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[JohnnyP789]

((um.... What? Lol.))

[Sne]

"Nooo!" dramatically yelled Lumi, "I don't want to trade, I don't have anything to trade."

"Then yer gettin' no gold, miss," said wolf Herbet, the villager.

Hm... maybe some primitive banking will work, she thought.

"What if I give you these," she said, writing something hastily on a piece of paper, "numbered, named, hashed, unique and impossible to falsify--especially if you don't show it to anyone--written promise that we'll give you back 1 piece of gold more per every 20 you give us after we're done? It's backed by, uh, the army standing over there. They will work on your fields if it doesn't work."

"I dunno, I'd have to think about it, miss."

Argh. Grace probably found a nice way without smashing peoples' heads, Lumi though in anger, going to another house.

[Roxy Wolf]

*walks up to the house* being nice doesn't work here... and you should have taken that offer *a fireball appear in my right arm* how about you pay us to not set your house and properties on fire and loot the gold afterwards??

[Sne]

//Er... Roxy Wolf,

I will expend towards our nemesis, Lumi towards an village and Grace and Lorkin will take a village with a dock.

Lumi is separated from Lorkin and Grace. Or maybe Lorkin is referring to Grace's actions as nice? //

[Roxy Wolf]

//I was thinking of Grace being "civilised"//

[Cifero Windtail]

O_O
(Grace is the exact OPPOSITE of civilized.... and thus is the most civilized.)
*Cifero stared at Sahmir in shock.*
"But... but that's..."
"Impossible?"
*Sahmir smiled*
"My son... I was always your father. You see, shortly before Dresdon made me join his cause, your mother and I met. She had just lost your real father, and had a miscarrage. So I used my special magic to give her a new child... and that child turned out to be you. My magic had worked better than I thought... you looked almost exactly like me... except for your eyes."
*The demon brushes Cifero's hair out of his face*
"You have your mother's eyes... she was so beautiful."
*He sighs*
"But my brother made me join his cause with the demons, and we  roamed the world, my heart always reaching out to your mother.... which brings me to another secret... your sister."
*Cifero looked up in shock.*
"I... I have a sister?"
*Sahmir nodded grimly.*
"Dresdon's doing. The army had taken some women prisoner, and since he was infertile, he forced me to..."
"PLEASE SKIP THAT PART..."
"Alright, alright.... I can tell you get the picture, mah boi."
*Sahmir chuckled.*
"AHEM, anyway, they all had children... two boys, one girl..."
"BROTHERS TOO?!"
"Yes. Although they've been corrupted by your father... they are devoted to his cause. However, I managed to save the girl... a young fox... from joining the cause. I "accidently" let the mother escape."
"So.. where is she now?"
"I wouldn't know."
*cifero ponders his thoughts.*
"Then... why was my family killed?"
"Dresdon found out about you, and he wanted to try to conform you too. I pretended to join, and then tried to defend your mother and siblings... but they were all slain, myself mortally injured. Thankfully, my job had been to set the house on fire... so I did, incinerating all inside... Except for this."
*He motions to Cifero's sword."
"Draw it."
*Cifero draws his sword and holds it out. Sahmir waves a hand at it as Cifero looks up at him."
"Now... look."
*Cifero looks back at his sword...*
"*GASP*! What..."
*His sword has changed from looking like Glamdring into a sword like this...*

"This is its real form, my son... Selven, Sword of Light. I disguised it before I died and sent its spirit into your "father's" sword. It has all the same powers as your other sword, but it can deflect ANY projectile attack and can provide you with light in the darkest of places. Use it well."
*Cifero tests the blade out, finding it easier to use.*
"Thank you, father."
*Sahmir starts to smile when suddenly,  a look of terror crosses his face.*
"Son, you need to wake up now! The misguided wolf... he is coming after you!!!!"
*Cifero looks up at his father in urgency.*
"Hunter?"
"Yes!! He plans to kill you!!!'
*Cifero looks down, then looks up in determination.*
"Is there a town nearby where i can hide? I'm not sure I can face him yet..."
"There's a town nearby to the west.... but it's under attack."
"It'll have to do."
*Cifero bows.*
"Thank you, Father."
"You're welcome my son."
*The father looks at him seriously.*
"Don't forget... you're half-demon now. You're more powerful. Use it to your advantage."
*With that, Cifero snaps awake. He checks his back sheath to see he still has the new sword, then whispers to Aragon.*
"Alright, Aragon. Head west."
*They turn west, heading towards the town under attack.*
(Coming to you, Lumi...)

[Sne]

"Okay, my final offer--and I understand we'll all agree on this--I leave four soldiers for heavy agricultural jobs, eleven for civilian and twenty nine for military construction and six will serve as a police, following that," Lumi said, lifting up a piece of parchment with freshly written constitution, "which also will have to be followed by your local policemen, which will be trained in proper procedures and melee combat by my soldiers. Additionally, all soldiers and policemen will rise to defend the village if the need arises."

Voices of approbation could be heard from figures around the large oak table in the middle of the room, surrounded by ornate furniture. The leader of the council of elders then got up.

"And in turn we will let all but four soldiers go to war, together with sixty nine percent of our own soldiers, if you request it, we agree to give you all of our gold for your written checknotes and we have full right to utilize any of the soldiers as we please, except the police, in case of breach of contract on your side," said the old goat dressed in overly pompous clothes for a town like that. "Did me read it rite?" he whispered to another councillor.

