The Inside discussion

Flumen De Ignis is Latin for "River of Fire". It hold up to its name, and no mortal has been known to cross it and live.

Reven woke up in the inside. She gazed at the river of fire beside her and scowled. "I have been avoiding the banishers for over 7,000 years and make one foolish mistake and I get killed." She snarled. She got to her feet and immediately went her way towards her old home here on the inside.

((Sorry!))

Flumen de Ignis, the river of fire, was unlike fire in the way that it was not gaseous. It was contained in chaotic waves that lapped against the coal shore, smoke raising at every touch. It seemed unlikely, albeit, impossible that anything could live in such a habitat.
But life always has its ways.
At a small plateu hanging over the river, a hand shot out of the fire and latched onto Reven's ankle.

Reven glared down at the hand that grabbed her. "I'm not in the mood, get out now." She snarled and she knew by now her blue eyes were a deep orange almost red. She hand her arms crossed over her chest as she stood there.

The face of a beautiful monster emerged from the liquid fire, her light brown face wet and her black her slicked back. Green scales lined the edges of her face and neck, and her lips were lined with mismatched fangs.
"You weren't afraid?" She asked, her voice raspy as she pulled herself onto the plateau. The orange waves lapped around her shiny skin.

"Darling I'm a fury that's been alive for over 7,000 years, a little fish isn't going to scare me." Reven replied obviously in a bad mood. Taking a hand through her hair she calmed herself. "No I wasn't scared, though I suppose I don't scare to easily." She added with a bitter chuckle.

"I guess you don't." She smiled, showing all forty of her razor shape teeth. "Hmmph. 7,000 years. I guess that makes me a baby." She pouted, the movement looking odd on her deformed mouth. "Which of those nasty boys in black sent you here this time?" The siren asked, brushing her hair away from her face.

Reven chuckled softly. "A baby? Possibly, but then that makes me an old lady." She replied. "As for who sent me here, it's a face that I do recognize, I have heard of him before. Names aren't that important." She then said coldly and her eyes darkened in their orange color again.

"Oh babe." The siren leaned against her webbed hand. "Names are all that matter." She sighed, looking at the fury with pity. "I can get you out you know." She said, unknowingly fluttering her eyelashes.

"Hmm...I suppose that would be appreciated. Though I'd rather not get myself stuck into anything. So if I may ask now if you do this what strings are attached?" Reven replied.

"No strings, babe." She said, moving her other hand. "I help you, you help me. The moment I bend that gate, you and I will corner that bastard. You'll kill him. And I'll do my thing. Deal?" She asked, sticking her webbed hand up towards her.

"Darling unless I know what I'm helping you with, I really don't think that I'm that interested." Reven replied. She had dealt with too many scheming demons to not be cautious with making deals.

"Oh my GOD." The siren groaned. "The only way I can leave this damned river is if you cast me out. Then I can walk on land for at least a week before I return. During that week, I need to do something quite unpleasant to a human in order to stay in one form. Also during that week, you're going to come with me to escape this place, and kill the banisher because I can't do it. By that time, I'll be too weak. You kill him, I do the unpleasant thing, then we'll be on our ways."
She sighed, the crackling fire filling the silence.
"I'm just as desperate as you are." She said, her voice soft.

Reven's eyes flashed right when she admitted she was desperate. With a cruel smile, she tilted her head. "Who said I was desperate? If I was desperate I wouldn't go to a minnow for help. I'd be going to a shark." She replied. "The only one desperate here is you."

"There's only one other demon here who knows how to bend the gate. And she escaped a week ago. I happen to know a shortcut." She wanted to eat her words about the whole being desperate thing. Yeah, she was desperate. There was no doubt that she was. But she was not useless.

"What makes you think I don't know how to bend the gate?" Reven asked in return. Though she did want to know the shortcut she really didn't want to give, but then again she was planning on taking the offer.

"I'm sure you do." She said, looking at her pointed nails. "But I'm sure its also a long, complicated process for. I just want to shorten it, that's all. Let me adjust the deal. Once you get me out of here, I show you the shortcut. Then we can go our separate ways."

Reven smirked and nodded. "Find minnow, you've got a deal." She replied and then without hesitation she said some Latin to cast her out of the river of fire. "Your turn to follow up on the rest of it." She replied and crossed her arms over her chest again.

