Far enough away, and putting distance fast.

"I think it's time to run like hell and not look back!"

*DASH*

The group had finally made it out of the room and was making their way through the burning building. (OOC: have you guys already gotten your weapons or not?)

It was going fairly well, until they reached a fork-in-the-hallway. One path left, and one right. The ceiling was threatening to give away to the fire above.

"Which way should we go?"

OOC: We did get our weapons back.

"One way's as good as another at this point, just take one!" Vace said. Just to give an answer, he pointed to the right.

(OOC: Yeah, the weapons were given back)

"Uhh...I'm right handed, so we go right, they'll both have to lead somewhere." Jude said, then took off down the right hand path.

"Hey wait!" Cesia called as she chased after Jude down the right hallway. After running down the hallway a ways they came to a hole in the ground.

"Woaah!" Cesia stopped, right before accedentally falling into the hole. She glanced down it, it was pitch black. "Uhh... I vote on not going down there..." She pointed down into the darkness, "But it looks like the hallway goes on for a little bit more. Should we jump it?" The hole wasn't that big, but it still was intimidating to think of jumping over it.

(OOC: it's like a choose your own adventure book! "If you go down the hole, turn to page 13, if you attempt to jump over it turn to page 50. If you decide to go back, go back to page 32. ^^ hehe I loved those books. ^^ )

"I can make that jump." Jude said. He proved his point by hopping the length, then hopping back.

"I guess I could carry someone over. Its not that big, and the ground on the other side seems strong enough to survive the force of the jump."

Lynx looked down at the hole, then across it. He could barely walk with a human body. Stupid two legs...

"Why don't you carry Dawn over." Cesia glanced at the tired Dawn. Cesia was also feeling tired from the drain that Skurai had cast, but for right now, her adrenaline was keeping her going. She then glanced at the now-human Lynx, "Lynx, do you think you'll be able to make it? Human bodies are a lot less agile than cats..."

Lynx sighed. "I've treeped abut sexteen times so far, I kan't."

"Well, your talking is getting better..." Cesia grinned, despite the situation, then glanced at Jude, "Maybe somebody should carry Lynx over as well..."

((btw, thanks for keeping me in this, i need to get on more often cause it seems there are ten pages before i look every time))

Kalimare, without thinking, swooped up Lynx (yes, he can do that), and then lept across the hole. His strength was enough that he had carried both persons on him across with him(Lynx and Tamakari), but now he was exhausted. He set the two that he carried across onto the ground and then collapsed.

"Just...give...me...a...minute...to...rest..."

(OOC: no worries, I'm not kicking anyone out of the RP. Plus sometime I even have several pages to read through when I get on too.)

The others leaped across fairly easily, weither being helped or making it across themselves.

"Whew." Cesia sighed after making it across the pit, then glanced at the fatigued Kalimare, "We're not completely out of danger yet.." Cesia said, referring to the smake that was starting to fill the building. "Could somebody else possibly carry Tamakatari for a bit to give Kalimare a break?"

(OOC: I know not everyone is on, but who would be a good choice of character for carrying Tama? I was thinking maybe Jude...)

There was an awkward pause, and then Jude spoke up.

"Well if no one else wants to help the guy..." Jude said. He hoisted Tama up, trying to hide the strain.

"Hmm...Lynx, why don't you help Dawn walk, and she'll balance you so you won't be falling like a drunk."

ooc: The fire is going to be worst near the exits cause of the air. It would be sucking outside air in to fuel the flames.

OOC: Expect the floor we are on isn't on fire...

OOC: We're heroes, we'll make it through, you worry about your trip.

Just as they were up and ready to move out again, a burning piece of the ceiling fall down, narrowly missing the group. And the rest of the ceiling wasn't looking like it was goingto hold up much longer. The group ran to the end of the hallway... which was a lorge picture window overlooking a long drop what looked like a large pool of water below, perhaps a spring in the mountains.

"Uh..." Cesia looked out the window, "Looks like... a dead end." Not even a second after she said it, a buring beam fell down, blocking them from going back unless they wanted to run through more fire and jump over the pit again, "What now?"

ooc: hope there are no moat monsters

OOC: My guess is no...

Vace looked out the window, then looked back the way they came, and said, "Well in the interest of not getting burned to a cinder soon, I suggest we jump."

Cesia stared at Vace like he was insane, "J-Jump?!" She looked out the window again, "We don't even know how deep that water is!" But she figured they were going to be jumping through the window soon, since nobody in the group seemed very excited about jumping through more fire to figure out a new way out.

"I kould juss exti- eex- extij... water the fires."

OOC: Just image that the entire time they were going, Lynx was practicing on his speaking

"You'll end up passing out if you try to pull another water spell like before." Dawn quickly reminded Lynx as she herself had a time just trying to hold him up.

"Well, we can either stay here and burn to death, or jump into the water that may be too shallow and go splat, either way unless we do something quick, the answer has been decided for us," Vace said as the fire spreading across the roof got worse and threatened to cave in. "However, do you know any spells that could give us a softer landing perhaps?" Vace said to Lynx.

Lynx glared at Vace evilly. "I bekame a humam a ninute ago, and starteg using magik a minute ago... I kould barely pull ophph that wator spell, how do you think I will be able to make winds strong enough to lower us softly?

"What part of 'he can't do anymore spells right now' did you not understand?" She frowned and tried to explain quickly. "If he does anything else, he'll be likely to pass out and not do ANYTHING for at least a day. And the fact that his body was weak to begin with might even make it longer."

She turned her head and glanced back at the fire that had started back up behind them from the beam that had crashed down. "We'll just have to take a risk and hope that the water is deep enough for us... And if anyone gets hurt, it's not like we can't fix that.."

"Didn't have to be anything big or impressive, it was only a suggestion. Well, if we're going to do this, we'll have to be quick, because when we break out the window, the fire's going to go crazy." Vace said, getting ready to jump out the window.

Cesia coughed as the smoke started to fill up more, "Well... if we're gonna do it... we should all jump at once..." She said with a sick feeling in her stomach as she glanced down again. "Everyone ready?" She looked to the others before they made their leap of faith.

Before anyone could say anything, another beam fell down, this time breaking the window for them, and somehow, weither they had instictively jumped out or if they had been pushed out, they suddenly found themselves freefalling down, the water quickly coming up to greet them.

(OOC: new chapter in a sec, I'll get on writing it soon (just have to finish up a few things around the house first) so be patient. ^^;; )

EDIT OOC: Hey, question, should we just have two chapter 4s like we do, then the next chapter will be 5, or should we say this is chapter 5 and make the next chapter be 6? (I know I screwed up the numbers of the chapters)