towerofanimus | We're going on a monster hunt

Characters: Romeo and you!
Setting: All around the tower, night time. Pick a floor!
Format: Either!
Summary: Romeo goes monster hunting
Warnings: Here be monsters. But I'll add if anything serious comes up

Romeo padded out of his room quietly, trying not to wake up his roommates. If they were all even in bed. Sometimes they weren't.

He skipped down the hallway and then slowed to a walk when he got to the staircase. He held his knife in his hand and it was time to go and train. Since everyone who had ever tried to teach him to fight had long vanished from the tower, Romeo had figured that just practicing himself was best.

He was getting better. Though he usually still got overwhelmed and had to end the night with a mad dash up to his room.

He jumped off the staircase into the corridor of floor ninety three, hearing noises. Soon there was a scuttling as a few miniblin's approached, on the ceiling and floor. Romeo didn't really like hurting monsters, but they had hurt his friends first and he had to get stronger in order to help everyone. So he gripped his knife and rushed at the first one, dodging teeth as he did so.

He continued on after that, every now and again entering a floor to fight monsters, running away if he got too overwhelmed but for the most part sticking to one's he knew he could fight, even if it was hard. He was cut and bruised by half way through the night, but learning how to look after injuries was something he had been trying to teach himself too, so he could help his friends if they got hurt!

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Yuka had spotted him while gathering a few balls from the ball pit, and watched him curiously as he moved. She didn't like being out so late, but she wanted a few of the colorful balls for her room. After watching him leave, the girl decided to follow him. It was better than being alone.

She just didn't say anything yet, padding along after him for at least a staircase.

"...u-um, excuse me?"

Romeo looked round and smiled when he saw the girl. "Hello! Are you okay?"

"FREEZE BULLET!"

Lina wasn't sure what was going on when she came to this floor, other than something big and nasty was making a racket and chasing someone. So on impulse, she threw out a powerful concentration of ice magic to try and stop the thing - or slow it down enough that whoever it was chasing could get away.

Romeo heard the voice and the monster seemed to stop, so he kept running faster, knife in hand and almost ran into Lina. "Don't go that way miss there's a big monster!"

"Oh! Yes, Yuka is okay. Are you okay?" She smiles in return immediately, clutching the red, blue and yellow balls she still has to her chest. "Why are you out so late?"

"I am okay." So this was Yuka! They had met before but it was when the glamour had been off. But she was like Yotsuba and said her name a lot. "I'm Romeo! You met me before do you remember?" He smiled at her.

"I'm fighting monsters!"

"Romeo! I do remember!" Bouncing a little on her toes, her smile brightens. "Thank you again. Yuka is glad she met you then. It made it less scary." And then he says he's fighting monsters and she tilts her head a little, smile fading.

"Why are you doing that...? They're scary..."

"I was glad I met you too!" He smiled and then shrugged, "Because I got to make sure everyone's safe, and I got to get stronger so I can help fight the bad people!"

"Oh..." That makes a lot of sense. "You're really brave, Romeo."

Looking at her collection of colored spheres and then at the boy, a determined look settles onto her face.

"Yuka...Yuka wants to get stronger too. I want to help them fight too!"

Romeo beamed at that. "I bet you're really brave too!" He nodded, seeing proof in that she wanted to help fight. "Do you got a weapon Yuka?"

"...no, Yuka isn't very brave...but she wants to be! Just like her brother!" She stands straight, scrunching her face up a little as if that'll make her determination stick. But then he asks about the weapon and it falls into a more wondering look.

"Um...no...I don't. I don't think I could use swords or anything like all the other people here..." Have you seen most of those swords? They're as tall as her!

"You could use a knife though!" The swords were mostly taller than Romeo too, though he seemed to be growing bigger every day.

"A knife?" She's thinking like...butter knife. But yes. It's hard being shorter than most swords. It's hard and no one understands.

"Yes! We can make one, or borrow one from the kitchen." He nodded, "They're just foil really but they are still sharp even when the glamour things go off."

"You can make a knife?" Wow! Romeo is really cool...

"Um...whatever is better for Romeo! I will do my best with either!"

"I can! We can do that first then go fight them." He grinned.

"I noticed!" Lina answers in a sharp tone, already doing hand motions for a second spell. "Holy wind, wind which flows gently across the land, let all things be filled with your pure breath! VAN REHL!" Glowing blue light gathered in her hand, and was slammed to the ground. Icy tendrils sprang forth, some going for the monster to further encase it in ice, the others forming a frozen lattice wall between the beast and Lina.

"Okay, now we leave!"

"Wow!" Romeo ran after her, very impressed. "That was amazing miss!"

"I know, I know, but be impressed later, when we're far away from that thing!"

That said, Lina made a beeline for the stairs, glancing back partway up. "Just be careful, the next one up is open, and I can't use magic there if that thing chases us, so keep movin'!"

If there was anything that Romeo was good at it was running. So he took the stairs two at a time, checking to make sure Lina was still running. "Run fast miss!" He sounds like he is having far too much fun.

"Don't worry about me, long as we can get to a different floor I can keep that thing off our backs!" She was keeping pace fairly well, but was making sure to stay behind Romeo rather than get in front. Good thing they were moving as quick as they were - the sound of cracking ice and a very angry Big Daddy could be heard back on the swamp floor.

"Come on then miss we can get to one with powers!" He glanced behind him and kept running, making sure miss Lina was still behind him.

Lina starts to object and correct him that she means a floor that allows them, but there's little sense in doing so right now.

"Yeah, I know - just," she pauses, then clenches her jaw for a moment. "If it goes bad, you keep runnin', alright?"

Which was what Romeo meant really, he frowns when she speaks though. "I'm not leaving you miss Lina! We fight it together okay!"

We're going on a monster hunt

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Floor Ninety

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