The words seemed to form a telekinetic hand around the siren's waist, and she was thrown onto the black shore, the liquid fire clinging onto her scales.
Her fishy skin seemed to melt for a moment, and the bones in her tail popped and stretched and spread for about two minutes before they were human legs.
The she-demon tried standing on her new shaky legs. Her mouth was without the multiple sets of fangs, and her skin was rid of the green scales. "Heh. Thanks. Mind if I borrow some clothes?" She asked sheepishly, covering her womanly parts.

Reven watched as she changed. Once the siren looked like a human, she shrugged off her jacket and threw it to her. "Come along we can get you dressed properly when we get back to my place." She said before turning and walked slowly, aware that the other girl would be a bit shaky with legs.

The coat landed on the siren's wet face. She clumsily took it off and put it on. "Thank you." She smiled, sticking her arms out like a penguin to balance herself. Intense pain seemed to shake her body as she walked along the shore. "What's your name?" She asked, gritting her teeth.

"Camille, and yours?" Reven asked, giving the Siren her alias. She continued to walk quite slowly and could sense the uncomfortable pain coming of the girl. Pouring her lips, she ignored the feeling she was getting in her gut. You have the advantage, remember that. She thought and chuckled shaking her head.

"Aphrodite." She answered, hobbling as fast as she could. "Now, where is this house of yours? And would you happen to have shoes in that house? I love shoes." She grimaced.

"Oh calm yourself it's just over that ridge." She replied, not even looking back. "As for shoes, yeah I've got a couple pairs." She then added. Running a hand through her long hair, Reven slowed down once again noticing that the Siren was hobbling.

"Great." She said shortly, trying to hurry up. "Tell me what your banisher is like." She asked, not realizing that Reven might not disclose that information.

"Guess you'll get to find out when we get out of here." Reven replied lightheartedly and then gazed ahead seeing her old home still stood tall. "Hmm...even after 6,000 years it looks untouched. I'm impressed." She stated happily and then opened the door and stepped inside.

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((Mmkay))

The Flumen de Ignis seemed calmer that day as the siren walked along the black shores. Smoke clouded her vision, and she coughed with every other step. Aphrodite continued to hobble along in the shoes that were too small, but finally stopped at a medium sized rock with the twisted symbol of the Kraken engraved on its surface.
"We give our offering here." She said, laying down the pomegranates by the rock. "As I chant, you do you transformation spell. We need to time this perfectly."

Reven followed easily. She ignored the smile that rose up finding it not too bothersome. "Then start canting and I start the spell." Reven replied evenly.

"K, on the count of three." She said, her eyes unwavering from the red fruit on the blackened ground. "One, two..." Her tongue rested on her lips, preparing for the flood of perfect Latin that would burst from her mouth. "Three."

Reven nodded and prepared herself. As soon as she said three, Reven began with perfect Latin. Her words continued in perfect unison with the sirens.

The river began to churn, faster and faster than it ever had before. The siren had her eyes sealed shut, and her lips spewing out words like bullets. " Sed qui nomen tuum , quia ego sum. Quid dicam, aut clam perierat.Fluvius igneus , vitae sterilis , conversus in aqua!"
The smoke from the fire stopped, and the flames from the currents dwindled. The flames, not tended to, died. And a new substance tinkled in, the gaping flow of embers soon transformed into an actual river.
The siren had turned the water into fire. She turned to the fury. "You ready?"

Reven paused in her incantation and took a small knife out and cut her palm. This was a different spell from which she used on the siren. Her eyes rolled back and fluttered as she continued. "Hic item muta , corpus , et totum est in maiorem excrescunt, exemplar intentio." As she finished, she opened her eyes again which were now blood red. The drops of blood that had touched the ground vaporized. "Lead the way." The fury then replied.

((I swear sometimes I think we are the only souls in this group O_O))

The siren glanced at the fury. Well, not glanced, more like stared at intensely for five seconds than turned away quickly with a little more than intimidation in her eyes. The fury was scary.
"K, so, we're just gonna jump in. And we have to get to this gate thing at the bottom of the river before it turns to flames again. Which is in about ten minutes." She took off her shoes and tied both around her the belt loop of her jeans. Gingerly, she padded up to the shore, and put her baby toe in the water. Immediately, the pain she was working hard to ignore vanished. She waved the fury over. "Come in, the water's decent."

The girl nodded her eyes not looking like they were going to change back anytime soon. She did the same, tying her hair back as well. She went into the river without hesitation. Gazing at the surname she waited. "Well are we going or not, ten minutes isn't that long." Reven snapped irritably. The inside showing her true nature, her temper and cruelty that had been sealed in that world.

