"Here we go." Meth said. He spread his hand over the ground and chanted. Three ugly brown stones emerged from the ground. The stones were about knee high and roughly resembled humans with big wart covered noses and pointy hats. The stones cracked and three gnomes moved to further break out of their prisons.

"We are... the lawn gnomes!" The tallest of the three said.

A face worm reared up in front of the gnomes and hissed.

"AHHHHH FACE WORMS!!!" They said in unison then turned to run and saw meth standing there looking confused.

"AHHH WIZARD!!!"

"There is one thing to do." The gnomes pulled out weapons, one had a mace, another an axe and the third had two daggers.

"Prepare to..... Grovel!"

The gnomes dropped their weapons and ran toward Meth. They grabbed his robes and began to kiss his feet.

"Oh please nice wizard, save us from the face worms."

"It's not our fault."

"The worm started it."

"Great and powerful wizard, save us."

"eww disgusting." He shook his robe knocking the gnomes away.

The gnomes then began to cry. Loud sobs, tears shooting out of their eyes like water out of a hose.

"There, that's all i need..." Jerick snickered under his breath and threw the spear with full force, it was sent spiralling over the ground, it's electrical force tearing up the grass beneath it. The mother face worm was almost completely oblivious to the attack as it flew directly at it's throat. But, to the great suprise of Jerick, the beast dodged exeptionally quick, and it flew passed it onto the gound, still sending out sparks of lightning.

"Ah, no matter," he snickered again, and with his glowing left arm and his mind focused on the Zealera, he tried to lift it from afar. It wobbled slightly, then floated into the air, and began to move in accordance to Jerick's hand movement. It flew back, and struck the creature in the back of the neck, too low to kill it, but just above the armor. The electricity flowed through the beast, and Jerick could only hope it would stun it.

The beast wobbled a bit, then fell to the ground, momentarilly stunned by the lightning coursing through it's body.

<Now's our chance! Now that's it's head is down!> Iris thought victoriously, but knew somebody else would have attack it, since her knife was far too small to do any damage.

Darilk charged during the creature's moment of vulnerability and rammed his sword into it's face point first, and then drew it out, repeating the proceduce, over and over, until the creature's head was nothing but a mangled mess of gore. The black knight then surveyed the area for more face worms that may need to be 'cleaned up'.

Dart was busy cleaving the smaller worms into pieces to notice the mother face worm. He was getting annoyed at how they just kept coming, which was making him mad at the same time. He could feel his hands burning as his sword cut through the worms like a hot knife through butter, getting hotter after about every five minutes, when a new on would show up. It seemed like he had killed ten, but it was probably more. He had lost track after five and refused to count due to his annoyance. He continued to massacre them, a nasty stench of burning flesh following his trail of blood and entrails.

Before long, all of the face worms were gone... just left with a natsy pile of massicred face worm body parts.

"Whew. Finally!" Iris sighed, happy the threat was gone. She looked around, "Now, to get our 5,000 zeny reward but..." She looked at the head of the mother head worm... it was hard to tell what it was it had been so horribly mutilated, "How are we going to prove we killed it?"

Vace said, "Well, that thing is huge, so taking it with us is out of the question... Wait, did you say a reward for this things head? Maybe if we hitched it up to the horses we could do it. Anyone have any rope?"

"Why not just cut off a horn or something? Sure as hell beats lugging the whole head back with us, not that anyone would bw able to recognize it as one, anyway..."

Saying so, Chaos suatted beside the ruins of the face worm's head and began sawing away at an intact horn.

Putting away his sword, Dart walked up to the group, glad that he didn't have to clean his sword because of the intense heat that it emitted. He then looked at his hands, which were charred and almost seemed like they would be useless. He was only lucky that he could find a healer after he used his sword for the past year. He walked up to the group and asked, "Does anyone know a good healer? My hands need one...badly."

Vult looked down at his hands and lower arms. Why do I always seem to get covered in gore, everytime I go out here? he wondered, then felt a resonating THUD course through the ground. He looked up and saw the guy with a cape begin ramming his sword into the MotherWorm's face. Repeatedly.

Someone has anger issues.

"RAWR!!" "RWAR!"

Some more had crept up behind Vult while he stared dumbfounded at the enraged warrior. A few quick slashes later, and it seemed as though the onslaught had ended.

"How the hell are we - rather, they - gonna get that thing back to town?"

As he rejoined the group, he noticed one of the men - he couldn't tell, there were like a halfdozen of them - sawing away at a horn.

