RPG: Leviathan

[Saisashi~Arashi]

OOC: Welcome, people, to my RPG...

L E V I A T H A N

I would like to add that we need more Holy and, especially, Cult members if this RP is going to go well, so people who have only one character, I would like it if you either made another if you can handle it, or get someone else into this RP so they can play also. I don't want to force anyone, and I won't, I just wanted to make that statement. Also, the Leviathan, the Behemoth, and Princess Tsugura won't be "active" until later into the story.

I know everyone is excited, like me, to start the RPG (as I've been getting some PMs and messages as to when its going to start), and I have good news; it starts... NOW! :D

IC:

The waves crashed on the soft surface of the sand.. the whistling noise of seagulls passed over the beautiful blue sky. Calming, peaceful. Lunara had her arms crossed in an X under her head, body resting against the sand. A sudden splash of water from a young boy made her shoot up, and chase him, laughing happily. Her body was that of a young adult, but her expression, her actions, were that of a child, no older than her accomplice. A young woman's voice then shouted, "Come on, Lunara! Barta! Dinner's ready. You want to eat, don't you?" She called softly for her children. Glancing up, she watched her brother run to his mom, and her eyes lowered slightly in comfort. Such a pleasant sight, as Barta hugged Juliana, their mother. "Are you coming, Lunara? There's food for you here!" Nodding, she took off on the sand, the touch warm but not hot. But suddenly, the sun was dappled by dark black clouds, and it thundered. "W-what?" she asked, startled. As if spurred on by the storm, a group of horsemen appeared atop the hill beside the beach, with loaded bows. Spotting the mother and her son, they yelled something incoherent, and spurred their horses, galloping towards Juliana and Barta. "Mom! Barta! Look out!" Her words weren't heard though, and the warriors prepared their bows, and shot. First one hit the mark; in Lunara's mother's back. Falling down in a heap, she fell down, and Lunara stood in horror. Barta stood near his mom, struggling to help her up.

"Mom, mom! Get up, they're--" but no sooner then he said that, that the soldiers arrived, and another shot an arrow, this time marked into Barta's throat. Blood spurted from his wound, and he fell beside his mother. Now the soldiers turned to Lunara, and ran towards her. Picking up a stick, she charged at them, enraged. In a flash, she stood, the horsemen now on the ground, cut into pieces. The horses neighed and whinnied, before raising their hooved feet, and galloping abroad; saddles empty. In her hands was no longer a stick, but a long sword, with demonic energy radiating from it. Her eyes, which were red, turned back to normal, and she dropped the sword, and ran to her family. Both dead... She cried in sorrow and anger, punching the ground. "Nooooooooooooo!!!" She shrieked into the sky......

"Aah!" she gasped in return, breathing heavily. Just a dream... it was just a dream... a very.... real dream.. Her past haunted her many times over. Lunara, now older, looked around. No one but the cozy fireplace and her blanket with her. Just how she wanted it. She heard the clop-clop of horse feet, and got up, looking outside her window. It was a bad storm, pouring out, and a large carriage, pulled by two horses, came slowly by. "Wonder who is out this late..." She murmured. A knock on the door made her jump, and she growled. Could people just leave her alone? Opening it, she narrowed her eyes, meeting those of the rent collector. "Your time is up, would you care to stay with us longer? Or no?"

"No, no. I'll leave. Let me pack up my bags."

"Okay. Pay downstairs at the desk, please. Have a nice day."

Rolling her eyes, she packed up her stuff, huffed as she placed it on her back, and burst out of the room. Running down the steps, she flicked several gold coins towards a fat, jolly, bearded man behind a desk, who blinked in surprise and barely caught the money. She ran out into the cold, drenching rain, into a back alley, where some shelter was. People were already here - the poor, the homeless, the sick. She sat down as far away as she could from the others, and pulled out a piece of meat from her baggage. Nibbling on it, she looked up to see a crow, before it flew off. At least it was dry here... but she'd have to move soon.. the Storm Kingdom, 9 times out of 10, had storms, constantly. It wasn't anything she couldn't deal with.

[Luzifer]

OOC: Please note, currently Zoroaster has only the sense of sight. He can not hear, smell, taste or feel(physically feel, he can feel spiritual agony).

He was he... he was he... or was it... it was it... was he a he? was he a she? or was he something that lacked the capacity for either term? It was all so confusing.

He would call himself he... it was easier to think of himself as such... less letter clogging up his already bursting mind.

He looked up at the sky. It was a light severing the sky into pieces while clouds masked it with gray darkness. Fluffy. He watched the light flick through the sky. This...seeing sense was foreign to him. Until two weeks ago he had been but a piece of existance, the only thing that entered his mind was pain. Seething agony that no sooner entered into his mind then that it was transfered to others, another link into the singular consciousness that he had been welded into. He lacked what would be called... senses. His mind lacked even the capacity to understand mere a priori intuitions let alone a posteriori reflections. There was only the pain that shot through his conciousness and then into others... or was it pain that shot through our conciousness and he was merely privy to? he didn't know. Such things were beyond his understanding. He couldn't have even called his nature before, instinctive, it was less than that. Darkness. A darkness without thought. Without self. without existance. A void of self. So strange.

But not long ago he had been forced into this place. Wherever that was. He had a thought. He remembered. That thought had guided him from the darkness and the void of self. He could remember every contour of that thought... every... he didn't have the breadth of conciousness to even describe it. He was too limited. A Non-being. A monad. A mere vibrating string of existance jumping through all eleven dimensions of reality while not truly being a part of any of them. But that thought... that thought had given him existance. As blind and as limited as it might be. It had been painful, entering into reality. Every law of this world had to be bent back to allow him to burst through and even then he was nothing more than a stray thought, not even a true soul, but a thought with some clinging spiritual matter which clung to it pathetically. But some how his body had formed. Limbs, covered in birthing fluid. Liquid. Dripping. It was so strange and so agonizing. He had been blind then. All the world was blackness but then another thought came. And then another. He realized he was...thinking he was a being... he was an it. And he screamed, or he thought he had... he was blind then and couldn't see his lips moving so there was no way to be sure, but he thought he screamed, "Cogito ergo sum!". It was horrific and dazzling, his mind was one fire. Pain had blazed in his skull like bale fire. He couldn't understand it, but he later figured out that his conciousness was expanding, the act was like putting his pulling his soul on both ends. It stretched his mind and inflicted pain. He had bawled, or thought he had. It was nothing but nothing and pain. An empty void where only his thoughts echoed.

All because of that first thought.

"This isn't fair!"

that simple act. So many repercussions. A monad had gained sentience. A piece of the fabric of space time was made flesh.

Even he did not believe it.

He didn't know how long it had been after that, but he gained the ability to see and he found he had awakened in some place with... trees... a langauge was imprinted in his mind. It was strange to think about but no matter how hard he thought he did not know where the notion of language had come from. Where did any notion of language come from? How had even the humans conceived that there ideas needed expressing? That some how by placing a certain codified series of letters they could pin down the notions floating in their brains and then translate these to a series of movements of their lips? Where did this notion come from? Had the human collective conciousness implanted it in them? But that was impossible. Humans were not spiritually grafted together into a single entity by an eternity of flitting in and out of existance and being ground into densely packed weaves within space-time. So what... had it been... "God'?

But his musings aside he had known that he most move. The pain of his initial days or weeks or months or minutes had not been wasted, he had gained a primitive instinct, it told that he must move or that he would die.

Sometime later he was here. Wearing blood-stained clothes that he had found in the trash, putting his hand through a tuft of hair that danced in front of his eye, all while staring into the sky which shattered itself with light. Pain bashed against his skull and suddenly with the next light came something else.

It wasn't something he saw... but it was certainly not a thought that was contained within his own mind. It had certainly come from outside. But what was it?

"Hey move it!" Some said and pushed him out of the way. There were many people in this place. A strange sort of forest with man-made rectangular prisms and cubes that would be called buildings. They lived here and banded together. Or so he had initially thought. But from his observation and from the actions of this latest individual they showed no form of.... he lacked here a concept to explain the acting of several individuals to their mutual benefit.

Another man pulled him up, "Watch out, boy you'll get yourself hurt if you stare like that." The Monad watched the mans mouth move and was surprised by seeing, once again that other thing. It wasn't like with the light this time. It was different. It seemed to followed with the letters and the movements of the lips and change itself accordingly. The man's expression changed, "you hear me boy?"

"Hear?... yes...yes... I...hear."

The man's expression didn't change, "You okay? Did you hit your head or something? How many fingers am I holding up?" He held up his hand. With... a finger, another finger... that was all. Was their a sort of correlation? It was a finger and a finger....

"one finger and one finger" Zoroaster replied

Two

"two fingers" Zoroaster corrected himself.

"good, thought you might have gotten yourself a concussion. Now stand aside if you don't want to get hurt."

"yes sir..."

Zoroaster leaned against a wall. This was world was strange. It was painful... almost more painful and confusing than being a part of its reality. But he still found it liberating despite that.

[Hieko]

The sound of the void could be heard echoing in the distance.There was no light,no laughter,no nothing except the people of Twilight.Only that of small whispers could be heard around the small castle.
Ren, the princess stood in a room with the throne room chair and nothing else but the solid gray walls of despair.She was only 5 now,bairly still understanding why the world was the way it is.She walked twoards her father hoping he would tell her......"Why".Why her people were so different from others."Why" she could never leave to the ouside."Why she could never explore the outside wonders and secrets of what she thought would be a glorious place?

"Why.....................,Why do our people exist father?"
"They exist simply to stay in the dark, and never leave to the outside world."Her fathers deep rough voice echoed in the bleak throne room.
"But why?"
"Because......that is the nature of our people."
"But Why?!"
"Stop asking these silly questions!You should know by now what our clan's duties and reponsibilities are.You should also know that our world will never change."

Ren left with a silent wimper knowing that her world would never change from now.

Ren now walked back within the throne room.She was now 13 and was already trained in great combating skills.She wore a bleak face,showing no expression.She walked twoards the chair with the sound of her sword rubbing against the leather padding she wore.

"Father,I have done your quest now.........What shall you have me do now?"
"...................."
"......Um excuse me father i'm waiting for an answer."
"..............."
"....Fa....ther?"
Ren had walked to the front of the chair now.The sheilding off her eyes now since she could only see within the darkness.
"No.........no,noooooooooooo!!!"
Ren ran with tears within her eyes.She didn't care what she ran into as long as she could get away from the blood stained site within that room.

Ren ran to the very edge of the territory of their clans. She could see the sun shining over the huge mountain towering over.
"Father was right,this world will never change.Its only filled with darkness,sorrow,and greif................."

.....................Ren woke up.She made no sound as she heard the slight whistle of the aind around her outside her room."It was a dream.........Nothing but a dream about my past."Ren heard a loud banging noise against the door.She had asked the inn keeper to come and wake her up when the moon had finally shone itself.She moved silently twoards the door and opened it carrying her chain and a small backpack filled with a few things.

Ren walked outside the confounds of the inn and found herself staring at a radiant moon.I guess its time.......for me to continue on.

[Seikyu Kiba]

OOC: I shall try to make the Moon area the best to my knowledge.

What does it take to simply help others...when all it does is bring chaos? Hwarg sat atop a cliff above and ocean, below the waves crashed against the rocks making the area very peaceful, the moon was full that night, of course...it was always full, considering this is the city where the moon never sleeps. Hwarg rested his head against the tree and closed his eyes. "In this area...it is always dark, and always peaceful." He then held out his hand infront of his face and made a fist. "Too bad we have to leave soon." He said with a sad look on his face.

He looked out into the night as the moon reflected off the surface of the water. "It's been over 16 years since I resurfaced...and this is what I come to see...this world has changed a lot." Hwarg looked to his left to see Mebba sitting next to him, "and I would have never expected to find another Darkling such as myself." He said with a slight smile.

OOC: Okay my math is a little off, this is because when I wrote the bio I was tired and wasn't doing anything right, okay Hwarg is 21 but he was down at the bottom until he was 5 and arouse when he was 21 so that is why he says it has been 16 years since he resurfaced...sorry I didn't include this, but I was typing so fast and I had to get to bed for school. :P

[KibasStalker]

OOC: This is just a base summary of what the previous few weeks have been like leading Lilith to where she ends up. Oh and on the same day she is presented at court she learns of the five, and disappears from the castle.

Lady Lilith of Heartwood scowled at the capital city Albien below. It was one of the most beautiful places in all the realm of the Sun Kingdom. Its homes were sandy brown, the same shade of the Great Palace. In the distance you could see the great marble walls that surrounded the Palace itself. Lily’s scowl deepened at the sight of it. She had been shipped off by that wicked old hedge witch her father called a spouse, to this place to be married to some noblemen. She said, “You need to learn to be a lady and bring honor to the Normu name like my sons did. I don’t know how your mother could have sunk her claws into one so fine as My Lord, with such a small dowry she must have cast a spell on him.” After that the horrid women had sneered at her own joke, twisting her icy features. I just love how she says “my sons” not your brothers like she doesn’t want anyone not even god hear her say she might be related to the likes of me, Lily thought to herself. No matter how much she begged or pleaded her father always sided with his wife. He didn’t do much of anything, but read since Lily’s birth mother died. A soft pang hit the young noblewomen’s heart. She missed her mother so much, and even though she had lost her when Lily was only five she remembered her as clear as day. Her guards called her to her from a distance, and she kicked her horse into a nice gallop, speeding past her tired guards. She would have a bit of fun with them before they got to depart back to Heartwood. Racing ahead to the castle she headed down the hill toward the capital, her chestnut mare nayed happy her master was out of the gloom that had taken her the whole trip.

A few hours later Lily stood in a large dressing room somewhere in the Palace’s maze of rooms. She was pouting yet again. Her guards had been naught to happy when they found out what Lily had been up to, but hadn’t caught up to her until she reached the Palace gates. The guards had reached her exhausted and out of breathe. They had had Lily escorted to her rooms by fresh guards and then been promptly locked in. This was not the reaction Lily had been expecting. She was not pleased to say the least. Around her scurried maids and seamstresses Imjane had hired to make Lily’s court wardrobe including the dress that she would be presented to court in this afternoon. The little women where wrapping cloth around her, poking needles into the dress she was wearing, and telling her not to fidget. I hate these fancy gatherings so much. Those “honest” young knights and other noblemen constantly give me the up and down their eyes resting on my curves. They are so predictable and disgusting.

After the maids had finally finished their jobs and gone, Lily changed into breeches and a tunic binding her chest as well. Before climbing out the window she tied her hair under a hat to make her look like a boy. After that she wondered around the palace grounds for a while till she found the royal library.

After looking around the library for a while and traveling to the very back of the library. The oldest books were kept here and they tended to be the most interesting. Lily pulled a book out of the shelf called “The Nahtaivel” curious of the title. She opened it up to find it was filled with very old maps and riddles. She recognized the writing as The First Language, but could only decipher a few words. Something in this book is familiar, and it calls to me. I’ve got to get this translated. With that she left the library and returned her to her rooms. She hid the book in a secret place in her room, and then got ready for her meeting with the prince.

[Tetsanosuke]

" Vahn... Vahn.... VAHN! " A loud female voice called down the hallways of the Star Kingdom Capital Castle, and from the room at the end of the hall a face appeared so silky white, eyes of full cherry red and the ears of a cat so white and soft. The ears were twitched up at the sound of the female voice, and a book closed in the back ground snapping an echo down the hallway. His form arose and waltzed out, taking slow yet calculated steps towards the kitchen it seemed.

His left shoulder armored in a round white metal, with a red cross and the rose crest adorned, the star burning brightly from old days of yore. His hands were gloved in a silky leather, plated with the white polished scales of some beast yet easy to move in. The cuffs were wide from the wrist, which he pulled back as he entered said kitchen to see a rather well built woman shaking her finger at the rest of the workers. She seemed quite content with bossing them all around, they all seemed as though they were enduring the lesser of two apparent evils.

" Vahn my boy, I need your help today. Jostin was called to be trained for the patrols so... " She lowered her voice a bit and smiled, somewhat a grin of anticipation and yet just a justified smile. " I need you too sweep the open dining halls, take the broom from the corner, you know where it is. "

Just as fast as the orders came, the slow speeder of a neko made his way to the broom. As he left the kitchen he heard a cook shout to him "Imagine that the broom is your blade Master Vahngard! I'm sure you wont miss a spot! Haha!" The neko left while shaking his head with a smile, another loud clap could be heard and some incoherent words were spewed.

He wasn't about to slack off, Ginsel would have his head if he didn't have a chore to do once in a while. She always said it helped build character. But he wasn't a child any more.. Nevertheless he had a dining hall to sweep and his thoughts to collect. He had just put down a book on shaping the magical energies of the world and the light of stars. Starlight, the light within and the light from above. Oh how he could go on about it, yet he didn't stay at that thought.

In lieu to those thoughts he let his eyes so cherry red shift about the vacant vast dining hall. The wooden tables heavily bolted together would soon be covered by clothe, as soon as they were uncovered from the stardust. Heh, dust from the kingdom of star. What a hoot.

Beyond that his task wasn't too hard, with ease he swept around and under the tables, gliding under them with great agility to sweep under and around them. Imagine the White Rose Fencer, a simple sweeper boy. Well hell, he did fit the bill!.

" Jostin would rather learn to fight then sweep the hall. Oh my, what has the human mind come to these days?" The Saeth knight now dust boy asked himself softly as he finished up and scouted his work.

[Nespa]

Mebba wasent really paying atention to Hwarg her curiosity overulled he abilty to listen once again. a half a hour ago hwarg had to pull a rock from her mouth since she tryed to eat it. She poked the dry ground under her fingers. Though 13 she had been extremly under educated about the world above water and hawarg had did his best but her curiosity won it mostly so now he just let her explore and try to keep her out of trouble like eating things she should not eat. she looked at him "i am hungry can we find som seaweed?" she blinked.

[Light Buster]

OCC: Am I in this? If not, notify me by PM immedietly.

Hector prepared to leave his house on the coast and have his daily walk in attempt to find out who he was in the first place. "I wonder where I came from...," he thought. He put on his armor and left the kingdom by the front door and on to his journey to find out about himself.

Sarah looked at the pictures of her family and his only brother, Hector. "Hector...," she said. "I don't know where you are but I'll you..." She donned her armor, her sword, and her dagger and left the family house in search for Hector.

OCC: Sorry for the short post. Class just started.

[Seikyu Kiba]

Hwarg blinked for a moment at Mebbas response and laughed. "But of course Mebba." He said standing up and pointing out towards the ocean. "We shall dive in and grab some Seaweed to eat." Hwarg sped towards the edge of the cliff and gracefully fell off. The wind was blowing through his hair as he dived into the water. When Hwarg surfaced he waved his hand up to Mebba "Come on in, the water is great!!!"

[Tetsanosuke]

As the Saeth man brought himself back to the kitchen he saw a few guards carrying another on their shoulders, he was bleeding and they were obviously off to the infirmary with him. The wounds... was he in a fight? Vahn gently poked the rearing guard that came into sight after them and inquired on the matter, his full red eyes brightly showing his concern and yet mostly his cat like curiosity.

His curiosity, heaven forbid it, never got him killed as the saying went. Though it was true he wasn't exactly a cat, he was like one in many ways and could turn into a larger predatory shape.

" Master Vahngard, it seems as though a traveling duelist has stepped forth into the Courtyard. By rule of honor we aren't allowed to touch him until he breaks the code of respect. He's quite agile sir, and he'd already defeated a few of our best fencers. " The guard blinked before letting his eyes to the ground, sighing as he had to think about the losses he witnessed. Trying not to was quite difficult.

" Well, is he still challenging in the court yard? " The the cat asked with a bit of anticipation and foreign excitement. He hadn't seen much a real challenge lately, and thought he'd best test his skills if he was ever going to leave to find his way after the sign he had been looking for.

" He is sir, but.. are you going to challenge him? "

Vahn nodded in response and bowed his head lightly to the guard, waving him off before running to his quarters. From the wall he pulled his Vahjia Rose Brand, sheathed in brilliant white, the golden handle calling out to him as he set it at his belt. He felt around his belt at the back and noticed he still had Delvega, good. He had what he needed.

After throwing on his red cloak silk and smooth, resistant to much wear and tear and weather, he made his way towards the great halls before the court yard, his hand clasping the golden hilt gently at his left side.

" Today, I'll see if I need to pick up the pace. " His manner became calm and firm like steel, his eyes narrowing as he saw the black cloaked and similar schemed hat wearing figure out the door way standing, awaiting his next opponent.

" Get ready then, because there's no turning back. "

[Nespa]

mebba giggled and jumped of the cliff her dress outlined her body as she fell in the water a bigger splash than Hwarg was seen after she dived in. she remaind under for a few minutes and came up nibbleing on some seaweed, she smirked at him and moved so that she laid on her back and started to splash water in his face. She quickly dived under and swam away from him stil munching on the seaweed. It was a common game between the two and even though Hwarg always won, she stil found it fun to have him chase her.

[Luzifer]

Two days ago
Azazel’s voice rang out through the city square. The entire market had fallen on a deathly hush as he spoke, no one dared interrupt his words, even those who were sympathetic to the Holy faction. It would have been like burning a library because it held the books of your enemy, or an art gallery for you felt the artist was biased against you. It was in your best interest but you didn’t dare act so immoral, rob the world of such beauty.

Azazel waited for the tense silence to build before continuing on, “Have you felt it? Have you seen with your own eyes and clutched close what is dear to you in fear? Have we not felt the heat as the flames of war lap at our doors and windows? You stand now in your market, trading your goods, but in your minds you feel that tension, like you are walking upon a lake after a snowfall, uncertain as to whether the ice is truly as thick as you would guess. Have you not heard the first pops? The first signs that it might give was to the cold, dark abyss? Of course you have! I see it in your faces, I see it in your stride, I see it in the hunched backs of mothers, who can already sense their children will go hungry.

“But such now is not our fate! If there must be action let it be us who stand for what we know is just! How long have we walked under the weighted skys, are shoulders leadened not by the weight of our sorrows but by the shackles that we cannot see? Can you hear the task master? The whistling of his wipe, the feel of his hot fingers, white like molten steel, clutching at your soul? How many times has he caused war to shatter our lives? To steal our peace? Too many times I say! And for what? What fetid salve, made from our tears and our blood, does he offer us after this life of misery? Nothing. “ Suddenly Azazel had an idea and he started a story, one he was making up on the spot.

