The Little Mermaid
Jun 13, 2014 23:06:12 GMT -6
Post by Audrey on Jun 13, 2014 23:06:12 GMT -6
It had been another long day of trying to find a place to go with no luck to be found. Jump City's real estate had spiked since Terra'd last been here. She didn't mean to stay here long, but she needed somewhere better than a sewage chamber. It was just plain unsanitary. A free campsite would even be better. Sleeping with rattlesnakes and snapping turtles was a whole world better than sleeping with mitochondria, algae and at least 17 spent syringes. After all the frustrations today though, anything sounded like a good place to sleep. She just wanted to forget about everything for awhile. She arrived at a run-off lot and looked around for anyone. After the coast was clear, she jumped the chain link fence surrounding the run-off and climbed into the depths of the city.
The smell down in the pipes was putrid, but after you'd been camping about the sulfur hills of Colorado for weeks on end, you learned to stop minding nasty smells. The run-off pipe eventually connected with a man-hole chamber where Terra could grab onto the ladder and descend properly. At the bottom was Jump's bonafied sewer. Based on the Metropolis one actually. Terra would know, she'd stayed in the Metropolis sewer as well. Jump had more of an organic feel to it though... maybe it was the rotting vegetation down here.
The main drainage ran through the center of the tunnels with platforms along each edge. The edges were unusually wide in order to make up for the lack of proper maintenance tunnels. It was pain to not be able to cut through to places, but Terra had to admit it was nice not to have to worry about falling into the sewage. Looking up and seeing a symbol in chalk on the wall that looked like a triangle with a dot in the center, she nodded and pulled back her sleeve. Written in pen on her arm was a series of arrows pointing in various directions. Keeping the arrows exposed, she stepped forward and began to navigate the maze that was the sewer.
About two hours later, Terra was nervous and was raggedly trying to force her sleeve to stay up. She had followed the directions she made perfectly, why didn't this area look familiar at all? She looked again at the arrows and on close inspection suddenly got the impulse to smack herself. She realized one of the arrows had gotten smeared when it was first drawn on, making it look like a different direction. She was completely lost in the sewer. This was just great. All she wanted was to just sleep, and fate or whatever wouldn't even give her that. What did it take?
All that she could do was wander. Hopefully she'd find one of her symbols that marked her area and work her way back to her chamber. She turned the way she came, but was surprised to suddenly trip on something. The brick mortar of the sewer platform skinned her elbows as they hit the ground. "Fan-freaking-tastic," she groaned in her mind before turning to see what caused her to fall over. She was surprised to see a giant dark green root emerging from the wall of the sewer. Even more concerning was the fact that it was visibly wriggling in response to her falling over it.
Terra began scrambling up to get away from this giant sentient root, but it quickly lashed itself around her ankle, causing her to fall over again. She struggled as the root began to try and pull her into the hole in the wall with it. Thinking quick, Terra raised her hands and forced the wall down onto the root, causing it to let out an ear-splitting screech and retract away, leaving Terra's ankle behind. She stood up and smiled in victory, but soon realized her actions left the mortar unstable above her. "Crap," she cursed as she dove out of the way of the collapsing ceiling.She turned and cursed once more seeing the collapse left the way back inaccessible. She turned to go ahead and just got the most uncomfortable feeling of what lied ahead as she saw hundreds more of the roots wrapped around the mortar ahead, practically having taken over as the foundation.
Tag: Feathers
The smell down in the pipes was putrid, but after you'd been camping about the sulfur hills of Colorado for weeks on end, you learned to stop minding nasty smells. The run-off pipe eventually connected with a man-hole chamber where Terra could grab onto the ladder and descend properly. At the bottom was Jump's bonafied sewer. Based on the Metropolis one actually. Terra would know, she'd stayed in the Metropolis sewer as well. Jump had more of an organic feel to it though... maybe it was the rotting vegetation down here.
The main drainage ran through the center of the tunnels with platforms along each edge. The edges were unusually wide in order to make up for the lack of proper maintenance tunnels. It was pain to not be able to cut through to places, but Terra had to admit it was nice not to have to worry about falling into the sewage. Looking up and seeing a symbol in chalk on the wall that looked like a triangle with a dot in the center, she nodded and pulled back her sleeve. Written in pen on her arm was a series of arrows pointing in various directions. Keeping the arrows exposed, she stepped forward and began to navigate the maze that was the sewer.
About two hours later, Terra was nervous and was raggedly trying to force her sleeve to stay up. She had followed the directions she made perfectly, why didn't this area look familiar at all? She looked again at the arrows and on close inspection suddenly got the impulse to smack herself. She realized one of the arrows had gotten smeared when it was first drawn on, making it look like a different direction. She was completely lost in the sewer. This was just great. All she wanted was to just sleep, and fate or whatever wouldn't even give her that. What did it take?
All that she could do was wander. Hopefully she'd find one of her symbols that marked her area and work her way back to her chamber. She turned the way she came, but was surprised to suddenly trip on something. The brick mortar of the sewer platform skinned her elbows as they hit the ground. "Fan-freaking-tastic," she groaned in her mind before turning to see what caused her to fall over. She was surprised to see a giant dark green root emerging from the wall of the sewer. Even more concerning was the fact that it was visibly wriggling in response to her falling over it.
Terra began scrambling up to get away from this giant sentient root, but it quickly lashed itself around her ankle, causing her to fall over again. She struggled as the root began to try and pull her into the hole in the wall with it. Thinking quick, Terra raised her hands and forced the wall down onto the root, causing it to let out an ear-splitting screech and retract away, leaving Terra's ankle behind. She stood up and smiled in victory, but soon realized her actions left the mortar unstable above her. "Crap," she cursed as she dove out of the way of the collapsing ceiling.She turned and cursed once more seeing the collapse left the way back inaccessible. She turned to go ahead and just got the most uncomfortable feeling of what lied ahead as she saw hundreds more of the roots wrapped around the mortar ahead, practically having taken over as the foundation.
Tag: Feathers
