Waking Dreams, Madness before method..

[Dawnshade]

The wood fell away from the door in a jumbled heap, nails jutting out dangerously. Revealed was a gaping archway, bricked on all sides and wide enough to fit two horses side by side. The inside was dank and dusty, the sunlight shining through misted grimy windows barely penetrating the gloom.

Camriel bit savagely through her bottom lip till it bleed, she licked at the wound while watching the two men enter her sanctuary.

A smell of dry rot and mold punched through the humid air of the church, a taste of copper lingered on the breeze. Worse of all was a feeling of desperation and agony in the air, it clung to clothing and flesh digging like worms. Camriel strode past the two men, seemingly unaffected by the horrendous stench and into the cavernous church down the aisle lined with pews towards the altar.

She stood behind the black altar at the very front of the church, it was a new addition to the saintly visage. Sprawled across the black stone was a corpse, long decayed and husked. She raised a candle stick, the wax long since melted away and began to mumble long forgotten passages, her eyes glazed with something otherworldly.

[Stealth Irony]

"You have a name?" Falc chuckled, "Good for you!" He continued towards the door, stopping for a minute as the boards fell to the ground. Falc shook his head then looked up towards the top of the church, "Oh the things that could be done with this place.." he thought to himself.

As they reached the door, he put his arm over his nose, "My god, what's that horrible smell?!" Continuing in, he looked at the woman who was acting as if there was nothing different about the smell, or the feel of the church. He couldn't put his finger on it, but there was just something that didn't feel right.

Falc went to a few windows and force them open. "This should clear up this stench and let us see a little better. Whatta ya think kid?" He turned around to look at the alter, as he saw a sarcophagus in the center. This filled with wonder, and a little bit of fear. "Holy shit!" He said at first glance, catching himself, " ..What could be in that..?"

[Dawnshade]

As the sunlight poured through the window, the gloom parted revealing the shocking sight of bodies littering the hall of the church. There were bodies of adults laying across the floor and draped across the pews, half decayed and rotting. White shards of bone peaked through grey flesh. The stench was nearly unbearable..

Strangely enough the bodies had been impossible to see from the entrance, it was almost as if the light have given them presence in the large hall. Flaked and dried blood lay splashed across the walls, arching high across the ceiling and froze in its tracks down the walls as it crusted.

[SifuFox]

All feelings of irritations vanished. The stench of the church hit him, hard. He wasn't prepared for the sight ahead of him, nor the stench. Fear had already began to sink deep into his emotions. Questions that were unanswered built up in his head, so many things he wanted to know, yet he could not ask.

The floor creaked with the few steps he slowly and gently took. He wanted to run, but the shock just wouldn't let him. He heard Falc shout something, but couldn't decypher the language he was speaking. His eyes shot around the room wildly. The decomposing flesh, bones, limbs, and the piano in the corner.

However, his eyes found and locked onto the sarcophagus in the center of the church. It looked old and beat up, however, what was inside it filled Kuang with great curiosity.

"I'ma take a look inside that...", he muttered to himself, as his feet dragged along the floor. The pathway to the sarcophagus was clear, as if someone had moved the littered bodies to create a clear pathway from the entrance to the sarcophagus. His footsteps caused the wood underneath him to groan loudly, as if it was warning against him.

He was only a few more steps away from finding out the truth, and nothing was between him but the few feet seperating him and his destination.

[Dawnshade]

Camriel hissed from her place by the altar, teeth bared like a wild dog. In a motion vaguely reminenscent of a ghost she slid at ultra speed across the floor to appear before the young boy, her hair was flying out haphazardly behind her, her eyes aglow with darkness.. "STAY AWAY!" In those few seconds of pure fury she became transculent, a true ghost. She raised a hand towards the boy, the nails grown into claws and dried blood crusted on her finger tips.

[Stealth Irony]

Falc watched as Kuang made his way slowly up to the alter. Noticing the obvious anger in the woman building as he got closer. He waited to see what would happen.

"What the hell?!" Falc shouted as he saw Camriel disappear. "Where'd she.. whoa, what the?!" He said quickly as he saw her over Kuang with claws that seemed to come out of nowhere.

Just as suddenly Falc in a flying leap, jumped across the room and tackled Kuang into a few benches that were on either side of the isles. Quickly turning to face Camriel, staying down one one knee, he grasped the case on his back with one hand, and had the other hand in front of him. "What are you and what is it you want?" He said without missing a beat.

It suddenly seemed to get cold in the church.

[SifuFox]

Kuang groaned from the impact, he landed on his arm and it felt like some splinters from the benches he fell upon manages to find their way through his clothing and pierce his soft skin. He slowly stood up, removing what little pieces of wood he could and dusting himself off.

He took a look at the figure ahead of him, noting her etheral ghost-like figure. However, part of her seemed solid. Curiousity took over Kuang's actions.
"Hey," he whispered to Falc in a voice that could barely be heard, "Thanks. I'ma try to knock her out, I need to find out whats in that." His eyes glared at the sarcophagus in the center of the room for a mere second, and returned his glare back to the ghostly figure. "Hey Falc, do you think you can hit her? --- Nevermind, I'ma find out myself."

He took a step forward, as if he was going to run towards her. Rather then continuing, smoke began to fill the air around him. Almost just as fast as it had appeared, it vanished. Within an instant, smoke appeared in front of the strange women. "Hey, you," He said while the smoke was fading away, Please --- move!" Kuang threw his fist, aiming for her face as fast as his arm would let it fly.