"Hey buddy, I think they want the whole head in exchange for the bounty. Although, I'm not sure if it exists any longer...Oh well."

(OOC: sorry I wasn't around much today. I stayed after school and then after school I went out and enjoyed the fresh air... bike riding! I fell... I'm a loser. )

Iris covered her nose, blocking it from the intense smell of the dead beast, "Well... we'll just have to make due with the horn." She glanced at the size of the horn, which was easily longer than her forarm, "I don't think and other monsters around here have horns like that anyway...

"Begone foul creatures." Meth said to the weaping disgusting lawn gnomes. The lawn gnomes petrified and then sank back into the earth from wence they came.

"Why do I even have that spell?" Meth said slightly frustrated.

Chaos hefted the horn at Iris, then slipped VIsion back into it's sheath.

"All right, you can carry that."

"I guess so. This corpse will take forever to decompose, and even the vultures will have a tough time, given its hide."

Vult sighed. "Welp, seems like the FaceWorm problem in this area is finished. Now all we have to worry about are raving lunatics and strange wizards." It was pretty hard to miss the giant torrents of tears shooting out of the gnomes.

Iris took the massive horn from Chaos, holding it in both of her arms, "This thing is heavy." She commented, then turned around, "Now... which way was that town that was offering the reward? ...Ah this way!" She said, as she lugged the horn along with her.

Before she got far, she stopped to put the horn down. "That is extremely heavy!" She stopped for a moment, trying to think of a better way to transport it. "Hey, does anybody have any rope?"

Truce whistled, stepping up so that he would be noticed. "Wow, you guys killed it. I'm surprised...not many people can face a mama wormie and survive.

"Not to be a bother...but mind if I tag along? I sorta got lost...and you guys look like you can handle yourselves if you get into trouble. Hell, maybe you guys are the trouble."

"I think the electric guy was talking about horses a while back... Maybe he has some."

Chaos shrugged.

"Of course, if it's too much for you..."

Darilk, having cleaned and sheathed his sword walked up to where Iris had dropped the horn was and easily lifted it, carrying it under his arm.

"excuse me, but i'd like to have my javelin back," Jerick said as he squirmed through the many warriors. He grasped the end and yanked it out, splashing blood on his cloak.

"I must say, that was eventful, but i should be on my way" he shook his head and started to walk, until he spoke, "Unless, of course, you would be willing to accept one more member for future adventures like these." he snickered at how open he was being. there was something in the group; destiny, perhaps, that still wanted him to join, even after the threat passed.

"Well, will you accept my offer?"

Looking at the newcomer, Vult started to say something along the lines of "I don't think they would like you cutting in on their bounty." Unfortunately, the wind shifted, bringing the smell of the beast right into his nose and mouth. What everyone heard was, "I don't thin-GACK!" And quickly clamped his mouth shut.

This isn't an improvement he thought, becoming aware of the monster humor he was already covered in.

Darilk looked back at the man cooly, stopping for a moment to look him over. "You helped with the extermination. You deserve a cut of the bounty." He then stood silently, holding the horn and waiting for Iris and the others to begin to move again.

"I don't mind anyone coming along..." Iris said hurriedly, not wanting to talk much due to the awful stench, "And 5,000 Zeny is enough to go around," She said, waving her hand dismissively, "But we'll talk about that once we get back to town." she continued to cover her nose as she started walking, "Now which way was that town again..."

"This way." After calming down. "I'm... familar with the innkeeper in that town. Besides, I have business to attend to there anyway."

Although he kept his hands down, he couldn't stand the smell coming from the mother. Do they stink more the longer they live?

Shrugging he followed Iris, since noone had said no to him coming along afterall, and took one more quick look at the slain face worms, specifically the mother. You know, if they got that armored plating they could sell it or form it for some good protection.

Oh well.

"Hey, miss, where are all of you heading?"

Iris looked back at th the man, "We're heading back to town, they had a 5,000 Zeny reward for any who killed the mother face worm, so we're going to go get the reward now."

(OOC: new chapter soon, as soon as I write it up!)

Vace leaned over to someone and said, "How much is a Zeny worth? I've never heard of this type of money before."

Chaos replied, "Quite a bit... 5000 zeny should see us set for a few weeks after this, at least."

"Really? Sounds like a nice reward then for this... Face Worm thing. Quite a nasty creature it was, a good reward seems reasonable." vace replied.