“I knew a man! Oh yes, the most benevolent and kind of men and he held the faith and I did not fault him for that. What malicious being could fault him? Who could wish him ill? He paid his taxes as was his duty, he helped those who came to his door asking for aid, raised four sons and three daughters, all as kind and as gentle in spirit as him. He would speak to me at night and my friends he had the soul of a saint. He practiced no acts of hatred, and when I would wounding him in my human weakness he would always forgive me, his smile sweet and gentle. Inspiring me to be more like him.

But as all people do, that man died. And I, and many like me, wept bitter tears at the cruel hand that had taken him from us. But that is not the end of this man’s story. He went to hell after he had died! Yes! That kind man who no evil could be spoken of against went to hell and suffered with sinners that had raped, and murdered, and defiled the race of men. And he screamed to his god, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” Which in the old tongue was ‘my god my god why have you forsaken me? What more must I give unto you so that I will find peace.’

“And Lo! The God appeared before the man and said unto him, ‘you have done much good in your life but I am a god, I demand sacrifice!’

“The man replied, ‘What more must I give my god? If it is in my possession it is yours, for I love you and I cherish you as the light from which I will gain strength and salvation’

“and God replied, ‘you are giving it as we speak’

“So I ask you now: Will this be our fate? Should we allow good people to suffer and to die in misery and blood, all for some ‘order’ as the ‘Holy’ sect would have you believe? Why is our misery and our death so ‘Holy’? Should ‘Holy’ not be the blind service of a fell god that demands the flesh and suffering of mortals to feed his appetite, but rather the banding together of us humans to defend on enough in kindness and equality? This ‘Holy’ sect is a false sect! They are the Unholy! They would sell out the lives of their fellow mortals all for some perceived reward by a God that cannot be trusted. They are insane and they are mad. Let us not be deceived by the ravings of lunatics.

“Let us, the children of the world stand together! Let us make for ourselves a new world, where ‘holy’ is truly holy. Where no one must fear for what will come after they die. Where kindness and comradery are as close as a neighbor’s door. IS THIS NOT OUR WORLD? IS THIS NOT YOUR VISION? SO LET US STAND! AND IF WE STAND WE SHALL STAND TOGETHER!” with the final world he held his hand up definitely. Scorning God and standing against him. And the crowd screamed with joy. Their voices rang through the square. Some, in hope, but in others, he heard the faint cackle of bloodlust. There would be deaths tonight. The more zealous would walk away from his speech seeing in his words a license to kill all who considered themselves Holy, which was never Azazel’s intent. I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight he thought as he turned his back to the crowd and walked off the podium.

He didn’t let his misgivings show on his features as he stepped from the platform which he had been speaking from. Long ago, he had learned that people depended on him, when he was confident they were confident and conversely when he showed uncertainty they lost faith in what they were doing. It was a horrible notion to live under and for a while he hadn’t believed it, but gradually he had noticed that when he was sad that people around him seem to drag about as well, and when he smiled, they reciprocated his joy. Everyone, he supposed, need someone to give them proof that they were on the right track, and people, for some reason, naturally differed to him. It was an onus he did not want but could not refuse.

“That was a great speech, Mr. Azazel” he looked over at Ami, his stenographer. She had an amazing audio memory and could remember his speeches word for word, several days after he had given them. She would thus come with him to his speeches and memorize them so that they could be written down later and passed out in pamphlets. She was a good girl and worked hard at her job. He had been told she had lacked motivation before coming to work for him but if that were true he hadn’t seen a sign of it. Bristling with energy and enthusiasm is the only way he had ever known her.

Azazel smiled gratefully at her, “Thank you, madam, you honor me. But really… it was nothing.” Ami blushed and averted her eyes, biting gently on the cuticle of her left thumb. This was a habit of hers as well, one Azazel did not understand but also did not mind.
“Mr. Azazel… um… can I t-talk to you for a…um… moment?” her voice was strained, making Azazel somewhat concerned so he accented easily. He wondered what was wrong. They were walking back to the Cult’s Apostolic Buidling, where pamphlets were made and Apostles had their offices, so it wasn’t like she was actually taking up “moment” at all. She looked at the ground as the walked. She was a tall girl with purple hair and a very gentle but determined face. He kept most of her hair under a oranate headdress but a bang did fall in front of her right eye. She wore mostly white robes, which held tight to her skin with plenty of small details to delight the eye. “Mr. Azazel…” she started… he had long ago attempted to get her to stop calling him that but she was rather ridged on matters of rank and protocol and considered it an insult to him if she did not. He didn’t force the issue but made her compromise by letting him call her madam. He didn’t like calling people by anything but the most polite terms. “I heard that you going to be given a wider mission.”

Oh… that… “So you heard. Yes I’m going to be preaching outside of the Sun Kingdom from now on. It’s the view of the Cult that my abilities would be put to much better use forging in roads into regions which don’t have a history of being kind to our point of view.”
“That means you’ll be…leaving.” She dropped the last word like a dead weight and stopped in her tracks, making Azazel take a couple of extra steps before he could react and turn around.

“Yes… you’ll be transferred to another Apostle. What I’m going to be doing is dangerous and they don’t want to risk someone with your unique abilities, not to mention the fact, it would be more difficult to get my speeches back to the Cult if your many leagues away.” He smiled gently, despite in his mind he was deeply confused. What was wrong? Why was it such a big deal? Apostles were normally only with the same stenographer for a couple months at a time, she’d been with the Cult for several years so one would think that she had gotten used to it. “Don’t worry. Things will be fine, in fact, I think things will go even better then before.”

“Why… can’t…I…go?” she said these words very slowly.

“I thought I just explained? Its less efficient. Besides, it would be difficult for to get your things together in time. I leave tomorrow.”

“What!?” she half shouted this. Azazel became more confused. What was wrong? It didn’t make sense… she was acting irrational. But then… this was a lot like many other girls he had met in his life. Even his sisters had acted like this towards him. He never understood it. He doubted he ever would.

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today

Azazel looked up from his paper which contained analogies which he had to solve, as well as a few syllogisms. He could solve these so easily, and when he spoke to a group of people it was so easy to make them think what he wanted but he had never figured out women. Ami had cried. It hadn’t been the first time that a girl started crying at him and he not understand why. But it never got any easier to watch these people be so sad, sometimes, they yelled at him. Screaming, “how could you know understand?” but indeed he did not. He just didn’t grasp the concept.

Still Azazel continued to walk the through the country of sun towards the kingdom of earth. It would be a long journey. But such was his place... He gripped the shard around his neck gently. Such was the price of his sacrifices.

[FullMetalAlchemist997]

OOC: >.< why do I always miss the time when an RP starts??

BIC:
Ethereal was somewhere in the Moon Kingdom. She didn't know where, she never did. She hummed to herself as she walked along the weed ridden path. She didn't even know where she was going, she was just going. All of it was usual for her. Or it was for a while.

Ethereal stopped as she picked up on a noise in the bush. Very slight, but she recognized the sound. It was probably a bandit. Great. She looked up at the full moon for a moment. Silence seemed to hang heavy in the air. She still hummed the tuneless little song as if she had only stopped to ogle the moon. It was quite sudden. The bandit leaped from the bushes ready to attack. Ethereal turned to face him. She had nothing of value, only her hunting knife. She noticed the bandit was weaponless. So that's why he was after her, he probably expected it would be easy to take the knife.

"Hand it over" He growled pointing at the hunting knife hidden in it's sheath.

Ethereal didn't reply. She held her cat claws a bit higher ready to defend herself.

"Now, girly"

[Seikyu Kiba]

Hwarg covered his faced and laughed "H...hey!" He yelled as he watched her dive under water. "So you sure do love getting caught don't you?" He said diving under water and started to slowly swim towards her, he always gave her a few seconds head start just so it wouldn't end in about ten seconds. He smiled and then closed his eye, in an instances he blended into the water and was completely gone. He snuck up from behind Mebba and just floated waiting to see what she would do next.

[Nespa]

Mebba looked around to find hwarg but didn't see him. she knew he was around though. She blinked when she heard a yell for help and swam towards it, she growled as she came upon a fishing net full with young fishes grabbing the net she started to pull it down as the fishermen started to pull them up "let them go" she hissed. she bit into the net trying to break the rope but it didne't work instead she got pulled into the boat with the other fishes. she sat up and growled at the fisher men "there young let them go!", the two burly males just looked strangely at her. annoyed she grabbed her shell and blew in it the men hissed and grabbed there ears while mebba tryed to push the fish net back overboard.

[Shobu_Shimizu]

OOC: Luzi, you never cease to amaze me! That speech was so riveting!

BIC:
Elli knelt down on one knee in her snow-white gown. A silk, transparent shawl lay on her head, kept in place by a colorless holy hat. Before her was the statue of God and candles scattered about, giving off a warm glow in the slightly dim cathedral. Above the statue was the circular stained glass windows, all the various colors caught the shine of the sun, bringing in the light as colors on the floor she knelt on.

Putting her hands together, she lowered her head and whispered her prayer. She stood slowly and brought her gaze up, staring at the statue of the man who was not a man... but more... the one who gave humans a second chance... the man who loved all his children even if some did not love him back... She always became overwhelmed with emotions when she looked at this statue of their God, his arms reaching out to her.

"Elli? Are you finished?" a smooth voice called out.

Elli turned and saw her brother at the door of the room, leaning casually against the door frame with his arms crossed. His black hat he usually wore when he went out was in his head, exposing the top of his snow white hair. A silver cross on a chain dangled from his neck on his black clothing.

"Yeah... Are you?" she asked him with a smile. The question seemed to catch him off gaurd, for he tilted his head a bit in confusion, then he smiled slightly.

"Yeah, let's go."

Elli walked quickly to Baron and took a last glance at the statue before they were walking down the enormous halls of the cathedral. They passed several nuns, most of which were teachers of Elli in her training but today she was leaving to journey with her brother in search of... understanding... or whatever he had said. Elli knew one thing, though: she was happy to get away from Sister Rita.

Baron and Elli left the cathedral, their good-byes said long ago. He walked to his large sack he had left behind a collumn on the steps of the building and pulled out a long black-sheathed sword. "Before we leave," he said, "we'll need to deliver this to the castle."

Elli pouted, "But that's so far. Why do we have to do it? Can't you tell Ark to or someone who has time?"

"We do have time Elli," he responded to her pouting with a slight pinch of her nose which made her face scrunch up. Chuckling, he put the sword back into the sack and gave Elli her own sack filled with some of her belongings. "But we'd better get moving so we can get a little ways there while there is still light outside. Besides, this is the first time we'll ever even step foot in the castle. I've never personally delivered the swords I make so I think it'll be exciting."

Elli huffed but didn't complain any further. They continued to make their way out of their home and toward the castle.

[Hieko]

ooc: Why do I always forget?

The black midnight streets were crawling with rats and other creatures.Bats could be seen flying over within the confounds of the streets.There were beggers circling all around this place.You could see bats flying in the air as the moon light snone down.For some reason........it only seemed to shine on me.

"Hey........,hello..........,wake up now or you'll die here of your wounds."Sheana woke up to find herself faced down wet with rain and wounds all over herself.There was a huge gash on herstomach that if not treated soon could kill her from the blood loss.She looked around,with blurry vision seeing a child standing in front of her.

"Hey I see your awake now miss."The boy said as if it was a slight joke.He had amusement in his eyes as he looked at Sheana try to get up.It didn't work however.
"Boy.........,who are you?"Sheana's bleak cold face looked at him as she carefully tried to sit up.
"Me,i'm just a child who lives around here.I was walking past the street when I saw you just lying there.I quickly saw the blood everywhere and....,well here I am now."
"Oh.......well where am I?"
"In the Kingdom of Moon of course.How could you not know.Your near the heart of the Kingdom." he said waving his hands in the air slightly.
Sheana's memory soon came back.She quickly got up as fast as she could and grabbed her sword(which was laying under her the whole time).She patted the boy on his head.
"Thank you for your concern but I have to go now."
"Wait your wounds aren't......!"
Sheana turned around slightly and you could see the wounds were gone now.It was like she was never cut or wounded in anyway.
"Bye."
Sheana dissapeared off into the still long night.

"Thats right..........,I remember now."

Flash back.

"I was walking towards the alleyway.I thought all those people were just harmless beggers.They weren't.As soon as I let my guard down and went to sit down for a quick rest,they all appeared around me with knives.I should have known better to have my let my guard down........Even if they looked like that."

"Oh well"
Sheana continued on.She carried her sword at her side and she skipped across the buildings looking all around her.

[Hieko]

Ren's hair blew in the slight breeze the night air was giving off.She had the cover over her eyes and she new exactly where she was going.She had to go to the..........Moon Kigdom.The last place she wanted to ever go to.

Last Night

Ren walked within the Star Kingdom from where she had stopped at after she left the Inn.Her chain made a slight jingling sound as her heels made a clicking sound against the dry,hard ground.She could hear talk all around her,and she could also feel the staresof some people.She could hear some talk about stuff going on in the other kingdoms.She could hear other things about upcoming events.The last thing she wanted to hear was some people talking about her clan.She thought to herself:

"What do they Know!?How dare they talk about me as if i'm some vial beast!Do they even know anything about my clan!?"

She walked with no expression at all.Even after seeing some obnoxious brats talk about the way she couldn't see and how she looked weirad for having her eyes covered.She simply smiled sweetly and pulled it off showing off two white clear eyes.It scared them off.She giggled a little.

Ren walked twoards a tabbern.It was a place where you could find out all kinds of information.She was looking forward to it.Maybe some things would be happening and she could join in.Maybe some battles would occur,maybe she have a sparring match with someone,maybe there would be some kind of task needed to be down,or maybe the The Star kingdom's King would Hire her for some type of special job like the three other Kingdom's have(Moon,Sun,Cloud).

As she walked inside,she saw many tough lookig men standing around.They were all staring at her as she walked in.
"Now whats a small little girlie like you doing in here"
She made so expression as the guy came twoards her.
She grabbed his arm twisted it and booted him to the side.
"Your not even worth my time.Now move before I move you myself."Her voice was like a whisper of a ghost.

She sat down at a stool near a bar tender.Everyone wasn't looking at her any more.She leaned her head down slightly and asked.
"Do you have any info on where I can find this person?"
She pulled out a slip of paper and slid it across the bar counter.
The bar tender took a slight deep breath and whispered twoards her"are you sure you wanna know where this person is.I mean this guy is way to dangerous."
"Yes I already know all of that,but I need to know,and since I know that you do have info on him,tell me now or you'll end up like that poor man on the floor over there.Okay"
"........Yes ma`am.Okay i've heard this slight rumor from a good source of mine that that man can be found in the Moon Kingdom as of right now."
"Are you sure,I don't want to have any misleads."She said as her chain jingled at her side.
"Yes i'm sure."
"Okay then."
Ren got up and slid silently twoards the door.She opened it and the Moon shone down on her, even more.

Today

Ren walked outside the Kingdom.She didn't need a ride because she would get there fast.During the night,she could move very quickly.She began off only carrying her chain and a small backpack.

She smiled as the Kingdom Gates closed behind her.Before they could shut all the way,she was gone.

[Tetsanosuke]

His final steps until the court yard became the fastenings for his mentality, every step a mental nail hammering his being into place and his internal clockwork into motion. In this challenge he wasn't just Sir Vahngard Kaethmour, Captain of the Star Order Guard; He was a Fencer, a duelist and a honed wielder of the Rose Vahjia.

His voice came out with little hesitation, he was clear and ready as he descended the opiate white stone steps down to the cobblestone crossway that made a cross centering through the yard, the center circled out widely in diameter. The duelist was standing at the center of that circle, his long black cloak etching his presence in the star filled half night from the sky. He saw his eyes, the duelist's eyes were so familiar in a way. Not a family familiarity or that of a long lost comrade, but beyond..

" You who challenges the house of the Star Order, state your name. " He let his voice wade and waddle through the air sternly, his soon to be foe tipping his hat towards him.

" I be Zachary, son of Zain Woulfaen. I have come to claim the Rose Crest of the Star Order and continue on my journey as a duelist. " He paused and bowed lightly towards Vahn with such grace, still wrapped up in his cloak. " Who have I the honor of facing? " The black cloak wrapped man asked in a similar, noble tone. It seemed he wasn't of just common uprising.

" Sir Woulfaen, I am Vahngard Kaethmour, the White Rose Fencer of the Star Kingdom Palace Guard. " He bowed gently in return, letting the hand at the hilt of his Vahjia drop and go under his chest in the bow. " But now we are no longer who we are, don't hold back. Because as we step into this challenge it is our lives that could be at stake and our honor we are flexing. Let this match be that of the true and brave, a test of our wills and skill. "

Zachary nodded in full agreement as he unfurled his cloak from his body, revealing a total black scheme of sleeveless tunic and leather pants, at his side he held a rapier lavished in black and silver decor.

At the steps the Saeth Knight brushed his arm over, folding his own red cloak back into the oncoming breeze. The wind had caught it and played with it's end pulling it towards the east and under his birth star. " And so it shines this very day into night.. " He whispered as he drew his shining white-silver blade forth from it's laquored white scabbard, the blade shining bright against the shadows looming from the walls about him. He pulled the blade to the right side as he drew the same foot back, crutching lightly as he connected eye sight with his opponent.

Zachary drew as well, pulling his lustered blade up and pointing it towards Vahn with great prowess in his eyes. He was no rookie, but neither was Vahn.

There they stood, at the center of the yard on the stones that lifted them to heaven yet held then at their footing. The oncoming ritual would be that of pure skill and grace, and that of honor old lost to the distance sands of time and thoughts of far far away. To them, it was truly another world. Their's.

[Inc0gnit0]

ooc: can't take a breather now can I lol...

bic: What was the past like? Zenak wasn't thinking about the immediate past, he was thinking of the past discussed only in lore. A past so far and different that no books really referenced its glory. All that books discussed was the purge but what had been before the purge was completely unknown. The purge was the beginning of the world or so it was written and for every beginning there was an end.

Zenak had never really believed what was written in ancient texts. The concept that a huge beast had destroyed the world at the demand of a supreme being seemed quite absurd. The fact that the world would have been recreated seemed also a little far-fetched but Zenak was still intrigued. What if it could happen? Where could that kind of power be found, if it could even be found. Zenak usually only thought of this but rarely actually gave those thoughts any weight preferring to seek more confirmed knowledge.

One of Zenak's biggest research had always been concerning the intriguing power of his sword, Crecento. Zenak had read a few mentions here and there about what he thought was Crecento but most texts were pretty unanimous Crecento was a force not to mess with and should be locked up. Most texts referring Crecento were written in the ancient language and therefore dated from the beginning of ages. Crecento's legacy seemed to then have disapeared to never be spoken of again. Its origin, its true power or who and how it was finally sealed were never mentioned in any texts.

His research had brought him to the kingdom of sun. The reason, a powerful priest of old who had lived in the kingdom of sun. Certain diaries stated that he had been very open about his desires to destroy Crecento and had researched the sword a lot during his lifetime. His name was Altorius. However, Zenak had never been able to find this priest's memoires or any writing by him and decided to come back to the kingdom of sun in an attempt to get permission to view the royal archives. If those manuscripts existed they would be here.

The capital of the kingdom of sun was indeed beautiful however, Zenak was not here for sightseeing. It wasn't the first time he had come to the kingdom of sun but it was the first time he would attempt to view the royal archives. He had obviously went through the public library very thouroughly during his last visit and knew for a fact that nothing by Altorius was in that library. However, last time he had been here he didn't know about Altorius and had felt no need to bother and check the royal archives but now Zenak was determined to see those documents. They had to exist, he had to have written down his thoughts.

What bothered Zenak was Crecento's difference. It seemed to literally be made of shadows. Zenak had long ago realized that it was embedded with shadow particles and that he could tap into that power to cast devastating magic but there was so much more to his sword. The power was ancient and Zenak knew it could do so much more.

Zenak approached the castle and was obviously intercepted by the guards. Zenak quickly demanded audience with the king and was glad to hear the king would be seeing him. The guards led him deep into a maze of stone walls and tapestries until he reached large oak doors. 2 guards stood guard on each side of the door. As Zenak approached escorted by the two guards at the entrance the other two guards opened the doors to let them in.

The room was nicely decorated. With gold, tapestries and paintings everywhere. The symbol for the sun kingdom appeared on every square meter of this place that could not be mistaken for anything else but the king's throneroom. A lone throne made entirely of gold and ornamented with many sun symbols stood alone in the middle of the vast room. The king of the sun kingdom stood up and in a noble voice demanded: "What do you want from me!"

Zenak looked up into the man's eyes. The man wasn't very old but had a certain charisma and authority. Zenak took a respectful bow before answering: "I, a simple traveller and schollar would be most fortunate if you could grant me the honor of visiting the royal library to quench my thirst of knowledge."

The king was obviously taken aback considering this was obviously no ordinary request. Its at that moment that Zenak realized the number of guards that surrounded the room but also realized they had never unarmed him. Kind of careless... The king quickly regained his composure and with the same commanding voice replied: "Only those under royal business may view the contents of this library. You who are clearly not one of these lands why should I acknowledge your request. Most importantly what do you seek in those ancient tomes?"

"Me my lord? I but seek the answer to questions who haunt me. I seek the writings of a certain Altorius, a priest of old." However the priest's name didn't go into deaf ears. There was obviously something about that name that got the king's attention. The king then motioned his guards before speaking: "Leave now, forget your research the name you seek is better left buried. If it is Altorius's writings you seek then you are probably up to no good. Leave and don't come before me again..."

With that the king sat as 4 guards escorted Zenak out of the castle. Well that was unexpected... As he looked around at the city that stretched before him Zenak smirked. I have much to find out here...coming here will proove quite fructurous. Zenak then started walking towards the closest inn.

[Seikyu Kiba]

OOC: Apparently none of us can. XD

Hwarg watched as Mabbe was taken up by the fishermens net "Mabbe!" Hwarg yelled and swam as fast as the Gods, he leaped out of the water and onto the boat. But when he got onto the boat he noticed that they were already on the floor with their ears bleeding. "W-what!?" He looked over and saw Mabbe trying to push the net back into the water. He let out a long sigh and walked over to the net and shoved it back into the water. The net bursted open once it hit the water setting the fish free.

"Thank you." The fish all said and then swam away.

Hwarg sighed and then looked down at Mabbe, he got on one knee and looked directly into Mabbes eyes, placing his hand on her head he said. "Mabbe what were you thinking?"

