Part Two - New World - Chapter [053.5]

Gangplank managed to take Arslan to the stink spirit. 

"Here he is!" Said Gangplank motioning to a particular darker patch of the under dark. 

"I literally can't see anything -" said Arslan, but he was quickly made to shut up as lanterns started to turn on in a circular fashion around the room.

Revealing the most particular of creatures. 

The stink spirt was in fact a monster that lived and breath, it stuck itself to the roof to the under dark and the floor as well. A particular bad smelling slime y pond spread out across it. 

Clearly a child of miasma - a stink spirit is usually a dragon's spirit that got stuck in the under dark and the miasma got the better of it. Or someone actually made him like that.

This particular smell was like meeting death itself. 

It was particularly horrid and something that got under your skin. At first Arslan didn't managed to quite catch it. 

Because of the mask filtering system on, but it seemed just as he noticed the body sticking form the ceiling of this chasm to the bottom and his boots touched the slime substance on the floor protruding into a pool that seemed to go deeper the closer to the body you were. 

That it hit him like a truck.

Arslan got chills and they ran all the way from his spine up the top of his head. 

"All yours…" Gangplank motioned. 

There was no denying it. 

"The things I do for love -" Arslan mentioned.

He was going in.

The first couple of steps into the slime weren't so bad, even with his boots Arslan felt like he could do this - but each step made him sink deeper into the slime substance. 

Stink spirits are not bad and don't attack anyone that comes into the secretions they protrude. 

Most of the time they're only good spirits that got placed in this position - and Arslan meant no harm. 

Arslan had some food in his back pocket.

he remembered and took it out. 

It was only but black dirt now. 

"Aww, come on!" Arslan said remembering Aiden had made those.

But he continued onward - deeper into this pool.

The slime was above his waist now.

Suddenly the filtering on his mask actually started decomposing. 

He had to take the mask off.

The smell became even louder - it made him actually want to throw up.

But he swallowed it.

And continued.

Moving through the slime body wasn't so bad, it was like moving in the sea, each step bringing him closer to the main body of the spirit. 

"This is DISGUSTING!" He shouted as he reached the main body.

"Don't give up now! You're almost there!" Gangplank shouted from the other side of the chamber. 

"What I'm I looking for?" Said Arslan as he reached the body, managing to find his footing and get his body out of the slime.

"There should be a plug about right there were you're standing!" Shouted Gangplank. 

"Place a rope on it and throw it to me!" He said.

First he rolled up his sleeves all the way to his shoulders.

Then Arslan did as he was told and plunged his hands into the body of this creature, looking for something like a plug. 

He fumbled around and then felt something - it was not bigger than a screw driver.

Arslan tried pulling it but his hand slipped every time.

Then he took out a rope and made a loop around his right hand - the hand that was going into the slime - and pulled with the other hand, he used his teeth for friction and managed to circle the rope and tight it around the screwdriver.

"It's fastened!" He said to Gangplank and threw the other end of the rope - it traveled miles through the top of the slime pool and reached gangplank where he also fastened it around his body. 

"All right!" Said Gangplank. Suddenly had an audience. 

From the crevices of the walls emerged little tiny creatures - they were curious looking - their small bodies made of black and white, and two small eyes, they had tiny arms and feet.

They didn't mean any harm - just wanted to see if Arslan and Gangplank would actually manage to free the spirit dragon from the stink. 

"Let's give them a show, and pull!" Gangplank shouted and Arsland and Gangplank started pulling. 

The rope actually worked, it started pushing the screw driver outwards. 

The little guys gasped in amazement.

Just like that trash started coming out of the plug - dirty clothes - discarded electronics. Abandoned bycicles among many other trash things.

The little guys started cheering for Arslan and Gangplank - they had done what no else had done in ages. 

Then just like that the rest of the trash pooled out - the filling the room. The little guys had to move away.

"Watch out!" Gangplank mentioned but it was as if a bubble protected Arslan.

However the body of the stink spirit crashed down on itself and merged with the rest of the pool. 

A soft refreshing Ah could be heard echoing across the underdark.

The little ones peeked from beneath their hiding place. 

The stink spirit then slowly rose, just like Gangplank had predicted. It was a dragon. 

It started circling Arslan as the water enclosing him drained out.

The dragon was laughing and seemed carefree. 

The little ones suddenly cheered and a choir of happy giggles filled the chamber. 

Just like that everyone was cheering and praising their deed. 

The dragon then headed for the main tower of the underdark and pushed upwards. Making it's way out and into the outside. 

Where it screams of laughter and joy were heard all across L'reu and even beyond. It flew up towards the center of the city and then just climbed into the sky above.

Arslan looked content and happy that they had managed to release the spirit. The little black and white guys floated around Arslan and seemed happy to be around him. They were so many it was hard to keep track of them. One of them had Arslan's rewards. 

A little moss ball - which was placed on his hand. He smelled it, there was no particular smell coming from it. So he pocketed the thing. Gangplank was already hard at work collecting the slime into various glass viles. Which he had brought with him on his belt. 

Once the stink spirit left - the slime started turning into a pond, which Arlsan quickly hopped into and got ride of the excess dirt all over his clothes and body's. 

He walked towards Gangplank.

"Look how many of this stuff we have - this will be enough for your Shepard and to feed my boys for more than a year!" He said giddy. 

"I'm glad I could be of help," Arslan mentioned. 

"Oh my god, you stink!" Gangplank said covering his mouth even though he himself also had a mask.

Arslan whiffed his armpit. He did in fact smell worse than death. 

The little guys seemed unaffected though, as they happily rested on his shoulder. 

This stink wasn't going to go away with a couple of baths.