event: portal four | the mountain

[mayfield_mods]

The fourth portal, as might be expected, can be found atop the hill known as Makeout Point. The other side of the portal isn't altogether that much different from the side you're entering from, save for the thicker trees and somewhat darker lighting.

The other side of the portal is significantly colder than the Mayfield side; frost covers the ground, and although it's not quite freezing, you'll want to bundle up. A glance at the sky reveals what you might have been dreading: glitch holes, in varying size, litter the skyline. The sun is hidden behind a set of thick clouds, creating a melancholy atmosphere.

The landscape around you is relatively flat, and you can't see too far beyond the forest ahead of you. It isn't until you turn around, facing the portal that you entered from, that you see the rising slope of the ground. The mountain rises high, higher than you can see from its base. There's a rough, primitive path heading up its slope, and for now simply hiking will be sufficient. As you get further, however, simply walking won't be enough: you're going to have to climb...

Somewhere, closer than you might prefer, a single wolf howls, and is shortly joined by more.

Better get moving.

Comments

[cosmicbond]

Come on! You can do that while we run!

[Gen's not entirely sure what's going on...only that the small girl in front of him is moving the ground with her head. Or something. But he knows they have to use this opportunity to get the heck into the portal all safe and sound.

So that's why he'll attempt to pick her up while she's chucking more stone.]

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy catches up to them soon enough and reaches out to grasp hold of Terra's hands. The excitement at seeing her regain her powers is quickly being tempered with the memory of what had happened the last time she had tried to control a volcanic eruption.]

Terra, it's OK! You did it! The lava's slowed down! ...You can stop, Terra!

[forgotten_titan]

[Feeling hands on her causes her to struggle again as she flashes back between her past and the present. Whichever it is, she has less control over her power, relying instead on raw emotion to smash rock and earth on the lava. A rock ends up smashing nearby the both of them as the yellow light starts to intensify. A familiar dull sensation creeps from her feet, one that accompanied a prison of stone. She should control her powers, use them with a calm mind and precision, not lashing out with anger and frustration. She knows its dangerous and she should stop, but now fear is what motivates her as her power slowly starts enveloping her again.

Until a pair of hands grasps hers.

Beast Boy's voice and presence comforts her, and she focuses on his voice. She can stop. She can do this. Beast Boy is OK.

The yellow glow slowly dims as she starts to calm down.]

[cosmicbond]

Good timing....

[That rock was TOO close. He had luckily let her go right afterward. He didn't feel like testing his durability today.

He'll turn to see the portal not too far away.]

We're almost there!

[thebeastwithout]

[He breathes a sigh of relief at seeing her begin to regain control of herself. Everything was too frenetic right now for him to really think; it was like viewing the scene remotely through a screen. All he wanted was to get them all back through that hole and back to Mayfield. Beast Boy leans forward and gives her a quick hug before releasing her with a soft whisper.]

You did great.

[Behind them, the rock dam cracks once again...]

C'mon. C'mon! ...We're gonna get the happy ending we deserve this time if it kills me.

[He glances towards Gentarou and nods as he begins to shepherd Terra back towards the portal.

...Everything was going to be just fine.]