Finally reaching the stone passageway entrance…or so Leon thought was the entrance. He pats the stone confused and knocks on it, "Huh I thought-"
"Dude why did you bring us to a closed off section of Manshvana? We are supposed to be getting IN, not being kept out you know Leon." Pardona interupts him with a scoff as she kicks a rock down the hill they just climbed to her dismay. Seatra aren't much good at walking, even with their human legs. They don't get much practice or have any need to walk anyways.
Leon side eyes her and then crouches down to look at a tiny crack in the passageway, "I swear this was here back th-" and suddenly stops himself as he stands up with his mouth snap shut. He scans the surrounding area and decides on a direction. He gestures to Parodona to follow him, and slides down the hill as he heads east along the mountain edge. Parodona sighs and slides, grabbing towards her back to hold up her tail fins so they don't get dirty. Meanwhile, her bare legs, with the exception of the areas covered by the leather shorts Leon gave her, are starting to become bruised and brown as she slides down the hill to follow Leon.
Leon strides past a bunch of Thyracial Cherries as he periodically pats the mountain edge like he's congratulating it. His other hand scratching at his neck starting to leave red in place of where his pale color should be. Parodona looks at him, looks at a stick on the ground, and then looks at him again. She bends down, grabs the stick and lifts it up to inspect the end of it. With a smirk she starts tiptoing behind him with the stick in her waving it around silently. She sneaks behind Leon as he bends over to inspect some paw prints. She bends over behind him, and steers her ahead away, nose scrunching up but aims the stick upwards underneath his butt.
"god you need a shower mystic" she whispers, head still steered away.
"Yeah, well do you see any water around here?" Leon remarks still bent over with his hand on the paw prints.
"GAH" Parodona jumps up dropping the stick with a clatter. "You scared the Tui outta me! Don't do that Leon!" she smacks the back of his head in frustration.
Leon stands back up looking over his shoulder, "Wasn't it you that was trying to do that to me!? You had a stick and everything!" he comments gesturing to the pointy stick on the ground.
Parodona's head shifts side to side quickly sweating bullets, "uh uh, no that was just the wind! You're imagination! You're crazy!"
She runs away but her foot gets caught under a stone and she falls flat on her face. Leon walks over and kneels in front of her. "Serves you right for trying to scare me. Although I think the irony hit you to much in the face or well…the ground did" he reaches out his hand and laughs.
She looks at him, her mouth curved into a [adjective for flustered] and slaps his hand. She runs forward on the trail huffing and puffing.
Walking behind her, Leon puts his hands in his pocket and smirks. "Idiot" he whispers and laughs.
After a few hours of walking in silence after that occurrance, they come across more and more stone in comparison to forest. It gets blander… and blander… and blander as they walk alongside the mountains edge. Until finally they come across a stone passengeway with significant bright markings on it.
Leon walks up to the passage and caresses it, "This is one of the oldest passageways through the mountain ever created. Well, so it is said."
Parodona looks at him with [phrase it with suspscion or feature her face being sus about him] but quickly turns her gaze towards the passageway as well.
"What's it say Magic? Can you read it? If you can't, then we are screwed beccause I don't know ancient darthjic. Wait you're a regular human, of course you can't read darthjic. tch."
Leon looks at the wordz, the phrasing, the spelling on the passageway as his eyes bounce from word to word. He digs his nails into the ancient writing, trying to feel it's power and age.
"Step back please, I need a bit of space. Also please cover your ears, seatrans are very sensitive to darthjic and any Gazonic language no? I heard you guys are particually vulerable to the ancient versions."
Parodona looks at him with wide eyes and nose scrunched up, "Yes we are- wait you're actually going to read it? How the hell do you know ancient darthjic?!"
"My master taught me, he was a Najir historian at one point but was also my teacher. He may still be around and kicking. Now please give me some room"
Parodona steps back with caution and clasps her hands together behind her back. She fiddles with them before unclaspping and plugging her ears.
Leon takes a deep breath, "Alright here we go, Rowyn give me strength" he whispers.
Tracing the first phrase out of the three it lights up dark red, "Rokatuni Jabrat Gatra Datra(Unisaki must face death."
The entire surrounding area turns dark red, blocks out the sky and all the surrounding wildlife starts wilting. Everything is dying, and fast.
Parodona looks at her legs as she keeps her ears plugged, they are aging and rapidly. Wrinkles, bones starting to show, flesh starting to come off. She screams and struggles to keep her hands at her ears.
"Parodona keep them there or you'll actually die! Once I finish the phrase this rune will vanish! Hang in there!" Leon shouts at her while muttering the same first phrase over and over.
He traces the second phrase as the first one turns into dripping blood. "Rokatuni Jabrat Gatra Corutyu(Unisaki must face Corruption)." The entire area darkens as now Leon's nose starts bleeding, it's finally affecting him. He needs to keep going, needs to be keep muttering if he wants it to open despite the consquences to him or Parodona's body.
Parodona crumbles to the ground, human legs turned to bone and her seatran scales peeling off. She looks at Leon with a plead to hurry up.
He finishes off murmuring the second phrase as his mouth is starting to fill with blood now. He finally starts tracing the third and final phrase.
"Rokatuni Jabrat Gatra Eratidcat(Unisaki must face Eradication)" he recites loudly spitting blood all over the stone passageway.
Parodona manages to crawl towards him and starts tugging on him with a firm grip. Leon still reciting the phrase, slaps her hand away without a second thought or eye contact.
With a last asserting chant, Leon pushes the door open with a bang- then silence.
The dark red sky starts to turn blue once more, Parodona's legs start to deage and her scales start to grow back in the exact same patterns.
Leon wipes his nose and spits out the remainder of blood that was in his mouth as he turns around to face Parodona. He looks at her with sharp eyes. He kneels down and sticks out his hand, "Let me help you up, it was dumb of you to try and pull on me like that you know"
She glares at him as she sticks her hand out to grab his hand, then suddenly slaps it away, "Don't talk to me, lets just go." She stands up and walks right past him into the passageway, leaving nothing but Leon and his thoughts behind her.