After her classes, out of boredom, she went to the nearby forest with her hell cat. She was bored and hyper, and was honestly in need of a good battle to catch up with the others.
'I'm so weak compared to Kheire...I need to work harder', the Nekomata thought solemnly to herself. Through her sulking, Vivi went deeper into the forest then she normally would've, seeing a wide gap in the ground that led about twenty-five feet deep. A waterfall started where the ten feet mark started, and made a mid-sized pond that was big enough for someone's bathtub. Around the pond were little goblin statues with inscribed nameplates in another language and glowing mushrooms, growing bigger as they led deeper in.
"Yes. Hell. Yes." She took a few steps back and switched quickly for favor of black tights and a black tight long sleeve shirt. This was not enough. Vivi needed something stronger for this dungeon. She ripped out her chains from her baggy battle pants and ripped off nearby wood, tying the planks to her arms, legs, torso, and back. This would do, not much, but at least help her in case of battles.
With a grin, she gave a battle cry and started with a run as she jumped in the tunnel. Catching herself in the waterfall half way, she landed in the pond gracefully. Vivi looked around at the huge tunnel that went around what was probably a very huge cave/river system.
To the right, was a lighter current and a more shallow part of the river while the left looked like it was rushing in with a deep, rocky path. She guessed there was no point but to go right.
She trudged through the mud as she equipped her smoke bombs to her left side of her waist and her stun grenades to the right side of her waist. The cave was too small and unstable for a real bomb, and she wasn't going to risk it collapsing on her or worse, covering up her exit. Counting how many healing bombs and runic bombs she had, her runic bombs counting to twenty and her healing bombs to two. Healing bombs would be saved for the final run...small runic bombs, she could make when taking a quick break. The cave had enough resources for small bomb making, and had plenty more for advanced potions.
Vivi took out a soft wool bag she made from her bed sheets, grabbing some glowing mushrooms and safely put them in, making sure they wouldn't get crushed just yet. Up ahead in a big clump of sloppy mud, were green glowing remnants of spider webs that were now submerged in water. It had made sense, since there was no way that the water was going back to the waterfall, and the waterfall was constantly gushing water. This place would probably flood in about a year. Grabbing the eggs and putting them in the sack, her ears twitched as she heard something slip into the water slowly, the Nekomata going stiff as she uncaptured her axe from the pen. Vivi quickly turned around and raised it in defense.
What she saw was something protruding from the water as it slowly crept closer towards her side of the river. Only three feet away from her now, the alligator beast growled as it jumped up and opened its jaws wide, keeping it up in a means of threatening to snap down on anything anytime. Two more came up behind with a growl and a hiss, now cornering the stiff Nekomata.
Vivi quickly scanned her challengers, considering going for the center one so it would be easier to knock into either or both remaining beasts.
Unfortunately, the center creature came for an attack first, jumping up high enough to snap at her face. She quickly used her first plan and smacked the hilt of her axe against the alligator's snout, knocking it to the ground and stepping on its snout as she swung her axe in the side of the left retreating alligator, ripping the blade out of the dying creature and moving on to the right one's skull before it could even try to make a move. Vivi jumped off the struggling gator and stared it down as if daring it to make a move. The beast abandoned its endeavors, in favor of feasting on its companions' carcasses.
Without notice, she continued on her path, being wary as to not disturb any more magical beasts. Before she could enter a more cave-like setting where the stream shortened, two more alligators moved into view. Growing irritated by this now, The Nekomata set up one her stun grenades and rolled them towards the alligators, using her axe to propel herself backwards. While the beasts were incapacitated Vivi ran past the two alligators before they could realize what had happened.
With a sigh of relief she continued on to the cave-like part of the dungeon, noticing the fluttering of leathery wings above. Vivi started to slow her pace down and keep herself silent, putting away her axe and looking around for more equipment that she could loot. Hearing a chiming noise as she passed by a small glowing shrub, she looked down and quickly picked it up with a grin. That was a perfect reagent for a damaging stamina spell with the spider eggs. If she got nightshade, that would be a miracle.
Deciding her silence would be better as a rogue; she shifted quickly into her animal form and crept low to the ground. 'Aaalthough...what's the point of going through a dungeon if you don't have fun..? No, I need to keep from making loud noises, it'll wake the bats.' she thought with a shake of her head. She needed to learn restraint so she could win her next fight with Renya or Kheire. Padding steadily forward was the way to go.
