Itou looked at them walk away and his head slammed the table in despair. "Uhg! Dammit Itou! Why didja have to talk to them with the booze?!" He slammed his head on the table again and again. However, he had a small, but assuring epiphany. He just got his booze for FREE. "Ah! Better not dilly dally!" He got up, grabbed his things, and cooly walked to the door at a brisk and steady pace.

Llyud was sitting next to Tamah wondering what the hell had just gone on. The orange haired-girl teleported the dead body away and then the barhand was wacked in the back by the orange-haired girl's companion. If that wasn't enough, the random guy that had shoved him was wacking his head on the table vigorously before drunkily walking away.

He shook his head and stood up.

"Hey, Tamah. Do you now where this Sanctuary of the Eternal Spirit is or do we need to ask for directions because if we need directions, those people look like the people to ask," he said while pointing out the orange-haired girl and her companion.

OOC: I MADE TEH FORUM'S 2600th POST WOOT!

-BALEETED-

(Reason: Irrelevant)

OOC: -BLOOP- deleted this post tank you very much

ATC went further off, having NO clue where he was going

"ah screw it, I'll just set up camp here...I just can't sleep though...or else my pockets will end up like my bag, even with my pickpockets' nightmare trap setup...damn this alternate universe" he thought.

He took out a small instrument, and played some small tunes to keep himself occupied and awake. Not something he'd normally do, but he was bored, besides, it didn't seem like there was anyone else around to bug him. He just couldn't get those other thoughts out of his head...

The fire, Andorra, and the true killer Surasa...

(oh come on...that's all in the past, they're all dead now...it just isn't right though...compared to all the others I've killed...)

(OOC: lol, this fleshing out is COMPLETELY useless to this RP, it entertains me enough to do it though so thar, oh and 3 guesses at what that instrument is, some should already know it)

OOC: Oh gee...WHAT COULD IT BE? Its an ocarina. Seriously. It is.

(50% chance Kudo will deny this just 'cause)

Riwethuu rubbed the back of his painfully throbbing head. He sighed under his breath. As he turned to face the tall man back at the bar, a shadow appeared in front of him. Looking upward, Riwethuu noticed something big flying towards him.

Big was an understatement. An enormous boulder was soaring in the air, straight for his face. The orphan's eyes widened in shock. Run. said the little voice in the back of his head. He suddenly realized that his feet weren't moving, his feet were in the same place, and that the giant flying boulder was still headed for him. He willed his feet to move backward, and promptly turned tail, until he felt something tug on his foot. The under-grown branch held firm against his stride, and sent him tumbling straight down. Riwethuu tasted dirt as his face hit the mud first. His vision was blanketed in a red mist, mixed in with some pain. Then he remembered the giant rock headed straight for him.

"HELP!" Riwethuu screamed, driving his head out of the dirt and yanking hard at the branch that ensnared him. The gnarled old branch had endured much in its long, long life, and surely, it withstood Riwethuu's feeble tugs. The boulder, strangely enough, was like a hawk in a dive. Completely silent as it flew through the air, diving quickly towards its prey. Riwethuu closed his eyes for the inevitable.

"HELP!" The voice echoed through the bar. Itou looked towards a fallen Riwethuu. "Eh? Why? Is anyth-HOLY SHIT!" Itou focused his attention at the incoming boulder that was going to hit Riwu. "RUN YA DAMN KID!" The child made no motion and acted dead. Itou had no idea what happened, but he felt somehow, he HAD to protect this kid. He didn't quite know him, the kid didn't help him, he had no plausible reason to help, he just HAD to. Itou sprinted to the child and stood over him. The boulder looked bigger and bigger as it whistled closer and closer. He threw his fist out as hard as he could and it connected with the bloulder in a sickening crunch and crack. THe boulder fractured, but didn't shatter. Suddenly, the full weight of it bore down on Itou's body. He claped the boulder with his other hand. "I don't think I as strong as I thought!" He fell to one knee. "GO KID! GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE BEFORE I DROP THIS THING!"

Llyud saw Tamah run outside to grab a boy that was behind the drunk guy who was struggling with a big rock that the orange haired girl's handler had thrown... How confusing. He ran out side and helped pull Tamah and the barkeep away but then the huge boulder was punched away by the priest guy.

