Broken Hope

[Self-sain]

Do not post until approved in the OOC

Shrub looks at an old scroll, it has been beaten down with time, and torn from being handed off some many times, most of the words are illegible or just totally out dated. He has little interest in old philosophy or old text, there was one thing that interested him on this broken down little paper, and that was the forbidden techniques that the orbs were never allowed to be used for. "To bring the dead back..." he read put loud, "you must take a piece of there remains fuses it with the orb and..", he could feel his heart start to race as he looked at the final line. He rolled up the scroll tied it to his waist line and began to walk again, he was heading to the closest demon 'friendly' town, the town of Tristram.
  As the young demon arrives at the city, his child like mind can't help but take over, he gazes at the large city, the three story buildings of bamboo made. The large market of all kinds of meals, demons and humans living peacefully along side each other..; 'mama would like this...' he thought to him self walking forward looking down avoiding eye contact. He ran into something cold and felt like metal, when he looked up he saw it was a Ostagarian. Shrub knew little about demons but every one knew about the Ostagarians, the big, strong, and most of all there hard to kill. Shrub grabs his staff just in case the creature attacks, but he hears laughter, a loud, deep, booming laughter.
  "Ha ha, child I'm sure that hurt you more then it hurt me, most people say excuse me, but I take it your not most people? Welcome to my shop how might I help you" Shrub rubbed his head looking at the creature.
  "Sorry... sir? I don't have any coins, I was wondering if you knew a way a stray such as my self may earn some?"
  "I'm sorry child but-"
  "I may know a way" a large human in a silk robe said with a devilish smile.
  "Thour he is just a kid-" the Ostagarian protested before he was cut off.
  "A kid you where about to turn away and make him starve, oh how cruel you are, come child I have an offer I wish to place upon you" shrub looked at the Ostagarian, and then back at the man. The man held his arm out at he turned away, and shrub followed as the man placed his hand on his back.
 

[tangletail]

Leo yawned as he looked on at a building from his perch high in a holly tree, with his legs and arms wrapped around the base, one leg lying on a branch to further secure his perch. The village Tristam was a few hours of a walk from where he was, as he carefully observed the watch towers and the villagers. He flinched, nearly losing his grip as his concentration was broken from a familiar voice.
“Do you see anything Leo!?” a person yelled from at least forty feet below him.
With a sigh the feline shook his head before looking down towards the ground “For the twenty-third time of you harassing me Hawkeyes! YES they are STILL there! Mind telling me why I’m forty something feet up a tree, when apparently your name is Hawkeyes. HAWKEYES!”
“Because you’re the cat? And I’m a bird! You like trees don’t you kitty?”
“Don’t make me come down there!”
“Well ‘scuse me. But the boss is getting impatient!”
Leo was about to say something till he glanced back up seeing that the guards who were awake are now asleep “Some guards, this might be the easiest raid yet. You remember the plan right?”
The bird down below nodded with a smirk “Sneak in, solicit, wait for night fall then strike!”
With that Leo moved his legs, planting them carefully on a branch before jumping away from the tree. Falling quite quickly but still landing safely, crouched down in a four pronged stance. “You guess right. Tell the others, and I’ll meet you then.” He chuckled waving to his ally as he began to sprint down to the small village.

[Gabag]

some time before the raid
"Well Gabag, as an official member of the tribe, you have your first duty as a tribeswoman! Maintaining relations with Tristram! They're short on night watchmen tonight so you have guard duty." Gabag's father said, handing his daughter her claymore. Grasping the hilt of the new blade, she tested it's weight by spinning it around then sheathing it.

"do you understand what you must do?" he asked

"Yes father. I'm to go to the town, find the captain of the watch and tell him i'm the new girl" she said, yawning.
"Good, now dont doddle, the man gets impatient when recruits are late and its not pretty."
At that, Gabag began running to the town of Tristram, and after an hour of travel, she was in the town, enraptured by all the sights that were around her. She saw a little demon boy walk into a store, and wondered what kind've breed he was, but shook the thought from her mind as she walked into the Guard station.