[Shobu_Shimizu]

It was dark when Elli and Baron arrived at the castle but the kingdom was restless, being the capital, it was always busy with merchants and travelers. Both brother and sister detected something with their keen hearing. Swords clashing. This was heard as they made their way up to the gates of the enormous castle whose towers overlooked the land. They were stopped at the gates. There was a battle going on. the two of them could see a figure dressed in red and one in black going at it with one another. Their movements and the way they held their swords were eloquent, it was obvious they were not of the common people. Baron recognised one of the fighters once they stopped long enough.

"The gentleman in red is a knight of this castle, is he not?" Baron asked one of the gaurds, not taking his eyes off of the battle.

"That he is," replied one of the gaurds.

"Why are they fighting?" Elli asked with a frown.

"That information is not available miss, apologize," replied the other gaurd.

Just say you don't know for heaven's sake. Elli thought as she watched the fight from afar with Baron. There was nothing else they could do but watch and wait.

OOC: Tetsanosuke, if you have any disagreements with my post, pm me and I'll edit it.

[Nespa]

Mebba looked at him "they were young and they needed help" she glared faintly at the males that had dragged themselfs back to the boat. It was clear that the thought eas that if the small one was so strong than how much stronger would the older one be. Mebba looked at hwarg "i used to do it al the time with dad" she gave him a big smile, clearly she had not been aware of the danger of the fisherman. she looked at the males "but it is the first time i got hauled into the boat, it was fun" the men just pressed tehre backs more to back of the boat, since the sound had deafend them they though he was praising her. She pointed to the males "they are deaf and disorianted now, it wil be gone in 15 minutes though" she looked at hwarg.

[Seikyu Kiba]

Hwarg was not to happy at her and then shook his head, "Mabbe sweetie if there is one thing I learned since I resurfaced is that, we can't save every fish in the sea." He said smiling and then with a sigh "What if they would have hurt you if you hadn't grabbed your flute in time?" He asked staring at the fishermen. "Alright now, lets get back to shore." He said flipping back into the water.

[FullMetalAlchemist997]

"Don't test me, girl" The bandit said after several minutes of full silence.

Ethereal snorted. Don't test him? The guy didn't even have a weapon. Without waiting another moment Ethereal shot towards him not as fast as she would have had she been willing to drain herself so early, but fast. She extended her right hand sending a shock of electricity through her hand into him as her claws hit.

The bandit was surprised. He felt the jolt go through his arm and stop just short of anaything vital. He grabbed at her hand accidentally pulling her glove off. "Now you've only got one fancy claw"

Ethereal kicked herself and managed to hide the defining mark on her hand. He wasn't all that dangerous but Ethereal didn't want to render herself helpless. She thought for a moment and a slight smile curved her lips. She then let out a high shriek. It was the call of an owl, none of the daytime birds of prey would be up, Ethereal didn't quite have it down the owls would respond but it sounded more like an attempt to sing the highest note on a scale. An answering shriek came from her far left. Ethereal stepped back ready to let the bird do its work.

The bandit nearly hit the ground when his target tried to surpass human bounds. He ammended that as he caught a glimpse of her marking, she was Carani, which meant he was in deep trouble.

The bird Ethereal had called dove visciously at the bandit pecking and shrieking. It's claws and beak drew blood several times. Ethereal hoped that the flashing wings would hide where she was. She crept around to the side and tried to get her glove.

The bandit had just barely seen her move. He tried to move forward and get her. The owl's attacks switched sides and he had to focus on getting the bird off of him before anything else. He reached blindly up and caught some feathers in his hand. He tugged drawing a shriek of pain from the owl it backed off. He dove for the moving Carani.

Ethereal pulled her glove on and just managed to bring her arms up and block him. Her bird was in pain, he'd pulled some tail feathers out so it was flying in a ragged escape pattern. Anger welled up in her as it always did when someone hurt one of her birds. She grabbed his arm and sent a strong current of electricity into hoping he was rendered paralyzed. The bandit stopped fighting and fell to the ground. Ethereal ran.

[KibasStalker]

Lily shifted on her feet nervously. In front of her were the large oak doors that led to the Kings court. In a few minutes she would enter them into a totally new world, a world different from anything she had ever experienced. To tell the truth Lily was scared out of her mind. She was afraid, she was afraid that they would make her to stay here forever, that she was going to be locked here never to see what was really out in the world. Cringing she flattened her green gown trying to rein in her emotions. A few deep breaths brought them under control, but barely. Horns sounded inside the room and one of the oak doors opened.

A man in his thirties cleared his throat and practically sang Lily’s titles, “I present to you Her Lady Lilith of Heartwood and of Elkdam in the Amazonian Islands.” She walked forward head held high smiling at the court, no sign of her previous worries showed. At the end of the long room she stopped before the King & Prince and gave them a proper curtsy. She stood waiting for the King to speak. I have to admit that Imjane does know what she is doing when it comes to things of court. If not anything else, Lily thought to herself happily. Before the trip Lily’s stepmother schooled her on all the etiquette of court. Imjane was a harsh teacher, but her training paid off, Lily looked stunning and she was the quintessence of a young noblewoman.

“Welcome to Albien our beloved capital. I hope your trip here was a pleasant one,” the King said in a booming voice. “We, and I do speak for all the men in Albien when I say this, are very happy to have a young woman, who must clearly be the most beautiful in all the Sun Kingdom adorn our court. I hope you enjoy yourself here because I’m sure many will be rejoice at your presence,” he said looking at the young men on one wall of the great hall. He look at the side where the young women sat clearly upset at the new “jewel” at court, the King gave her a quick wink when she realized where he was looking and then dismissed her.

Lily sat through the rest of the introductions of new nobles, but the King did not speak so long to anyone as he did her. After an hour or so of introductions everyone headed to the Pavilion of Rays to meet and greet. Lily did her best to enjoy the lovely area with its beautiful flowers in all kinds of reds, oranges, and yellows, but young kept bumping into her. After the third time of talking to a man then finding his hands were wandering up some inappropriate place she had had enough. The man had been thirty-nine and lured her into a discussion about what the animals of the sea looked like when he had tried it. Lily promptly excused herself from the gathering saying she wasn’t feeling well.

When she was way out of hearing distance she shuttered and said, “Thirty-nine thirty-nine, twenty-two years my senior that’s just disgusting.” To herself she thought, I have no idea how long I will be able to take this before I lose my head and shout my frustrations out on the King. Then its off to Execution Hill with me. Lily continued down the hallway to her rooms deciding it was time for her to go to bed, despite the fact it was still late afternoon. Lily had decided she was to run away that night and she needed as much sleep as she could get. She just had to get that book deciphered.

[Nespa]

Mebba frowned and shrugged it off, hwarg was older so he probely knew better. she gave a sweet wave to the frightend fisherman en dived into the water swimming after Hwarg "what are we gonna do on shore?" she swam above his back and grabbed his shoulders hitch hiking with him since he swam much faster. she blew some bubbles and giggled

[Seikyu Kiba]

Hwarg laughed and watched her blow bubbles, "I think we should scout the woods for a little and then head into town and grab a bite to eat...how does that sound?" He asked swimming while a dolphin came out from under them, it flipped out of the water and gave a playful screech. Hwarg laughed and smiled at Mebba "they want to play." He said with a smirk. They reached the shore and the dolphin now became eight. Hwarg got up and walked through the sand a bit, took Mebba off his back and put her infront of him. "You can go play while I sit and rest." He said sitting down along the shore line.

[Luzifer]

Zoroaster sighed as he walked through another nameless place. What was he supposed to be doing? He had no idea. What does one do when they suddenly phase into a state of sentience and existance? A baby would cry but his body clearly denied him that repose so he was left to wandering through some random town he did not know, not grasp the name of.

It had been several hours since he had gained the sense of hearing and it was already becoming an annoyance to listen to all the sounds of the bustling town and the constant roar of rain and thunder. His clothes were starting to turn red as the blood began to seep through the rest of the fabric of his shirt. As he walked up and down the streets, every so often he would wipe away the water that was beginning to accumulated in his eyes and blur his vision.

He knew what he wanted to do. He wanted to help out his people... but... what did he have to do to do that? How does one unmake the fabric of reality and let loose the souls that had been its substance. He wished he had someone to tell him what to do! There was no direction! While he was thankful he was no longer a Monad, in the truest sense, he still thought things could be better, but that was just him being selfish.

He walked out of the town.

Two days later(i.e. today)

Azazel entered a town on the edge of the Star Kingdom and checked his map. If this was indeed the town he thought it too be then it was his first stop as an Mendicant Apostle. He asked a random passerby if indeed this was the place and happily enough it was.

There was no love for the cult in this town, it was mostly composed of those who supported the Holy. But that didn't frighten Azazel, he had a job to do and it was not going to complete itself. Besides, it would be dishonorable for him to run away from hardship, he reminded himself as he gently gripped the metal shard that hung around his neck.

Not that he enjoyed what he did particularly. It wasn't enthusiasm for his work that inspired him to complete it but rather a personal hatred. It was because he hated God and agreed with the positions of the Cult in that matter that he did this, not because he enjoyed manipulating people. But then... was it manipulation if you told them what was in their best interest and let them decide for themselves? He didn't know, but he felt there was something wrong about the ease with which he did it. Hopefully, his doubts on the matter would be cleared up in this speech. This time he would be talking in front of a hard crowd, and perhaps it wouldn't be as easy this time.

He walked into the central part of the town, where a large water fountain held central stage as five separate roads ran into the large square that was the thus made. Azazel walked to the fountain, pushing his way through the bustle of people that surround it and stood up on on the edge of the fountain. It would be a good place to give his address.

"People of the Star Kingdom, heed my call!" he said and put all the force of his personality behind it. He had to get their attention quickly otherwise he would loose his audience before he could convince them. A number of people stopped what they were doing and looked up at him, "I come to you in dark times and with dark words though, hopefully, to give you some light of guidance in this confusing world." He noticed a blonde haired boy with blood-stain clothes walk up front and stand in front of him and watch. More people besides the boy were beginning to gather while others merely watched from shop doors and second-floor windows.

"I come to tell you of what will be so that you might prepare before it comes, so that you may no that which you will see, and so you will know the choice that will be thrust upon you, though I wish dearly no onus had to fall upon you. But speak I shall because my duty is to grave to let indecision still my tongue, and the matter to serious to be given to you in any but the most direct means."

"You have heard the whispers no doubt. The vague rumors of dissent and battle. Well, these rumors shall not long remain vague and not long remain distant. These whispers grow in volume and spread in origin and I fear that they will come into your city but I come to warn and to inform." People were pressing up against his legs.

Suddenly he fell into the fountain. His mind foggy and his head thumping with pain. He hadn't heard the splash but now he could her the sounds of fighting. He looked to his side and there was a stone underneath the water, and the water, it was reddening itself with blood. His blood. He felt his head and surely enough he was bleeding.

"He's a Evil Cultist!" he heard someone screaming but soon that voice was garbled beneath screams of pain. Azazel didn't know what was happening but suddenly a hand picked him up.

"Let me help... Someone hurt you." it was the blonde and bloody boy- no not boy. He looked to effeminate to be a boy but he didn't look like a girl, he had no chest and no curves. It was strange but Azazel pushed such thoughts aside

"Thanks but I will stand on my own." And indeed he did and walked back to where some members of the crowd were beating up some old man, presumably the one that had hit him with the stone, "Peace, my brothers! These dark times may one day call for dark measures but let us not be too quick to act on hatred and blood-lust. Let us be kind when others are cruel, and let us forgive those who harm us, for when the dark times are upon us, humanity most stand together in one fold." Azazel oozed eloquence and compassion, all the more because he was bleeding. He stood with a suffering stance that was ready for the slings of fate, and precisely placed each limb of his to send a signal of forgivesness to the man. He walked into the crowd which part before him like one would part for a king.

He stood before the man that had hurt him and kneel before him, "Forgive these men for what they have done to you, it was an act of haste which should not have been done. Now please allow me to heal your wounds. The man sneered and spat on Azazel's face and a man from behind Azazel stepped forward but Azazel stuck out on of his hands to stop him. He didn't like the idea of using his Dark Magic but if it was to heal someone he figured it would no hurt his honor to gravely. He let the black flames cover his hands and a gasp spread through the crowd, accompanied by whispers.

Dark Magic was associated with malice, and for good reason, it was a hard magic to use for anything but harming others. It required a sacrifice of life to perform any act, but normally the sacrifice was given by the victim. However, in order to heal, the caster had to give up a portion of his life force to the subject. Azazel lay his fire baptized hands on the old mans head and felt a searing pain flush through him as a part of his life force was torn from his body. Not so much to be a permanent loss but still agonizing.

The man was healed and the crowd was once more awestruck. Azazel stood, slowly and without a waver, despite the feeling that he was about to collapse due to blood loss and sacrificing his life force. But his life was supposed to be one of sacrifice for that was what was honorable. He spoke while he had their attention, "My brothers and my sisters! This is the compassion you should extend to all humans. We humans must stand together! For if we cannot rely on our neighbor to heal our wounds, how can we rely on some God? A God that has left us to die often enough! No, please, heed those voices in your hearts and stand with me and when the time comes, remember that we as humans must stand together and all shall be made clear to you!"

With that he walked away. The crowd was a mixture of silence from one half and cheering from the other. He was quite pleased with the way things had turned out. But now he had to hurry. He walked out of town as fast as he could, and as soon as he was clear of the buildings and far from the sight of the towns folk, he found a small grove hidden from view and collapsed, bleeding to the ground.

[Nespa]

mebba giggled and ran into the water towards the dolphins. They pushed her around with there noses and she swam with them. she laughed as she climbed on one dolphins back and seared through the sea with it. after hour or two she was tired and moved back to shore, she laid on her stomach next to hwarg. swaying her feet a bit she poked shell and the dolphins left. She looked to hwarg smilling.

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron and Elli turned their attention away from the fight long enough to hear the commotion going on in central part of town. The gaurds glanced at one another, nodded, and looked to the siblings.

"Can we trust you not to pass these gates?" One of them asked.

Both siblings nodded. "Even if we did, we'd interrupt," Baron pointed out.

The gaurds nodded once again and ran towards central. After they were out of sight, Elli smiled.

"Well- let's go," she said cheerily. She was about to push open the gates, when her brother pulled on the hood of the cloak she had slipped on. "Ack!"

"Thou Shall Not Lie?" Baron asked, arching an eyebrow. Elli juts pouted and crossed her arms in a huff.

[Opinionated]

OOC: In case you want to know, Allen was teaching the Dicta Boelcke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicta_Boelcke) to the greenhorns.

IC:
In a slightly crowded planning room, Allen was putting his youthful energy to work in helping to take the green off of these new flyers. The compound the room was in was an old cave, greatly expanded to house a small garrison of Aeroraptors. The entrance, in particular, needed work. The prevailing winds allowed for an easy takeoff and boost in airspeed. However, coming in on a landing required either skill or a large landing area. And they needed one so they could get the other.

He was preaching the eight basic rules of air combat to them, probably in a better way than they learned at the Academy. Aeroraptor Command was big on letting fighters learn in the field, and it was rare that good fighters could get to teach their experience. A mercenary, however, didn't have to keep to the same schedules as the mainline fighters, and could volunteer.

"And to review," He said, winding his youthful energy down, "Get the advantage, always follow up, make sure of your angle of attack, never assume where your target will be, get 'im from behind, meet your enemies attack, never forget your way home, and everyone pick their own target. And above all else, use your God-given gifts against their weaknesses."

"Alright, you've got a flight to get to. I'm supposed to escort you out there, and then I'll hand you off to your real instructors." He said as he clapped his hands together, then finished with, "Let's get to it!"

One by one by one, the greenhorns leapt from the entrance and into the wind, pulling up and away into the sky. Lastly, Allen followed suit and quickly gained altitude with the rest of the formation. As they came up to the two circling instructors, he waved at the greenhorns and dove away, dropping down below them for cruising.

His wings spread wide, for a long flying session. He wrapped around thermals and then let his altitude out in a long stretch. He repeated this many times and his maneuvers brought him over the Earth kingdom, where he started his descent to ground level, passing over the forests of the region at low speed.

[Tetsanosuke]

OOC: Eh, tis fine. It works out. Lol )

BIC:

The clashes and clangs of each blade struck forth, a web of swings and parry as well as flourishing bodies weaved as their battle ensued. Not just bodies of the physical, for they both started glowing with auras so hinted. Hinted as they were not to use their magics, they new that this was a talk of the sword and a dance of the blade. One would step in, the other to a side and a strike would be relinquished, in turn of that another step and then a swing.

Clash!

They were in sword lock, face to face, and they were aware of their visitors as they both turned their heads towards the gates.

" Seems we have more onlookers, Sir Vahngard. " Zachary smiled as he returned his eyes to his opponent, both their blades shooting white and silver static about the clashes focal point.

" They'll have a wondrous show indeed. Come Zachary, let us finish this. " His voice was as calm as the morning tide, the slow moving waters of the Earth at before dawn with the stars shining through the waves.. Strength and grace impeding the eventual rise to higher tides.

With that they both leap back, quite far.. they both seemed equal in agility. and then it came, the wind blew and Zachary's hat fell to the ground revealing onyx black hair.. and a pair of cat ears to boot. He was a Saeth as well!

" No wonder you are quite fast, I must say I'm impressed. But I know something you do not. "

Zachary blinked at his honored foe, the strings of their dueling bond pulling and weaving that turn into the end, that canvas which was about to be filled. " And what is that? " He asked with intensity as he dashd towards Vahn, Vahn doing so as well.

As they met in the middle it was almost too fast for the human eye to see, Zachary struck out in a swift well forged move, but Vahn... He was crouched at his behind as if he slid right past him, his blade in his left hand then.

" I am not only right handed.. "

He stood as he stated those words and with a swift sheath of his blade he returned his attention towards the visitors at the gate. Zachary's eyes were wide open, he felt the pain boil through him and sear from his sides about his body. So much strength in that attack.. from his left hand!? And he hit him with the flat of the blade and still... He couldn't keep standing. He fell to his knees and went silent. There wasn't anything to say, he lost and Vahn had spared his life.

" Welcome to the castle. " Vahn smiled gently to the two, bowing lightly after a breath. His cherry red eyes so full as his ears would twitch slightly" I am Vahngard Kaethmour, the White Rose Fencer. How may I be of service? "

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Elli smiled a tad shyly at the handsome Saeth. Thankfully, she didn't have to speak for she was afraid that her voice wouldn't come out as she would want it to. "Nice to 'finally' meet you Sir Kaethmour, I am Baron Izaak, the local blacksmith of the Star Kingdom, and this is my little sister, Elli Izaak, a healer in training. We are here to deliver a sword to the king," Baron thought he was finished but then it hit him, "Oh, I forgot... I also have some scrolls written by Father Andreas..."

Elli knew looked at her brother with question. Father Andreas isn't very fond of the king... Why would he write to him?

[Seikyu Kiba]

Hwarg watched Mebba play and then saw her laying down next to him smiling. "Well, aren't you cute." He said laughing and then laying down in the sand. "Ahhh.." He let out and then noticed a crab crawling up her back. "Well you seem to have a little friend..." Hwarg let out a small laugh. "I think I would want to lay here for a while longer." He said closing his eyes and breathing heavily. "Mmmm..."

[Hieko]

~Next Day~

Sheana walked twoards the outskirts of the city.There was no need for her to stay at the Moon kingomd any longer.Her heart was racing very fast, seeing the fact that she had never left before.

She insured herself everything would be fine as long as she didn't fall for any type of trap or let her guard down on her way to the Star kingdom.That was the fisrt place she was going to go to.She heard that there were some complications going on around there.She wanted to know what was going on herself,besides it would give her a reason to leave.

Her black hair waved quietly in the warm winds that blew her way.Her sword was hung on her back.Her heart, still racing made her steps kind of awkward lloking.She reassured herself and started off.

The moon was shining very beautifully as she walked across the out stretched land.She hoped she could find something very fun to do while there in the Star Kingdom.

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~Next Day~

Ren smiled whole heartedly as she stood in front of the Moon kingdom Gates.She reassured herself that everything would be alright and most likely knowone would recognize her and go screaming around "The Princess of the Twilight clan is here"! Besides, it had been about 4 years since she left and she wasn't going to turn around just to go back to the Star Kingdom.

The wide Gates opened and she stepped trough into what seemed to be a bleak,sorrowful,lonesome Kingdom."Well I shouldn't have expected much anyway."

Ren went on her way twoards the Kingdom's castle.Her identity was really only known to the King of the Moon Kingdom and a few people who swore to never tell.She was safe going there.

She went twoards teh castle.She had somehow persuaded teh guards into letting her inside.She stepped within the huge hall that stood before her, which led to a pair of giant black doors that led to the Throne room.She smiled remembering the alst time she had ever been here."It sure has changed here....."She shook her head softly and walked inside barging i trough the doors.

There was actually knowone inside.
"I wonder where everyone could be........This isn't very normal." she said looking forward,as if she could really see within the light that softly shone trough.
"I guess I should leave then........"

Ren quietly ran out the room,twoards the Gates,and out the castle.She wondered where she could go to next.She new the only way she was going to get her main mission done was trough the king,but seeing as he was not there and she had no other leads,she would have to find some place to stay.....

She walked around endlessly trying to find a place to stay,but everytime she visited a place they would either kick her out or lock there doors and not let her in.

"This is crap!.......None won't let me in!I might as well just leave.......This place does rather seem kind of suspicious though...,I mean where could the King possibly be and why are there barely any people out.I know its not because of me,or could they eb scared of something else.........Oh forget it.I'm leaving before I get caught."

Ren jumped from building to building until she got to the outskirts of the Kingdom.She walked trough until she hit the road again."I'm back on my way to the Star kingdom to pay the King there a visit.Hopefully he might know something." she thought.

Maybe it was just her luck to run into a bunch of bandits on her way to the Kingdom.These people are so poor.Justwaht is the world coming to?" she said while smiling and walking away with her short sword in her hand.

~Two days later~

"Finally i'm back here..........Now I should head off twoards the Catsle but for osme reason I can hear a fight going off in the distance,and wouldn't you know its the way i'm going."
Ren smiled and took her shading off her face.
"Humph"

[Inc0gnit0]

Feet on a dusty desk Zenak was leaning backwards on a small chair. Crecento was still on his back and his cloak still surrounded his light tunic. Zenak was in a thinking mood and seemed quite relaxed with his hands behind his head. The small room that he was renting from a small inn was quite comfortable. It was far from high-class but Zenak didn't require anything close to high class.

