Kin Chronicles Realm: Betrayal of the Guardians

[Srgntcuddles]

A knife flew at Ferdande while he meditated, his eyes shot open as he heard it whistle through the silent air. He leaned to the right and dodged it; it stuck in the ground behind him. Three figures approached from the night and stood around the fire looking at Ferdande. "You missed him, now we have to lift a finger!" groaned one of them. As they began to draw weapons Ferdande had dragged his foot towards the fire and kicked up a large amount of ash in the air. The figures stumbled back and waved their arms as the ash covered them. Ferdande spun around on the ground and rolled backwards until he landed on his feet. He aimed his arms at the two outer figures and shot them dead with a bolt each to the neck. The last one finished dusting himself off and saw his comrades were dead and charged at Ferdande with a thrust of a short sword. Ferdande unraveled a thin cable from behind him and let the man charge him; he wrapped the man's arm up as he spun around behind him dodging the blow.

Ferdande pulled on the cable and the man's arm was forced behind his back twisted. The man dropped his weapon in his hand and with his free hand drew a small dager and swung at Ferdande. The attack was dodged and the man's other hand was wrapped up aswell in the same manner as before. Completely helpless the man paniced as Ferdande approached him. He wrapped the cable around the man's neck slowly and tightened it cutting off his airsupply. Ferdande continued to tighten the cable and the man's neck was snapped as a result. Having won the battle Ferdande wound back up the cable and put out the fire that was barely lit as it is then got back ontop of the carriage and rode off once again.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Korius turned from his position and watched the fight unfold. A fairly small band of hunters, but large for that circle of people. It was good that they didn't expect anyone else but Korius and Kiana, they have the element of surprise. Korius picked up two throwing knives and ran over back to the camp. Before getting within White's sight, he threw the knives, nailing an assailant that snuck up behind White. Korius held out the sai and stood by White, scanning the area and watching as the others killed their share. "Remember White. You're going to need to learn that spell soon. Even if it's just a shield barrier, it's better than no barrier at all. You'll get to it soon enough, but you need to make some progress!" He grabbed his bag back from White and settled back down to relight the fire. The fighting had stopped, and Korius didn't bother to say anything, he just wanted to relax. As the fire took momentum, Korius sat back against a different tree that wasn't covered in blood and continued to pick at the metal bar. Now everything felt right. Just needed a change of scenery...

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Kiana glanced down at the body at her feet then stepped over it as she walked back over to the fire that Korius had lit. Sitting down by the fire, she held her staff in both hands lengthwise, examining it to make sure there was no blood on it. She set her staff in her lap and lowered her hood. Untying her braid, she shook her hair out and ran her fingers through it, re-braiding her hair once it had been smoothed out. She watched the fire as she braided slower than usual since she was in no hurry, her golden eyes shimmering.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*White just sort of nodded to Korius and gently laid down on some grass* "Thanks for the help Korius." *The wolf took out his scroll and continued his deciphering* "Alright if I put this here and here, I get a scatterplot of glyphs and with some here and here I get clusters, I think if I just do some modifications in my attempts I can make more sense out of the nonsense..." *He stayed determined as he continued his reading*

[Gabag]

Felodran kept running as arrow after arrow pelted his shield, and when he was close enough he went for a lunging stab on the archer he was running at, which he just couldn't defend against in time. The man slumped over on his blade, and just in time too, the other archer was preparing to fire. Felodran turned and hid himself behind the dead man, hating himself for doing so, but it's survival...

After the bowman finished his volley, Felodran pulled his blade from the dead man's stomach and gave a swift running kick to the knee of the other archer. This man was more proficient in defending himself as he hopped backwards from the kick and drew a shortsword. Since there was no time to gather his shield, Felodran parried a stab towards his gut, and punched the archer in the face to stumble him, then slashed open his stomach. The man screamed and hit the ground, crying in pain, and then blacking out.

However he had left the swordsman alive, who had more then enough time to kill Felodran. The man had watched Felodran battle the two archers, and now raised his sword with quaking hands.
"Leave... and do not return... if you do you will live to see another day. If not you'll end up like these two friends of mine" The man took a step backwards, then tossed his sword down and high tailed it out of the thicket.
Felodran knelt by the dying man, and stabbed him to end his suffering, then cleaned his sword on his tunic.

"Now to get to the others..."