"Good morning sir, I'm Gabag, your new watchman." she said, the man at the desk put his documents down and sized the Ostagarian up. He liked what he saw.
"Well lass, good to see you, you knwo what you need to do?" he asked. Gabag nodded.

currently the night, where Hawkeyes and Leo are sizing up the town (they arent seen by Gabag im just saying this is happening in that timeframe)
Gabag looked out into the darkness and saw nothing amiss, well besides the guards sleeping. But they were human, and humans tired a lot more quickly then an Ostaragarian.

Y'know come to think they're adorable when asleep" she thought. She patrolled through her designated area, the shopping quarter, greeting the citizens and generally enjoying an easy task.

[Self-sain]

'You win you get a gold coin', that's what the man said it kept playing over and over in shrubs mind. Shrub was asked to set his 'staff' and scarf to the side, they didn't want him to be accused of cheating. Shrub was fine with that, as long as it was always winthin his sight. He was in some octagon shaped arena, it had a wooden boundaries, just to justify the lines. The arena was very well hidden withing a small warehouse kind of building, or at least that what it looks like from the outside. On the inside there was a large open space, that's where the crowded was gathering. There was also a second story area, where the richer folks would go and sit. It was out of the crowds way, they could see everything, and there was beautiful silk robe that blocked shrubs view from seeing them.
  "Shrub, it is time" the man in silk said, shrub nodded, setting his stuff to the side of the arena, out of every ones reach. A large org looking demon came on the other side of the arena, he was getting pats on the backs and cheers, shrub could only assume he was the champ.
  "The champ, Sand creeper!" Loud cheer interrupted the announcer, "and the challenger, shrub!" There was some laughter and rude comments.
  'Stupid humans.." shrub thought to him self, he raised his hands ready to fight. The org laughed a little, smiling.
  "Fight!" The announcer roared as the crowd screamed. The Oreg lunged at shrub, shrub quickly side steeped, throwing a swift kick to the creatures face. This repeated for a couple more minutes, the org was obviously angry.
  "Hammer!" The crowded yelled, while shrub gave a curious look at the creature. The creature again lunged for shrub, but this time when he side stepped and was about to attack, the org pulled a large club out of grounded, and hit shrub sending him flying back, cracking the wooden wall a little. As shrub tried to figure out what just happen, the org was already on him, towering over him about to smash the little demon with the large club.

[tangletail]

The duo walked passed Gabag talking to each other examining the town’s market. There eyes darted to and fro counting and keeping track of the guards who were in the area.

“How it warms my heart to see the big cats tossing coins around as if it were confetti.” Hawkeyes sighed, absorbing the atmosphere for the moment. His head whipped around when he noticed Leo was at a stall buying a cup of tea.
“Sure… sure, it doesn’t interest me so much.” He said blowing on the surface of the beverage before taking a sip, “Ah, nothing better then tea at night” He turned around to grab a torch from its holder.

A few seconds later an arrow flew into the sky, attached to it was a small instrument that made a loud whistling noise, followed by Leo tossing the torch into a nearby stall, igniting it in a quick fiery blaze. “And that’s the signal of this glorious raid!” he laughed throwing the cup into a charging guards face as a distraction. The man covered his eyes now blinded by the piping hot tea and was soon kicked in the throat by the feline, knocking him down in a single effortless blow.

Leo whistled in disappointment at how quickly the guard went down “Tell you what Hawk, I got this area covered, go” he called over the typical screaming crowd as more watchmen came in hopes to stop him.