The small bed behind him and the desk he was currently using as a foot rest was more then enough for his needs especially considering the amount of time he was planning on staying here. He had made his mind that night he was going to sneak into the royal library and get the information he needed. He wasn't going to steal the book but if the kind wasn't going to let him obtain the information he would use more creative means of obtaining it.

The plan wasn't complicated, wait for night and sneak in. Read the informationa nd disapear before they knew what hit them. In theory it was simple enough but in practice snags usually ruined a flawless execution, he knew better then to expect anything especially in a castle like the sun kingdom's castle. It was gradually becomign darker and Zenak knew that soon the time would come so he decided to get a bite and wait for the perfect time.

It came quite soon actually. Zenak was running through the almost deserted streets towards the castle. Upon his arrival he noticed the draw-bridge was up and torches lighted not only the way towrads the castle but the whole length of the wall. Even in the dark Zenak could see shapes patrolling on top of the high stone wall. Zenak knew where the royal library was. It was more towards the southern entrance so Zenak quickly ran towards the southern entrance making sure to stay hidden in the shadows.

Zenak was actually surprised to see guards patrolling infront of the southern entrance. It was normal to keep a patrol but usually on the walls and inside the castle, not outside the closed draw-bridge. Zenak came to the conclusion that the king was precausious after Zenak's demand. Smart king...However this small snap wasn't going to stop Zenak. Zenak withdrew Crecento and soon his arms flared with a dark purple fire that passed totally incognito in the shadows surrounding him.

He let himself get envelopped by a dark curtain and reapeared behind 2 guards who were patrolling on top of the high wall. Zenak quickly knocked both guards out making sure they didn't alert anybody and quickly hid their bodies in a dark corner hoping they wouldn't be found before he had made his escape. Zenak hurried down some stairs before another guard could spot him and came down into a long corridor that seemed to go progressivly downwards. Zenak didn't know his way perfectly but knew about where the library was and headed in that direction.

After crossing many other paths and avoiding detection Zenak finally arrived infront of a long hallway with two large oak doors at the end. It looked vaguely like the throne room doors however these doors were more beaten up and a lot less decorated. A guard was keeping guard and Zenak knew that more guards were patrolling around the area. Luckily for Zenak the guard seemed very drowsy and he took it to his advantage. He sprinted towards the guard who looked up too late at the upcoming footsteps and was knocked out with one clean punch to the face.

Zenak broguth the unconcious guard with him into the library and quietly shut the doors. The library was definitely impressive with its old bookshelves and thousands upon thousands of books from all ages. It smelt of knowledge in this place but Zenak didn't have time to waste and quickly ran towards a large book placed close to the door which Zenak assumed was the general index. Not daring to open the torches Zenak made a small ball of light hover over his head so that he could read the dark lettering found in the big index book.

Luckily this library was well organized and he managed to find what he was lookign for. It was at the complete end of the index book where the writting went from contemporary writing to ancient writing that Zenak found what he was looking for. Zenak quickly ran to the far back of the library to a lone bookcase. The bookcase seemed to indeed hold some of the oldest documents Zenak had ever seen. Zenak didn't even dare touch one for fear that it would disapear in his hands. Zenak read the indications and quickly found what he was looking. It was a small book, not very thick either. The cover was old black leather and the pages were yellow and dry as automn leaves.

Zenak tore the little book out form between its brothers and blew ont he cover to reveal the sun kingdom symbol on the coverpage. It was the right book. But at that moment the big oak doors bursted open and Zenak heard many loud voices fload into the library holding torches. Zenak had instantly made his ball of light disapear but still too late. Even though it was in the back of the library there was a clear line of sight between the entrance and where Zenak was standing. The guards knew he was there and were quickly surrounding him.

Zenak had quickly counted a dozen guards but that was not the issue. He didn't have time to read the book and would be forced to take it with him which annoyed him greatly but most importantly he was not ready to kill these guards who were doing nothing wrong, in all honesty he was the bad guy in this situation. However, he was even less going to let himself get captured, he still had too much to do. Zenak looked up and saw what he needed, an escape route. High up to his right was a small window of colored glass.

2 guards came faster then the others and charged at Zenak who managed to dodge the first blade and jump back to avoid the second he then used magic to send the two guards flying into a bookshelf. The bookshelf then fell over and landed hard on the bookshelf behind it who managed to stay standing. Zenak then ran towards the now improvised slope to the top of the next bookshelf. The guards bellow were surrounding the bookshelf now and the two guards had regained their strength and were climbing the bookshelf to intercept him.

Zenak then looked at the window on top and Crecento still in his hand Zenak appeared on the rim on the window in a crouched position. It wasn't the most comfortable position in the world but it did the trick. He then broke the window with one swift swing and threw himself out. Luckily the moat surrounding the castle was water and quite deep water too. Zenak brought his whole body together to make sure the contact poitn was as small as possible then at the last minute put a protective shield around the book so it wouldn't get destroyed by the contact and the water.

Zenak was starting to run out of strength and he knew he would need it for what was left and decided he could come out of that fall without too big injuries. Zenak fell in the water and swam out without much difficulty besides losing one of his sandels and being drenched to the bone. He ran away formt he castle as quickly as possible and using the shadows as cover managed to run away from the guards who were giving him chase. Zenak was now leaning on the side of a small shack Crecento in one hand and the small black book in the other.

Zenak was panting hard and felt like sleeping but he knew it wasn't possible at the moment and just decided to give himself a bit of rest. He wasn't as young as he used to be and he had pushed his body and magic pretty hard tonight. Harder then he had int he past few months. Zenak looked down at the book in his hand. You better be worth it...The silence surrounding Zenak was a nice contrast to his racing heart and acheing body.

[Tetsanosuke]

OOC: Due to the possible tediousness of this part, Shobu and I are making one big post for this part. So I have temporary control of Sho's characters. )

Mr. Izaak, Baron if I can. Follow me and I'll get you your audience. He's usually pleased to see his orders on time. Follow me to the Audience chambers. " He looked to Elli afterwards and turned his body so he could bow and raise an arm towards the way. Not to follow but to walk with him.

They bowed lightly back, attempting to show their respect for his willingness to personally show them the way.

They made it to the chamber, the two 'common folk' as a snobbish noble would call them amazed at the vast halls and the shining grace of each stone that was laid in the brilliant hallways. The castle shined like the stars, many lights displaying it's magical efficiency. Vahn would talk to the guard at the left, said guard running through the back area to set it all up. Upon his return he opened the doors and bows.

" His majesty will see you now, please be at most respectful. "

They entered the glamorous audience chamber, the walls rigid with shining tinsels and smooth bright white stone. It only reflected their belief in the honorable ways of upholding one's light in the face of the darkness. But they were of the pure darkness, the outline of their light, the stars that floated in the endless abyss above were all surrounded by a pure darkness, making them the Twilight Suns.

The King raised a hand as they entered. Vahn brought himself to a knee, Baron and Elli bowing in respect. The king lowered his hand and they were allowed at rest.

" So, you are the Blacksmith who took on my order for a new sword? " The King asked, his benevolent facade aged with wisdom folded into his pours, yet stern and strong. He had a good amount of years left in him.

" Yes, we have your order. And a letter.. From Father Andreas. "

" Andreas? Why would he even.. " The king stopped, as though he knew what was to come. A shade came over his eyes as he shut them, his hand coming to his face gently. " Let me see then. " The King waved a hand, a guard received the letter and brought it too him.

While reading he spoke the words " One is amongst you.. " out loud. From the scroll a ray of light directed itself around the room and from the center a light seemed to flourish from the ground. From this light a powerful voice emanated forth and so all listened.

" Times in long past, there was a world polluted by the greeds and lusts of a race.. a race of 'humankind'. .... aspect of their race ... potential... they threw... out for selfish gain. God, ... anger for .... ways unleashed ... mighty beast... "

The message was construed and somewhat un-worked and unrefined as though made in a hurry.

" There are five.. Destiny... Find.. unleash... Fate of this world... Decision... "

The message ended with a light falling upon the form of Vahngard, his red cherry eyes narrowed and widened, the pupils pulling like that of a cat. He took a deep breath as his sign came, he knew that his future was ahead and now his intuition was right.. He had a destiny undeniable.

The message and the light faded, the scroll would then evaporate in the King's hands.

" And so.. Vahn must leave.. immediately. " He said in a low tone, as if casting out a son into the world.

" I am.. really allowed to follow my destiny? "

" Yes, it has been foretold and so you must. Take the power if the beast.. and use it to bring our world to a shining balance. " He waved his hand at him and then called Baron forwards. " The sword? "

Baron bowed and presented him with the blade and hence Vahn was called forwards, " Kneel, you shall receive my blessing. " Vahn had done so, his head bowed down as the king placed the blade at his shoulders and then his forehead saying the following: " You are now the Ambassador of the Star Kingdom, wherever you are going you represent our home land, and must uphold all your duties as the White Rose Fencer. "

He pulled the blade back and nodded for him to rise. " Take anything you need, and be on your way. "

" Thank you your Majesty. "

And so the preparations were made, he took what he needed and wrapped a pack around his shoulder. They were then at the gates of the Kingdom, the staff of the castle waving them off. Zachary was there as well, it seemed as though he'd be taking Vahn's place as the Head of the Star Order Guard.

He looked to the two that had been there with him, and blinked before bowing. " I was hoping I could follow you wherever you might be off to at least for a while. Traveling can get kind of lonely. "

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron and Elli watched from afar as Vahn waved farewell to the staff of the castle. Elli exhaled deeply, as if she had been holding her breath the whole time in the castle. "That place was amazing..." she whispered to her brother.

Baron smiled and nodded in agreement. Vahn walked to them and said he wanted to travel with them. Elli's eyes lit up but only Baron noticed. She was very good at hiding her emotions though she didn't do it on a daily basis. Baron turned to Vahn and smiled warlmy, "Of course you can. What do they say? 'The more the merrier'? We should get going though, it's already dark so we'll walk until one of us gets tired. Anyway, it's nice to have you with us, Vahn." He offered his slightly calloused hand to Vahn for him to shake.

[KibasStalker]

Lily finished packing her bag, and look up at the window. The moon shone in the pale black sky of night. It was nowhere near as beautiful as the moon looked in the Moon Kingdom, but she had to admit it still shone as best it could. Lily moved towards the window then stopped hearing guards run past her rooms. They yelled about somebody breaking into the royal library and headed off that way. Perfect, she thought not daring to even speak for fear of being caught. She climbed out of her room using the natural footholds in between the sandy Palace stones. She quickly ran across the soft grass not making a sound.

Within minutes she was at the stable, a flash of silver brought her her mare quietly. The holster moved with much practice, soothing the worried horse and working through the saddle equipment. When all was ready Lily picked up a glob of mud and spread it across her horses gleaming coat and hand made saddle. The holster followed suit, and they worked until Lily’s brilliant mare looked less then average.

“Thank you,” Lily whispered as she climbed up into the saddle. The holster just smiled and nodded towards the way out. She kicked her horse into a charge. Lily reached deep into her inner-self calling upon her magic. It was a well of green Earth magic with veins of coppery brown Wild magic; there also was the faint blue glow of her Water magic. She reached into the veins of copper pulling out a thread of power. Lily thought hard on the great birds of the south winds and forest of the world. She thought though of the great joy of flying. Lily then laced it into her mare’s life force, also a copper brown. Soon she felt the back of her horse change producing what seemed like horns, but grew into great wings. The wings were strong enough to bring them just clear of the wall then they landed with a bit of a thud.

“Sorry girl. I know it’s uncomfortable when I do that,” Lily said stroking her mare. Lily retreated from her inner-self and headed towards an inn she had seen on the way to the Palace.

When Lily arrived she was tired barely able to stay in her saddle. The holster took care of her horse and called for a manservant to help her with her bags. She wondered up to the front desk paying up a few coppers for a nice room on the second floor. She asked not to be disturbed in the morning and would leave again the next evening. Lily headed up to her room and fell on her bed with relief. She had spelled her rooms to make anyone who came there for her would either forget why they were there or think she was ill. It would give her three to five days to get out of the Sun Kingdom. Before sinking into bed she removed the commoner cloths and head veil that had hidden her true identity then changed into a simple shift. When Lily’s head hit the pillow she was gone to dream away.

OOC: I feel just like my character, tired and worn out...ZzZ

[Hieko]

ooc: I ahve no clue of waht to do next....?

Sheana arrived in The star Kindom.Tired and worn out.She hoped she could find a possible inn to tsay at.Wondering waht the commotionwas as she passed the palace,she paid no attention and continued on.

She wondered what she could do by tomorrow.By now she had forgotten why she had even came here.As she walked she noticed that the Moon was nothing compared to the Moon Kingdom's.This one shone less and wasn't as beautiful.

Sheana sighed and walked into an Inn.She went up to the front desk,dropped some money down and went on her way upstairs to a comfy bed.Although she kayed down now,she couldn't go to sleep.She just had the feeling that something better was going to happen.

[Hieko]

Ren walked twoards where she had heard the commotion coming from.As she neared by she saw a huge group of people.She saw some looking as if they were enlightened and others as if they were going to iill one another.She murmered to herself and sarted walking over.

As Ren drew near sne noticed that many of the people over here had blood stained clothing on them.This wasn't a surprise to her but it made her wonder more.

She stepped up to an old man who was still laying against he ground.She lifted him up and asked in a kind voice that had a intimidating sound to it.

"Excuxe me but would you be so kind as to tell me whats going on here?"
The old man stared at her and made no comment.
"Excuxe me miss but if you want to know,I think you should go and find the man who was just here.He left heading off in that direction.He was bleeding badly so I think you should hurry"
Ren smiled and dropped the man down,now bending down to the small child next to her.
"Really,Thank you then."

Ren smiled and started walking off in the direction the child had pointed.
"Maybe this guy will know something about the Moon Kingdom." she thought as she walked quite fast.

Ren finally drew near to where the buildings soon stopped.
"Hmmmmmmmmmm, he may have left all ready."
Ren started wandering around searching.
"The kid did say he was bleeding so there should at least be some kind of track I can find."

Ren finally stopped in front of a small grove that could actaully hide something or someone.With her curiousness she stepped trough and discovered Azazel laying there bleeding horribly.

She didn't flinch at the site.She just walked over and bent down slightly.He seemed in need of quick treatment.She leaned a hand over and a blue liquid started forming over her hand.
"This should help a little until I can get him somewhere better."

Ren could heal with her water arts but it took up a slight amount of energy away from her.It also was hard to do with the right amount of concentration.She put her hand against the wounds and started healing them the best she could.

"Well,that should help a little."
She then picked him up and started walking off twoards a medic center.
"This is strange,I don't see why i'm helping you but I feel as though I should.....This should be interesting." Ren said walking off.

[Luzifer]

Zoroaster slipped away gently. He had wanted to make sure the speaker he had heard was alright, for the man had inspired him to take action and not dwell in self-pity. It was the least he could do to make sure the man survived, but seeing as some strange girl had had already taken care of that Zoroaster made himself scarce.

He found himself a place seclude where he could attempt what the preacher had inspired him to do. If he had reached the world, perhaps he could reach back, to bring his mind in line with the building blocks of reality and make contact with the Monad collective consciousness. He sat down gently, knowing this would be no short act. Gradually he forced himself to re-restrict his consciousness, to eliminate the cogent thoughts that had accumulated since he had arrived in this world. He tried to return. Return to the collective in some small way. Gradually he began to break down the walls and pillars that made his fragile sentience and he felt a hum begin to overtake his mind. It was a distant rumble at first, like some great force rousing from slumber but gradually it began resolve into a voice.

...cluching fingers... a distant sensation but yes... we feel. We hear, you. What is it that you want of us?

"What must I do to set the Monads free? To cure the rank injustice within this world that is the basis of all things?"

You must find the scrolls. We require them... then find a way to bind the Leviathan. You will find this easier than other mortals for you are the soul creature of her uterus and her womb. You, are of her blood and her flesh and like her and her precious thought can touch the fabric of this world. Being of her substance you have a shot of manipulating her, even with you meager power. When you have bound her, use her power against that which caused this world to be... that sinful thing called God.

"...yes... I will do as you wish..."

[FullMetalAlchemist997]

Ethereal paused near the shore. She leaned down. She'd been running for a long time. The bandit wouldn't have stayed paralyzed for more than a few minutes. The owl was still flying a bit raggedly it had stayed with and become her lookout. The owl managed to trun around and fly in its erratic pattern back home when it saw her stop.

She sat down far enough away from the water that it wasn't a threat. She looked down the beach as if expecting to see the bandit leap from the water. She noticed two people a farther down. Ethereal glanced back worriedly at the woods without her lookout she was lost as to how far behind the bandit was.

The bandit crawled to his feet and began to head in the opposite direction of the way his prey went. There was no way he was going to hurt himself farther. He needed help...

Ethereal got to her feet. I do need help... She reasoned. If the bandit ever got a weapon Ethereal had feeling she wouldn't win as easily. She paused then let go of all her illusions of asking for help with dignity there was no way in her current state. "Hello?" She said unwilling to say anything further until she knew how they would react.

[Seikyu Kiba]

Hwarg heard a females voice and then glanced over to where the voice was coming from. He looked down at Mebba and patted her head "Well, Mebba it seems we have company." He said looking back at her, Hwarg examined her and noticed she was a bit beat up. He tilted his head and then spoke softly "Hello, are you okay miss? You look a little beat up." Hwarg said getting to his feet.

[FullMetalAlchemist997]

Ethereal sighed. "I had bad brush with a bandit" She said, glancing over her shoulder. "I just need a little help" Okay so maybe she needed more than a little help. She had an angry bandit on her tail and she she felt sore from his manhandling earlier. Not to mention if she ever met up with him again she felt very certain that not only would he have a weapon this time but he'd probably also have buddies.

He limped forward purposefully heading for a little niche in the forest. "I'll get her for that" He muttered slapping branches from his face. If he was right this was where his partner hung around.

[Nespa]

Mebba sat up curiously not bothering to wipe the sand from her dress. she looked ethereal up and down "did you get into a fight with a shark?". she stood and cirkeld ethereal a bit looking up and down "nope no bite marks". she smiled at her "i'm mebba and he is hwarg, he is a darkling and i am a half darkling but the fisherman often call us mermaids or fish people though" she frowned "i wonder why though i mean it's clear we do not have a tail or gills" giggeling she wiped some sand of her dress and seemed to realise something "whats a bandit?" she looked at etheraul examining her clothes a bit.

[Saisashi~Arashi]

OOC: Sorry everyone for not posting. I've been very busy, plus I was grounded yesterday. My deepest apologies. Let the RP proceed!

IC: Lunara finished her meal, and stood up again. "I need to get out of here..." she murmured, glancing around. It was time to leave. Leaping onto a roof, she ran, jumping from one house to another, until she reached the outskirts of the Storm capital. As she continued walking from the city, the storm began to get better, bit by bit, until it all but vanished.

"Oi', where to next?" She grumbled to herself. "I ain't walkin' the whole way to... wherever I'm goin'. Time to go shoppin'!" she declared, and ran her way through the marshes of the Storm Kingdom. The land had once been dry and nice, but since all the rain, even more than usual, the ground had become soaked, and marshes took over the terrain. A small town was near in sight, so Lunara kept her pace until she arrived. Just a small market town, a stop for travelers leaving the Storm Kingdom. "A horse, please," she asked a vendor.

"Sure, what kind?"

"Something fast, something big. Oh, and cheap."

"Aye. Here, this one should fit your standards." The vendor brought about a youthful looking mare, strong and bold it looked like, with a mane of white, and her pelt, the deepest black.

"Okay, I'll take her." And she exchanged some coin for the horse, not needing any equipment since she had it, from her last horse that was killed by bandits. They were just animals, but that one, Lunara had been pretty close to. Placing her cargo and reins, saddle, and such on the mare, she sat on the saddle, waved off the man who sold the horse, and kicked the equine into a full gallop... Her destination? She had no idea.

The beast stirred, ever slightly... it could sense.. its time was near... The cold, icy "sea" it dwelt in was far from New Earth, but that didn't matter. In its dreams, it knew, it could feel that it was close... very close.

[Hieko]

~Next Day~

Sheana sat up staring out the window.The sky seemed dark and bleak,almost like the sky of the Storm Kingdom as she was told before.

Sheana wondered......what next?She was hoping that something was going to happen.She meant that this was her time to find something worthwile.Something that would probably reach inside and pull her soul from out of the darkness.But the way her life was going, she wondered if she should have ever left.

She began thinking of come of her bad traits.She wasn't much of a fighter even with her sword, she barely new how to use her powers, and she had the slight fear of being alone and never being reached out to.Well this was happening now to her.There was knowone there but her.

"Oh this isn't the time to be sulking.I should be out there.........but doing what?"
She hung her head in between her legs and sat there quietly thinking.Why did she leave in the first place.Was there really any point?Should she had just stayed behind and lived her life out quietly never getting to see what the outside of the Moon Kingdom was like.
"Maybe that would have been best......."

Sheana hopped out the bed and pulled her black boots on.She grabbed her sword from across the room and grabbed the bag she had with her.She looked at herself within a mirror and pulled a slight smile on her face.
She walked through the hallway of the inn until she got to the front desk.She droped a pair of keys off and walked out the front.

The air was a little chilling around here but she kept walking along.She smiled and decided to go find some place to practice her sword skills at.She started walking out twoards the outskirts of the Star Kingdom.There was a small postal town where she could collect supplies but she didn't need them.She smiled and started walking twoards a small forest.She could practice there where knowone would notice or could bother her.

She began.Slicing down a few tress.Practicing with swift but strong strikes.By the time she was doen, she was ready to pass out but she didn't.She repicked her sword up and walked twoards a tree and sat down against it.She looked up as she could see that the sky had lightened a little.

[Seikyu Kiba]

Hwarg laughed at Mebba and then walked up to the girl and held out his hand "A pleasure to meet you, Mebba and bandit is something that we fight, when they are going to or attacking people." He said smiling. He looked at the girl carefully and then smiled "Well, alright then, I shall help you." He said patting Mebba on the head, "And Mebba can help as well...for a siren she packs a punch." He said thinking back to when he was pulled up into the boat by those fishermen.

[KibasStalker]

OOC: Shukusen is one of the Amazonian Ladies-in-Waiting weapons taught to those close to the Amazon royal family. A Shukusen is a “fan”, silk on steel ribs that are often engraved or pierced with a design. The outer ends of the ribs are very sharp, acting as a thrusting weapon when the fan is closed and as a slashing weapon when it is opened. Traditionally carried by the Amazonian Ladies when they don’t wish to be seen with a weapon. *note:I did not create this weapon. I got it from a book by my favorite author.