[Srgntcuddles]

Ferdande kept driving down the road; after awhile of it he noticed a man walking along the side of the road. Not wanting to take any chances he reloaded his wrist crossbows before he passed him. As he did pass he noticed he was human, he also seemed quite battle ready. Though his curiousity about him was high Ferdande ignored the man and just kept on going hopping not to draw any unneeded attention to himself.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Korius woke up the next morning feeling very groggy, but somehow refreshed with the smell of rotting blood in the air. He shook his head, trying to suppress himself. That's something that's been harder to suppress since Koara's demise. However, the last thing he needed was his party to know this early in hunt. He got up as usual and went through the dead bodies while everyone still slept. It was particularly muggy this morning and the sun was yet to rise. Korius found Shims, for the most part and a decree bounty scroll on each hunter. Apparently very broke hunters. Sure enough, only two scrolls on each person, one of him and one of Kiana. He sighed as he finished his pillaging. This is pathetic. Over 20 bodies and not even a Guilder's worth of Shims, and not even a weapon is sellable from this lot. Well, hopefully we'll still make the rest of this journey in peace.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Kiana awoke to an uncomfortable feeling that only a muggy day could bring to her. She sat up without opening her eyes and stretched her arms into the air above her head. Slowly opening her eyes, she looked around the campsite as she sat there Indian-style. She noticed that everyone else was still sleeping, except for Korius who was missing. She didn't worry about this fact though and stood up, standing on her tiptoes to stretch out her legs. She bent down, picking up her staff, then walked a little bit away from where the others were sleeping but where she could still see them and be seen so no one thought anything had happened to her. She began practicing Judo Jo Kata, using her staff instead of a Jo.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*White yawned and stretched his legs then sat down again on the grass and pulled out his scroll talking aloud* "I think this scroll is starting to make sense... if that makes any sense? I think I'm making progress through it." *He grinned and then his face returned to a neutral appearance as he looked back down at the scroll and went back to work reading away, occasionally looking around to make sure no one was trying to sneak up on him again* "Just a bit paranoid after Korius saved me from near death last night... heh."

[Entaru]

Entaru woke up and yawned loudly.  He looked about, with half-shut eyes, at the others disdainfully.  The others' shuffling about had woken him up in the middle of a nice dream about the waitress from the Inn, and he was a bit sore about it.  "Do you people have something against sleep?  We've been going from sun up to well beyond moonrise every day now.  Can't we, for once, just sleep in?  Yeesh." 

Entaru rolled over and tried to fall asleep again, only to have the sun peek over a tree and hit him in the face.  "Gah!  Blast it all!."  Entaru sat up rubbing his sore eyes.  "Alright! Fine! I'm up!"

[Srgntcuddles]

Ferdande stiffled his curiosity and managed to keep driving without incident down the road. As he rode he thought he heard someone complaining, he shrugged it off and kept going. As the sun peered through the carriage's windows Alexia woke up. She noticed she was practically ontop of Drevo, feeling embaressed she quickly got off him; her face turning red. Drevo was still breathing slightly as she checked to make sure she didn't smother him by accident in her sleep. Remembering she was still naked from when they stopped at the checkpoint she decided to get dressed. As she put on her skirt something grabbed her arm. She looked and saw it was Drevo, still lying down with his head tilted examining her. "Don't..." said Drevo in an erotic tone. "D-Drevo...I-" Before she could finish Drevo pulled a knife from under his pillow and lunged forward at Alexia. She woke up; breathing deeply as she assured herself it was just a dream. After a minute or so her breathing went back to normal. She looked over Drevo and saw he was still unconscious; she leaned over to his head and slid her hand under his pillow. She felt around and found nothing; after that she dressed herself and sat normally in the carriage looking over at Drevo.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Korius put the coins into his extra pouch and stuck it into his gi. As he got back to the camp, the Szardas had also just woken up and were ready to go. He noticed everyone was up, particularly Entaru, as well and sighed as he watched sun rise up past the horizon. I wonder if that old fart has an down lever for that mouth of his?[/i] Korius took in the morning air and breeze breaking through the muggy atmosphere, and took a deep breath. "Okay, you lot. It is time to proceed. Let us try to minimize our travel time, eh?"

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Kiana stopped her Judo Jo Kata practice when Korius came back and spoke to them. She tilted her head slightly then looked around before looking back at the group. "Okay...is it just me or did anyone else just hear a carriage?" She questioned, looking from person to person. It seemed like no one else had heard it but maybe they had just thought nothing of it.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*White jumped up at the sound of the carriage rolling by and quickly hid the scroll in his cloak* "I hear that too Kiana." "And they are not catching me off guard again this time today!" *White did a small jog towards Korius and stayed by his side* "At least with you, I know it's difficult to get kidnapped, stabbed, assassinated, or shot at. I'm ready to travel anytime now, I don't want to stick around in this same location forever as the smell of blood in the air will surely bring more trouble soon... or at least I can only hope I'm wrong." *A small bead of sweat rolled down the side of his head to sit atop his right ear after finishing his small proposal*

[KittKat chunky~]

Vladimir looked up, ear cocked to the sound of the carriage... he gave a short slap across the back of his sons head, who had been yawning widely and not paying attention
"Not paying attention will get you killed..."
Kitt mumbled grumpily under his breath, his shortsword already sliding halfway out of its sheath; tail flicking rapidly as he pushed his rangers cloak to one side to allow the fast drawing of his weapon.... His father mimicked him, though he pulled out two long curved blades that had until now been hidden in small holsters strapped to his lower legs, just underneath his cloak... Throwing both blades up and catching them, blade down he waited for Korius to make the decision of what to do....