[Self-sain]

The crowded gasped as they saw Stub still standing, what baffled every one was the light purple circular object that sprouted out of no where. It was flat, thin, and sturdy. The ogre with a puzzled look on his face looked at his club, he picked it up and swung again. This time Stub was ready, he put all his wight into his arm as he swung at the org's on coming swing. There was a loud thud followed by a crack, as the org's club broke in half. Stub ripped off the hanging piece of the club and launched it at the org's face knocking him to the ground, and finishing the mach. The crowd was silent, there champing has lost, and now they didn't know what to do. The silence was broken by the man in silk clapping, he had a devilishly smug look on his face.
  "Well done shrub, we done" he said laughing a little. "Dam, it almost looks as if I was the only one to bet on Shrub, it looks like my winnings are 1:100,000, so I'll take my gold now." The crowded gasped, but they had an honer to uphold, they had to pay they man. A large chest was placed in front of the man who opened it, and threw a gold coin to Shrub. "Very well done kid-" the man was interrupted by the sound of an alarm going off, "Damn bandits. Hey shrub grab your stuff and follow me kid." Shrub did as he was told, not knowing what else to do. He followed the man out side as he got onto a lavishing looking man powered carriage, "Now stub I want you to sit up here, ahead of me, and protect me and my gold, if you do that they will be more money for you" Shrub nodded listing to the mans words. There where about four other guards on foot, and then two men pulling the carriage.

[Gabag]

While the feline was busy throwing tea and kicking the guards, Gabag walked up behind him and placed an armored gauntlet onto his collar.

"Stop right there criminal scum! You have violated the law! Pay the fine or serve the sentence!" She yelled in a booming voice
it was funny because she didn't even know about any fines or sentencing so she decided to make some up.
She tossed him into a stall, withdrew her claymore and held it to Leo's throat while holding him down with a forceful shove.

"You help me catch the rest of your gang and I promise not to brutally sacrifice you for my other clansmen, after all they could use the meat!" She was hoping everyone thought demons were mindless monsters who sacrificed people to their so called dark gods. Well they did, but mostly criminals like one feline Leo.

She would have to nab the hawkguy later, but she was hoping the other authorities could see to that right now.

[tangletail]

Leo shook his head side to side to clear it up, after surprisingly being thrown into a stall. Other then that, it didn’t even look like it phased him to much, no sense of fear, or self preservation could really be detected. His eyes looked at the blade held to his throat and then up to the helmet of the Ostagarian with a smile. The only demon traits he had were claws, fangs and his eyes which gave off an ethereal glow.

“Not good enough, no deal” he chuckled and moved his left hand to bat  the blade to the side very quickly, and cutting his hand open in the process. He placed that same hand on her armors collar to pull himself up and over her into a hand stand, placing the other one on her head and pushing off to land behind her in a roll, then back to his feet spinning on his heel to face her. “Bandits have no regards for the law. We don’t abide by it, we don’t know it. So tell me…” he would trail off reaching off behind him, unsnapping the strap that head the sword in place inside the sheath and drawing it keeping it collapsed for now as he rested it on his shoulder. “What law am I breaking now?”

[Self-sain]

As the carriage went through the city the occasional bandit would show up, and two men would be sent to fight them off. Now there where only two guard, including shrub, and a single man pulling the carriage, other then the man in silk obviously. As they came closer to an exit, they saw a feline who gave a demonic feeling when they saw him.
  "I have never seen a creature like that before, kill him, he has to be a bandit." The man in silk said, "you go, shrub stay by me." Shrub nodded as the man left to go face the feline. The man charged at the cat armed with a simple spear.

Most of the fire in the city has been put out as the Ostagarian's forces pushed in. The town's guards where all fighting the bandits, slowly taking the bandits out, most have other been captured or had fled the city. An officer of the towns guards run up to gabag as the feline runs away, "Wait, don't worry about him, not just yet." The man panted as he tried to catch his breath, "the bandits are stating to flee the city, you are to neutralize any and all suspicious characters you see, we have been told that a head man for the underground fighting arena is fleeing the city. You are to find and eliminate him, he has been said to be carrying a hidden artifact that must be returned to the general of the Ostagarian forces." The man gave a scroll to gabag that had a painting of the silk man.