"What the hell just happened?" Llyud asked with a look of pure confusion on his face.

"Ow, dammit all...." Itou undulated his fingers and knuckles to see if anything broke in his hand. Apparently, he was fine, the cracking came from his knuckles.
"Huh, guess when I'm drunk, the IDS doesn't work so well!"
He rubbed the slight bruise on his hand.
"SO!" Itou exclaimed,"You two like making hazards fly towards innocent people? Plus, How are you so sure, the damn thing WOULDN'T have hit the kid?! What are you two? Psychic?!"

ATC stopped playing the Ocarina and rested a bit (not sleep, just lying down, next to a tree in the shade) still regaining energy since that warp to this dimension...

(OOC: DAMN that was short, 15% chance half of you guys will TS:DR just 'cause)

After he had pulled Tamah and the boy to a safe distance, Llyud sat down outside of the bar with his back to the wall and said to Tamah, "Wake me up when we actually do something." And he proceeded to fall asleep.

OOC: I WILL NOT LET THIS RP OR THIS FORUM DIE!!!!!!!! And... WE NEED SOMETHING TO HAPPEN HERE!!!

Llyud went to sleep smiling because he was purposely ignoring Tamah. It was funny really, to think that such a little girl would get pissed off so much from being ignored.

*Funky dream thingy mobobby*

Llyud looked got up off his back and laughed. Adelle had got him good. He, Adelle, and Kaoru were playing hide and seek and even though he wasn't supposed to, he started to move to a new spot. Adelle had snuck up behind him and scared his pants off. Literally. He had screamed and ran but a stiff branch from a tree caused him to flip over with his feet in the air and his head facing the ground while another part of the branch had snagged his pocket. Then, his loose pants slipped off his legs and he performed a rather spectacular faceplant. He got up and grabbed his pants off the branch and slipped them back on.

"Alright then Adelle, it's my turn to seek!"

"No! It's not fair! whenever you're it you always hear us no matter how quiet we are!"

It was true. Llyud could hear things better than Adelle and Kaoru.

"Adelaide! Kaoru! Llyud! Come inside! It's time for lunch!" called out Adelle's and Kaoru's mother.

The three children ran inside and Adelle's and Kaoru's mom said, "By the way Llyud, you need to go home soon."

"Aw man..." he muttered.

OOC: for all of you that noticed, yes Adelle's real name is Adelaide but she doesn't like that so she tells everyone it's Adelle.

Llyud recoiled in pain because in his dream, his mom had just smacked him in his face and yelled, "ARE YOU AWAKE NOW?!"

Surprisingly, he wasn't. Neither in his dream or real life but his face hurt now.

In Llyud's dream, his mother warned him to get up or she'd start kicking him.

Llyud got up and put his shirt on before walking out of his room to start his daily chores...

"This is going to be a long day..." he thought to himself in his dream.

Riwethuu quickly wriggled out of the man's grasp. It wasn't an exactly a pleasant experience: being hauled away from a sweaty, drunk man was near the one of the last things he ever wanted to do. Then again, it outranked being crushed by a giant boulder. He took a glance at the massive rock laying where he was moments ago. Close call. Riwethuu gently lay a hand on the object that would have taken his life.

"T-thank you," he whispered, just loud enough so that the man could hear him. As he turned around, suddenly, an agonizing, stabbing pain shot through his shoulder. He let loose a gasp, and looked down, to see his right shoulder impaled by something small and sharp. The object, in addition the red glistening of his blood, shined a strange, sickly green. Riwethuu buckled to his knees. A shroud of sleepiness seemed to have fallen over his mind... the world turned to black.

The assassin of Caylia disappeared from the rooftops with a flourish of his red cape. His job was done: the poison from his blade was the most lethal he could procure. The child would be dead in a matter of minutes.

Llyud felt an extremely sharp pain in his groin while being called an old man and woke with a start. He recoiled from the pain but his head went backward and wacked the wall he was sleeping on. then he slumped forward only to be kicked again.

Llyud was writhing on the floor in agony when Tamah goes over to the barkeep and yells for a medic.

Llyud tried to speak but the pain from THAT place was seeping upward into his chest.

