Expedition 2

The broken ground shook as bits and pieces of the ground around it fell below deeper into the hole that had surfaced almost a year or so ago, ichor bubbled from below. It looked like a boiling pot of decaying mass and rotting bio material, almost as if all life in this area got dragged into it and left to cook under the earth's heat. The smell was worse than its sight, sweet yet gagging. The sweetness of it was sicking, wrong and altered. It wasn't pleasant and welcoming, it felt wrong and threatening. Inviting for a false sense of safety and pleasure.

The creature peeked into it, curiously observing the things that lurked into the depth. The ground felt almost alive with the way it moved and shifted, the ichor was modding it into the shape it desired, making the perfect environment for the monsters that hide below the ground. Reaper could hear them swimming in the ichor, peeking out for only a moment to observe him in return. They were watching him, seeking movement from the thing that stared back. The creature was well advised in these kind of games though, it knew that the things below were hunting him, waiting for any mistakes to be made so they could surface and attack him. Reaper merely grinned at them, keeping itself low to the ground " Good luck, you will not be able to catch me even if I were a few meters away from you. Stay down there, it's much better if you do because if I catch you. It won't end well for you little lizards..." the ichor bubbled more before whatever was lurking into it began to sink back into its depth, large pieces of land and structures sank as well. It seemed some things were using them as a disguise to mimic rubble that was claimed by the depth when the ground had originally teared apart and became this gapping hole.

Death lingered a while longer before it slowly started to crawl down the hole, it was being caution and careful with each step it took as it went down. It knew if it slipped and fell, whatever was below it would consume it and not be able to escape. Death reached the dark, thick ichor below him. It was still bubbling like a pot of soup as the creature reached a vial down and collected the bubbling liquid that reeked of death before it slowly climbed back up from the pit of despair that it had crawled into. It had gotten what it wanted, a small sample of what intrigued it for the past while since it first stumbled onto this pit. It had planned on coming back here to collect more if this liquid turned out to be useful to it, if it could case this much chaos and death then it might be. The creature carefully placed the vial into its mouth as it climbed out of the pit slowly, making sure that it didn't put its weight onto a weak spot and slip and fall with the rubble back into the depth and darkness.

Reaper had reached the top as it slowly steady itself onto the ground before gently removing the vial from its mouth, the vial clicked against the creature's teeth as it was removed. It wasn't damaged or even scratched but the creature definitely could have been more careful as if it had broken and slipped onto him, it could have caused un reversible damage to him, death even and he didn't plan on dying on his husband just yet.