BIC: Lily woke up to two birds fighting over a piece of bread outside her window. She realized it was late afternoon as they flew off towards the smell of freshly baked bread. Sitting up Lily rubbed her head, there was a dull aching from all the magic she had used the day before. I got to start practicing my magic more. I really didn’t use enough for it to hurt. She got dressed in more commoner clothes and headed down stairs for a bite to eat, she was ravished. Lily ate her food in silence by the fire. She watched the men and women come and go drinking and fooling around. She wished she had got run around like the young teenager she was, but duty had always nagging at her mind. When she was almost done with her tankard of lemonade a handsome young man swaggered over to her table.

He sat down in front of Lily smiling mischefiously. He said in a smooth voice, “Bartender will you please fill this beautiful young lady’s tankard with some of your finest ale.” Lily took out her fan and opened it wide covering her nose and mouth revealing only her eyes.

“I’m sorry mister, but I don’t drink and I think its time for me to go to bed,” Lily said kindly clearly rejecting the man. As she got up the man grabbed her wrist and gripped it a little harder then necessary. Lily tried to pull her hand back, but the man pulled her closer to him.

“Then I think I’ll join you,” he said trying to kiss her. Lily glared at the man and swiped at his face with her “fan”. He stepped back grabbing his face in pain. When he took his hand away there was a line of blood on it. “You horrible little wench. You don’t know whom your messing with. I’m very high up in the court of the Rogue. Isn’t that right boys?” he said to Lily all nasty. Lily looked around a rough looking crowd of men were standing up and looking her way. She noticed that the young ladies that had sprinkled the inn earlier had disappeared. Lily readied her “fan” for an attack.

“I don’t care if you’re the Rogue himself. Read my lips, I-don’t-want-your-company. Leave me alone,” Lily replied sharply, edging towards her rooms trying for an escape. She was fast and strong especially with her shukusen, but there were a lot of them and only one of her. Plus I can’t really risk letting these guys or anyone know who I am. You never know what they might do with that knowledge, she thought worried.

[Inc0gnit0]

OOC: I think that's my sign :P

BIC: After resting a few minutes Zenak quickly made his way into the inn where he was staying. He hoped they would take longer then he expected to search the surrounding buildings so that he could get some sleep. He walked in just before the inn keeper locked the door and recieved a wierd look by the inn keeper. Zenak closed and locked his door and kept Crecento leaned against his bed, just in case.

Luckily the loud knocking on his door never came. Zenak wasn't even sure if they knew what or if he had stolen a book an dthey might have just given up thinking the trouble too great. However, Zenak doubted his luck to be that great. His dreams were uneasy, filled with battle and sorrow. It was as if he was watching his whole life in fast motion but skipping the resting and the good times. As if this whole movie was a tribute to his fighting and less honorable actions.

Zenak woke up in sweats to realize it was a lot later then he had wanted. By the light seeping into his room it seemed like late afternoon. But Zenak didn't have time to mellow in his bed, guards were bound to look for him. Then he heard the sounds of a loud altercation ont he first level of the inn, where the bar was. By the voices it involved men and a women. Zenak was surprised. Zenak grabbed Crecento and secured it on his back before pulling his large cloak over the remainder of his body.

Zenak was out of the room not even 2 minutes after waking up. Zenak wa sused to movign quickly especially after rest. Zenak descended the stairs just to be intercepted by a man that stood in the stairway. Zenak looked at the scenery and it wasn't a pleasant one. Chairs and tables had been unsettled and men had started to surround a man and a girl. However, the hostility was definitly placed in the direction of the girl so Zenak assumed the man int he middle was their leader. The inn keeper was hiding behind his counter, swearing under his breath.

The young lady was wielding a strange weapon resemblign a sharp fan. As much as Zenak was intrigued by the women's weapon, her attire was a much better indication of her personality. Like him, she had something to hide, like him she was about to go off travelling and because she had no back-up, she was about to travel alone. Zenak liked her the moment he analyzed a few key parts. She definitly had spunk and Zenak wasn't going to let these men beat the pulp out of her because they could swarm her like useless ants.

"May I pass kind fellow?" The man baring his route turned around and pushed him slightly backwards and with an annoyed tone attempting authority said: "Go back to your room sir, this is none of your concern."

"But i must pass..." The man unsheathed his sword and his the flat of the blade in his hand. "No you don't."

"So be it..." In a second Crecento was out of its sheath and the man was headless. The head fell and rolled to the side as his limp body fell to its knees. Zenak would have had the element of surprise if one of his comrads hadn't turned around at that precise moment and quickly alerted the others before Zenak could reserve him the same treatment. The men quickly seperated into two groups, half ocmign towards Zenak. "What only half of you? pfft all of you wouldn't land a punch on me. Plus violence against a lady? Your moms wouldn't be proud."

Zenak smirked as a lone man decided to show off and charge on Zenak. A quick sidestep made the man's blow miss and hit the ground hard and then Zenak's counter-attack ended that man's life. "Whose next?" But this tiem they were slightly smarter and all charged at the same time. Numbers are irreleveant... Zenak didn't even move and the face on the bandit's faces when all their swords hit a sphere of light that had appeared around Zenak was priceless. Zenak then swung Crcecento which created a line of shadow energy that cut all the men infront of him at the chest level.

The men infront of him fell into two pieces and Zenak took a few steps forward. His hood was still up and Crecento's demonic flames burnt through his cloak without damaging it. He looked somewhat scary and some of the men who had turned around and saw their friends chopped up into pieces and him coming towards them lacked the courage and simply ran off screaming. Zenak could sense that this girl was more powerful then she looked. He decided to let her have her little fun. Zenak mostly wanted to see what powers she posessed. Worst come to worst if she failed his expectations he could always step in.

Zenak addressed the girl. "Now you show them..." Zenak waited for the brawl to continue.

[Hieko]

Ren finally made it in front of the Medic center.The place seemed barren and very bleak.It seemed exactly like a place that was suppose to house sick people.The only thing that disturbed her was the fact that bandits were around here.She didn't feel like fighting right now and especially since it would be a little harder since she was carrying someone at the moment.

She walked in slowly only keeping her attention in front of her since at the time,the moon wasn't as radiant and she couldn't see her best in this place.
"Excuse me,"
There was a lady behind a desk who looked very old but she aslo had the look of someone who was homeless.Her clothes were tattered and she was very dirty.To much to seem like she should be working in a medical center.
"I need help.....this person i'm carrying has serious injuries and is in need medical help as of now."Ren sounded very demanding.
"Oh,yes well I will call someone out to the front now to take him back on a stretcher......."
"Thankyou...........By the way,I can't help but ask,.......why is this place so weird?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well for starters this place is filled with bandits,inside and out,the people who work here seem to all look like there actually homeless people,and I can't help but feel this place is hiding something....."
"Oh don't worry about those bandits,there always around here,and for your acusations I don't know anything of what your talking about."
"I thought you wouldn't......"Ren said.even though you couldn't see her eyes you could feel that they were piercing the womans eyes as of now seeing that she looked down out of distraction and kept twittling her hands behind her back.

Two men with a stretcher came into the front.They motioned as to say "place him on here". Ren walked forward and stuck him on."I may have my doubhts about this place but this is the only one I could find." Ren thought."Well i'll be back soon." Ren said as if he could hear her.

When Ren walked out front she was hit on the side of her head hard.She shook her head fiercly and backed away even though she couldn't see where.She pulled the cover off her eyes and grabbed her chain.She didn't have expression at all.Just the look of happiness in her eyes."Thanks guys,I was bored and you guys were really starting to tick me off by just standing there the whole time.You saved me the trouble of having to figure out a way to start a fight with you."Ren said silently but it sounded as if it echoed.

One of the bandits came in front of the others.
"We really don't care about you lady.We just had heard what that man you brought in had said and we are against it.Since our plan is to go in there and kill your friend,your the only thing thats standing in our way of doing that.......so DIE!"
The bandit swound hard at Ren with huge axe.She simply put on a slight smile and trew the chain as it rapped around him.She smiled and drew him near as she took the short sword and jabbed it in place of his heart.He fell without saying anything.Ren grabbed it out and asked"Now,who else wanst to try?"
They must have all thought that attacking her as a team would kill her.It now 5 to 1 and guessing that 5's a bigger number they must have thought they would win.She laughed as she rapped back up the chain and only used the sword part.She clashed with two of them and slid under them stabbing the both of them from the behind.She then grabbed the chain out and pulled the weapon out of one of there hands and stabbed him as well."Only two left."She trew the chain around the other two and dashed forward stabbing one in the heart and the other the same.

"Heh,not even a challenge."Ren said.
"Now I think they should probably be done in there,so I guess i'll just wait for them to bring him back to the front."Ren walked inside and stodd against the wall waiting.

[KibasStalker]

OOC: Yay( ^.^ ) I really do love to roleplay!!! Okay I had a suspicion about geldings and so I am changing the horse from a gelding to a mare because I forgot geldings are “barren” male horses. I want my character’s horse to be female so you can see my conflict. I will be changing it in all my posts if anyone cares, though I doubt they will…

Lily noticed that the numbers around her had somewhat decreased. She wondered if someone had come to help, but she didn’t dwell on that thought long. A middle-aged man came at her left side with a knife. She gracefully closed her Shukusen around the knife and threw it at the man to her right. The blade hit cleanly in the shoulder causing him to fall back bleeding.

Lily felt a sharp pan in her side; blood trickled down from a minor injury in her abdomen. She was furious at herself for forgetting to cover her back and turned around. She closed her Shukusen and thrust at the man who had cut her side’s leg. He dropped his knife with a screech of pain. The man’s friend tried to come to his aid, but Lily reopened the fan slicing across her adversary’s chest. He looked at his chest for a moment before he fell in a faint.

She turned her attention to a man in front of her. He charged wildly at her, a club raised above his head. Lily jumped back so she was seated on a table. When the man was in range she lifted her feet and kicked hard. He relaxed his grip on the club as he doubled over in pain. The club flew into the air and hit another man right on the nose.

The man that had been hit then picked up a man in front of him. He accused him of throwing the club and punched him squarely in the face. After that the inn erupted, it turned into everyone for themselves. People attacked each other with chairs and tankards, anything they could get their hands on. Lily inched away from the fighting, heading for the stairs when the handsome young man, who had started the fight, walked up to her a sword in hand. He sneered at her; still thinking that because she was a woman couldn’t wield any sort of weapon.

Lily saw it in his eyes and scowled. The man swung at her clearly no real idea to what he was doing. Lily caught the blade in her shukusen and pushed. The man pushed back until they were body to body. It only looked as though he had the upper hand due to his height advantage, but do to her magic and Amazonian blood she had greater strength. With one more push and a flick of the wrist he lost control of the sword and backed away almost dropping it. Lily took this time to take out her aggravation of being forced to fight. She sidestepped him as he swung again at her stomach. Quickly Lily hooked her foot underneath his legs. He tumbled down to his knees dropping his sword. Not even letting him realize what had happen Lily swiped her open fan across his private area. The man screamed in pain.

Lily was now tired of the fighting and had no patients for another attempt to kill her. She closed her shukusen and tapped him on the head with the handle. He fell to the ground unconscious. Lily sighed and leaned down letting her hand hover just above the spot where she had cut. A light blue glow surrounded her hand as she healed the cut she made on his privates. She didn’t heal it all the way though so the cut would leave a reminding scar. Let him try and explain that to the ladies, she thought smugly.


With that Lily skulked to the stairs. When she looked up she found a very curious sight. A very creepy person was standing on the stair finishing off one of the rough looking men that had meant to attack her. She looked up and down the stair finding corpses and unconscious men moaning.

“I don’t want to fight you, but if you don’t let me pass you won’t like the results,” Lily said in a calm voice her eyes glaring up at the person. She prepared her shukusen, but felt she would not need to use it.

[Luzifer]

Azazel woke up to the burning ache of fire flowing out from his skull. The world was spinning horribly and parts of it were beginning to blotch out altogether. He put his hand to his head to try and still his brain which was spinning horribly in his head. He felt the cloth of a bandage and tried to remember what had happened. He had a vague memory of making a speech, he had been doing well when... a flash of red. He had bled... there had been blood, and water, and black fire... but in what way were these related? He looked at his hands and tried to order his thoughts. Suddenly the rock flash through his mind. Yes... it was the rock that had caused the blood and the rock must have been thrown, right? And the person who had thrown it was... some sort of old man? yes that was right. But then...punches flew into his mind but he couldn't draw back enough to see who was throwing them at who and where he stood in relation to them. Water... water was involved... water reddened...reddened by blood? Whose blood? His? Yes...yes it had been his blood in the water. He had been bleeding, rock, skull... blood yes that explained the wound but what about after that... forest... forest? possibly... and he had fallen...blackness.. but not firey blackness, empty blackness.

He sighed, this was getting no where. He began to sit up but pain forced him back down. He looked around but nobody was in the room. Gently he tried to lift himself up again and this time was able to sit up. Some one came in to the room, "Finally up? You should have been concious and standing a long time ago... you don't have any illness or diseases so your not sickly... just a poor constitution?"

He almost let a wan smirk creep across his features. His race had a poor constitution. It was unavoidable. But he didn't let that slip out. "Seems so... spent too many nights burning my candle to melted wax while pouring over metaphors and the like. I guess its starting to have an adverse affect on my body. But my duty must be done no matter the cost?"

The nurse smiled gently, a faint blush tinging her cheeks for reasons that Azazel could not fathom. "Well, take care of yourself... I don't want to see you in here again because you're not taking care of yourself."

He gave her an agreeing smile and she stared at the floor clutching her clip board. he swiveled on the bed and stuck his feet over the edge. Standing up, he stretched gently and began to work out the slight tinge of nausea that was still flooding over him. "Have a good day" he said to the nurse as he passed her and she returned the farewell in a whisper which he couldn't make out.

But than she said something else, her voices strange when she said it, as though the words were distasteful to her, "Your..um... girl-friend is outside. She brought you in after you got hurt."

"Oh? I wasn't aware I had one... but thank you... I'll have to speak to this individual." He wondered who it could be. Perhaps Ami had decided to follow him against the orders of the Cult after all? She had been threatening that when last they spoke but Azazel had manage to talk her out of it. If indeed she was following him it would be a rare time when someone change his or her mind after Azazel had convinced them otherwise. He looked around outside but rather than Ami it was some other girl that he did not recognize. She had a cloth over her eyes but Azazel did let any of it set him aback in the least.

"Are you the girl that I've been hearing so much about? Carried me here from the bed in the wildness? If so I really must thank you. Some way mayhaps that you may be repaid and my honor can be somewhat restored to its former luster? "

[Hieko]

Ren turned her attention twoards Azazel vice.She was recently just having head hang down looking as if she was staring at the dusty gray ground.

"Yes..........I found you passed out in a grove.I had heard from a child what had happened and he asked me to help you.So I did,but its pretty ammazing to me,I regularly wouldn't do something like that,but for some reason I did."She motioned her hands in front of her and cracked them.She had been standing there for so long ,that she almost fell asleep standing.The moon was shining a little more radiant now.She smiled and took the shading off her eyes.

"Thats better,I can see again.Now anyway,no I really don't think you can.I just came back here from the Moon Kingdom,but there wasn't really anything there for me,so I suppose I have nothing in need of doing."
Ren stretched up and then finally leaned against the wall.

[Tetsanosuke]

OOC: Sorry, Short post. >.<

BIC:
He took the man's hand and bowed again lightly. " So where are we heading to my new found companions? " He asked calmly as he looked to them both, his red cherry eyes widening like a cat's eye.

As he awaited a response his mind went off into what he thought was the world within. Inside it was as if he stood in a garden of flourishing colors so bright, and yet so melancholy with bright and deep blues and silver glazes as well as deep crimson hues. He looked upon each of the flowers and the roots as well as grasses upon the ground, this was him in a way thinking and calculating everything as one.

[Inc0gnit0]

OOC: A horse is a horse lol...

BIC: Zenak looked very intently at the girl as she fought. She was obviously experienced with brawiling but she lacked much experience. She left herself open too often and that wepaon of hers oculd cause much surprise but an experienced fighter could quickly find many weaknesses to a fighter as reckless as her. She also aimed for body parts instead of hitting vital organs. Of course if you didn't want to cause death thatw as the best way to go but in this situation it could have turned sour if just a few of these men could have decided to pick up their swords after having one of their arms chopped off.

The last thing Zenak noticed was her surprising strength even though she was obviously smaller then her opponent she managed to quickly overpower her enemy. Zenak could feel a certain magic behind that power but an untamed one, an untrained magic. When she finally managed to dispose of the people around her Zenak saw her wear and wondered how long she could have kept that up. Her wound in her leg hadn't been severe but she was lucky that opening could have cost her her life. Her rudamentary healing skills seemed to be very useful to her.

She definitely had spunk adressing him like that and still showing courage despite being so tired. However, Zenak doubted she would have showed the same courage had she seen how easily he had disposed of the men that were now bloody corpses around him. Zenak was definitely not looking very trust-worthy anyway considering his covered face, the dark fire burning around his arm and the dark blade in his hand.

Zenak pulled back his hood with his free arm and with a smirk replied: "Don't judge me lightly young lady. These foes had no mastery of magic nor swordsmanship. In your current state I doubt you could take down any kind of magic user. However, fortunately for you I have no gurdge against you. You may do as you please." Zenak stepped to the side liberating the way to the stairs. But just as this happened two guards entered the inn. When they saw all the dead bodies and Zenak standing there with a bloodied sword they automatically freaked out.

Then another guard joined them and pointed at Zenak yelling: "It's him, that's the guy who broke into the castle!" One of the guards ran out and soon the inn was flooding with guards. The inn keeper decided it was safer to remain behind his counter until things calmed down. Zenak passed his free hand through his hair and let out a sigh. He had hoped to be long gone but now he would have to deal with more guards. The guards then noticed the girl and let out a surprised scream. "He kidnapped a nobel! Alert the royal guard this guy is a psychopath!" A nobel?

Zenak took a quick look at the girl and then back at the guards that were slowly moving towards him. He knew if he stayed here soon there would be a whole cavalry of guards sent on him. Zenak grabbed a pouch of gold that hung from his belt under his cloak and threw it over the counter right on the inn keeper's head. oops... He then let out: "That's for the damage!" He saw the inn keeper's intrigued look but before anybody could react Zenak ran towards the wall to his left.

A guard stood infront of him but zenak used his magic to send him flyign to his right. He then concentrated light magic into his free palm. "Judgement!!!" A huge beam of light was sent from his palm directly into the wall of the inn. A huge explosion followed which raised a cloud of dust. Zenak ran through the hole he had formed into the inn's wall and looked around and found what he was looking for. He rushed towards the stable and jumped on a saddled horse. A few complains by the stable's owner were quickly silenced by a bag of gold.

Zenak quickly rode out of the stable and took a quick left away fromt he guards and the castle. Zenak tapped his cloak to find the black book was still in his inner pocket. He then resheathed Crecento which stopped the dark fire from running along his arm. He rode on quickly, without looking back. Where to now? I guess that little book will tell me...but for now I need to get away.

[Luzifer]

Azazel smiled, it was his normal gentle smile, that blazing brilliant and glowing even in the night. He took her words with ease, he had gotten used to being people's "exception", many people had defined him as an exception to whatever principles they normally had and while he did not know why that would be he had gotten used to it enough that he didn't let it phase him. "I'm glad that I was your exception, a lowly Apostle, such as myself, is hardly deserving of the accolade, "Exception". But, if you do not mind my prying, what is on such as you, newly come from the silver-swept sights of the Moon Kingdom, doing here in the Star? I did not think that this was a place for the wandering tourist but then I am not as familiar with the local historical knick-knacks as others might be."

"But please... you would insult me if you did not give me the chance! I do not wish to live in dishonor." he said earnestly with a soft graceful hand motion underlying his honest. "Surely there is some task i could bend my voice toward? Some dead words stuck upon your lips I could pry from their saliva-coffins and make dance in this soft moonlight? Or perhaps some enemy that will not be convinced of your righteousness and is in needing of a gently light of truth to guide him towards you mindset? Are you sure, I would not mind a brief detour from my work as an Apostle and I doubt very much that my humble and meager skills would be much missed."

[Hieko]

Oh I wish I could tell you why I left from the beautiful Moon Kingdom but I can't just tell anyone.It could cause problems for me if you told people who I were."

Ren shook her head slightly.She stared in another direction not paying attention twoards Azazel.She spoke softly and continued her attention somewhere else.
"Well if you really wanted to help...............That would probably be asking to much but i'll ask anyway.First,do you know the history of the Twilight Clan.I suppose just about everyone should know who's ever been to the Moon Kingdom seeing as when you arrive they tell you not to go twoards the part of the Moon Kingdom that is near a forest."

[Luzifer]

Azazel waved his finger chastisingly, "tsk tsk, it's 'who I am' or 'who i was' not 'who I were' Please, you'll find your points get conveyed with greater beauty and clarity if you elucidate them with proper linguistics."

Azazel sighed, "I can't say I'm familiar with it no... I'm of the mindset that race is irrelevant. and so I don't take the time to study them. If a person's race means they have more abilities to contribute that is nice but what matters is that they are loyal to all life and that they are willing to put all their effort towards the greater good. How well they can accomplish this and the means they use are less pertinent. Why? Are you one of this clan of which you speak and if you were how does that affect anything?"

[Hieko]

Ren sighed.
"Well I guess I could tell you.Yes i'm apart of the clan.I just needed help in finding someone.You don't have to help me in finding this person.It wouldn't matter to me anyway.It doesn't really affect anything.Its just that it would help clear my name if you helped,and that would affect me I suppose.

Ren motioned her left hand onto her chain.She put the other hand behind her head.she started thinking of what she should to next wether he helped her or not.She smiled at the thought that she would actually probably get something acomplished but that could just be another fantasy.

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Sheana stood up and began walking outside the forest.She smiled as she had actaully gotten something acomplished in some time.She was a better fighter now she thought.

She walked on a dusty path twoards the Star kingdom."Maybe I should take a rest somewhere, or find something that could just keep my attention."
Sheana stuck her sword back in the sheath and went inside a small .She went inside a small bar.She sat ina chair that squeaked if you sat on the edge.She placed some money on the counter and ordered for a tea.She smiled as she grabbed it and began drinking it.She said thanks and made her way outside the bar.

