The Quest for The Fleece

jbronze wrote:

The Golden Fleece. The fleece blanket of the legendary Golden Ram. The Golden Ram was invincible, as it always healed it's wounds before death. It was definitely highly sought out. Many an adventurer went after the ram to obtain it's gold fleece, hoping for riches and healing of unlimited strength. When Hercules killed it, by shaving it's Fleece, the Golden Fleece became the only one in the world. It has been heavily guarded since then. Some say it's the reason that despite heavy deforestation, the Amazon rainforest stays and grows strong, and is teeming with life (which some say is full of deadly creatures because the fleece makes it harder to kill them). Dr.Everyone narrowed the location and told the whole of the super community. Super humans want it so they will never age, never die, and never feel Pain again.

((OOC:Im restarting the quest))

((OOC:Is it okay to post, if not tell me so I can delete this one.))

Captain Galactic had been studying up on Earthly culture before. He was just learning about Greece, and more importantly, their mythology. Having read a few epic poems in an hour, reading some Percy Jackson books, and just looking it up in the library, Steven Smith became fascinated by Greek mythology. Except for someone who has traveled the cosmos and seen practically everything...he didn't think of it as a mythology. However, he still didn't believe in magic, just some other worldly science that is hard to explain. And it was Steven's job to know about the other worldly...being raised in numerous different galaxies.

When reading on the news, he heard something about the Golden Fleece being found. Well, not found, but in a general location. Steven had to look for this Golden Fleece in the name of the universe...and science. I must say, I can't believe I actually used to live here. This planet is amazing...far greater than any that I've ever seen. It's like some kind of focal point of all kinds of scientific phenomenon. Steven took the first flight he could there.

Steven missed the days when he was on a planet he could just fly all over it at around light speed. But now, Steven didn't have the equipment he used to. So Steven was stuck flying on a public plane, much slower, uncomfortable, and expensive. Steven almost missed being in C.A.N., all the cool benefits and intergalactic travel he got. But he could never go back to C.A.N.; they would practically destroy the planet looking for this thing.

Eventually, Steven got to the Amazon Rain-forest. The life forms there were fascinating but nothing too extraordinary. After all, once you seen a planet that was made completely out of vegetation, this rain-forest doesn't seem to extraordinary, Still, this ecosystem was an interesting one, and nice to see how the plants and animals interacted, He made a mental note of most of the animals he saw and decided to write a report about them later.

However, now it was getting kind of dangerous. The Rain-Forest had a somewhat ominous feeling to it. He saw glowing eyes appear around the forest. An animal even tried to attack him, but with reflexes even greater than that of the animal that attacked him, took out his sword and slashed at him, leaving a big wound, but not killing it. Captain Galactic decided to close his mask and held his sword in a battle ready fashion. His Form A Plasma gun was strapped on his back. Surely, he would find the Golden Fleece, it's not like anyone else is looking for it.

Steven saw another animal of the same species come out of the forest...actually, 2 more. Steven decided to record what would happen via his Photo-Projector, so he pressed a seemingly invisible button on his suit so he could observe the behavior of these animals more closely later. But now, Steven had serious business to attend to. The first animal, cat-like in shape, attempted to pounce on him. He tried to grab the animal while it jumped on him and dropped his sword. The claws almost penetrated the C.A.N. suit, but luckily, they didn't. Steven rolled onto his back while still holding the animal, and kicked it backwards. He quickly grabbed his sword from the ground and threw it at a tree while it was rapidly spinning, knocking it down and trapping the animal. He then elbowed behind him, and managed to hit the other animal that he saw out of the corner of his eye.

Captain Galactic took out his power whip quickly and decided to whip the animal until it got scared and ran away. His space sword then flew back towards him and he caught it without even thinking. He decided that this was pretty good footage, but he decided to keep it on in case anything else weird happened. Captain Galactic took a sample of hair from the animal and decided to analyze it. The results would come back soon. Captain Galactic decided to venture through the forest again, making sure that his suit was using it's advanced senses technology.

Steven switched his helmet to heat vision and and also used enhanced hearing. On the jungle floor, he heard and saw a lot of things...possibly dangerous ones. Steven had no doubt he could take them all, but just didn't want to get to the point where he had to kill. Steven realized that killing was very bad after his experiences in C.A.N. and decided to try to avoid that. He used his Power Whip as a grappling hook and went high in the trees. He then switched his helmet to super vision mode, which allowed him to see very far. He held out his Plasma gun, ready to shoot, and slowly walked along the branches, looking below for anything suspicious. At this rate, I'll find the fleece in no time! Steven thought.

Steven continued to walk around on the branches, scoping things out. He should've seen the fleece already, but it must have been very well hidden. He continued scoping and moving again until he saw a figure moving through the jungle. He couldn't make it out completely, but he was watching for him, constantly adjusting the power of his super vision mask to try to get a closer look. However, while he was doing that, a monkey ruined his balance on the branch. he then proceeded to crash to the floor.

Luckily, Steven's suit was pretty good at protecting him. He got up with barely a problem and hoped all the systems were in check. Everything was OK in his suit. In matter of fact, his results for the hair sample he took earlier came back. It said that the animal that attacked him was a panther, and showed a list of traits, behavior, and even a model of what it's DNA looked like. Steven used his helmet to connect to the internet and found out extra info about panthers. He checked the genetic contents of a regular panther, and compared it to that of the one he analyzed before. The one he analyzed before was slightly different than the regular one, better than the regular ones. "Well, this just got more interesting." Steven said to himself.

Seemed like he went undetected. Which all in all was good. Didn't need to get in a fight yet. Slowly John crept through the brush. Trying not to make a single sound. It worked for the most. So he kept going hoping to find the fleece first. Maybe then take care of anyone who tried to kill him. Then off to drink til he couldn't anymore. What a wonderful thing that would be. It all seemed to be going well he was unseen. No giant snakes trying to kill him. No giant pandas confusing him for bamboo. So all in all it was amazing. Then he felt like he bumped into something. He looked up to see that he bumped into the Knight. Well his face ran into the mans leg armor. John skittered back on all fours. Hoping the man thought he was only a huge bug. A huge weird looking bug for sure. Though as long as he wasn't attacked it was all fine.

After Steven finished his data analysis on the panther he took down earlier, he decided to go back into the trees. He remembered that he was tracking something down before, although he wasn't sure what. His helmet was back on super vision and he held his gun out, ready to shoot at the sight of anything going wrong. After about 30 seconds of searching, he saw something that looked like a knight, and another person who was in a really bad situation now.

I wonder if that's who I don't want it to be Steven thought. He tried improving the clarity and saw exactly who it was. Well, it seems like that knight is here...but why is he getting so violent. I gotta stop him somehow. He threw his sword the way he always did, having it outmaneuver the trees in the forest and cutting down vines, until it cut the tree behind the knight, which was starting to fall...even though he was sure he could stop or dodge it. He then decided to use hip power whip to move the other guy to the side a little, getting him out of harms way. Steven then watched from there what would happen next.