Zephyr wasn't sure to be concerned or somewhat relived when Ana said that this fog wasn't natural, but he was leaning more towards concerned. It was already hard enough to see just what was ahead of them and while Ana's flame did make things somewhat better, it only helped for their immediate area, leaving a good amount of the surrounding fog still dark and hard to see through. "Hopefully there isn't anything hiding in this fog." Zephyr muttered to himself. If the fact that Veera had punched Keenan in the stomach wasn't a clear sign that she wasn't amused by what had just transpired, the fact that she had just up and left was a pretty clear indication of that. "Typical." Kruez said with a shrug before running behind Keenan. When they had started to catch up to her, there wasn't much that Kruez had to say on the matter on her briefly ditching them as for anything else that may be wrong, Kruez had no idea whether or not there actually was or if she was just being herself. "You say that like I care whether or not it was an invitation." By this point Talon probably already figured out that Xross rarely cared for what the other person thought, felt, or said. The fact that he was injured made little difference to him right now. "I suppose you could drop dead, you would be free of me and all your problems, but you wouldn't do that. Oh no no no no, you have people that care for you." Ah the whole 'people who care about you' card, or anchor as Xross saw it. It prevents one from doing anything that would cause them distress. or send them to the pits of despair. Either Terra was bad at hiding her disappointment or she was trying to guilt trip Sweallow, whatever the reason behind it was Sweallow heard the tone loud and clear. They shouldn't be out for much longer, otherwise they'd be risking more harm to Terra's already injured back. On the other hand however, they didn't quite have to go back right now. After giving it some thought, Sweallow had reach a decision. "We could walk around for a bit longer, but you have to let me know if you're back starts acting up."
Sien's attempt to get a better understanding on what was going about as well as one could expect given that there were still some information that he was lacking and thus had to assume to have in fit. Needless to say, it wasn't going all that well, so he decided to put this on hold for the time being. For right now he needed to deal with the fact that something had upset Alarick. Sien wasn't sure just what it was that had upset him, but he knew it must have been something big given the expression his face. "Did something happen?" Sien attempted to asked while following behind the nephilim. The talk between Rhett and Felicia had gone without any fight breaking out which was a good thing, but there was another issue now. After seeing both Alarick and Rhett run off towards the room that Brianne had gone to early. He was right, there was something wrong with her. It must have something to do with why her arm was trembling back at the bar. Creed certainly didn't know just what had happened back then and he wasn't trained to be able to figure out on his own either, but what he did know was that he was going to help her. Not right now though, he got the feeling that this wasn't exactly the best time for that. Instead he choose to speak with Felicia."So, just how long have you been here?" Creed asked. There wasn't a particular reason behind him asking this, just a mixture of curiosity and him just asking the first thing that he could think of.
"You're more than welcome to try, though I can't say that you'll succeed." It was hard to tell whether or not he was just being cocky, arrogant or just both. Either way he was making it pretty clear that he wasn't about to give up easily, no matter what the risk that were before him were. "Do you think I am some kind of factory that can produce remarks on a whim, dear sir you wound me." Xross said, changing his tone so that he sounded like he was insulted, though it would be pretty clear that he wasn't in any way shape or form. "Though, if you really want to hear a another sarcastic remark, I guess I have no choice but to stick around with you." And just like that, the slightly offended tone turned back to a mocking one. "I'll be fine." Kruez replied. Naturally he'd probably be grossed out, but he would be able to keep it together. As they continued traveling, they came across someone else. This person had said to be 'Veera's older brother of sorts' which wasn't something that Kruez could question so he just left it alone. The man, who introduced himself as Keenan, requested his name. A request Kruez soon obliged in. "Kruez." Sweallow wasn't all too surprised that she managed to explain what it was that she was holding with ease, but what did catch him off guard was how she was describing various other items among the shop. She was clearly displaying her knowledge on the topic, much to the disapproval of the owner, who had started glaring at them. Basically yet subtly telling them to leave the shop. Terra had noticed this as well and suggested that they leave now. "I agree." And without saying another word, he guided her towards the exit.