Small kids were strong!

He managed to pull himself along the floor and grumbled, "I have medical supplies in my pack. it's in the bar, urgh" and he lay face down in the dirt, still twitching from the pain.

Then he murmured, "17 isn't old..."

Llyud had gotten up by now but still felt a bit weird. He quickly grbbed his bag, reached his hand in and pulled out a knife and some gauze along with a small jar of ointment.

"The best was I know how to do this is make them bleed out the poison," he said while holding up the knife. "After that, put this ointment on the gauze and wrap up the cut. The ointment is a disinfectant and even a light antipoison. Apply pressure to stop the bleeding. That's the best way I know..." he looked at Tamah then back at the boy. He wasn't sure if the boy would be able to survive mass blood loss.

"Should I do it?" He asked Tamah before looking up at the girl and man standing near the boy. "Any objections?"

OOC: Ummm, Itou is NOT a large sweaty man.... Though he is a medium-build drunken one.

"Yes, I object." Itou said in a forceful tone.
"That would normally work, IF it wasn't a needle strike."
He bent over the catonic Riwu and pressed the wound with two of his fingers.
"This guy was pretty accurate, he hit two chi paths in one strike..." He wiped off the droplets of blood and gave several forceful jabs around the wound. He moved up to his forehead and flicked it with enough force to give a distinct thunk sound.
"That should hold off the poison for a while until we find an anti-poison."

OOC: whoops, mispelled "paths"

"Chi is everywhere" Itou stated.
"In the birds, in the trees, in your socks." Itou looked at the babbling girl and said, "The poison has been stopped for up to 24 hours, if it is the kind that I think it is, he will slowly perish as he loses control of his muscles starting with his eyes, his limbs, his throat, his bowels, and finally his heart."
Itou secretly emphasized the bowel control part.

Res, the assassin of Caylia, watched the outsiders babble in the distance. His fists clenched into tight balls after what he had seen the large man named Itou perform on the boy. These people were trying to sabotage his mission. They would make him fail. Whatever the cost, he could not allow that to happen. His life depended on taking another's. Should he fail, the emperor should surely have his head...


"My most highly regarded excellence," Res bowed before the Emperor of the Caylia Legion. "What is it you wish of me, your greatest assassin?" As he spoke, Res noticed a small twitch in the emperor's eyebrow. Minute, but the assassin's trained eyes could still catch them. That was never a good sign.

"I am very disappointed," the emperor began. His armored guards, clad in their bronze suits, straightened up, anticipating something momentous. "Very disappointed indeed." Res's eyes narrowed. What could he have done wrong? His missions had gone flawlessly, he-

"I know what you are thinking. You think you have done nothing incorrect, yes?" the almighty emperor caught him dead in thought. Damn. Res had forgotten the emperor's special "talent."

"For one thing, you have failed to successfully locate the one last surviving member of that little town, Lactum. You know we do not leave anybody," the emperor rose out of his extravagant throne. "ANYBODY, alive in our wake."

"Yes, my most regarded excellence." Res quickly kneeled. He did not want to further annoy the emperor.

"You could not do it, so I have some very reliable sources do the task instead. We have located the boy: and now your task is to kill him." At once, Res's outlook seemed to brighten.

"Do not fail me this time." Res was out of the emperor's throne room before he had even finished his sentence.


Res let his long, red cloak flutter in the rooftop wind. The breeze was relatively weak: he could barely feel the cloth billowing. Deftly, he lept from one rooftop to the other, connecting his leaps with utterly silent footsteps. The strangers had not yet taken notice to his presence. This was easier than the assassin thought it would be. Taking down groups wasn't exactly his style, but these fellows were the epitome of oblivious prey.

His long white hair swayed in the wind as he let loose his rain of daggers.

OOC: Why does everyone think that Itou is a lumbering brute?! Did I make it clear or not? He has a medium build! Like...Chuck Norris?

Llyud was pissed off. What made this drunk guy think that he knew exactly what poison the kid was being poisoned by and exaclty what to do when there were thousands of poisons out there. Llyud having coming into contact with at least 200 would know. But not all of that poison he came into contact with was meant for him.