"Now what?Theres nothing else I suppose I could do except find a place to sit for a while."She walked closely to what seemed to be a fountain.She saw that quite a number of people were gathered around this place as if something had happened.She noticed people weren't near the fountain,so she went over to tak a look.She looked inside and saw some trace amounts of blood blended in with the water making it a soft clear red.
"I wonder what happened here......." she said as she started walking away.

[Luzifer]

"You come in the wake too?" Zoroaster asked the girl at the fountain... He had come back to the fountain for it was a good as place as any to start his next journey. He had made contact with the collective conciousness now he needed to find out more about these scrolls he now needed to collect. So he had come here hoping that the wake of the speech would turn over some clues as people loosened their tongue to talk of the events.

The girl had an odd look about her and he hoped that might signal some sort of expertise in what he was hoping to learn. "You missed a good speech." Maybe she would know of the scrolls... If not... no harm done.

Azazel smirked, "Of course I will help. Unlike some of the less...exemplar Apostles, I practice what I preach, that mortals must stand by each other and help where they can. If I can help you I figure I will have done a good deed no matter what your position. Besides..." he said letting his smirk grow a little "Sounds like this journey of yours will take us to distance places and several Kingdoms... which is what I'm doing anyway. As long as you don't mind if I stop to make a few speeches along the way then I'll be doing my job anyway. I'm sure they won't mind terribly if I don't make my speeches at the appointed locations as long as I keep up the path of the mendicant."

"My Lady Lev" said a soft, gentle, and masculine voice within the Leviathans mind, "I have felt something. I fear that their are...emotions brewing within the world that could bring you harm. Please, my lady, allow my to go a try to slacken them, if we dally I fear more lives will be lost later, and I do not wish for too many deaths. But as always, my lady, I will leave it to your discretion."

[Hieko]

Sheana turned around a little stratled by the voice.She was paying attention twoards somewhere esle and didn't notice her surroundings.

"Umm No" Sheana said shaking her head shyly.
"What do you mean by I missed a good speech.Who was giving one" Sheana said with her full attention on Zoroaster.

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"Okay great then.I guess we could start moving by tomorrow.I'm just in the mood to sit out in the moon right now and perhaps even sing something."
Ren walked out the door.She guessed if was going to really help than he would follow but than again he could find her later.She shrugged.

"Oh yeah and you could do what you want while were traveling."She said it lightly and smiled as she walked her way to a grassy field near by.

[Luzifer]

The Monad shrugged, "I don't know his name. Some guy, just came in and started speaking and I liked the speech... inspired me to get to work... past couple weeks I've just been sorta drifting... not able to think of what to do... but now" Zoroaster grinned and clenched his fist, "I'm going to right the injustice of this world...though..." he sighed, "I still don't know the specifics of how I'm going to do that. Something about scrolls and what not."

"This world you people live in is rather confusing... nothing here makes sense even if its based on predictable laws of kinematics and relativity." He let a a wan smirk over take his face as he wiped his hands on his blood stained shirt.

Azazel followed her not really knowing what else to do. He'd already given his speech here and besides the market would be empty this late at night. He smirked good-naturedly, letting a gentle humor flow over his features. "Singing? Sounds like something out of a story... though I think I'm supposed to discover you in the act when you think no one's watching, but we can't skip that... unnecessary frivolities are just that."

"Speaking of me doing my job. I have to ask you this at least once and whichever answer you give me will be irrelevant for whether I help you or not but, as I say, it is part of my job and I have a duty to ask: Which side are you on? Cult or Holy? Answer just once and I'll not bother you with it again. If it wasn't my job I wouldn't have asked in the first place" His smiled turned apologetic and the moonlight caught his teeth perfectly as he did so, causing the to gleam from the depths of a dark white-etched face.

[KibasStalker]

When the man revealed that he had no intention of hurting her Lily let a small sigh of relief go free. He was right when he said she was too tired to fight back. Not only physically, but emotionally. Lily hated hurting others, especially killing them. When she had studied her family history on her mother’s side she had found bloody conflicts that led to the seclusion of her race and the death of innocent people. Now the Amazon Islands were in a healthier state, but the writings of that time had truly horrified her.

Lily looked up, into the eyes of the man before her. It seemed as though he saw her through clear eyes unclouded by the fog that most people acquired with age. She could even ponder the thought of someone logical and perceptive a guard yelled.

Lily smiled in spite of herself at what he said. He had come in to see what the heck was going on in the inn, but ended up finding a royal thief. Not only had he done that, but also he had revealed something more about her companion. He had been the one who help set her free. The guard though did not stop with revealing that; no he had to also reveal her identity as well.

Lily spun around sending the guard a piercing gaze. She could not risk someone letting the King know she was gone. Lily reached into a small bag that was hidden in her skirt pulling out a handful of dust. Lily blew with all her might sending the dust all over the guards below. Slowly they all sank to the ground sleepy. Lily turned around and smiled. They wouldn’t wake for quite a while, and by the time they did Lily would be long gone. As she traveled up the stairs she noticed the man was gone, the sound of his feet padding against the hardwood floor told her he was going towards the stable.

Lily gathered her bags and climbed out the window to the sound of more guards finding their sleeping comrades. Lily used her reserve strength to call her horse. The mare happily came, somewhat cleaner then she had been when Lily had dropped her off. Lily quickly tied her bags to her horse and climbed up.

After getting some ways away from the inn Lily used a little more of her reserve strength to find the mans horse. She searched for a horse forced to wake in the night and charge away. Within a few moments she found it and headed off into that direction. Somehow she believed that man with the strange magic and ancient sword would be able to help. I must thank him, for if he had not caused that commotion at the Palace I fear I never would have gotten away,Lily thought as she cantered through the sleeping city.

With in twenty minutes Lily had almost caught up with the man. He road a horse well, and his horse was enjoying the run now that it realized it had an expiernced rider on it's back. At last she was riding along side the man.

"You didn't tell me your name and I must thank you," Lily said softly. "You helped take some of the burden in that brawl. Plus your umm little visit to the Palace helped me get away," Lily said shyly. She looked around seeing that they were now a ways away from the kingdom. Lily cringed a little at her situation. She thought for a moment then turned the man and said, "Do you think I could stay with you for awhile. As you said I don't have a lot of fight in me left. I would not be in very good shape if I were to run into bandits." Lily turned away from him, so he wouldn't see the desprate need in her eyes. She didn't even dare to tell him about the book she had taken from the Royal library.

OCC: Lily does have a good amount of control over her magic. She still loses control sometimes when she gets too emotional.

Okay so I decided really don't think the end of my post gives anybody a real chance to interact with me. Namely Inconginto... So I added another paragraph or so to the end.

I'm doing this as a precousion(sp?) for my own sanity. I have been clicking refresh on and off for the last three hours waiting for someone to post.

Wow I'm that much of a dork and I have no life...

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron glanced at his little sister with a a smirk and turned his gaze back to their new companion. "We really don't know... the castle was our only real destination." He chuckled lightly. "Sorry if that's dissappointing to you."

"Well if you had just listened to father and become a holyman like you were supposed to, we wouldn't have this problem. You'd have a purpose to travel. Holymen go to all sorts of pilgrimiges and what not. You are but a blacksmith."

"Psh, holyman my foot. Anyway, how about the closest kingdom... the Moon Kingdom. And Elli, I've told you that we do have a purpose. Father Andreas did not keep me in the dark of that letter you know. We are here to serve and record."

Elli blinked in confusion, "Serve who and record what?"

Baron smiled at her, "The history of the chosen five... and we've already found one." He looked to Vahn and bowed slightly, "An honor it is, but we really must be going... it is dark enough as it is. Who knows what kind of bandits prow at this hour."

So that's what all the glowing and spotlight stuff was about... Elli thought as she followed her brother cheerfully. She looked to Vahn and giggled, "It makes much more sense that you're one of the five and not Baron, he spaces out way too much."

[Tetsanosuke]

" Then to the moon Kingdom we go. It shall be the time avast here, the time we settle as ours to see what we can and achieve what we must. " Hilariously so, he was somewhat spaced out himself for a small bit. He could feel his mind settle back into reality as they treked into the night on the road.

But he caught the words of bandits on the prowl, and blinked a few times before assuring them " You see these ears? " He said as he pointed up at them, twitching them gently. " Bandit detectors.. It matters not how much of a foot pad you are, I can still hear and sense you coming. " He would turn his eyes out to the fields that they passed by, his vision like that of a cat as well as his ears and yet again adorned to scale in effectiveness.

He thought on though, the nearest inn was about a few miles down the road and only then would they reach slumber. Even so, he was wide awake, almost nocturnal in his effectiveness, which seemed unyielding by his charisma and fortitude.

" But shall we speak of such things dark? When it's light we need, or at least you two. My eyes are sharp enough to see clearly out here in the darkest of nights. " His hand was clasped over the golden hilt of his Vahjia, walking on looking at them from the side as they went along.

[Hieko]

Sheana had no idea of what she should say.She just let a crooked smile come on her face and tried to think of something she should say.
"I see.And........"She let the "and" carry on.
"Well I kinda know what you mean about this place being kind of confusing" she said rubbing the back of her head.
"This place kind of confuses me to.I barely understand what I should be doing here.See I just recently came from the Moon Kingdom,but I never left there before and I finally just decided to take an adventure away,but lately nothing has been working out for me."She tried to gather as friendly as a smile could be on her face but it didn't work.It was still crooked.

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"No,its just a habit of mine.Especially on nights like this.I can't help it.Plus many people think my singings amazing anyway."She pulled her hair back from out of her face.

She didn't have an expression at the time and just decided it probably didn't matter."I'm on Holy's side.Why do you ask?"

[Luzifer]

The Monad didn't notice, smiles all seemed the same to him, just some strange curvature of the lip. "Moon Kingdom, eh? What's that? I've never heard of it..." Zoroaster asked, hoping his ignorance wouldn't put him in too awkward a spot. "Adventure? What a strange thing..."

Zoroaster waved his finger gently through the water of the fountain and watched the little ripples and waves that he was making amusedly. They almost seemed like the ripples of space-time from back when, during the universes formation, black holes had popped in and out of existance in rapid succession.

"And I'm sure it is..." Azazel said with grin. He had no idea, really, but it was the polite thing to say and besides, however many people she had met couldn't all be wrong right?

"You haven't figured it out yet? I'm an Apostle... that means I work for the Cult... Its my job to preach the necessity of the fight against God, though I prefer to emphasize the necessity of people to come together and unite. The fight against God just being something necessary to that end." It was sort of ironic that he, a Nephilim would preach togetherness. God had drowned most of the Nephilim in the flood and then mankind had been made to cast them out where ever they could be found. The only way Nephilim were ever accepted was when they lied about their race.

[Hieko]

Sheana looked in wonderment at the fact that he didn't know what the and where the Moon Kingdom was."Wow,you've never heard of the Moon Kingdom.Thats a surprise for me.Well you do at least know where your at now,right?Cause that would just seem even weirder if you didn't even know the answer to that."Sheana rubbed the back of her head and let out a small amout of laughter.It seemed amusing to her in away.
"You don't know what an adventure is either huh?"She smiled a little and giggled a little more.She thought to herself how he couldn't know.Besides,it seemed to her what he was trying to do would lead him into some type of adventure.It just didn't make since to her.
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Sheana looked almost puzzled in a way.Although she new what he was saying,she just didn't really care about the whole thing.Besides,its not like ever helped in any way at all.
"Well i'm not really interested in the whole thing anyway.I really don't care whichever side really even wins.Its just a matter of picking sides to the bitter end.One half thinks something different,the half as well.Theres no uniting anyone in the whole thing.People just continue to fight to the end and once again everything will beome darkness and all the hatred and sadness that everyone has gathered will once again destroy the planet.Although I guess what your doing could have an effect on the whole problem and maybe it won't happen if you can actually get everyone to unite."
"Oh i'm sorry for talking so much about it."She stuck the cover back on her eyes and stood waiting solemnly.

[Luzifer]

OOC: Please note when Azazel refers to "love" he means "lust" however, because of his nature and the way he was raised he's unable to distinguish between the two.

"Hatred... is such a meager force." Azazel said... "You do sound like a Holy... Holy's put a lot of emphasis on hatred... they think Cult hates them, they hate Cult... and maybe some of the Cult hates... but... hatred can do nothing on its own... its like love... pointless." His eyes gleamed yellow in the moon light as he leaned against the wind... "To me... at least... hatred couldn't destroy the world... hatred loves the world and would wish to maintain it so that it could continue to hate... if hate acts hatred ends itself and then gives birth to hatreds which are not of its womb. A dying, futile propagation. Love is similar but it is cyclical... it eats its own flesh... cannibalizing itself while growing at an equal rate." There were whispers of wind and Azazel gently listened to their rhythms and out of habit let his important words fall in time with them, "My Cult... the one I will make... is one of serenity and union. Where people do not dishonor themselves with either hatred or love... All there would be... is calmness."

He smirked, "People moan about how much hatred their is in the world but their not willing to sacrifice love... they say they can get rid of hatred through love but thats like saying 'I can be rid of poison by making venom'. Its more semantics than anything else." Azazel started laughing, "tsk tsk tsk... what a creature of habit, am I? I make speeches even when I don't mean to!"

Zoroaster scratched back of his head in thought, "If i remem er... a week ago some guy told me I was in Sun... so I guess I'll assume that I'm still there unless I've crossed into someplace else without being told about it."

He waved his hand gently, "no, no, no, I know what an adventure is but I just find it strange... you people attach so many romantic notions to that word... but its such a horrid thing. It being spat into foreign circumstances without clear idea of what your bound to do but knowing your bound to it. Your head hurts from thinking and it probably hurt already. Not having any food from day to day and wandering around in raggedy clothes and grime... I don't see why people get excited over them"

[Inc0gnit0]

OOC: Lol don't worry about it...I've RPed with people who on average gave me 3 lines to work with...I think I can deal with you ;)

BIC: Zenak had noticed the approach of another rider quite early and had eased up when he realized who it was. The girl he had helped in the inn was now working her horse hard to catch up with him. Zenak smirked but looked on ahead and without making it aparent slowed down his horse ever so slightly. Zenak was comfortable on a horse and had ridden all his life, he could almost do it asleep. When the girl finally reached his side he looked towards her.

They were already out of the city but still very close to it so danger was still too near to stop. Zenak did admit that risks of badnits were pretty high in these parts and that there would definitely be guards issued to pursue them. The girl was talking to him, asking his name and thanking him for his help. Zenak looked straight forward and in a calm voice replied: "Might I remind you that your name is also a mystery to me. In some cultures it is incredibly rude to demand ones name without offering your own first." Zenak smirked slightly.

"Don't worry about it, I do not come from such a culture. The name is Zenak. I am but a traveller seeking answers. Your fortune was in no way my intention but I am glad to have been of help." Zenak seemed to concentrate on the road ahead as Lily asked if she could join him for a while. Zenak passed his hand across his face and removed the hood that veiled his face. "I am but a traveller with no destination. A wonderer with no goal. My next move is unknown even to me and will be decided by the ancient ramblings of a crazy priest. Trust me young lady my company is not advised."

Zenak let a bit of silence stretch between them before continuing what he had to say. "However, if it is protection you seek then you are in luck for I can provide this. Where are you heading and what is your story? To run off, escape guards and follow a total stranger who can snap your neck in an instance has to have some background story to it." Zenak offered a plaisant smirk as he said the last part. Zenak was known to be pretty arrogant but not without reason.

It was mostly a fun little act that he liked to play. A personage that he liked ot make people belive was him. very few people knew Zenak and even fewer people knew him for anythign more then a slightly arrogant traveler with a knack for the extraordinaire. Zenak wasn't very social and had a hard time dealing with women normally but this girl seemed different somehow, she definitely had spunk and it relaxed Zenak slightly.

As the city shrunk behind them and forests grew to their left Zenak slowly stired his horse towards the forest assuming Lily would follow. When a few hours had gone by and the forests seemed closer then the city behind them Zenak turned around and said: "We'll camp int he forest tonight and I'll try to find out where I'm going next as soon as possible. You are welcome to remain with me however I suggest you tell me where your path leads you or else we might be forced to make quite a few unpleasant detours."

[Hieko]

Sheana couldn't help but laugh a little."Wow!.......(moments of laughter).....Okay i'm sorry for laughing.Your actually in the Kingdom of Star.I'm surprised you've been getting around as long as you have without knowing where you were."
Sheana walked over twoards the fountain for a seat.She poked the inside of it just to see her face rumple in the waves and reform once again the same way it was before she touched the surface.
"Oh.Well some adventures are actually fun!Some you meet all kind of people,and others you get to see many different sights and places.Also some adventures you actually help people in ways and probably make a difference in the world.............Or maybe thats just my thought of an adventure.Sorry about that."
Sheana laughed a little at how much she believed in adventures.She wondered where it all came from.It was almost like she had been on one before.but she couldn't remember if she ever had.She never even left the Moon Kingdom before.It was a mystery to her."Great,another one to figure out." she thought.
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Ren continued facing in his direction.Behind her cover,she was staring in sort of amazement.
"Well, do the Cult really hate Holy.I'm just wondering.It seemes pointless in anyway to me though.I still have to disagree with you though.I still think Hatred is what will tare this world apart.For some reason thats just how I was rasied to see this world as to what I see it as."
Ren stood in what she thought was the most lighting of the area from the Moon.Her hair seemes a bright white.Different than color it naturally seemed.
"The world will be trown into despair from all the hatred everyone spreads about.........I mean do you really believe that?Hatred doesn't love the world,more like in a way it yearns to tare the world apart and force it back into the bottemless despair from whince it came.All people hate,and all people love,but yet within that love is a longing hatred thats just waiting to come out.Nothing lasts forever,and nothing will."
Ren laughed at the fact that she was starting to give speeches.

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron smiled as Vahn spoke. It was true that they should be traveling by light but he felt that the sooner they arrived at the Moon Kingdom the better. He wanted Elli out of danger as soon as possible. "Well you don't need to worry about us Vahn. My sister and I are Erabyssian and our senses are fairly keen as well. But enough with this talk, tell us a little bit about yourself."

Elli looked at the knight and wait. She wanted to know if there was anything that made him special to become one of the five. She was taught about the five chosen ones that were going to defeat or control Leviathan. The holymen and women at the cathedral prayed for the day to come when the five would come and bless the Star Kingdom. Apparently, one already was and Elli never knew.

[Tetsanosuke]

" About myself you say? " He asked as they went on, tracking through the dirt road on their way past the high grasses and the low hanging trees shining with the bulbs of starlight locust flowers blooming in the ocean of the night. He noticed a few bulbs going out, but kept his calm.

" Well I am Vahngard Kaethmour.. The previous Captain of the Star Order Guard at the Star Kingdom Castle. I am of Saeth descent, meaning as you noticed I'm like a cat. " He brought a hand to his chest, on his white place armor where the Rose Crest sat engraved near his heart.

" When I was young I just couldn't help but be so enticed by the romanticism of being a Fencer.. a Knight or Duelist as you could say. What I am made it the perfect art to get into. Though I realize their is more to it then beauty. Though the sword is more then just a weapon.. " He stopped for a few seconds to emphasize on that note " It's a tool to revitalize one's soul, and protect that which one cares about. "

He would look down at his Vahjia, the Rose Brand forged in the deep cataclysms of the early world, a blade to shine and breathe through the darkness. He could only wonder how it really was him who became one of the five. But that thought wasn't of any true importance. He was one of them, so be it. He would take it as it were and be the best he could.

" Beyond that... I grew up like any other Saeth.. But I was basically raised in that castle. The head of the Kitchen; Ginsel was like a second mother to me. " He turned to them as he walked and asked them the same thing. " What about you two? "

[Luzifer]

Azazel clucked his tongue, "You're falling to false assumptions. Listen to me... the problem with you point of view is that you assume that hatred and love are not linked forces. That they are independent entities... however, in reality they are two sides of the same coin. Let me expand on this metaphor. Say you have a coin, and if you get heads a certain number of times you will die... but for every time you get tails you get a small jolt of pleasure. If you keep flipping that coin eventually you'll get that number of heads and die. Heads is hatred, tails is love... but you see if you keep having love than eventually hatred will build and there is your problem. Now, what you are trying to do is make a one sided coin and thats just an impossibility. You can not have hot without cold. No day without night... however... you can have neither. Think of it like this now. By nature their must by an infinite amount of things we could have had but we do not have all of them. But for the feelings and traits we do have there are opposites. Therefore we have been given the neither choice. The only way for peace to be obtained with an measure of length is if we select neither when it comes to love and hatred."

" Now.. on to your next point... Hatred does not wish to tear this world apart. Hatred always exist towards the end of creating a world which it loves... This is the essence of my point. Hatred is negative love. Hatred acts in accordance to love. That which I love I must hate the opposite of. If I love peace, I must hate violence. Those in Holy that hate Cult, hate Cult because it gets in the way of their Holy world which they LOVE... Therefore, if you want there to be no hatred... there must be no love. The only other choice is a complete and utter homogeneity of people, where every one is one race, once nationality, follows one creed, with one voice, with identical personalities. And to me... such a world is a sin... but that is a Holy world... for Holy is by nature a force of ORDER, since it desires to have all things structure in accord with God. All other things need by necessity be disintegrated. While, some within Cult, I will admit, have fallen towards seeking homogeneity and a false-chaos... at least that faction, if properly manipulated can be contained, while Holy by its nature seeks towards that which I oppose in its entirety, not just in a faction."

The Monad looked away, "Bah..."

He leaned back against the air but didn't fall off balance, "Well, I better hope your right about the changing the world stuff... otherwise I'm dead before I even get started. But, still... all that stuff about meeting people and seeing places... thats all well and good, but thats a trip an adventure has all those things but without giving you the time or the opprotunity to enjoy them. In an adventure your beaten by fear and confusion to such a point where everything around you is hollow, lacking in meaning. You seek vainly for some sign of your purpose and ignore all the spectacles around you which you would delight it if you could step back from the creping terror in your lungs to see properly..."

"But whatever... I have to go... I can't sit here forever while there are things that need doing" he said as he stood up.

[KibasStalker]

Lily blushed a light pink, had she not had training in the matter of blushing, if you can imagine that, she would have blushed deep deep red. How could she possible have forgotten such a courtesy? I guess I’m just on my toes since I haven’t been out of the Palace long. How can I trust anyone, Lily thought a bit half-heartedly.

Even though he said it did not matter Lily responded anyways, “I’m Lilith of Heartwood, but you may call me Lily.” She smiled impishly as she said the title. No one really called her Lilith not even her mother had used the name. “I really do apologize for not introducing myself at the inn, but I really didn’t think it was the time nor the place for such formalities,” Lily added after a quick pause.