Kruez assumed that when Veera was referring to his arrvial at Kaer, she meant the first time that he arrived there. It was kinda odd given that she was the reason that he'd arrived there, well the mode of transportation anyway. He was free to decline her offer, but he did so yeah. Anyway Kruez looked over in her direction. "Well you have another mage, Evander, open a portal that lead to Kaer. That's pretty much the way I got there." "Xross, you're royalness." Xross said in what was clearly a mocking tone. He could've brought up the fact that he was there first when Talon had showed up, least at the bar anyway, but those were minor details. Especially since he actually has followed people around before for the sole purpose of messing with them. It was at this moment hat Zephyr sneeze out of nowhere. He got the feeling that someone very irritating was thinking of him. Not sure why he would have this feeling in the first place, so he just shrugged the feeling off. Back with Xross, he made no attempts to move despite Talon's request. Instead he only moved closer. "And what if I don't, it's not like you're in any condition to do something about it. But I welcome you to try." And I'll be sure to exploit that shoulder injury of yours as painfully as possible. Ah taunting, it worked easier when the target was already irritated and even better when they were quick to act on said irritation. Once more Zephyr sneezed out of nowhere. Seriously, just who was thinking about him? Sweallow allowed Terra to take the item from his hand once he'd held it up to her. "My pleasure." Hearing her request to explain what it was that she was holding, Sweallow considered it. While he did have knowledge in the field of medicine and alchemy was sometimes used in said field (and Mok totally isn't pulling that out of his ass), his actual knowledge on the topic of alchemy was quite minimal at best. So after pondering Terra's suggestion, he replied with. "Go right on ahead, alchemy had attracted my curiosity at times."
Despite the various number of obstacles flying towards him, Aeros was having little trouble dodging as much of the simulated debris that was thrown in front of him. The main objective was just that, avoid as many of the obstacles that he could. Of course there were some that it was very difficult for him to avoid, thus instead of trying to dodge, Aeros instead destroyed them with the firing systems. He was in his own little world right now and that's likely how it would stay, least until he heard a voice over the intercom. "This is Captian Altius. We will be setting off. Those scheduled for duty will report to their posts immediately." Well there wasn't much that he could do about that. Thus he ended the simulations and started to make his way back to his station (Wherever that is). He'd gotten off the elevator on deck 5 and took a couple steps down the hall. He noticed that there was someone who clearly looked lost. "Is there someone or someplace you're looking for?" Aeros asked the wandering girl.
So despite being the one who'd kidnapped Conrad and Tessa seemed to be a pretty okay guy and that was just because Conrand had said so. He didn't appear to be a bad person based off the concern he had shown for Laurentinus's injury. "Shadowweaver?" This was something else that someone was going to have to explain to him. Fortunatately Kara did, kinda sorta. Right now as for the time being he just assumed that Shadowweaver was a pet of his and as for Shyra and her compaion, Lumen shrugged before saying. "Maybe she got lost?"
Lumen was the next person to hear voice in the distance, so when he saw Kara and Laurentinus get up and walked towards said voices, his gaze followed in the direction they were walking in. Upon seeing that it Conrad and Tessa that had arrived, he got up from where he was sitting and walked over to them. That was when he noticed the spider and the other guy who were there too. He wasn't all to concerned with the guy whoever, for the spider had most of his attention. Given was had recently happened involving spiders, he was a bit cautious to be around this one. Hearing what Alice said to him didn't help with his caution at all, but so far it didn't look as hostile as the other ones did. "So who's that?" Lumen asked, motioning to the guy Kara had gone and hugged.
"Wouldn't be the first time." Zephyr replied. He took a step forward to show that he planned to follow behind them into the city. I wished that wasn't true though. Kruez silently followed behind Veera as they continued to follow the directions the tracks had gone in. The silence had been broken twice throughout their walked, the first time was when Veera whistled and the second being when she asked him about his story. With a shrug Kruez started speaking. "There's not much to tell. I'm from a village a far ways from here and had a fairly decent life, despite being oblivious to how some of the other people felt about mages. Being oblivious to all that sure was great while it lasted, but all good things must come to an end as they say and in my case, it came to an end when both my parents were murdered." Kruez explained, his face unchanged as he did. Following the literal self destruction that occurred yesterday, Xross did a fair amount of walking around aimlessly. There wasn't much point of heading back to a bar at this time of day, most of the 'easy to mess with' people (as Xross saw fit to named them as such) wouldn't be there yet and thus the fun that he could have there was severely limited. Which left him in his current situation. Eventually this walking around of his had taken him near a river that ran under a bridge. An interesting change of scenery, but he wasn't going to complain just yet. After taking a few more steps forward, something had caught his attention. Well someone at least. He'd managed to spot Talon there. Now this was definitely an interesting turn of events given how he'd gotten arrested the previous day and it also gave him something to relive his boredom of. It was a win win...for Xross anyway. "Well, well I never pegged you as the type to break out after being arrested." Their trip to the alchemist's shop had fortunately gone off without any issue. Upon seeing Terra attempted to lean over to look at one of the many items, Sweallow took a guess at what she was trying to look at, picked it up and held it up for her to look at. "Does this help?" This was followed by Terra bringing up that she knew some alchemy herself. "Interesting, maybe it'll give you more to talk about with the owner."
