Embarking on the Quest

Jake moved to flank the manticore, figuring it couldn't possibly shoot forward and back at the same time. He wacked it a couple times and backed off to block.

(actually, if the manticore spun fast enough while shooting, he could shoot forward and backward and all over almost simultaneously.)
As Jake backed up, the manticore swung his tail at him, wacking him.

(oh my gods look at this emote!!! >O)

Kiki latched an arrow into the crossbow and aimed. "Say cheese~" she said and fired a well aimed shot into its eye. She immediatly bent down and restrung it. She then swung it back up and hit it in the shoulder. She then ducked sideways to avoid a barrage of spikes

Jake slung his shield on this back with a spark of recklesness and jumped on the manticore's back and stabbed his sword into the manticore's back. He felt the final poundings on his shield then the manicore fell.
As it dissapeared, Jake staggered a few steps away and ploped down.
"Heh...Not so bad for no sleep, huh?"

Kris opened her eyes after haven fallen asleep standing up. She looks around, rubbing her eyes, "Okay what happened?"

(Don't ask how i managed to fall asleep in the middle of a fight but i need an excuse for not posting)

"I saved the day.. er night and now we are lacking in the transportation department.... and the sleep department."

"Hey I weakened it first!" she complained

"Eh, claim what you like. I'm *tired*. I tend to get delusional and sarcastic when I've been running on sugar and caffine for the past five hours."

"Delusionals right big boy." she said rolling her eyes. She then sat down with her sword in her hand and instantly fell asleep. With her eyes open.

Jake yawned. "Well.. I called first watch.... so I guess you guys should go to sleep."

"Well sleeping in the truck is out of the question....." Kris looks around. "I am going to go sleep in that tree." She pointed to a nearby tree with a low branch.

"Alright, just go to sleep." Jake said, salvaging his stuff and pulling out his laptop. It still turned on, amazingly. He tapped a few things into it then put it away and drank some soda.

(I HATE YOU ALL! YOURE NOT SUPPOSED TO FINISH THE BATTLE WITHOUT ME!!)
Wes checked her watch. It was aready close to midnight, there wasn't anyway she'd fall asleep. Nonetheless, she went to lay down in the grass, closing her eyes.

Kris walked over to the destroyed truck and managed to salvage her bag and walked over to the tree she had pointed out. She hung her bag on a short branch jutting out near the other one. SHe climbed onto the large branch and layed down with her back against the trunk and her legs crossed

Kiki starts snoring while still sleeping with her eyes open.

(dont ya just love Ares kids? )

***morning***
Wes opened her eyes as the sun peaked up behind the trees. She walked around in the bit of sunlight, getting a better look at the damage.

Kris had already been up since she took the last watch. She remained up in the tree until she saw Wes wake up. She jumped down from the branch and grabbed her bag. She walked over to Wes, "Good morning."

"good morning." Wes responded plainly, "think we should flip the truck back over?"

Kiki blinks a few times then gets up and stretches. "That was a goooooood sleep!" she yawned

"That might be a good idea." Kris does some morning stretches to readujust from being in the tree

"First things first, someone go kick Jake awake." Wes says as she walks to the side of the truck, ready to flip it with another's help.

"Kiki, I leave that task to you." She says looking at her.

Kiki salutes you, "Yes mam!" She then does an evil grin and strolls over to Jake. "Oh Jaaakey time to wake UP!" when she yelled up she kicked him over.

"Gaah! What! What is it?!" Jake said, bouncing up immediatly, quickly activating his shield...
"Oh..." He put it away. "It's morning... isn't it."

"Yeah Jake, you can chill out," Kris walked over to the truck, "Now come help up flip this thing over."