Scene 2 - Eggs

They walked along the path and fought a few gray willow spiders in masses. Dozens of gray-foot long shadows flashed along the walls; hitting Vince and the girls fast and hard with fierce attacks. That fight, the three suffered minor wounds thanks to Vince’s magic: increasing gravity around them, slowing the spiders to a snail’s pace. Although the fight was still tough with so many targets, the gains were pretty good in talismans: seven or eight each wave.

Exhausted after their fourth wave, the group decided to take a break and resume their hunting later. After a few minutes, the Labyrinth started to shift at a rapid pace, changing their path and blocking the pathway behind them.

Leaving two paths before them; left and right were the only choices currently available. Uru casually took the lead without discussing anything with Vince, which annoyed him, but he could deal with it. She went to the right, saying something about smelling food. Intrigued, Vince decided not to argue and followed Uru with Tal in tow. It didn’t take them long to reach a very large room.

Inside the room, large amounts of vines and moss covered the floor. Brightly lit, in the center of the room were three strange colored eggs. They were two feet long and one and a half foot long.

The eggs lay inside a nest made of moss, vines, and bits of bone from what Vince could gather. They were strange in design; they had scales tightly packed like a fish. One egg had gold stripes on white; another had strange shapes colored in gray on purple. Finally, the last egg was fully black with the end of the scales tinted red.

Truly strange.

So strange that Uru and Tal went forward without fear and grabbed two of the eggs. Vince was awestruck; did they have no common sense at all?!? Who would be that crazy enough to steal eggs from that huge of a nest!

Vine whispered loudly, “What do you think you guys are doing?! Do you want us to get killed by the mother of who laid these eggs?!”

Uru sniffed the air, “Hmm, no momma nearby da eggs... placed by da hands of man about five suns ago. These. Food. Monster eggs… good way, raise strength.”

Nodding his head, Vince remembered that the senior-apprentice, sister Marley, did indeed mention in their studies, that ingesting powerful monster eggs could increase your cultivation base and fleshy body. However, the problem with this method would be acquiring said eggs.

Also even if you could acquire many eggs; the eggs wouldn’t show effects after eating five or six eggs on your cultivation base. From then on ingesting monster eggs would only increase the toughness towards your fleshy body. But to show any true effects to the fleshy body, perhaps thousands upon thousands of eggs, would be needed to show any real permanent effects depending on how powerful their parents were.

Perhaps he could give this egg to Nena? He didn’t know what type of monster was inside, but it shouldn’t matter, it’ll increase her strength by a large degree. Making up his mind and forgetting the dangers; Vince grabbed the black and red egg, thinking ‘what could go wrong?’ After all, the other two were already picked up by the sisters.

As soon as he picked up the egg, everything went to hell. The walls in front of them opened up to show a hoard of variously sized monsters of rank three to six! Without a second thought, the three began to flee. Fight? Ha! Even with his magic, Vince wouldn’t be able to kill them all.

When they were a good distance away, about eighty meters, they heard the roars and cold snorts behind them. They didn’t dare look back at the beasts, death was right behind them.

Vince yelled at Uru, “I thought you said they were placed by human hands!”

Uru, as if just thinking about that, turned to Vince, “Aw I forgot ta tell ya, Viney, that I also smelled monsters behind da wall. I didn’t think that da wall would up in go in smoke ya hear!”

Cursing under his breath in rage, Vince tried to throw away the egg, only to find it was stuck in his hands. He sighed to himself over the fact he should've gotten more information before his greed got the better of him.

A period of regretful running continued for some time before Vince saw Saren walking towards him. His face paled, he didn’t want to get his sibling involved and told him to run. That was the last thing he wanted. Vince knew that when Saren saw the wave of monsters behind him, he would get the idea in his head to follow him to his death!