Upon First Glance [Invite]

At the very least, the devious smirk that Moire gave to Meri managed to make her panic just a bit, hopefully keeping her a bit more in line for the rest of the trip to the center of this temple. She cackles quietly a bit to herself as they move along, red eyes glaring through the darkness. Perhaps she was being a bit nastier than usual, especially towards a fellow majin, but she was here for a significant purpose, and she wasn't going to tolerate any sort of failure on her part, nor Meri's. Speaking of which...

As the trap triggered and Moire pulls Meri away from getting squished, Meri clanged onto her arm as the trap begins to reset itself. The two will have to fly above this floor to continue onward unless they feel like getting crushed. Moire turns back to face Meri, still holding onto her as she rolls her eyes a bit, giving her a reminder to be careful. As soon as Meri backs up and acknowledges her mistake, Moire begins to slowly float up from the ground, hovering right above the trapped floor before turning to face Meri once again, questioning, "You can fly, can you? If not, think you can pogo your way onto the other side, or would you require assistance? I can feel that the final chamber is upon us."

With Moire waiting for confirmation from Meri, she watched the yellow majin intently, seeing if she has what it takes to continue onward. She fools around a bit, showing off her propellor tail before shining some sort of prismatic shield around her, not only making her a bit more shiny, but also granting her the ability to fly around. It should at least be useful for avoiding anymore traps on the floor. She sighs before turning back towards what lies ahead. "Then keep both your eyes and ears sharp. The traps we faced thus far were merely fatal to humans and other mortals, but there may still be some tricks up this temple's sleeves."

At the very least, Meri was ready for whatever may lie within this final chamber both Moire and her were about to enter. Her eyes narrow a bit as she looks at the entrance, another stone door, except this one was slightly cracked open. No need to blow it apart this time as the majin grabs hold of one of the two doors and slowly pulls it back, revealing to her the dark contents of the room before her... Or at least, that's what she anticipated. Instead, there was a surprising amount of light inside, torches lit adorning the nearby walls, with a ray of light shining down in the center of the room from above despite the two being far down underground. Not all was as it seems.

"I don't like the look of this, Meri... Stay alert." Moire responds before pressing forward, eyes darting across the bright room, looking for anything that stuck out of the ordinary from a glance. Nothing stuck out to Moire, that is, except for the pedestal in the middle of the room, right where the sun is beaming down at. Strange, she doesn't recall it being noon... Regardless, the artifact she's been looking for lies on top of the pedestal: a single broken shard. It may mean nothing to someone like Meri, but to Moire... This revelation made things a bit more interesting.

"A broken piece of glass... One side looks a bit spherical... Was this originally an orb?"

With Meri staying on alert, it left Moire with the task of further investigating what this next potential trap could be. There just isn't a conceivable way that there could be natural light all the way down here, and the mystery behind the torches has yet to be solved. The yellow majin had her own question regarding the actual treasure of this temple, but Moire was a bit busy looking at the torches. She waves her hand, casting a little spell to create a small gust of wind to attempt to blow out the fire... But it resisted. She tries again with another gust, but once more, it kept roaring. Moire couldn't even find any sort of fuel within the torch, which could only possibly mean... Magic?

"That's the treasure right there, Meri, and it might not be so straight forward getting it. I have a feeling that the ancient humans have performed some sort of magic here," Moire mentions, moving back over towards the main prize of the temple. She reaches her hand right towards the light, ready to recoil should there be any pain, but... There was nothing. She pushes her hand in some more, but still nothing happened. Soon it was her arm, then her other arm, then her legs, and then her entire body. Moire made her way all the way into the light, looking around to see if anything changed, but... Nothing.

"I believe it to be a crystal ball of some kind, but... Strange... Where are the traps?" Moire grabs hold of the piece and lifts it up off of the pedestal, but just as she was questioning where the trap was, lo and behold there was a pressure plate underneath the crystal ball. It sinks into the pedestal, and from the gaps emits a green gas of some kind. Immediately Moire holds her breath, not that she really needs to breathe, just to be certain she doesn't breathe anything potentially harmful in. She backs up, but suddenly hits a wall... But how was that possible? She was just right by the pedestal and...

Her back was hitting the beam of light. That's what the purpose of this contraption was, to seal someone within a magical light prison and gas them. Moire looks around before staring right at Meri, pointing to her with her free hand and shouting, "Quick! There's got to be some way to get rid of this light!" 

It was no use, the barrier that kept Moire enclosed was just far too strong to breach through. She had plenty of time to figure something out as she avoids breathing in any of the noxious fumes, but the stench of whatever it is that's coming from that pedestal is going to bug the majin for some time if she doesn't get out pronto. Luckily for her, Meri seems to be right on the case, thinking of what to do to try and get Moire out of this situation... At least, at first until she too starts to panic as to what to do. The purple majin herself was thinking of all sorts of different spells in her arsenal to try and shatter the barrier of light in front of her, but what exactly would be able to shut it off?

Just as she was about to try one of her more radical solutions of just blowing up the barrier itself, Meri appears to be the very first one to act, tearing off her own tail, catching Moire by surprise. "Just what do you think you're..." The moment she saw the yellow majin begin to reshape her tail, however, as she announces that she herself was the solution she tosses it right up towards the ceiling, her flesh stretching through the light and covering up the barrier. In a near instant, the barrier was gone, and the gas starts flowing outward now that it had much more room to flow out of. Moire steps forward, right out of the potential range of the beam before walking right up to Meri, sighing in relief. 

"Phew... Good thinking, Meri. Was figuring if blowing myself up was going to be the solution, but this is certainly the far less painful option," Moire jests as she waves her hand behind her, blowing away the noxious gas a little bit as Meri blows most of it right away. "But I'm all good now thanks to you. I was not looking forward to smelling like that for a week, bleh..." With that, Moire takes one last look at the treasure in her hand before shoving it against her thigh, the piece sinking into her flesh and disappearing. "There, safe keeping."