The Warped

[White Wolf Guardian]

"I'm still not happy about losing our deer at all, I knew we shouldn't have even bothered with offering it up... but if we didn't that creeper might have taken Mahi with him and that would have been bad for us having to go look for her without any clues as to where she went." *He shrugged and when the group finally got to a resting place White decided to lay down in some thick grass nearby Kiral, just looking up at the trees in empty thought* "I could just lay here in this grass for a few hours not really doing anything if given the chance, the grass isn't full of modern day chemicals and other allergens we usually deal with. Don't have to worry about breaking out in some rash or getting all itchy... unless there's ants, ticks, or other bugs hiding in here."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral chuckled a bit, "Yea, you're right. It could've been much worse. Why don't you guys get some shut eye, I'll keep an eye out. I'm just going to soak up a little. There's a small pond about a few yards past the thicket over that way. I'll be right back." He walked pushed through the brush and thicket, and found the little pond. Kiral stripped down nude and grunted as he took the jeans off. He stepped into the pond, inhaling deeply. Unknown to the others, one of the soldiers had cut extremely close to his femoral artery, and he was bleeding profusely. Kiral grabbed his white shirt and tore it, tying it hard around the wound, while biting hard on a few twigs. He sighed after the wound was bandaged and let go of the twigs from his mouth. Kiral commenced to clean the rest of his body.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi didn't like being talked about like she wasn't there but she let it slide. "I could have left a trail of bread crumbs..." She mumbled and took another bite out of the piece of bread. She watched Kiral walk away and after he was out of sight she heard the grunt he let out. It didn't sound like a normal grunt either so she wondered what was wrong with him, but she figured if he wanted to hide what it was then that was his decision and she wasn't going to say anything on it.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*The relaxed wolf dragon smelled the blood coming from Kiral as he passed by to go wash himself up* "I'm sure if it was serious enough though, he would have been more urgent about it getting taken care of, so I'll just pretend like I didn't know about it. Even if I told him concern, he wouldn't care. I wonder if pride will be an issue with him somewhere along the way as well. On the topic of problems, Mahi probably overheard our conversation about her. While it is offensive in a normal conversation way to talk about people in front of them, I felt that if Kiral hadn't given up the food we would have been at a greater loss." *He rubbed his eyes with his hands and stood back up* "I'm going to walk around for a bit, I'll be right back." *He said indirectly to Mahi as he made his way through the trees* "Not very far though, I don't want to get lost."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral awoke the next morning sitting against a tree, and found a spear pointed in his face, "Oh, hey." Standing in front of him was a half-dead soldier, his armour torn in places, and his face all bloodied. "Get up, knave. The Lords be wanting to get their hands on thee and thine companions. Now up! Lest thou force me to kill thee! I will not hesitate, so make no sudden movements, that includes thine companions!"

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi awoke the next morning sitting against the same tree she had been sitting against the night before only to hear someone who wasn't part of their group speaking. She "saw" the half-dead soldier standing in front of Kiral pointing a spear at his face. The soldier's back was to her which wasn't really the smartest move. Releasing one of the diamond-weighted wires, she swiftly sent it out around the soldier where it wrapped around the spear then she pulled it back, pulling the spear from the soldier's grip but also breaking it in two. "Now what was that you said about killing?" She asked as she simultaneously got to her feet and put a gauntlet blade to the soldier's neck.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*White returned from his short walk, to notice a beaten up looking soldier holding a spear to Kiral's face, he ducked down quickly* "Well this isn't good, let's see what I can do..." *He reached for his snitch and then heard the sound of diamond hitting diamond and the man arched forward swiftly as his weapon disappeared from view in the tall grass* "Probably Mahi, I'm surprised he wasn't more prepared than that." *The wolf dragon moved closer to see that it was indeed the case, but still out of easy view without looking hard enough* "Just in case there's more of the goons around, I'll stay hidden for now."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

At Mahi's surprise attack, Kiral drew his weapon and rammed the barrel into the man's eye and pulled the trigger. Just then, he heard voices in the distance, "Did you hear that?" "Yea, it sounded like it came from that direction!" "What if Lord Jackson is punishing someone? We would be next if we show up unannounced and away from our position!" "Impossible. Lord Jackson's weapon makes a lower sound, and he left for Lamasari last night. Now wake the others and let us make haste!" Kiral swallowed, "Ah shit, let's get out of here. Our cover's about to be blown." He made a dash out of the bushes, but still outside of the main road.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi was lucky she hadn't been standing directly behind the soldier or else she probably would have gotten the bullet too. She cussed under her breath as she heard the voices of the soldiers. Turning her head in the direction of White since she was able to hear him, she gestured to him. "Let's go." She said urgently to him to make sure that he followed. After that, she ran after Kiral, dodging through the bushes.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*White followed behind the other two companions after Mahi gestured it was time to move, but remained distant a bit so that he could still not be seen if the soldiers came up on the side* "Yep, I figured they wouldn't be alone out here especially in this place. A better question though is why was that soldier all beaten up? We didn't exactly fight him unless he fought other members of our group perhaps? Seeing as how we have all the fighting members of the group in one, I would be amazed if the other group hasn't been having to fight as much as we have to since we hardly ever get a reprieve."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral breathed heavily, but tried his best to control the volume, running as much as he could. Goddammit, I need some smokes. He sweat profusely until his legs finally gave way, and he tumbled into the ground. Upon stopping, Kiral quickly grabbed his weapon and aimed the gun-mode weapon towards the road, breathing heavily still and expecting possible confrontation, since he just made so much noise.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi continued to run after Kiral, keeping track of White with her hearing and her "sight". When Kiral fell, she stopped immediately and held up a hand behind her to White in hopes that he would see it in time to stop before making a bunch of noise. She slowly lowered her hand as she scanned the road with her hearing sight. As she did that, she slowly let her blades come out of her gauntlets, ready to attack anyone if they noticed them and came after them.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*White stopped upon seeing Mahi's hand raise out of the grass* "He probably finally collapsed, he pushes himself to extremes. After hearing Kiral's breathing difficulties along with the sudden stop of his feet, I was ready to halt my feet regardless of warning. I guess now we wait for them to come to us. However... I do have an idea for once. At this point it doesn't really matter since they're no doubt following us still."

*He pulled out his hammer and looked down at a fairly sized boulder, not something that could be picked up by one man and raised the mallet behind his neck* "Time for a quick tee-off, I don't know how this is going to work out exactly." *He swung as hard as he could and the boulder left the ground with a few minor cracks and perhaps a few in the wolgon's arms, but it flew far enough that it went past a few trees smacking into the grass away from their direction* "Maybe that will buy us a few more seconds... hopefully it works otherwise it will be my fault for us having to fight perhaps." *He put one hand to his now sore shoulder* "Usually my targets are softer, that really hurt." *He looked down at the forming purple splotch*

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral slowly got up, still pointing the gun at the road, still expecting someone might show up to attack them. "Let's keep going. I don't want to risk it if they haven't seen us yet. But if they are, I don't want to know." Kiral forced himself to start inching towards the east, and finally turned around, limping his way forward, the pain of the injury from the night before just catching up to him. Goddammit. Better not rush into a fight like that ever again. I'll end up dead if shit like this keeps up.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi winced when White hit the huge rock with his hammer, not really thinking that was a good idea. She breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't hear anyone coming closer to where they were. Following after Kiral when he started moving again, she noticed that he was limping. Pairing that with the sound she had heard him make the night before, she was absolutely sure that he was hiding an injury. "You can't go on forever with that injury you're hiding from us." She said as she followed after Kiral.