Emi shivered a bit. "Why did your father capture Zora? What is the purpose of doing that if she will rebel?

Oscar stops and holds his stomach for a second, as if he was in pain.

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Emi shivered a bit. "Why did your father capture Zora? What is the purpose of doing that if she will rebel?

Zorro sighs and shakes his head, as if to shake off an inner pain.
"Have you ever heard the legend of the oak tree and the grass?" he asks, looking back and asking Oscar if he's okay.

"Never..." Emi replied. "But if the memory pains you too much, you don't have to go into detail, I understand"

Oscar started shivering a bit, "I'm..fine" he said.

Zorro nods to Oscar and continues to answer Emi.
"It's okay. The thing with the oak and the grass is this; in a storm, the grass bends itself immediately, bows for the storm, and is left unbroken as the storm subsides. The oak, however, refuses to bow for this storm. It can stand there, strong and steady, against very strong winds. But once the wind gets too strong-" He snaps his fingers, "-the oak tree is broken. Broken, and won't rise again. Now, a simple question: if Judas is the storm, what role do you think Zora plays? Judging by what you know about her for now?"

((Oh...my...god... =O That sounds familar!!))

((It's not like I made up the oak tree and the grass legend by myself, really! XD))

"The oak..." Emi replies

Oscar hadn't paid much attention, he was shivering like crazy, bones could be heard cracking.

Zorro nods.
"Precisely. Do you think the storm in this case, Judas, will give up just because she won't break? No. Which is why he has captured her. He is sure that he can find some way to break her" he answers.

Emi nods solemly. "Now I see...And i can detect her thought process...I can detect much hatred and fire in her soul..."

Zorro looks at her.
"That means Judas has gotten started with it, but not broken her down" he says.

Anthony sighed.

"Let's hurry!" Oscar said.

Zorro nods as they reach a tomb stone with a life sized marble statue of an angel with its wings over the grave.
"This is the grave of our mother... may she rest in peace..." Zorro says, forming a cross over his chest before moving behind it. He sticks his hand into the grass, pulls his arm to the left and the statue moves to the right, revealing a tunnel.
"Everybody, get inside!" he says, reaching for a twig and preparing the twig to temporarily hold the handle to allow him to get down as well.
"But not if you're afraid of bugs, of course!" he adds.

"Ugh...I hate bugs...Can i go with you Anthony?" she asks turning to him

Oscar blazed inside, "You're not afraid of some little bugs are you?" Oscar asked with a bug crawling on his hand.

Anthony nodded, pulling her close to him.

Emi held onto him tightly, occasionaly kissing his chest*

"Okay, who's continuing?" Zorro asks.

"what do you mean? we're all going." emi responds

Anthony nods.

"Well then get going" he says and nods to the crypt.

Ocar used his claws to cut the spider webs that were in their way.

"Go ahead" Zorro repeats to Anthony and Emi.

((so is this thing dead now?))

((*Shrugs*))

((I don't know what to do...Emi's in Anthony's arms so she doesn't move herself.))

((Oscar is cutting his way through the spiderwebs))

((*points at TS* Dun dun dunnnn!))

Anthony spaced out, then shook his head and went into the crypt.

((...whats a crypt?))

Zorro places the twig in a special position as he runs to the crypt and jumps down. Seconds later it slams shut, making everything dark.
"Hold on" he says, lifts up a torch from a whole stack of torches laid there by him and Zora, and lights it with a lighter he has in his pocket. They can now see at least a bit.
"It's just straight forward and we'll get to a stair. Up that stair, and then we'll be in my and Zora's old bedroom" he informs them.

Oscar followed and looked around, "How old is this place?"

Anthony looked around and followed, silent.

"It was dug by me and Zora about... eleven years ago, I believe" he answers.
"However it hasn't been used for probably ten years or so."
((In this case, the crypt is simply hte underground area.))

"It stinks in here," Oscar said covering his nose.

"Oh I'm sorry, sir, perhaps we should have taken the main entrance and gotten caught or killed by the guards instead?" Zorro snaps back sarcastically.

Emi glares at Oscar. "Shut your mouth wolverine"

"It would have been more fun," Oscar smirked.

"Childish fool..." Zorro mutters about Oscar. The cirsiumenian guards are not a game; they are seriously dangerous, lethal, fatal...

Anthony facepalmed.

"Life's a game," Oscar said, "Sometimes, ya just gotta take risks!"

"And sometimes you wanna live and not get your ass fried!" Emi counters

"Not when the risk will hurt someone you love" Zorro answers.
"You can take the main entrance and die or be sent to the torture chambers, I'm not going to stop you, but I'm going to ignore the stench to save someone I care about."

"Ok," Oscar said, "If it means saving Zorra, I'll put up with this crypt."

((Zorra? XD))

Anthony sighed, "Oscar you finally got smart..."

Emi cuddles Anthony. "Can I rest until we're almost there?" she whispers