared against the wall in her office.

He asked one of the bartenders where Rowan had gone, and with a demonic tail, pointed outside.

"Rowan... Where the hell are you?" Ewan called out. He heard a drunken groan, and saw his Master's body splayed out in an alleyway. "Oh Rowan... Your mother would be disappointed to see you like this. So would Eliza. Now get up."

Rowan did not move, his body was here, but his mind was elsewhere... Rowan was black-out, shit-faced drunk.

"Damn it..." Ewan swore in the darkness...

"Hohshit..." Kane said, backing up slowly

Behind Cedric, another statue started breaking, and a second skeleton burst out of its stone casing, the debri smashing several other statues, which were thankfully empty.

Damien switched to the Void blade. He muttered an incantation in a tongue so old that it had died out when the angels had left Earth. he slashed downwards, creating a wall which wrapped itself around the skeleton. When it vanished, it took the skeleton with it. "Behold, the mighty prison Tartarus." Damien spoke.

Jericho smiled.

"I'll let you guys handle this, burning skeletons is no fun, besides you could do with the training"