"That's good too." Creed replied. Of course being alive was a good thing, but that didn't truly mean that one was truly okay. He's still alive and there have been times where he was anything but okay. Those weren't times that Creed was proud of and he avoided reminding himself of them whenever he could. Brianne briefly holding his hand quelled his concerned for the time being, but they most certainly hadn't gone away for good. Stepping into the institute Creed started to feel uneasy, probably because of the sheer amount of wolves that were inside. Well this certainly sucked to a certain degee, but at least they didn't seemed to be hostile enough to attack on sight, that much was a relief. "Can we not start another fight, isn't that against the reason we came here." Creed said. Granted the reason they came here was cause someone had messaged Brianne so he wasn't sure just how much to that statement was true, but they didn't need to know that. Sien was busy sitting down on a nearby chair he had found, trying to piece things together where yet another group of wolves had arrived. This group was accompanied by Brianne and two people that he didn't know, but did remember seeing at the safe house. That and Nick had returned from wherever the hell he went so there's that too. Not knowing whay to say right now, Sien silently observed the situation before him.
Well he was trained is the basics of fighting and things along that nature. Anything specific was left for him to figure out for himself.
Having browse through the training programs for a good couple of minutes, Aeros finally found one that appeal to him. Well, one on an easier difficulty that appeal to him. There were plenty of other ones that had caught his attention that were on harder difficulties, but remembering the words of his commander about starting things off easier, he choose not to select those. The simulation that he had selected was a simple evasion practice, one that would have him dodging simulated lasers in a battlefield. Starting Simulation The automated voice spoke as everything around changed form around him. In a matter of moments he went from standing in the VR room to sitting in a spaceship with various obstacles in his way. Taking hold of the virtually created controls, Aeros started the simulation.
Following Veera's pointing, Kruez took notice of the mass of tracks. While he himself didn't know what to make of it, Veera clearly did with how closely she was examining them. It was probably something that she had picked during her witcher training, least that was what he was assuming anyway. From his standpoint it was a valid assumption given that the next thing she said to him, was the presumed direction that Solomon had gone off in. The mage gave her a quick nod before following behind her. "Right, shall we be off then." Sweallow said, leading the way. Given Terra's injuries and the risk that she was taking by walking, he wasn't walking particular fast or gotten all that far ahead of her. He was probably just a step or two in front of her. Far enough to be considered leading, but not too far so that if something had happened he wouldn't be able to do something on the matter. The small lead was briefly stopped when they had gotten to door and Sweallow proceeded to open it and hold it open for her. "After you."
Creed nodded as he followed behind Brianne. Shortly afterwards they were joined by Rhett and a whole lot of werewolves. Like he didn't doubt Brianne when she said that he'd follow behind them with wolves, but he certainly wasn't expecting this many wolves to show up. During the walk back to the institute Creed had caught up to Brianne and started walking alongside her. "You okay?" Before they had left and Rhett brought the wolf army with him, he'd noticed that her hand was shaking. This brought some concern for Creed about her well being.
Gale walked into the dinning hall and he started to look around to see if he could find someplace to sit or, in the event that Tessa had arrived before him, to see where it was that she was sitting. His eyes scanned the area twice before he finally noticed that Tessa was sitting in a corner. So she had arrived here before him. It wasn't like he was especially trying to her there before she did, but still. All that aside, he walked over to where she was sitting and took himself a seat. "Sorry I'm late." That was, assuming he was late anyway.
Well it would appear that his opponent this time around wasn't so fond of her current situation. When she mentioned the demi god, Reitan mind quickly went to the only other demi gods he's fought. Naturally he wanted to fight him once more, but someone had to support Carissa in this fight, so there wasn't much he could do. Well that and he'd likely get an earful from Carissa if he just up and left to fight someone else and he really didn't want that. "As much as I want to, my hands are kinda tied." When the stalemate between the two had ended and Teliana went in for the attack to his side, Reitan spun on his heels in order to move the targeted area out of her reach as well as use his lance to parry her attack.
With two of the four people here taking a seat, Lumen followed their example and took a seat on the cave floor where he was standing. "We followed a narrow path that way and ended up here." Lumen replied, explaining it to the best of his abilities. He wasn't exactly sure on how they'd gotten here himself, but at this point he was simply going with the flow at this point.
Right as Creed had managed to grab his weapon, Rhett had assisted him with the werewolf by throwing a silver hatchet into his shoulder. This cause the beast to cry out in pain, which granted Creed the perfect chance to strike the beast with his sheated weapon. Creed made sure to hit it hard enough that the werewolf would be knocked out. Downside with his plan was the the unconscious body fell right on top of Creed, providing him with a different issue. Welp, that sucked. By the time Creed had managed to get the werewolf off of him, a lot had happened. Another were wolf had pounced onto Brianne, Rhett had thrown yet another weapon at the beast, which Brianne proceeded to use to finish it. And now Rhett was trying to convince all of the other werewolves to stand together as oppose to fight one another. Creed didn't know whether or not that would work given what had just happened, but you never know. Getting back onto his feet, he turned to Brianne and said. "Lead the way."
