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Daisy: "Nothing amusing was said."

Dan: "The image of you wearing a dress in my imagination is amusing."

Veni smiled. "The idea of a big, tall, tough looking man like you is what is amusing." The three of them also found it entertaining when he carried that bunny around.

Muerte just looked confused, until he was told to try to imagine somebody like him wearing a dress, something that was typically meant for a gender society had usually considered as less "powerful" in the past and more "submissive". The large man tried to envision it for a moment, then suddenly laughed.

Muerte: "I believe I understand now. Even on some of the women I knew that were warriors like myself, a dress would look... 'funny'...on their person."

He then suddenly frowned for a moment, as if remembering something sad or depressing.

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Jacob observed the sight, the blueish-greenish glow rising into the air mystical and grabbing his attention and curiosity. The gems were beautiful, but the energy, the life force itself self. As Rosemary and Sephiroth observed the necromancer, they noticed he seemed to take on a healthier glow than before, even more so than when he started taking better care of himself. Trace strands of the energy moved from the fountain, and began to encircle Jacob's form.

Jacob: "I'm not even absorbing this, and yet... I can feel it. It's.... making me feel stronger, more alive."

The necromantic energies that normally surrounded Jacob seemed to have expanded and increased in their intensity. Sephiroth could now sense it somewhat, and Rosemary could sense a sort of peaceful magical essence more strongly in it that had seemed clouded in the past when he used his magic.

His curiosity got the better of him. Jacob announced he was going to cast a small, simple spell. He just had to, it was itching under his skin, and it was like a voice was encouraging him to. He waved his hand... and the energy strands followed it, faces momentarily visible as a bright, blueish-white streak shot out into the air, and faded into the distance. It looked like a very small comet had streaked through the evening sky. The necromancer's jaw dropped. The spirits around his hands shifted back into life force energy.

Jacob: "That was... unexpected. I only meant to do a 'soul-flare', a simple light made by spirits, and I only meant to shoot it a few feet away. I could only imagine what would happen if I actually used some of the life force... Not that I would. I don't think I would feel right personally, knowing what it is, and what would happen to it. So much I wish to study about this...

...and yet, I fear what would happen if the Niearcim got their hands on a world like this. I have the feeling it would enhance even dark necromancy as well as the rare light variety I use, and we all know they don't have the same reservations I do..."

Jacob: "I agree. That large flare was.... completely accidental. I wasn't expecting such a boost."

Jacob listened intently to the information Sephiroth was feeding him. Guardians, that were like abominations. He wasn't sure he would so readily agree with Sephiroth about them being worse than Abominations... Dieamos was powerful, but he hadn't been the strongest when the Abominations existed. Still, they weren't to be underestimated at all.

The mage gave the life-stream area a final good look, committing it to memory. He'd somewhat wish he'd had packed a camera of some sort, since there was a strange sort of magical beauty to it. There was a spell he could have cast to magically capture the scene, but he figured it would be safer not to cast any more magic until they were away from the place. As they prepared to move on, Jacob muttered a quiet blessing to the souls he could sense in the life stream, one of peace of serenity. He was surprised when he felt the sensation of calm come to him as they left.

How he wish he could study the life force further.

Sephiroth turned away from them before he answered Rosemary's question. "I summoned a massive meteor large enough to destroy any other world, but it was stopped by the spell the planet activates and by the world's life stream. It is sort of like our own heaven only everyone goes there. Maybe these souls will eventually go to that other one, I don't know. Those guardians were also created in response to Jenova's arrival. I think other means of retaliation would happen if another invading force were to come."

He remained silent for a few minutes as they walked up the mountain before he commented again. "Then again it might not be able to. The life stream was tainted when I left... but the planet had figured a way to fight back."

"It's not always a blessing to know what is going through the minds of others. You'd be surprised how many people you'd find insane who normally appear sane on the outside. There are many things on his mind of course, On thing he thought was 'all it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.' He's also brooding on the past most likely thinking about the first time he came up here with a man, a brown haired woman tour guide, and others in uniform hidden by their helmets. Something about the planet not screaming as much as it once was... And when he mentioned the meteor, I saw it, a white light, and a massive amount that stream you saw. It must have come from all over the world and it stopped it even though it had already entered the atmosphere. She showed Jacob that image. "Actually the thing that's dominating his thoughts is a melody."


Rosemary looked back after Jacob. It was a spirit and she knew that she lacked the ability to sense these things well, so there was no point in her attempting to catch it by becoming invisible and falling back. She doubted anyone could have followed them here from the Soul Fortress, so it was either local or something that was possibly already there.

"Should we not speak out loud?"

The harsh sound of stone against stone, and dirt rustling around rapidly drew their attention back towards the entrance.

A large, earthen golem rushed in and stood there, eyes glowing a deep orange, staring at the trio. Cracks formed on it's face, and a mouth was made, loose dirt falling away from where the hole was created.

Golem: "STOP! Go... Go no further! Leave this place! My master must not be disturbed!"

Possibly to Sephiroth's surprise, several small golf ball sized spheres of blood rolled along the floor, moving rapidly towards the one that called them. A figure immediately stepped out of the room and reached out, a large glowing hand emerging from his body, and scooping up the blood, carrying it to him. He quickly put them into a strange jar.

This new figure was apparently the "master" the golem spoke of. He looked old, very old, and wore loose dark grey simple clothing, with a backpack possibly filled with various magical supplies. He gave then trio a stern look.

As soon as the blood had started moving, the golem had begun it's attack.

Golem: "You do not listen! LEAVE NOW!"

Jacob and Rosemary had to dash out of the way as it slammed it's long arms towards them, it's fists bursting open and sending large rocks flying every which way. Several of these hit some of the pods holding the monsters Sephiroth had indicated early, knocking a few loose. As the golem swung it's limbs and haphazardly threw stones, the old man who was apparently a mage of some sort, began chanting, a glowing circle appearing beneath the feet of the golem and the three who ended up having to fight said golem.

Jacob took one look at the glowing circle and it's symbols on the ground, and immediately shouted out a warning, to try to avoid the ever expanding thing. However, the golem wasn't making it easy, the creature keeping them trapped within it with it's attacks.

The teleportation circle faded as the mage focused on shooting bolts of lightning at several of the monsters and at Sephiroth, attempting to stop him from finishing his Silence spell. A blow against a quickly made barrier made the mage drop his jar container (later when Sephiroth would try to open it, he would find that not even Rosemary's brute strength would shatter the jar), and as the monsters began to close in on him, he grew angry and teleported out of sight.

Golem: "Master! Where are you!?"

The stony creature stopped attacking and stumbled, a few chunks missing from returned boulder blows by Rosemary. Suddenly ignoring the others, the golem crumbled to a pile of rocks and dirt, it's spirit visible but quickly fading as it rushed outside.

Golem spirit: Master! Where did you go!?

Before the spirit could become completely invisible or get too far, Jacob summoned a charm from his pocket dimension, crushed it, and shouted several strange words. Yellow strands of string-like glowing energy flailed out around him in a circle, and several entangled the spirit.

Golem spirit: Master! Help me! Where are you, master!?

The once so bold sounding spirit suddenly sounded frightened and alone. Jacob held the trapped glowing blue fog essence before him.

Jacob: "Why is your master here? What is he doing here?"

Golem spirit: I'll tell you nothing, necromancer!