The Warped

[White Wolf Guardian]

*White watched the townsfolk become more cautious with their weapons drawn and went into defense mode& "They better not even think about stabbing my wings again... I have this snitch, but that only works to cover most of any hits on my torso." *He eyed the little girl and the feline boy as they made Mahi and Macid more comfortable*"That should at least discourage the town members to attack." *He lowered his shield*

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis finally made it down the hill and gathered with the others. She kept a sharp eye out, not really knowing what to do next, more or less readying herself to react if things went sour. All she knew was she wanted to go back to her reality. Back where she was a normal art student, just trying to graduate. The fact that she could get left behind so easily depressed her as she looked around at the townsfolk. It was just like growing up back home. No matter what she had to offer, it was never good enough to get noticed. She was invisible, anonymous, and it was probably for the best that she was. She scratched her arm nervously, turning away from the others. The chameleon pretended that she was enjoying the sun rather than being overcritical of herself.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance stayed near Mortis and the others, silently listening to the people. She was avoiding looking at the corpses of the guards and such a little ways away. She was still feeling uneasy about killing people, but it felt almost right. As she knelt down to pet the husky that was at her a kid came over to pet it as well. "What's his name?" asked the little girl. "Uhm...I haven't decided yet." replied Constance. Because of the question it made her think, what would she call it. "Hmm...What should I call it? Well...First thing..." She checked to see the gender of the animal quickly. "It's a he. How about-" "Hero?" interrupted the girl. "That sounds great. Hero it is." said Constance, ruffling the girl's hair.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid just sat there with his eyes closed trying to fight back the tears as Kiral spoke to the townspeople. It wasn't until he felt something rubbing against his arm that he opened them. Thanks to the pain killer that Max gave him, Macid could barely feel the young cat rubbing he arm. He looked down at the boy, who in turn looked back at him. "Are you hurt Mister?" Macid turned his head towards his feet, embarrassed to answer. The child walked around in front of Macid, trying to continue looking him in the eyes. "Are you sad?" "...Yes. I'm very sad." "Why? Was it because you lost your book? Cause I saw you drop it and picked it up for you." The boy handed Anon to Macid, who was bewildered that he didn't notice that he had it, or that he had dropped it in the first place. Taking Anon in his good hand, he looked at the boy. "Thank you, but why are you helping me? I have done nothing for you."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The child stopped to think a bit and then gave a partial toothed smile, showing that his adult teeth were yet to all grow in, "Because mister and his friends saved us from the bad guys!" The little girl chimed in almost as if on queue, "Yea, those guards and patrolmens were mean to all of us, especially to kids! We weren't allowed to play or nothin'!" "Y-yea! And they kept taking my daddy's food without paying!" Kiral looked around, seeing some of the realization in some people's eyes, while others' seemed to harden. "But I think we might have caused a little over excessive problems for these folks by killing the ones in armour, am I correct?" One of the villagers, a burly tiger who seemed to harden stepped forward, pitchfork in hand, "You're damn right you did. The ones in armour were the royal patrolmen. They continually report back to their network post to maintain their peacekeeping, and you just killed them. Now they'll come down here for blood once they find out about this little mess." Kiral thought hard for a minute, "What if we hid the bodies? Or even made it so it looked like we raided your village? I mean, try not to raise too much suspicion by pretending this was a rogue group?" The man shook his head, "No. There haven't been any rogues in this region of the land for years, and they'd know anyways. Most of the main regiment out in this region are hounds. They'd find the bodies and fast. Plus your particular weapon is similar to those of the Rulers'. I believe you call it a 'gun'? Remnants of a weapon like that will make it obvious who you are and that you're here. If you need food, we can spare a little, but we don't have much ourselves. But you cannot stay here. The next cavalry comes in at dawn's light." Kiral sighed and looked around at the others, "I guess we don't have much of a choice. *turns to the man who spoke* We will accept your offer. At least let me help you somehow." Kiral drew his weapon and fired all over the place, causing mass panic for a minute, afterwhich he re-holstered his weapon. "This should at least confuse them and make them think we're not here to take down the Rulers, or whatever you call them." The tiger nearly rushed over to Kiral to run him through when he stopped. He looked around and noticed what was going on, "Maybe for a little bit, but not for long. Anyways, the women will go and gather supplies for you. Come to my home, my son is an Apothecary. He can assist with your friend with the wound."