[Gabag]

As the feline escaped, Gabag re clamped the sheath to her armor and studied the scroll, she saw a similar man in a carriage that was vacating the scene. Remembering where it went she quickly ran to the carraige and shoulder bashed one of it's guards into the wall of a building and drew her claymore.

"You're all under arrest! Surrender now and I won't kill you, resist and your skin is mine!" She commanded.

She sighed internally as a guard rushed her, sword drawn.

"Should've figured." she said as she deflected his blow and wound a furious slash across his chest, sending him flying a bit with a gash across his chest.

[Self-sain]

The man looked around, the feline on one end, the girl on the other.
  "Very well.." he said as he got out, he grabbed a large axe, it looked like it would way a ton but he lifted it with ease. "Shrub stay with the chest, ill be back in a seconded. " he got out of the carriage, and looked at gabag. "Such a shame that I will have to kill one so young" he smiled as he said this. He set the axe down on the ground, it settled with a thud followed by small dust flying in the air.

[tangletail]

Leo stood there twitching his ear occasionally as he was rather quickly ignored, turning his head to see a man run at him he made a step to the side to allow him to run past before opening up the blade by spinning it in his fingers at his side and bringing it in a slashing motion across his front, cutting the man several times before he fell to the ground as the blade closed. His right ear perked up when he heard someone mention a chest turning his head to the carriage seeing what appeared to be a young boy standing guard next to it. He smiled before running to the carriage keeping his eye on the boy for anything unusual. When he got somewhat close to them, he took notice of a carriage of bandits that was moving for an escape, along with Hawkeyes. Taking a brief longer stride, the moment his foot planted on the ground he lounged forward at in incredibly fast speed, practically soaring across the field, leaving a large dust cloud where he once was and creating a gust where ever his body went.

He seemed to have ignored the demon boy and shot straight through the carriage, knocking it over and forcing it onto its side as he rolled across the ground and back to his feet. Unfortunately due to his carelessness the chest was also thrown sky high and eventually popping open dropping a decent portion of it before it landed in the felines arms with most of the contents still inside. “Sorry kid, no hard feelings” he said twirling around to sling the chest into the carriage before running towards it quickly catching up.

[Gabag]

Gabag immediately ignored the man with the axe and charged after the feline, football tackling him to the ground before  smashing him into another stall.

"You test my generosity feline spawn! I honestly think me throwing you into a store stall is going to be a recurring thing, so let's make that NOT happen. Be a good kitty and surrender so i can kill the rest of these idiots." she commanded, this time keeping a gloved fist around the feline's neck ready to throttle him when and if he resists. She noticed the carraige guards move towards her, so she picked up the feline and hurled him at the guardsmen, then grabbed the chest and ran.

Whatever artifact the general needed had better be worth it.

[tangletail]

The feline let out a loud ack as he bounced off the ground and did somewhat of a backflip planting a foot on a guards face before bounceing off of him in another one of his quick long distance lounges snatching a kerosine lamp and catching up to the iron giant in a matter of seconds. He landed right next to her side not even panting as he easily matched her pace "Sorry thats mine, I have something of yours. Lets trade" he chuckled with a sly smirk hopping to the side to land on top of her as a distraction before hopping up higher and landing on a nearby roof top and tossing the lamp at the ground infront of her creating a large plume of burning liquid, that set any guards, or civilians near her on fire, and possibly her as well.

[Gabag]

Gabag charged through the flames, feeling her armor heat up and she began sweating, but she charged on through, dousing herself in a nearby fountain and regrouping with many more guards.

"Come at me, I dare you" she hissed glaring at the feline on the roof.
"That's right i forgot, your a coward" she said walking to her superior officer and handing over the chest, which was brought into a secured building.