Once finally out of the bats area, she moved a rock over the entrance to keep her safer, she looked around before opting to dig into the side of the cave, clawing at the soft dirt and making a hole. The Nekomata curled up as she pulled out a small pen she left hidden in her fur, she wasn't stupid, and she kept pens on both her human and cat form. Getting out a big sturdy leaf, she adjusted it perfectly in front of her and released a salmon covered in a golden sauce, laying down and nibbling on it slowly. "This is tiring, but so fun...can't wait to get home and have some ice cream..." she muttered to herself, feeling like she deserved a break.
After a short pause for eating and relaxing Vivi nudged the rock aside and slipped out. Shifting to her human form, the Nekomata stretched and continued her journey to the end of the tunnel.
Continuing forward, she caught sight of a small purple flower. Normally, this would not have struck her as odd. What did get her attention was that a nearby rat that squeaked loudly as it died next to the flower after only a minute. 'Poison blooms..? Hell. Yes.' she cheered internally as she ran up to it quickly and plucked it swiftly before it could release its poisonous spores. She brought out her cotton bag again and put the little flower in, ears twitching in delight.
The sound of rushing water quickly got her attention when she turned back to face forward, growling at this new obstacle. The water was deep as if it was a big fall, sharp rocks chiming in on making the water rise and rush downwards slightly, but what really got on her nerves were the amount of...piranhas. God damnit. Looking around, she bit her lower lip as tried to think of a way to get past this unharmed. She gripped on to one of her runic bombs nervously and contemplated the idea. If she threw the bomb into the water, chances are the mobs would still live and just become more annoying. If she threw in a smoke bomb, god knows what would happen. A stun grenade however...the noise would probably deafen them enough for her to pass. Or, at least, disorient them if not from deafness, then at least temporary blindness would work. The nervous Nekomata quickly changed to grab for her flash grenades and took out the pins with her teeth, throwing the two into the water and quickly shutting her eyes tightly as she covered her ears.
After hearing the muffled bang go off, she tried to shake off some of the dizziness away as she ran forward quickly, jumping off of rocks and even using a wind plate when there were no more rocks. When she landed on to the other side of the rushing water where it minimized to a smooth stream again, the piranhas started to act up again, jumping around and waiting for something else to munch on. With a smirk, Vivi continued onward, this time at a quickened pace as she ran forward to the final room. The tunnel started to expand with every step, a beautiful lake appearing closer and closer. Halting quickly, she stopped right at the edge before she could fall in. This was it, the final boss...a giant axolotl.
The axolotl moved quicker than its size should allow to make a swipe at you with its huge webbed feet.
With barely anytime to dodge, Vivi had barely escaped the huge water beast. She hissed as she brought out her battle axe and held herself in position, running towards the axolotl and swinging at the junction of the middle of its arm. Sadly, it missed.
The axolotl extended its "claw" reach by shooting tendrils of water from the tips of its appendages. It missed once, but hit the other two times, battering Vivi.
With the swing of the two hits that slapped her to the side of the cave, Vivi twisted herself mid-flight and jumped on to the wall of the cave, jumping off a wind plate to propel herself at the boss's eyes in an attempt to blind it.
The hulking beast recoiled from the attack and batted at her with its tendrils again.
The Nekomata growled in irritation, as she got smacked into the wall another time. Raising her hand, she summoned two fire balls and flicked her hand towards her target, the red flames rushing fast towards the axolotl.
Both hit, burning holes into its hide and making it reel back in pain as its limbs flail.
Summoning a plate beneath and in front of her, she sped herself up to the axolotl and raised her axe, using her gylphs to speed up her attack and slice its whole head off.
As the creature fell, Vivi searched around the room for a chest as she walked towards the axolotl and ripped out its core. With a huge grin, she ran to a curclean faded blue chest and opened the dusty thing, wondering what sweet loot it had to offer. What was offered inside were two identical sword hilts with a small ice core in each. The Nekomata picked one up and tapped at it with a claw lightly, before trying to power it with exin. with a small little burst of magic, the ice blade became 3 inches long. 'hell yes. hell fucking yes! this is so badass!' she mentally thought as she gave it another small burst of exin, the blade now 6 inches long. This would be of really good use. Vivi put the two sword hilts in the bag after cutting off power to the small blade, and put the monster core along with it. She made her way to the exit and climbed up the tunnel upwards and back to the dorms she went.