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

As the conversation went on Mahi listened and when she heard the man mention that they didn't have much food, she tried to hand the bread back to the child only to have her hand pushed back against her stomach as the girl rejected taking it back. Once again, she heard the gun readying to fire so she didn't jump from the shots actually being fired since she knew she wasn't going to be shot at. She had tensed when the guy was getting ready to attack Kiral but relaxed when he didn't go through with it. At the mention of the women gathering supplies, Mahi kept her mouth shut even though she didn't like how things worked in this time. If she was made to do the "duties" of a woman while she was in this place or treated as inferior, THAT was when she would open her mouth.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

I suppose I'll allow myself to be lead around again. the chameleon thought to herself bitterly. I'll let myself be lead around by people who could really care less for me. She still felt as if she should prepare for the worst as she merely stood with the others, crossing her arms. She didn't realize, but her whole demeanor had changed to an aggravated look. Again, a shots went off in the air. I can't wait for that thing to run out of bullets. Just because he has a gun, he thinks he knows everything. Mortis was still not very fond of the group, but then again she was never fond of very many people. She also preferred to work alone rather than with groups, which at this point seemed to be a strike against her.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance listened to the conversation, wincing at the gunshots. "Does that thing come with a silencer? Sheesh..." she thought, still petting the husky. "I wonder where these animals I summon come from? Do they have some weird realm or something? Filadius said I only get three a day...And one at a time...Can I switch them out of something? So far it only seems I can summon a new one when one dies...That's no fun...I probably shouldn't get attached then...Aww...This sucks. I don't want to lose them." She stood up, looking at the tiger after he offered to help one of their injured friends. She looked around, curious as to who it was only to see it was Macid. "His arm...I didn't even notice...I must have completely zoned out."

[Ares the Ram]

Macid was only half listening to the conversation between Kiral and the tiger. His mind was elsewhere, thinking about what the child said. Bad guys? Where those the men that Filadius sent ahead of us? Why where there more than seven of them? No, they couldn't be from our time, they had to be guards from this era loyal to the first ones." When Kiral shot his gun in the air to disperse the crowd, the boy screamed and hugged Macid tightly, Macid himself having jumped slightly from the surprise. He put his hand on the boy and whispered to him with a smirk. "It's ok. Kiral's not gonna hurt you. He's not that mean." When the tiger mentioned his son being able to help him, Macid tried to stand up from the bench, but due to the loss of blood and pain killer Max slipped him, he found it hard. "Hey, can you get one of my friends to help me up please? The boy slowly pulled his head out of Macid's stomach, and nodded, running over to Max. "Hey mister? Can you help my friend?"

[serpington]