He was still frowning when he heard the extremely faint footsteps of a man wearing a billowing cloak. He turned around and saw the man jumping on roof tops heading for there direction.

"Get the boy under cover!" he yelled. "That man is back, and he looks pissed!"

Llyud pulled out his bow and fired a two volleys of three arrows each all with the intent to incapacitate, not kill. He wanted to know what this p**** was up to.

That was when he noticed that the man had already gone on the offensive. A hail of daggers flew there way and he fired as many arrows at them as he could before pulling out his sword. He dropped his bow and with his adrenaline pumping, and his heightend reflexes, deflected the daggers.

Too bad for him, a single knife had gotten him, right in his shoulder. He yanked it out, pulled out a knife and bled his wound before blacking out next to the boy.

OOC: why do you always have fail assasins .sickling. =D

OOC: I know i was just joking though. BTW im assuming all of his knives have poison on them. Is that true?

A cloud of knives had entered Itou's peripheral vision. He instinctively turned around to attempt to catch or dodge ANY of the knives. To his surprise, the cloud became thinner and thinner as they approached. Apparently, the archer to his side had been shooting them down, until he was struck down by a knife in the shoulder. "Pft. Getting stabbed in the shoulder won't kill- HOLY CRAP!" Itou caught two blades aimed at his face with his hands.

Spoiler:
	OOC: As I mentioned before, the IDS (Internal Defense system) channels chi through the pores of the skin resulting in a very good knife, sword, and arrow protection. The force though still transferrs. So, Itou is not actually touching the knives.

He tossed the knives aside and laid eyes on a figure clad in red.
"Oh goody another unique assassin. NEVER SEEN ONE OF THOSE BEFORE!" Itou said with an air of distaste.

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OOC: He got a lot of the knives with his sword, too.

Llyud had been out for a short time after he had come into contact with the poison before waking up again. He looked at his shoulder which had already stopped bleeding. He moved his shoulder around a bit to get the stiffness out. He picked up his bow and sheathed his sword. He nocked three arrows and closed hi eyes to listen for breathing, rustling, or the wizzing of daggers.

He pulled on the drawstring and prepared to let a trio of arrows fly through the air.

OOC: Llyud had blocked most of the daggers and Itou had only caught 2 just so ya know

Llyud froze. His bow. That was the bow passed down among generations in his family to all of those without the soul benefit and this man had broken it.

"You are going to PAY FOR THAT!!!" screams Llyud. He doesn't bother reaching for his sword instead he uses his strength to punch the man with all of his might, knocking him back ten feet but Llyud had already ran behind him and kicked him into the air. He waited for the decent before jumping into the air and smacking him downward into the ground with a sickening crunch.

Llyud was enraged, and he would not be stopped.

"Eh?" Itou looked behind him and saw the carnage that the little archer kid caused. "What just happened?"

OOC: .sickling.! Make him do something!!!

Llyud was pissed off which was why he was slower than what he should have been...and weaker. When he got angry, his benefit seemed to weaken and now he had calmed himself.

Not a moment too soon to because apparently the ninja wasn't in the crater, he was next to him...holding a dagger to his throat.

Llyud's time in Clan Sisic facing off with assasins kicked in as he moved his arm up at a blinding rate to the point where you couldn't see it. He shoved the man's arm backward before grabbing it and twisitng it. He then pulled out his own dagger and thrust it next to the man's throat.

Llyud's grip on the assasin tightened and he twisted the arm farther. He took his knife and pushed the tip into the neck so that the man started to bleed just a little.

"In clan Sisic, we never accepted defeat. If we were at the point of defeat, we would put our lives on the line to wound the foe as much as possible for the next group to finish them off. I was in every advance group set out. And I know that doing things half-way can lead to much, much worse things than defeat."

Llyud's temper had begun to flare again but he kept it in check. He still sounded pissed off as he said, "Now that we are both in comfortable positions, why the hell are you tring to kill a defenseless kid!"

He added, "And don't try any more of that copying crap because I will still get you and pummel you!"

"Woah, woah!" Itou yelled. "Don't kill him! I mean sure, he tried to kill us, but if you kill him, god will-" Itou stopped himself. He had no time to be thrusting religion into this matter. "Er. I mean, we won't be able to find out who sent him?"