Seifer looked a little oddly at her, then seemed to blush. He turned his face and nodded. "Alright, then." He lead the way, with Makoto as his torch, taking winding paths. Something wasn't right, though, as Makoto had said. Four simple bandits had taken all that gold? He stopped at a door and peered through the keyhole. His eyes widened. "So that's why..." He pushed the door open and covered his nose. The stench of dead monsters was overwhelming. Then, Seifer noticed the monsters themselves. They were terrifying creatures. Worst of all, these were really people, transformed by some strange magic to be fused with animals...Seifer coughed lightly and moved to a corner, bending down and puking. "What foul treachery is this?" He asked alloud, as if someone would know the answer.
A dark voice rasped out, "I can answer that." A figure loomed at them from the shadows. Candles lit along the walls, revealing a horrific sight.
The strange skeleton stood slowly from his throne and walked slowly over to them. "We were cursed beings...Now, I am the only one left...My mates were transformed by terrible magic into chimeras, and my flesh and muscle were stolen from me...Unfortunately, my curse did not end there. I can not ever leave this place, nor shall I ever die, lest I am killed by a holy warrior...Please, good sir, I beg of you...Kill me. Give my mates and I our much needed eternal sleep...They have deserved it much, even while they lay in eternal sleep already...Please, I beseech you, remove me from this mortal coil. I can no longer bear to see my mates like this."
Seifer looked to the man and slowly stood, nodding. "I shall do so...And in doing so, your soul shall be at peace. You and your shipmates will enter the heavenly halls of the twins...Go now, sleep forever." He drew Excalibur and moved it with almost god-like speed across the skeleton's chest, cutting him clean in half. The man smiled a bit. "Thank you, good sir...One last favor for me...Tell my wife, Haruhi of Silimar, what her hardworking husband had become...And tell her I still love her, even in death..."
Slowly, he disintegrated into a pile of dust. The chimeras in the room did the same. Then, it struck Seifer. "Hey, I just thought about something...Now that this place is unoccupied, perhaps we can set up camp here. Maybe even...Well, it's just a thought, but if we use the salvage equipment on Amari's ship...We can slowly begin to rebuild Asgard...." He turned his eyes to the group in thought.