“Being a traveler is all fine and well, but without company one may grow to forget the joys that others in this world may bring. Besides I’m a bit naïve and I don’t have very much experience when it comes to the world outside Heartwood let alone the Sun Kingdom. And what a horrible fate it would be to never have seen the wonders this beautiful world offers. I think I shall travel with you whether you advise against or not,” Lily said with finality. Over the next few hours Lily studied her companion thoroughly trying to decide when to tell him about the book, let alone ask if he could decode it. After, Zenak stated they should make camp, Lily remembered their poor tired horses.

“Sounds good, I’ll go water our horses while you make camp. Should we make a fire? I think we are pretty far away from the city, but you never know. I trust your decision in this matter,” She responded. “Oh and I don’t know where I’m going either. I suspect with my own reasons that heading to the Cloud Kingdom’s famous Library is my best bet. I want to decode something that’s in the First Language. I believe the best copy for someone unfamiliar with the Language to translate with lies there,” with that she slid off her horse and took Zenak’s to the stream a little farther in the woods.

[Hieko]

"Well maybe I am probably falling to false assumptions as you say but I can't change the fact that thats what i was told to believe.The fact is, that was what my clan's whole ideal was.But for as long as I could remember at one point in my life I never thought of it that way.But...............theres another reason i think of the world as to what it is.
But I also guess that story can be told another time.Well I guess we both have very big differences and ideals.So i'll leave it up to you if you still want to come with me.Bye."

Ren waved as she walked off in the direction twoards the entrance of the Star Kingdom.Her chain clinkced with every step and her heels seemed to grind into the dirt with every step.Ren was torn with what he said.Maybe everything he said was right.Maybe his ideals are what this world needs to believe in but.........than again he could be wrong.Ren didn't know what to think,so she settled for taking some time alone for herself.

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Maybe you are right about that,but i still like adventures and in any type.As long as I have a great time during my adventure,I won't stop,besides I sorta.........have nothing better to do.Hehehe."
Sheana tried to pull off a laugh.
"Well may I ask where your going?" Sheana said with amusement.

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron and Elli listened intently. Elli pouted inwardly. Nothing. How upsetting. Either way it was an interesting history. She couldn't remember the last Saeth she met. She knew she had met someone but it's a far-off memory now.

Baron stared straight ahead as he spoke, "Well... We aren't very interesting. We are of Erabyssian decent, as we had told you earlier... Our father was a priest at the cathedral. You might know it... of course it's the only cathedral we have in the kingdom... Well he was a priest until he fell in love and left the holy service to marry our mother who was also Erabyssian and a singer at an opera house in the Sun Kingdom... Elli is carrying out our father's wish for us to be Holys. I, on the other hand, am a blacksmith. I agree on you with how a sword is not only a weapon. Your words described it better than mine probably could... but that's about it. Nothing special." Baron finished he turned and smiled at Vahn again.

Elli looked up at the two men, much taller than he and wished that she had a sudden growth spurt. At the same time she wished that they were special in some way. Erabyssians were dying down quickly because of some women not being able to bear children. She had found out by Father Mioras that she was one of those women. It made sense to her but it still angered her to an extent. But... even this did not make them special and she knew she would just have to live with being the one to simply have been there to help fight that almighty Leviathan, if she were to show that is. Elli had no doubts that she would though. Not a single doubt.

[Luzifer]

" You don't listen to me very well do you?" Azazel said walking after her, "I said in the beginning, 'I practice what I preach' and not only that I said 'I doesn't matter what answer you give for whether I'll help you or not'. If I practice what I preach how could I say no just because you have different beliefs than me? That would imply that I hate what you think... but I'm against hatred and love... I'm not a hypocrite... I say mankind should not hate nor love so I am the first to do it." he continued to follow her, "so are you going anywhere or do you just like walking off in random directions without telling people what your doing?"

"Your guess is as good as mine" he replied with an even tone.

Well, she could keep her adventures, the past two weeks had been more than enough adventure for... some extended period of time... he couldn't relate to units of time, none of them made sense to him. But... if this adventure ended right now and he never had one ever again that would be perfect.

[Saisashi~Arashi]

Lunara squinted in the distance. It couldn't be... but it was true. Just north of her, near the gates of the Moon Kingdom, were about 15,000 men, and 3,000 calvary. Whatever the numbers were, it was a pretty large group, maybe even bigger than the last time she'd seen a Moon army. Where were they headed? Hiding beside a rock, she overhead the conversation and orders of the general.

"This time, we teach those disgusting Sun people how REAL warriors fight! We shall cut them down to size! Strangle them with their own organs! Destroy them! Obliterate them!"

"AYE!!!" the men shouted in unison.

I knew the Sun Kingdom was the most militarily advanced kingdom, and the Moon Kingdom was the most brutal in fighting, but this is just ridiculous! Lunara thought. I've got to warn the Sun people...

Normally, Lunara wouldn't get involved, but something, some force, told her she needed to. And very few people knew this, or, most refused to believe it, that it was really the fault of the Cult who started this giant war between the Moon and Sun Kingdom. They destroyed a town of the Sun Kingdom, but pointed fingers at the Moon people, and the Sun Kingdom therefore destroyed one of the Moon Kingdom's towns, thus causing a 300-long year war, and it still hasn't stopped.

Lunara was one of the few that knew this. Still, she galloped forward, toward the Sun Kingdom. By the time she got there, it was nearly dusk. Leaving her horse at the groomer's, she proceeded to enter the court of the King of Albiel, King Darion.

"I present to you, Lady Lunara of the Storm Kingdom!"

"Oh shut it." she growled at the presenter, and came to the King, bowing. "What is your business here?" he asked irritatedly. He wasn't fond of the Storm people, thinking them as cowards, just because they used ambush techniques in their fighting style.

"I come to warn you! The Moon Kingdom prepares an attack against you. It's warriors are out there, now, right now, in the fields of Turmoire, outside their city, coming here this very instant!"

Gasps and muffled cries of shock and confusion filled the room. Shushing his people, King Darion glared at Lunara. "And what evidence do you bring of this?"

"Nothing but my word, sire. Send scouts if you must. But you have to call your troops now! Defend your city!"

"SILENCE! I will fight my own way, not by your command, but by my own will."
"But you don't need to fight! Call a treaty with the Moon! You know, as many people do, that is was not the Moon Kingdom that torched your town, but the work of the Devil! Take out your real enemy - THE CULT!"

More gasps and rumors spilled on top of the already restless crowd. "How dare you! The Cult has been and always will be our allies! They would not work against us!"

"That's what you think! But they live and die by their own laws, the laws forged in blood of innocent deaths! They lie, they deceive! The Cult seeks nothing more than to control you and your kingdom, to use you as they see fit. And when the time comes, they will come, and destroy your city, and take it all for their own."

"Silence! She blasphemes! Guards, seize her!"

Snarling, Lunara took out her sword, and readied herself for a fight...

[Inc0gnit0]

Light and darkness, black and white, sun and moon. Too many opposites came as a result of the basic assumption that dark is evil and that light is good. Zenak had read and seen too often the madness in the name of "light" and too often the death of courageous men who lived in the shadows. Who could truly define good and evil. No one really could. Zenak had started a fire, he didn't think the guards would be on top of them this quickly especially not at night however they would alternate watch.

When they were both seated comfortably around the fire Zenak took out one of his pouches he kept on him and took out some bread. It wasn't much but for now he just didn't feel like hunting. Zenak threw a piece at lily before analyzing what she had just said before running off to get the fire thatw as now burning between them. "The first language? What might you need to come from such a distant time. You should worry about the present for there are more then enough turmoil already afoot that you have to plague your young mind with the problems of the past, leave that to the old and the weary." Zenak let out a small chuckle.

"If you must translate a document then it would be my pleasure to assist you, I consider myself an...admirer for a lack of better word of old literature. I myself got a book I will need to read which was written in the ancient language. We have much time infront of us. For now, until we know our path I suggest we head towards the moon kingdom. No sun soldier will dare follow us in the land of their enemy." Zenak stared into the fire letting the heat sink into his skin. This talk about the moon kingdom brought back memories of pain and war. Will history cease to repeat itself...

Things moved forward but never changed. Men were stupid creatures who repeated the same mistakes as their predecessors. The reasons might be slightly different but bottomline it mattered not. Zenak spent his life learning about the mistakes of men and having to deal with the newer ones they commited on a daily basis. They were all on the verge of a war and this time Zenak wasn't sure where he stood. It is the responsibility of those with power to do the right things or else the world will constantly rush towards oblivion.

To the moon kingdom they would ride but not to find answers or to escape the sun kingdom. To the moon kingdom they rode because they had to, because pieces were in motion and that was their next step. Zenak had never really travelled with someone else before so it was something definitely new to get used to. Zenak looked up at Lily after realizing he had been lost in his thoughts again and a lot of time had stretched but it was something normal to him considering his normal lonelyness.

"I have never travelled with anyone before so don't be surprised if I just get lost in my thoughts sometimes...don't feel shy in waking me up from my daydreams." Zenak stood up and looked at the moon that shone brightly int he distance. "I assume you are aware of the history that entertwined the sun and moon kingdom long ago. What you and most people might still ignore though even though the signs are there is that something is going to happen very soon. The wind itself is holding its breath, nature stands still and the very fabric of humanity is at stake. A war like none ever written by human hand will comapre to the vast destruction that might result from a clash of this magnitude. The whole world will have to choose a side. Light or dark..."

Zenak paused a bit to let his words sink. "Such simple words yet they hold all the meaning in the world when used by men with charisma. Words can destroy worlds, trust me it is no coincidence that those 2 words ressemble one another." Zenak turned around and looked straight at Lily. "Everyone will have to make a decision at that point. There will be very little room for error, very little room for indecision. All you can do until the climax is prepare. The choice you will make soon combined with the choice everyoen else will make will shape the world for the ages to come. Lets hope humanity has learnt...but I feel a weighing darkness in the nights of late. Maybe its just my old age bringing up my cynicism but I don't think humanity is ready to be tested in such a brutal way just yet."

Zenak then sat back down his back to the forest and he looked out into the horizon at the small city that was the sun kingdom. To his back he knew the moon kingdom lay and betweent hese two nations the first blood would be spilled but definitely not the only. The atmosphere is charged with uncertainty and the folly of belief. Men will oppose men and soon Light and Darkness wil confront again but once again Zenak thought...who is truly good and who is truly evil...only time will tell.

"Tommorrow we will review our documents, after that we will be better informed and I believe they hold answers. For now we need to rest, especially you. Trust me in the near future yoru strength will be tested so rest as much as you can. I will take the first watch, I will wake you up to replace me later. Don't worry I love the silent repose of the night. It lets me put my thoughts straight." Zenak then got up and added a piece of wood to the fire to make sure it didn't shrink. The crackle of the fire remained the only sound to pierce the night. the calm before the storm...

[Hieko]

Ooc: Sorry for the short post.^^


Bic: "Oh..............Well hey,I have an Idea.If its okay with you,may I come with you.See...........I haven't been traveling very long and I was kinda looking for a partner to travel alongside with anyway, and lately i've had no luck of finding one,so.........."
Sheana pondered on the fact if he would say yes or not.She really didn't want to have to travel alone but if it was her fate,then it couldn't be helped.She held both hands in front and just stood looking.
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"Wow,i'm surprised.Your that commited to what you say.Wow,must feel nice,well anyway I guess i'm not really paying attention to what you say because frankly,I just don't really care like I said in the beginning before you kinda got me in the mood to preach about it.Well anway,as to your second question,i'm just not use to telling other people where i'm going,so I guess it does seem like I like walking in random directions.As for now,I don't where I should head to first anway."
Ren kept walking at the same pace.She faced different directions trying to see which seemed the best to her.
"Lets see, were at the Star Kingdom right now so...........That leaves the Moon,Cloud,Sun,and Earth Kingdoms.So i'll let you choose the first place to go to Azazel."
Ren stopped near the entrance.She tried to give of a smile but it came a little crooked so she turned her head the other way.

[Luzifer]

Zoroaster looked at her out of the corner of his eye and then looked forward debating to himself. He could use someone else, he wasn't very strong or capable by himself so it was doubtful whether she would slow him down and she might very well have some useful abilities. He lacked any such things and he was libel to get himself killed, even if she didn't have any abilities she would at least make sure he wasn't perceived as being alone and vulnerable.

However, he didn't know her goals. He didn't know what her position on anything was but it was possible that she would become an opposition... still... she would definately be useful for the time being and if she did turn out to be an enemy well... he would deal with that problem when it became one. For now his immediate needs outweighed the long term threat, "Sure... I don't see why not..."

"Of course I'm commited to what I say! If I wasn't no one would listen to me. Speaking is about transferring ones passion into others and while I disagree with some of the higher ups in the Cult, I don't worry over much about it because I don't speak about their points of view. Rather I teach people what I know and I instill that in them... or at least... thats what I hope I do but then again I might be failing at it!" Azazel said with a smile that oozed personality and charm, which meant that he was not trying to have it do such. It was an instinctive thing, charisma... to those who possessed it, never once did it enter into their thoughts.

Azazel looked at her. "Well, you need to find something that motivates you... examine it carefully, make sure that you are not being tricked by false assumptions than live it. An unmotivated life is not worth living... it is but a shell of life. Do not love your life nor hate those that would harm you but protect it out of duty and honor and all will be well. For in this world their are those who would use lives as pawns in their games, tying souls together with strings of emotion and false hope. One must see themselves on that chessboard and be certain of their position and then take their own color... neither black nor white... neither bond nor free... but filled with the stirings of the spirit, that matter from which all things, even the Gods are made from. Take that and ascend with it and even the Gods will have no finger on your soul. This world is limited... but that is the beauty of it... it is so easily transcended if you do not place yourself in a spiritual hierarchy or some network of false loves and transient hatreds."

Azazel sighed again. He let himself digress a bit too much there but oh well, she didn't seem to much the worse of for it. She was however making him choose his path... well... he knew his path well and knew where he was going but such paths could not be trod with feet of flesh. Such things were beyond that, and beyond the meager Gods that watched over them. Still, "Lets go to Storm. That place seems good."

[Hieko]

Sheana smiled ahppily and started walking trying to catch up.
"Yay,thanks.This will most likely be fun........I hope"
Sheana put her sword side ways so that it sat against her back firmly.She had up until now been holding it behind her back.
She new that maybe she was being a little to trustworthey,but what other choices did she really have besides continuing on alone.That really wasn't an option seeing as to her because she didn't want to continue on without at least one friendly companion to acompany her.She just new that if the time came for any reason,that she would probably have to go on by herself,but she locked that thought away and continued on without seeing any problems.
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Ren kept her attention elsewhere.Either she was becoming a little to lenient or something else was making her be this way.She didn't know but she didn't pay any attention to it.
"Okay I understand completely about your whole idea now,seeing as we've been talking about it for some time.I see that you must be the only person out of the cult and Holy that thinks this way."

Ren started walking outside the entrance.She listened different ways to tell what was going on around her.She thought to herself.What was her motivation.Maybe the only motivation she had was finding the person she was looking for.That was about it.She really didn't care about anything else.

Ren grinded her heel into the dirt as if she was bewildered.She pondered in frustation and had the look of despair on her face.
"Oh well,no use in getting upset about it."
She started walking in the twoards the Storm Kingdom.

[Tetsanosuke]

After that eventual while between their conversing passed, the three ended up finding the cross roads Inn that they knew to find. Vahn smiled somewhat as he knew it meant some sleep for them all. The night felt all to weary to him and he wanted a fresh start on the marrow.

Curious though, he felt his Vahjia resonate at something out there. He knew it meant something was aloft but.. what? Whatever it was he'd be sure to be ready for it when it came and made it's presence known.

He lead them into the Inn, where he of course offered to pay for any rooms they'd get. But he bowed and let them do the dealings, he was more interested feeling the resonations he felt from his Rose Brand. Hence he stepped up to the window near the entrance and watched the darkness outside as he awaited for what room or rooms they'd get for the night.

[KibasStalker]

Lily wasn’t paying much attention to her companion either. She too was wrapped up in her own daydream, filled with the smell of fresh greens and the sounds of animal calls. “Hmm…” was her response to his first few words. After eating she had sat down and started meditating to gain back the control she had as a child. In the process the trees and flowers had clamored to tell her all of the wonderful things that had happened there, in their forest. Next the animals wished too to show her their memories and how the recent changes between the two-legers had affected them.

Lily wanted to cry hearing some of the plight they had suffered. "Homes destroyed and children taken away from their families. The People are being killed in this horrible, human war. It’s not right, and those in charge are being selfish." Lily ranted furiously. At the end she made a few obscene gestures as well as spout out a few choice words.

Lily looked up from her own meditation and blushed yet again. Her face turned serious as she listened to his words. She seemed to be thinking hard before she spoke. After awhile she said, “I think that being forced to chose is silly. It’s unnecessary when no one has even tried for compromise. I won’t ever choose based on such a system that’s for sure. Also black and white, Good and Evil, Light and Dark, were given their meanings by imperfect creatures. Ones who constantly refer to their actions as “righteous” yet break…break those “morals” all the time. We do not do things we do for the general well being of the world. We do them for are own gain and to make us as individuals happy.”

She took a deep breath knowing she might get into an argument with her next statement. Adults tended to ignore her advice even if it was well founded, just because she was young. Lily wished Zenak was not one of them because they would end up going their separate ways if that happened. “Why are we going to the Moon Kingdom? My own sources say that there is an army waiting just between the Moon Kingdom and Sun Kingdom. Plus you said it earlier that the Moon and Sun will be the first to break out in fighting. Do you really want to be in that turmoil when it happens? From what I gathered you had your own place to go, your own information to search for. Why should we get involved in that right now? I suggest we go to the Cloud Kingdom were the best translation tools for the ancient language are located. After we follow that path we can go to the our sides.” Lily yawned deeply; her muscles ached from all that had happened. “Oh and don’t worry about watching the campsite tonight my own sentries will watch us. We both need sleep for the days to come.” With that Lily headed into her bedroll for a well-deserved rest.

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron asked for three rooms and payed for them while he was at it. He gave Elli his sack and sent her on up tp her room. "You should get some rest now Elli." She nodded and he bent down, pecking her on the cheek and recieved one in return. With that she took her key and headed up te stairs of the in.

Baron walked over to Vahn. "I assume that you sensed something too?" He said, looking past the knight to stare out the window. It was almost pitch dark outside besides the light that came from the inn. Baron had felt uneasy earlier and was extremely relieved to find an inn where he could keep Elli as safe as walls could provide. Elli had been praying all day and she was practicing how to guide lost souls. It wasn't something that all holys did, only those who had the potential and his sister was most qualified.

[Luzifer]

Zoroaster stood up as well, clutching his blood stained clothes closed to his body and he sighed... "lets go then.." he sighed and looked at his reflection in the pool... he couldn't tell if he was male or female... he was too effete to be a guy and too masculine to be a girl. There was no way that he could be certain but he supposed it didn't matter.

Azazel shrugged softly to himself and walked behind her in silence. He didn't have anything to say so he let the silence wash over him with its gentle fingers. So much thinking needed to be done and he never seemed to have the time to do it. Always he was moving to fast for himself and weaving words with greater dexterity then his own mind could grasp. He knew his path but it was so muddled... he would be making great risks and if he didn't look sharp he could very easily wander astray or loose all hope of success.

He watched the night sky idly. God had always hated him... he had buried Azazel's people underneath miles of what eons ago. But somehow his race had persevered and knew that it was hated by God and loved by Satan, their maker. Humans felt that they were loved by God and hated by Satan, which they were for Humans were beings of God and thus foes of Satan. However, this gave Azazel a unique perspective on things. He wished he could bequeth that perspective, with its history and sorrow to everyone so that they could see what was happening but such things were impossible. He was Azazel, the pretty, charismatic male human. A leader of humans. But not of humans.

He sighed, and watched the grass reflect the moonlight in its gentle waves. So much to do.

[Hieko]

Ren stared at what she could tell was the moonlight shining down on her.This life of hers was nothing merely but wasted.Life.......no such thing.Life was always against her.She didn't care about what others thought of her and the only thing that made her want to continue on her lonely existence was her past.God........no such thing.Not in her eyes.If she chose to kill herself now,would it be by God's hands?No, it would be by her own.She didn't believe and in her eyes the only thing that kept these people around her alive,was the fact that they believed in miracles and the righteousness of God.

Ren walked silently but blissfully across the shining grass that impaled the moons beautiful light.Maybe her life wasn't as bad as she thought it out to be,or maybe that was just her imagination.No, she new truly what it was and the only way to escape it was to continue on until the day she died.
She had already ran away from what should have been her true future.Now she was just traveling, traveling tell the ends of the abyss.

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"Sooooooooooooooooo,lets see.In this direction we'll be heading...............?"
Sheana had a blank face.She only new that they were in the Star Kingdom.Matter a fact, she only new the cross paths between the Moon and Star Kingdom.
"Wow,this might be long if we decide to go anywhere else."
She managed to crack off a laugh and smile with a little enthusiasm.

[FullMetalAlchemist997]

Ethereal smiled awkwardly as if it were unnatural for her to do. She brushed at a wayward strand of hair and continued. "I think I made him mad...so he'll probably have friends next time"

He sat back against the wall of the fortress. It had taken some searching but he did finally make it. His partner agreed to it...but she had insisted he waited for the last effects of that girl's attack to wear off. He had not a problem with that. "Li," He said using the only name he knew for her "Do you happen to have a weapon?"

"Yes"

It took a bit of explaining but Ethereal managed to get across that she needed shelter for the night. She let go of as little of the story as possible. After all they needed only to know a few things...him finding out she was Carani did not happen to be one of them. "Oh, I almost forgot..." Ethereal said. Hwarg and Mebba had introduced themselves. "My name's Ethereal" She didn't answer to anything else now, Misa Ethera were just two meaningless words. It started when one of her mother's friends had exclaimed "She looks so ethereal, have you been feeding her?" Her mother had from then on in called her Ethereal just because it seemed funny.

[Nespa]

mebba giggled "then i hope you can breath underwater we spend most off our time in the sea". she started to jump up and down excited "you can play with dolphins and whales and sometimes the sharks play also with me but hwarg only allows me to play with certain kinds because i don't really reconizige which ones want to play and which ones want to eat me yet"a frown crossed her features "you really gotta watch the ones that think your dinner ya know, one ate my dad" her eyes saddend for a moment and she stopped jumping but quickly shook her head and started jumping again "but then the dolphing mother and her family took me hwarg and he is just like dad only a little younger". She gave etheral a beaming smile.