"Yup, I guess,"  answered. "No more paying taxes to the lord now, we have stronger force than he has!"

Lumi remembered that about the lord and noted to visit him later, then written down the full text of the agreement at an amazing speed and passed it around to sign. She signed herself, shook the councillor's hands and walked out of the town hall, then stopped faking a smile and sighed, tired of politics.

I feel bad about scamming them that way. I took all their gold, most of their troops, instituted my own laws and police and full rights to build anything anywhere in vicinity for... basically just four mules and that they won't have to pay taxes to the lord. Oh well, they seemed to grasp everything when they negotiated.

On the horizon she saw an unexpected rider. She focused her eyes, forcing synthetic lenses inside to move onto the line of sight. The rider wasn't a friend, and here it meant it was an enemy. Grace should know. She turned around inconspicuously, lenses moving back, and walked towards her demons. She whispered a command to prepare for fight to one of them and said to spread it around, then took out her toolblade, twisted two rings on the handle and raised it to fire a flare. It was made to make pictures of the ground and broadcast them with infrared light of well defined modulation. Lumi doubted for a second if it will work properly on this world, but then relaxed as the flare was designed to work in conditions even the PHEnd suit wouldn't survive.

Lumi released the flare with a hiss and it disappeared in the sky.

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"Threats are not civilized, Archmage Lorkin," said Grace and continued her ways, ordering more demons to recreate her behavior exactly. There were no further victims of her ways and soon the bags were full of gold and it's alloys. Some of the demons were ordered to dig a maze of trenches with sharpened pales around the village.

It was when a band of villagers ambushed Grace and killed one of the remaining trio of her demon group. She flash-froze their hands and left them screaming in pain when she saw infrared signals far away.

She looked at it for a while.
"Proceed," she said and started a surprisingly fast dash, then leaped in the air, leaving a steaming crater behind.

[Cifero Windtail]

*Cifero rides along until suddenly, he sees something weird coming toward him.*
"What in blazes?"
*He dismounts Aragon.*
"That sure doesn't look... wait, what IS that?"

[Roxy Wolf]

*I sight, and extinguish the flame in my hand by closing it* being civilised doesn't always work, threats usually do *he then walks away, taking a moment to search the area for unnatural energy*

[Sne]

Grace prolonged her leap blowing out immense amounts of steam, leaving a white trail behind. She stabilized herself with radiator ribbons that extended out of her back. They looked like torn wings now more than ever.

Anomalous pressure gradients. Utilizing.

She flapped her wings once, then again, noticing far more lift than she should get. She continued her flight, because it was no longer just a leap, aiming to land in front of Lumi to intercept the rider, but it was bound to last at least several more minutes as the distance was great. She passed over a hill. The rider dismounted and observed Grace, and so did she as she finally got a clean line of sight without the help of the flare.

Unknown rider: threat assessment: towards PHEnd unit: impossible to estimate; assuming default: very high.
Emergency defensive mechanisms online. Emergency power supply online. Emergency computing units online.

With a loud, groundbreaking thud Grace landed in a crouch. She was between Lumi and the newcomer, far enough from the village for the potential battlefield to be clean of obstacles. She stood up slowly, extending her wings instead of rectracting them, still letting out some steam through them. She looked twice as big as usual, and she wasn't small to begin with.

Lumi's jaw dropped.

[Hunter_]

*Hunter leaped from tree to tree, tens of meters at a time
and then saw Grace fly through the air*
His senses were abnormally active, and he could detect the tiniest thing
move about
"I WONT let him go, not now"
*He took a giant leap and flung himself in the air, spotting Cifero and landing behind him
with a smash*
"Dont even think about running! Ill catch you anyway!"
Hunter was still red, but now a more blood-like red
 
 
//Also, behind him as in 5-8 meters behind him or so

[Roxy Wolf]

*I sights, thinking it's going to do fine here, so he points at the demons Grace pointed out* get it up and get it going *he then turns and walks back towards the hideout, thinking it's nothing else to do here* 70 of you surrounds this village and don't let anyone close else it's an ally, the rest is coming with me

*Kim rises from he's spot outside the village, just hearing a little quake, he's spiritual Powers leaking from him steadily with a big storm of power that he has yet to detect, he looks out towards the road and see a rider and another person that glows?? he rushes towards it, but silent, as he don't wanna be caught on peeking*

//hunter should be able to notice Kim when he gets close enough to hear what you guys are talking about, Cifero won't detect him//

[Cifero Windtail]

(Uncool, guys. UNCOOL.)
*Cifero speads out his hands, backing away toward the odd metal creature.*
"Hunter... I don't want to fight you. We're not enemies. NONE of us are."
*He looks over at Aragon and looked him in the eyes, mouthing the word "Go." The horse went to the village. Cifero looked back at Hunter.*
"Hunter... please. I don't want to harm you... just call it off."
*He turns and starts to take off.*

[Hunter_]

*Hunter runs towards Cifero and grabs him*\
"Oh, but you asked me for information, which was correct,
And i asked you for information, which was incorrect. And now
you will pay as stated!"
*His patches of once green fur were now brightly red again, and was
about to hit Cifero until he noticed a strange, new, person.
Hunter stopped and pushed Cifero out of the way, seeing something very intresting
in this new person*

[Cifero Windtail]

*Cifero follows hunter's gaze and notices the new person.*
"hmm..."
*He walks over to Grace and leans in to whisper*
"Do you know WHY  you're doing this?"