The Dueling Arena ~The RP~

[Takamura Kobayashi]

Takamura nodded and bowed to each of them in turn. "It is nice to meet you all. Seems we need to work together to defeat these creatures, and avoid unnessecary injury." He said as he made his way to the stairs. "You said one more chamber correct?" he asked to confirm what he had heard.  

[delbosque]

Uninjured BillBob hefted the pitchfork to get a feel for its weight as he walked along. "Down those stairs Raul's on now, and that should put us in a really big old storage room. Though I only know how the first part of it is. I have no idea how far back the storeroom goes, what's been kept back behind the first rows of boxes, or how long it's been there. But Christie said that's where the creepy albino lunatic hides out when he doesn't want anyone to find him."  

[Takamura Kobayashi]

Takamura nodded as they proceeded down the stairs. "I don't think you'll need that if all that's down there is a crazy old man." he said as he patted the katana at his side. "Besides, I still need to qualify for the tournament if I'm not mistaken." He chuckled as he began walking.  

[delbosque]

"Maybe it is just a crazy old man down there... but anyone who could kidnap Christie would have to be hard to beat or have some kind of help that's hard to beat. She's the one who hunted down all the monsters that we currently have in the Dueling Arena." BillBob and BillBob looked like they were proud to work with her, but also somewhat apprehensive.  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

Saito gave a quiet sigh of relief, If all they had to worry about was a old man then he wouldn't have to worry, but it is never truly that easy now is it?. He took out the pack of cigarettes in his pocket, over half of the remaining ones were ruined because of blood and being crushed. He pulled out the one that looked in the best shape and lit it.  

[Takamura Kobayashi]

Takamura nodded as he walked past Saito. "Those things will kill you." he said as he kept walking towards the door that lead downstairs.  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

He laughed slightly at the mans statement "If these things were gonna kill me, It should have happened a long time ago...." He blew the rest of the smoke out of his nose as he went and took another puff.  

[delbosque]

At the bottom of the stairs, BillBob, BillBob, Saito, and Takamura went through the door to the storeroom. It had been left open by Raul, who had run ahead a bit.

They found themselves in an exceptionally large storage chamber, high-ceilinged and stone-walled. Near the door there were some moldy old cardboard boxes, but mostly the room seemed packed with wooden crates of various sizes and aged trunks of both wood and metal varieties, some with locks on them and some without. In some places the trunks and crates were piled high, almost to the ceiling. Everywhere they looked there were more of them, with various widths of pathways in between. Most of the pathways were too narrow to allow even the skinny twins to walk side by side, and there didn't seem to be anything resembling a regular order or pattern in their arrangement.

The lighting was somewhat on the dim side, and the only sound to be heard aside from their own footsteps was that of Raul making his way through the rows of crates, somewhere off ahead of them.  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

Saito looked at all of the crates... It would take forever to navigate their way through the room, but only about a minute or two if they destroyed them all... "Hey where are you???" Saito could hear Raul moving about.  

[Takamura Kobayashi]

Takamura looked around amazed at the amount of stuff that the seemingly small room held. He figured that it went clear back under the arena and out for some distance. He stopped as he stared at the high ceiling.  

[delbosque]

Although the room started out with straight-sided stone walls, as they continued farther in they could see that the room opened up and the walls became more rough, like they were made of huge irregular chunks of rock which had never been covered up by smooth-cut facing stones.

The crates continued on, but amongst them now there were also a lot of piles of rubbish of some sort or other. Old rags, maybe, or just junk. Here an antique but worthless piece of beat-up furniture, there something that looked like mounds of moth-eaten stage curtains. It wasn't really very much like a maze, but there simply wasn't anything like a direct path straight through. One had to take a somewhat irregular zig-zag route.

Raul might have possibly said something in answer to Saito, but the sound was muffled by distance. Somehow he'd managed to get exponentially farther ahead of everyone else, and though they could see over most of the piles of junk in between the stacks of crates, he was just out of sight.  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

Saito gave a heavy sigh, Putting the cig in his mouth "I am going in..." He ran forward and kicked off the ground, going over a few stacks of boxes as he landed on another, it barely holing his wait as he then got off of it and began to slighlty jog though the maze towards where Raul's voice came from  

[Takamura Kobayashi]

Takamura, seeing Saito take off, followed quickly behind, easily catching up to and subsequently passing the man as he ran farther and farther along. Soon he could see Raul before him and Saito just as far behind him. Nodding he adjusted his pace so that he could see them both at all times, and could assist if needed.  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

Saito saw the guy pass him, but wasn't worried, If there was a fight Saito didn't need to be the first one in. He stopped and took a few breaths after seeing Raul, He was fine...  

[delbosque]

BillBob and BillBob followed along behind Takamura and Saito, jogging along and dodging between the not-so-scenic scenery.

Raul, meanwhile, reached what amounted to a wall of crates, boxes, and random junk piled up in what seemed to be the very back of the exceptionally large storage room. A single space left as a doorway just wide enough for one person at a time was located to one side of the wall's center.

Raul ducked through the doorway without hardly looking first.

It was rather dark there. A female voice spoke in a dull, serious tone: "You didn't come alone, did you?"