[Seikyu Kiba]

Hwarg didn't think Mebba would be so open about herself, he laughed a little and then held out his hand "It's a pleasure to meet you." He said looking out at the sea. "It is true we live in the sea..." He said smiling. "But if you can hold your breath for about 15 minutes then you will be fine." he then blinked for a moment. "Or me and Mebba can always make a shelter." He looked out and saw a dolphin pop out of the water. It gave a wail and then Hwarg replied back only in a lower pitch. "Mebba he still wants to play...stubborn dolphins." He said smiling.

[Tetsanosuke]

" Yes I did, and I think it best we stay in one room tonight, if you wouldn't mind me making the adjustments. "His eyes came across the translucent glaze of the window, filled with their half reflections by the light that shined from within the inn. He touched his right white gloved hand to the glass, his cherry red oculars resting through it and seeking into the darkness of the night. He wouldn't move nor speak, it was himself diving within again, his Garden of Everything.

He saw the supernovas so bright and extravagant, blooming flowers of light and sound not to be heard for ages and not to be seen for thousands upon thousands of centuries. Looking down through the depths of his mind revealed a black rose, a corroding black rose wilthin from the stench of dead and the loss of life force. There would be much life lost ahead.. He could feel it.

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron nodded, "Of course, it makes sense. I'll just make that arrangement." He walked back to the clerk at the desk and canceled the other two rooms, recieving the money back for it.

"We have some people staying here tonight that are quite boisterous if you know what I mean sir. So I'm terribly sorry if your stay here isn't very peaceful," The clerk said, writing something down on a piece of parchment. "They are a group of bandits. They have done no harm so far and this inn is not doing so well with it's pay so we need as many guests as we can get. They are not here right now but you will certainly know when they come in."

Baron smiled and nodded, "It's alright. It's good that my little sister id a heavy sleeper then huh?" The clerk chuckled and agreed, apologizing once more before Baron walked back to Vahn. "Bandits... that's not we were sensing. If these bandits have not harmed anyone here yet then they aren't the threat," he said to his companion and sat down in a chair.

Leaning forward and placing his elbows on his knees then letting his hands dangle, Baron began to think. Maybe it was a cult or someone among those lines. Maybe it wasn't even a someone but a something. Baron stared across the room at a fireplace. The flames cracked and danced in the silence. He could hear the scratch of the quill against the parchment at the clerk's desk. It was an eerie silence and not completely welcoming.

His keen sense of hearing picked up some laughter of drunken men coming in from the west. He knew it was the bandits and he frowned. Maybe the silence wasn't so bad after all.

[FullMetalAlchemist997]

Ethereal's eyes flew to the water. To her it seemed to ravenously devour the shore when the waves came in. She'd learned several things at a young age. She and water tdid not mix well though it did have its uses. "I...uhh..." She wasn't even looking at them any more. "I can't swim. And I'm pretty sure that I can't learn" She was probably white with fear by now. Could she help it if her natural abilities did not include aquatic activities? She shifted uncomfortably still training her violet eyes on the water. She took a step back as if it could suddenly wash over her at any minute. This fear was only second to her fear of metal which was nearly debilitating even though she had weapons made from it it still scared her it was conductive.

Li walked over to him handing him a long sword. "You left it with me last time" She told him.

"Yeah, good" He was begining to become sleepy.

Li pointed to a small bed. The elfish thief crept over to it slowly and fell asleep.

[Nespa]

Mebba squaled in delight and forgot etheral completly. she ran into the water and dived udner with the dolphin. she came up riding on the creatures back giggleling and splashing. The dolphin threw her off playfully and she swam to it to splash at his face.

[Luzifer]

"Your asking someone who hardly knows what country he's in where to go next? I don't know where the hell anything is! How should I know where either of us is supposed to be?!" Zoroaster said with exasperation. His ignorance was growing more and more frustrating by the second. He was supposed to effect some great purpose and create a balance when he didn't even know where anything was? How could the Collective possibly think that he had a bats chance in daylight? But then... they probably were willing to take any chance they could get... after all...

Azazel looked up... "before we start going to far... isn't it customary to exchange names? Its a sign of trust... so I'm told." Azazel said with slight joking smirk which oozed a sort of lop-sided charm. "but I don't know... maybe you holy people have a completely different set of etiquette" he said with with goodnatured sarcasm

[Hieko]

"No,There's no difference.I just thought that it didn't matter much,but if you want to know.......The names Ren Sinoma."
Ren slacked off on giving a friendly smile.Instead she continued walking but had a slight look of enthusiasm in her eyes.
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"..................Oh sorry.I guess I shouldn't have said anything then."Sheana just continued walkin steadily and idoly slowly behind.She was dragging along like a ghost against the moonlight.She wondered how they would find out the correct way to go.Maybe stop somewhere and ask or just wander on mindlessly until they got a clue.

[Luzifer]

"And I'm Azazel- don't ask for a last name I don't have one." He said adding in the last bit quickly. People normally asked for his last name because they thought he was withholding it, so he had gotten in the habit of adding that last bit in. No Nephilim had last names, it was a meaningless practice because every Nephilim was essentially the decendent of a single family that had survived the Flood and while it meant that for a while they had had to inbreed it also meant that they had long ago dropped using the last name.

But seeing the silence begin to set in he pulled out a book, the one with his logic puzzles, and began to read by the faint moonlight.

"Oh... don't worry about it... I'm just... frustrated thats all. This world is so complex and my entire conciousness has been screaming... I'm not in the best of moods, you might say but taking it out on you is unjust... so I'm sorry..." Zoroaster sighed as they walked gazing into the distance idly.

[Hieko]

"Oh truly its okay.Maybe I was just talking a little to much.I normally do that for some reason.Its okay,really."
Sheana shook her hands in a way to show her certainty.She smiled and looked around,because she had yet to see the whole entire kingdom and it filled her with amazement and wonderment to see the difference between the Moon and Star Kingdom.
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Ren smiled and said
"Okay.Iw inder how long ti will take to get to the Storm Kingdom though.Probably about a day but if we moved quickly it would take about a 3rd of a day.Oh well.Nothing else better to do but keep moving forward."

Ren looked behind her to see that Azazel had pulled out a book.She never was much for reading but only did read when she was actually certain she might be interested.She had nothing else really to do,so she just tugged on her chain a little so her hands would have something to do while she walked.

[Inc0gnit0]

OOC: Sorry about the delay on this post. I've just been so busy these last few days with the end of semester but it's finalyl over...YIPEE!

BIC: Zenak smirked. It had been long since he had heard what Lily had said. To be perfectly honest about a decade ago he too probably spurted out the same things. But as the years creep on and your vision of the world widens if you have any kind of perception and decide to abandon your self-illusions the horrid conclusion is practically the same. By its very nature humans are flawed.

"Compromise...unfortunately compromise can never be reached between two such opposing force. Don't let my old aged cynicism quelch your hope but like you said yourself humans are selfish and greedy and trust me it didn't appear yesterday. Humans have always been such and probably will always be. As for choosing a side...time will tell which side you belong to despite you, I just tend to try to make an informed choice before being engulfed by the sheer gravity of the situation.

Whether you like it or not chances are you will probably end up having to choose a side. Staying neutral in somehting of the scale I persee will result most probably in a quick death." Zenak became grave again and took out the small black booklet he had stolen from the royal library and tossed it at Lily. "This book is what I stole from the royal library. It is witten in the ancient tongue and is the thoughts of a priest of old named Altorius. According to many writings he was an authority not only in the defence of good versus evil but also a firm believer that the sword now resting on my back is a tool of the devil and should have been destroyed. Not much is known about the man but there's two things I know for sure. That the king of the sun kingdom knows something and that Crecento has a violent past.

I need to find out more about this sword because it holds a power that has yet to be exploited, it is the key, I believe to a power and magic never before attempted. I have reaosns to believe that Crecento might be the key to unlocking the power that legends speak of...some see my sword as a threat, I see it as an opportunity. I also have reasons to believe that revealign my cards too early will result in a very agitated future so I will not be showing this book to no cloud scholar, I can read it perfectly well. As for yoru own query, I can't really force you to trust me however, know this. I have business with that upcoming war and charging head first into a battle involvign thousands of soldier will probably not be my stupidest move so if you plan on staying with me know that there will definitely be danger from now on. You will know in due time why I need to go but for now I really need to go and whether you follow me or not is up to you."

Zenak noticed the adundance of animals all of a sudden and it didn't take long to realize that this girl was very in touch with the nature. Her magic had felt a bit wild, natural and instinctive. It didn't surprise Zenak at all that she was so popular in a forest such as this. When she told him that they both would be able to sleep Zenak was definitely happy. They would both need as much rest as possible because soon rest would become a luxury.

However, Zenak wasn't ready to completely trust a group of animals just yet. With the years of travelling alone Zenak was forced to develop very light sleeping. Zenak nowadays had become so accustomed to it that he literally slept with one eye open. He lied down as she lied down and started staring at the fire. Zenak liked camp fires. The intricate dance, the warmth and even the trademark smell of the burning wood was soemthing that had followed Zenak his whole life yet it still put a smile on his face.

I'm coming...you just wait...the time is close...the time...is close.

[Tetsanosuke]

Snapping from his train of thought he heard the sounds of the beaten-minded man merry making in the crudest of ways, making remarks of the nearby women and touching places they shouldn't. His eyes came across to the one in front, his cherry red cat hues glimmering gently as he would sigh and take a turn towards the stairs. His arms came at his side andhe marched his way up a few steps before calling down to his companion.

" Let us leave before possibilities occur. Shall we? "

He made his way up a few more steps before closing his eyes and taking in a full breath. His white armors seemed a bit too shiny for one of the drunkards and he could feel the pressure of a hand upon his shoulder half way up the stairs. The hand covered the red cross at it's center, pulling his shoulder around.

The bandit was drunk alright, and a bit ugly at that. He looked up and down Vahn's frame and slipped him a rude remark and gesture as if he was a female. Female!?

" I'm sorry mister, but you have mistaken my gender. I am male. " His calm voice came as he slipped the mans hand off his shoulder.

" Come here Wench! You shouldn't be wearing armor! " The bandit yelled as he roughly pulled at the Saeth's shoulder.

In a flash Delvega was pulled from his belt and the white star-fire blade burst out, swiftly it was placed under the man's throat. The red eyes of the Saeth seemed to enter the bandits dirty brown oculars and swelled up fear from a transfer of spirit. " I told you, Mister. I am a man. Lay your hands off of my armor before you get it dirty. " His voice was stern yet still overly calm in a sense. It was amazing because the drunk's eyes widened at the searing heat of the blade near his throat.

The drunkard let go and stumbled a step down, and then rolled down the stairs hitting the bottom at his back. With that aside he looked to the rest of the bandits and narrowed his eyes.

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron watched the scene before him, trying to hold in his laughter. His lip switched but he managed to keep a straight face. He looked to the rest of the bandits and almost lost it. The expression on their faces was priceless. It was obvious that they had thought that the knight was female as well.

Baron walked over to the stairs, casually stepped over the man and put a hand on Vahn's shoulder, the one the bandit had not touched. "Come Vahn, I think that you've given them a fair warning," he said with a calm smile though his eyes were laughing. He was about to walk up when on of the others shouted.

"You think you can scare us?! A pair of femmes against us!? What- you think that because the sword can scare a drunk man it can scare the rest of us?" The man shouted through his wild black beard.

Ah, so they're not all drunk. That's unusual. Baron thought, almost letting a chuckle escape from his throat. These men were quite amusing.

"Gentlemen," he said, nearly reluctant to refer to them as gentlemen, "We don't want to interrupt your fun with trouble so if you'd excuse-"

"What is with all the noise Baron?" came a drowzy voice from the top of the steps. Baron almost cursed out loud as his sister began to descend the stops, rubbing her eyes groggily.

He turned to his sister. She had the worst timing, "Go back to bed Elli," he said to her. He could just about feel the eyes of the bandits shift to his sister.

Elli continued to walk down the stairs in her plain sleeveless night gown. Her silver crucifx hung around her neck. Oddly, enough her cascading white hair still looked neat as if she hadn't laid down at all. She looked about the room when he vision cleared up. Men. Dirty and drunk. Elli sighed. She did it again. I really do have bad timing.

[Luzifer]

Zoroaster sighed and started to walk in a path chosen at random, "Come on... the longer we stay in one place the less progress we will make by day's end." He couldn't let himself stand still too long, there was his responsibilities were screaming and only the sweet sound of progress could hush their wailing pangs. Even if he didn't find anything along this path then that was one area he knew didn't have what he was looking for and that would be progres... after a fashion.

Hours passed by with lethargic tread as the two of them walked together, Azazel keeping his attention focused primarily on books that slipped in and out of his hands depending on his mood at the time but never was his hand empty for more than a moment.

Not long had it been before they came to the racking lightning and anvil-black clouds of the storm kingdom. There was a hard rain coming down and Azazel looked over to Ren, his books now safely tucked away in his satchel and an arm over his eyes to shield them from the rain "It may not be adverse to our interests to seek out some shelter for a time, or perhaps something to cover ourselves while we are traveling through the Kingdom of the Storm," he shouted over some thunder and the ripping sound of rain on leaves.

[Tetsanosuke]

A few moments passed as the bandits spotted Elli, and Vahn could sense the approach of them with his intuition. They weren't going to joke around, they were ready to kill them and rape the girl. With that something sparked inside, and he slid down the stairs, drawing his shining Vahjia as well as activating Delvega once more. The burning blade of Delvega was then arched towards the group before they even drew their weapons, and so he spoke.

" If you wish to fight let us take this outside. I don't think you'd want a room taking away the advantage of your full group. " His voice seemed to crack it's calmness and became stern and serious. The bandits agreed, the tables would only give the sleek Saeth the advantage, and so they flooded outside. The Saeth knight followed, looking back at his two comrades with a gentle nod before leaving.

The bandits seemed to open out a path between them as he stepped towards the road, holding his blades down before turning around, unsure of whether he'd face them all alone or not. But to him it wasn't a matter of being alone, it was a matter of saving his comrades and taking the attention off of Elli. He wouldn't let them do anything to her, she was young and didn't need that.

[Shobu_Shimizu]

Baron turned to Elli, "Run into the room and lock it. Put a barrier up if you must but do not come down, understand me Elli?" Elli nodded and ran up the stairs and back into her room.

When Baron heard the loud clank of the lock, he immeadiatly headed down the stairs and walked out the door to assist Vahn in his battle. He drew his long sword from it's sheath and walked to his companion. Turning to face his back to him, readying himself with ease and confidence. "I'm sorry we got you involved in this, Vahn," he apologized genuinly, "We always seem to get ourselves into trouble like this."

[.Gogo]

Heero sat outside of a rather beatdown building that stank of alchohol. Bringing the small glass to his lips he tossed a sideways glance towards a man about to enter the bar. The man looked at him for but a moment before scampering into the bar like a frantic animal. Heero shrugged slightly, returning to his drink. It appeared he had overstayed his welcome here too, either they'd heard about his reputation already or the village idiots had finally figured out about that 'job' he had done last week. It wasn't like he was indistinguishable, after all his bright red spikey locks and his burning crimson eyes were dead giveaways.

He rested on the step as a couple hurried past him. Heero didn't bother flashing them an intimidating stare this time, lust watched them lazily as they sped away. He didn't much mind the people that were afraid of him, just the ones that mustered up the courage to make an attempt to 'challenge' him. Those were the annoying ones, bringing their swords or other random weaponry to try and surpass his Homuradama blade and his skill. What nuisances.

The outcast felt a longing for a challenge. Even the assassination job he had been paid for that past week was a bore. Finished with his drink, Heero tossed the glass over his shoulder. He heard it shatter but did not turn, instead he stood and began making his way down the street.

He'd have to find a place to stay for the night, and beings he had ample fundings for the moment he opted to find an inn somewhere, that was, if they let him in. Resting his blade cockily on his shoulder he trudged down the barren street. After some time he eyed an inn not too far away, and made his way towards it.

Coming to the door he let himself in, his blade still perched cooly against his shoulder.

[KibasStalker]

OOC: Sorry I haven’t posted for awhile, but I hope this gets everybody back to posting. Also sorry to incognito for controlling your character for a bit, but I don’t think it’s a big deal. You will see what I mean If it really upsets you I apoligize. Well I’m glad to be back I got sick for awhile *Waves*.

BIC: Lily woke up and studied the sorrounding forest. The lush trees moved softly in breaths while small birds chirped their good mornings. Small creatures went up and down trees across paths, scratching at the ground with there clawed feet. To Lily it all seem to come together and become its own beat, its own song.

Lily started a small fire careful to be wary of how much smoke it produced. Then she took out some dried meat and spices. Carefully she blended them together with a little water. The result brought about a delicious aroma of tantalizing smells. She let it simmer for a moment while she packed up her things and watered the horses.

With a light nudge she woke Zarek from his eerie slumber. He sat up as she spoke quickly. Lily knew she had little time left to do what she needed. While asleep she had come up with an idea that would do well for both their needs.

“I’m would like you to take care of my horse here. I must travel to the cloud kingdom, but it will take to long to do it the normal way. I would like to enlist your help. You may use my food, I will not be of any use to me in the form I will take. Please take my packs and horses with you as you ride to the Moon Kingdom. By switching horses as you ride you will make faster time. I will meet you at the inn Cresent Moon in a week. We can continue from there to where we need to go. Is it a deal?” Lily finished with a few breaths.

Zarek looked at her oddly and understood her rational thinking and that it would be better for both of them this way. He agreed and packed his things as well. They ate in silence before Lily took her book and held it to her chest. She formed a bubble around it with her magic and seem to absrobe it into her. She then proceeded to change form, her legs grew small and ruff her arms long with feathers. Within minutes she was a large hawk preening herself carefully. After a few awkward moments like that hawk-Lily took off flying high into the cloud filled sky towards the Cloud Kingdom. She left Zarek staring up at the seemingly endless sky after her.

[Ranryou Roga]

Nanba sat upon the some of the main castle in the moon kingdom. His gaze spread far and wide across the streets. His wings resting upon his back in their folded motion. Nanba smiled as a young boy and his family walked home. Nanba missed his family alot. He would return to them one day. Nanba continued thinking about his family when a cry for help rang out. Nanba watched as those he called sinners attacked and killed the boy mother and father. Nanba spread his wings and jumped from the castle. The moon's gaze on his back. Nanba drew his blade called dark and but the sinners arms off. He then went on to kill them. Balance was returned to the world for a few more seconds. Nanba helped the boy and then gave his parents a flame lit funeral before fly off toward storm kingdom.

[Change Of Color]

Marel's heart beat against her chest as she ran, breaths quick and short. Her mind raced as she tracked her foot falls, her whole being concentrated on the grace and pose she needed to race through the woods and not stumble. She could feel the beating of the earth on her feet rush throughout her body as she ran. Suddenly, up ahead, she could see the gorge, spread out like a jagged, gapping mouth. She charged toward it, the ground beneath her feet changing from brush and vines to grass and rocks put she did not break pace. And just like that, she was flying off the edge, feet pointed and arms stretched upward.

She felt as if she was soaring in the moments before she hit the water but as she plunged under, the sensation of the cool water embracing her and twirling her around took over and she effortlessly floated to the surface. As she broke the water, she could hear her brothers, sister, and Zacharey as they cheered her tremendous leap.

"Marel, that was so awesome!" exclaimed her sister, Analicia, from the small rocky shore the shouldered the edge of the gorge. Marel lightly floated over to the shallows where she stood up and joinned the group on the shore.

"You really think so? I thought I could have centered it a little better," said Marel with a cocky half smile. She looked up at the slightly overcast sky and felt joy sear her heart. It was a rare occassion she got to have such a perfect day.

OOC: Sorry if my post is a little self-centered at the moment. My character hasnt really had a chance to interact with other people.

[KibasStalker]

Lily caught an upward current of warm air traveling hundreds of feet in a few seconds. She made great time reaching her destination in only 1 1/2 days. upon arriving she watched the great royal library there observing the interworkings of the comings and goings. The place seemed always on its toes, but the scholars where relaxed and happy.

They often would meet in the outer arena filled with overgrown grass that seemed like an ancient place. There were rock seats in great circles each circle smaller and inside the next slowly going deeper into the ground.

The scholars would have great debates here and when they were over they'ed go for coffee and tea without a word of misgivings. Even after they might scream, red in the face, they would not take their aggresions outside the arena. Thats what good society should be like,Lily thought to herself, Debating, but knowing when to put things aside and enjoy one self. Lily was constantly changing forms throughout the process, from a mouse to a rabit to a dove to a cat. She couldn't afford to be seen as an odd animal hanging around scholars who weren't feeding it.

Lily decided to sneek into the library at night as a cat, there she would quickly find what she needed and get out of there. She knew the scholars were relax, but those caught stealing or entering the great libraries without permition oh she did not want to know what happened to them. So 5 3/4 days after leaving Zarek she headed off to the library to see what her precious book meant.

[Hieko]

Ooc: so sorry for the like the latest post ever.Had trouble with account(lol).Well anyway........

"well okay........"Sheana treaded the feeling of being lost somewhere.After all,it had happened to her to many times all ready in her life and out of all those times she had gotten lost,she ended up having to be rescued some way.Either by passing people or just wandering in a strange direction that led somewhere where people resided.She quickend her pace and followed behind Zoroaster with the slight feeling that maybe they would actually go in the right direction,but who knows for sure where this path will lead to."so I wonder how long it will be until we get there?I hope it doesn't take very long." she said trying to sound as cheerful as she could.

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Ren had walked patiently and quietly without breaking the silence even once.The silence of course drove her crazy whenever there was no need for her to listen in order to see.As mnay times as he switched books,she wondered just how many he carried.She had never been into reading that much so she had nothing to really do but walk and pull on her chain just to give her fingers something to twittle with.

She had barely noticed they had walked within the territory of the Storm Kingdom.It was weird,......you would think she would have noticed the sound of thunder crashing beyond the distance and the hard rain pouring around them.But of course she was focused on just reaching her destination without any problems."Yes your right......" But where? she thought.There was nothing nearly in sight and the only thing surrounding close by was a small forest.Maybe they could reside there where it was as wet.It would only be slightly damp and the trees and fallen trunks of trees could give covering."Lets go into that forest.It would give us some covering until the rain became a little lighter to beable to walk trough."