Aphrodite shot an impatient glance toward's the fury's way. "Why you gotta be so rude, honey?" She pouted, then waded through the water. Her skin stayed human, but there were subtle differences in her appearance. A thin webbing grew in between her fingers, and her hair grew slick like seal's fur.
With a final breath from the Inside, she dove under.

"Because I have a temper only matched by another fury." Reven snapped before diving after her. Her eyes stayed blood fed, she knew as long as they stayed blood red her spell would stay intact, though she also knew it wouldn't last forever.

The siren kicked her webbed feet straight towards the bottom of the abyss-like river, a stream of bubbles following her. The water was clearer than glass; Aphrodite could see the black gate plastered to the bottom like a drain even from only being ten feet under.

Reven followed as quickly as she could though still seemed to be lacking in speed. She then began the swim almost like a mermaid an gained more speed than before. She also say what she assumed to be the gate b

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Soon Aphrodite lost track of time as she continued her descent to the bottom. The currents began to move again, and suddenly the temperature of the water began to increase.
Shit She thought, looking behind her to make sure Reven was still there.

((No it didn't, I'm on the app and so I short cut it for the period and accidentally pressed b))

Reven was right behind Aphrodite when she felt the temperature pick up. She went as fast as her body would allow her hoping that the siren would do the same otherwise they may not make it.

((Oooooooooo))

Her legs picked up the pace, and the gate at the bottom of the river grew closer. As the currents picked up, Aphrodite reached outwards to grab onto the black bars that made up the gate. Her hand clamped on tight, and she pulled herself inward, clinging onto the gate for dear life. She held out her other hand so the fury could grab hold.

Reluctantly, she took hold of the sirens hand and allowed herself to be pulled in. She knew better than to dilly dally, so she to grabbed onto the gate and glanced at the siren. She gave her a look that said, well now what? Reven also knew if they didn't hurry death would fall upon them and once you die on the inside you stay dead.

The water grew hotter, and Aphrodite kicked furiously at the bars of the gate. Bubbles streamed out the metal, and slowly the bars began to shift. Still holding onto the fury's hand, the siren shifted her body so that it fitted through the hole in the gate. She glanced back at her companion, as if to say 'come on!' And swam through.

Reven helped her the best she could. She then followed, struggling a bit to get through the tight squeeze. Relaxing her body she slipped through and nodded towards her.

The temperature change was almost immediate. Cold salt water seemed to cover the siren in a blanket. Chills crept down her slick skin as the world suddenly seemed to flip. Instead of swimming down, their bodies were turned so that they faced the surface of a calm world above. Aphrodite grinned, her pointed shark teeth shining. She let go of Camille's hand, and kicked a total of one time. She floated to the surface like a helium balloon.

The world that greeted her as she poked her head above the water was quaint and ancient. Tiny wooden houses dotted green hills, and a cobblestone road paved the area around the lake. Trees that seemed a million miles long covered the pale blue sky. Aphrodite inhaled the fresh air, then ducked under water once again to paddle towards the edge of the salt water lake.

Reven relaxed as the cold washed over her and kicked upwards. She took in a deep breath of fresh air and wrinkled her nose. "Did I mention I hate swimming?" She muttered and began swimming towards swore which happened to be near her old home. She smirked as she heard the large barking of a Doberman Rottweiler. "Come on boy." She answered and the next thing she knew was that a large black and brown dog paddled up to her.

As the dog came towards the fury, the siren screeched and swam to the shore faster than ever. "WHERE'D DID THAT THING COME FROM?!?" She screamed, crawling up the muddy shore of the saltwater lake. "It's huge!" Mud splattered her jeans as she pulled herself on land by a patch of grass. Immediately her fishy features faded, and her human appearance took over.

"Oh don't listen to grumpy over there. Come on swim home." Reven cooed and grabbed hold of the dogs collar as it swam onto shore and practically attacked her. She got knocked on her back and the Doberman Rottweiler covered her in kisses. "Okay okay, I missed you too boy. Balin where's Cinnie?" She then asked and the dog barked before padding towards a house. Smiling Reven followed wordlessly and motioned for Aphrodite to do the same.

Aphrodite paused, opening her mouth to say something. She closed it and shrugged, following Reven but making sure to keep her distance from the dogs. "Where are you going?" She asked, untying the tennis shoes from her jeans.