max was watching carefully and saw kiral draw his gun, he flinched slightly with each shot and stortly after noticed a kid asking for his help "sure." max secured all the sections of ramsey propely and walked back over to macid. "so how you feeling?" he sliped his hands under his injered team member and lifted him carefully then looked back to the kid calmly. "so where do you want him." he looked macid in the eyes and smirked, "your lighter than you look."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Kiral went with the others to follow the tiger and entered into a slightly larger building of the village. There, a much younger tiger, not too much older than those in the group, cleared out a table and ushered them to sit Macid onto it. Meanwhile, he went over to a rather large shelving unit that took up the whole back wall of the home and sifted through several wooden cups of things that Kiral didn't even want to guess was inside. He could have sworn that several of the bottles had fingers or fetuses or even a certain male appendage. Kiral shook the thought out of his head and turned from that part of the house and just watched the tiger bring over several cups of dried materials as well as a jug of some kind of liquid. The tiger ground several dried materials together slowly before finally pouring them all into the bottle of murky, green liquid. He then mixed it all with a wooden spoon and then poured it into a deerskin container. "This little concoction completely purifies any wound and helps speed up the healing process. Use once, and only once per wound. Any more would be waste." He then placed the top on the bag and shook it viciously, before stopping. He then opened it back up and stuck his fingers inside, pulling them out, covered in a thick syrupy goo, "You won't need to mix this anymore, this state of the liquid is permanent. Now, this is going to be extremely painful. Your wound has too much filth within it, waiting so long." Kiral stepped up and removed the bandage as the tiger applied the goo onto the wound, which seemed to harden in a matter of seconds. "You won't need to dress the wound. It hardens in a matter of seconds. Blood causes to quickly harden. Once your wound heals, it should start cracking. Here, you seem like you would be the most responsible for this." He closed the top and handed the bag over to Mortis. At around the same time, several women walked into the home with 7 bags and a small box about the size of a shoebox. With a closer look, Kiral realized it WAS a shoebox. The women handed each traveler a bag, which was warm to the touch, "We made each of you half a loaf of bread and two slices of ham. It's not much, but please accept it." The elder tiger took the box from the last woman and handed it to Kiral, "Several years ago, the Rulers were our worshiped heroes of legend. They saved my life and gave me this box from their world. Inside, is an item that was a keepsake from their leader that he said he would come back for when it was time to return to his world, but he never came back for it. Take it to their group's leader, and cram it up his ass for me." Kiral took the box and opened it. Inside was a weird electronic machine that he had never seen in his life. He closed the box back up and nodded. Kiral didn't know what to do, so he left the room and waited outside for the others. He had no more business and didn't want to stay any longer.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Mahi followed the tiger and Kiral to the building and went inside with them. She stood there and shifted back and forth from foot to foot while waiting for the younger tiger to finish taking care of Macid. When the women came in with bags for them all, she took her bag when it was handed to her and put the piece of bread that the little girl had given her in the bag too. She shifted her "gaze" to the others one at a time and then a moment after Kiral walked out of the building, she went out after him since there wasn't anything else for him to do.

[White Wolf Guardian]

*White followed silently behind Kiral and Mahi to the inside of the building, looking upon all the very strange concoctions and materials inside the jars, the fetuses in particular making the wolf dragon uncomfortable with the setting overall* "I think I'm gonna go outside and wait, I don't have any business here." *He waited there for a couple of minutes, noticing Kiral and Mahi coming out shortly after he did* "I don't blame them, though Kiral probably left for a different reason than me and Mahi can't literally see anyways so it was probably like any other place."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Unlike most of the others, Mortis didn't find the jars on the shelves unpleasant. She actually had a fascination with them, and was hardly paying attention to what was going on because of them. It wasn't until the mention of pain that she stopped looking at the shelves and looked to see what was actually going on. She watched as the tiger dropped some mysterious goo into the lynx's wound. She watched curiously as the concoction hardened, being caught by surprise when the tiger handed her the deerskin container. She wasn't sure if she should have been flattered by the remark he made, but she took the container and placed it into her makeshift bag with all of her other things she had with her so far. She also took her bag that was given to her, nodding in thanks. Carefully, she began to transfer her important items from her makeshift bag to the better made bag, placing the heavier things on bottom and her bread on top, covered with her leggings to keep it warm.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance watched the healing take place curiously. When the women brought in bags she took the one for her thanking the person who gave it to her. Hero stayed outside, sitting near the door. Kiral happened to sit next to him, which made him look at him. He stood up and walked off around the building before coming back around with a stick in his mouth. He sauntered over to Kiral, sat down in front of him and dropped the stick, tilting his head sideways looking at him.