So far in his time spent with Veera, Veilen was getting the feeling that she was treating him like a kid if not a younger sibling. Which, to be fair, he was probably around the right age to be considered both from her. Her poking him on the forehead only solidified the younger brother/kid ideal. "Where are we going exactly?" He asked, following behind Veera.
After Alice finished explaining the situation to Lumen, he gave her a confused expression for a good couple of seconds. Then he turned towards the blacksmith. "One second please, I might actually buy something." His attention went back to Alice to which he said. "Are you sure you're okay, like did you hit your head on the way here?"
"The answer to your question is simple, wait here and recuperate. As I said before, I may not be able to understand what you've been through. What I do know is that you need rest." Sweallow answered. He clearly wasn't all too concern with the risk of losing anything, but that was because he wasn't too concerned with that. Zephyr was still pretty out of it in terms was what was going on and why they weren't going to be able to stay here. He didn't question it though, not like questioning at this point would help anything. He would just have to go along with that they were telling him and trust them. Which wouldn't be two hard to do, they both are reasons why he's still alive, albeit not in the same way. At Teliana request, Zephyr walked over to her so that she could work to remove the cuffs around his wrists. "So this isn't the first time you've dealt with these?" With this being the first time he's seen cuff like these, his knowledge on how this worked was pretty low. "Kruez stiffened at Tatiana's touch, and then slowly relaxed once more. She seemed to know what she was doing, and while that seemed suspicious to him, he couldn't seem to bring himself to stop her. He turned around and faced the girl, running his hands over her shoulders gently. Being a v-*cough cough* he wasn't sure what to do next, but this felt right" ^ The above post in property of Magick
Zephyr used Blue Flame Armament Clarent
Clearly there was some sort of misunderstanding between what Kruez had said and what he meant, likely a result of Mok making a typo, but whatever. Now Tatiana was laying down on the bed, naked in what was probably a 'draw me like one of your french girls' position. Maybe this one time it wouldn't hurt to indulge her in her services this once. Least that's what his 'fuck it' mentality had considered before hearing the commotion going on outside. Kruez looked out the and saw what from his perspective looked like an angry mob. It didn't look like they were bothering with anyone inside and were more so focused with those outside. "Well it looks like we're going to be here for a bit." Sweallow was silent as he listened to Terra speak. It was clear that she had been through a lot, including what he did not know about, but that still didn't change the fact that she wasn't in the best condition for traveling nor self defense. "It certainly sounds like you've been through a lot and while I can't truly understand you're going through. However I can say that you're not in the best shape to go out on your own." Zephyr was still pretty out of it so he didn't offer much response to the man who'd rescue him from falling into the river. However when the with hunters was mentioned, the first thing that came to mind was both the man who'd locked him and what had happened to Teliana. A knot formed in his stomach as he was reminded of how someone else had basically sacrificed themselves for his own safety. He didn't quite understand what the man meant when he said that something, but he still followed him towards the next room. Much like Teliana was surprised with Zephyr being there, he was surprised to see her as well. "Yeah I'm alive, but are you okay?"
"What do you mean new experience?" Veilen asked, moments before being pushed over wall and falling all the way down into a pile of sheep's wool. Phew, that could've been worse. Working his way out of the sheep's wool, he found himself being next to Veera. "Was that what you meant by 'new experience'?"
"I'm all for reunited them with their family, especially if they want to go, but maybe we should wait til we find their family before reuniting them Like Alessia said, things might not end well if we bring them back. People can be pretty ruthless should they choose to be." Zephyr said. He knew that much from experience and it was not a pleasant sight to see.
A few more minutes had passed of Lumen's nap and he had decided to start getting up, albeit pretty slowly. Hell in those few minutes all he really did was just roll around a bit before ending up back on his back. Getting up quickly from a nap wasn't something that he was good at, no matter how hard he tried. Though one quick way to resolve that was to drop something on him. That would, and did, wake him up. Once whatever had landed on him had gotten off, Lumen sat up and looked towards the person who had spoken. Seeing the woman before him was a surprise, especially since he'd figured someone had dropped something on him as a way to get his attention. "You're in Astralux. So where do you come from?"
"I just came to look around." Lumen said. He looked at each weapon, giving each one some attention before his eyes landed on the longsword. The fact that it was magical certainly did catch his attention. Another thing that caught his attention was someone calling out his name. He turned to see that Alice had caught up to him and was out of breath. "You okay there?"
While Tatiana looked at her wound, Kruez sat down in one of the chairs that was already there for them. "Like I said, I was bored and had nothing better to do. I saved you because you were basically helpless. If you could've handled things on you own, then I probably would've let you handle it then. Lastly I did do it because I was hoping for some kind of reward." Kruez explained. All of which was done without looking at Tatiana. "I suppose there is, but that would require the assistance of a mage willing to speed up the healing process." Sweallow explained. Curious as to why she couldn't stay in one place for long, he decided to question Terra about. "Why is it that you can't stay in one area for long?" Tired and cold, Zephyr remained out like a light as his body slowly attempted to restore his natural body heat. This was the closet thing to rest that he would get and the chance was taken...despite the like threatening situation he was still in. It wasn't long before he started showing signs of waking up. First a low groan, then his moving around a bit before finally Zephyr sat up. He didn't recognize where he was outside it being an inn. "Where am I?"
"Kill me? Alright, I want you to remember that." Kruez replied, scoffing at first. That scoff was followed by him chuckling a bit to himself. Kruez held out his index finger and traced in the air the numeral 0. "Your endless journey has come to an end, come forth Fool!" As Kruez opened his hand, a bright light appeared and started to take the form of a gun. Now one could question would anyone know what a gun was in this universe, but that's a bridge to be crossed later. For moment after the gun had fully formed, two shots were fired from the weapon. One landing in the goons foot while the other ended up in his lower leg. "And this is why you don't threaten strangers. Now sit right there while I handle your friend." Kruez's faze turned towards the other one, who already had his sword drawn ready to fight. Instead of saying something smart or taunting the man, he simply took a step forward. That one step prompted the man to take one step back. Kruez took another step forward and the man took another one back. This little game of their's went on until the brute found himself with his back against the wall. Now with nowhere left to go, the brute resorted to actually using the weapon that he had with him. While it may have been a bit late to not let the mage get to him, it certainly wasn't to late for him to try and fight back. To that end, he swung the blade in an attempt to catch Kruez's head. The mage retaliated by ducking under the sword, during which Kruez fired off two bullet into the man's gut. Just before he could make another swing, the pain from being shot in the gut caught up to him and brought him down to his knees. Blood started to seep out of the wound, followed by the man falling on his side. The man had a chance to survive if he could get to help, but he wasn't going anywhere anytime soon nor was his partner. But just to be certain of that, Kruez shot the man in the leg. Now all that was left was to get Tatiana out of here. Kruez made his way over to her and removed her bindings and gag. "You should probably get your brother or someone to teach you how to defend yourself." He then tossed his cloak over her as to give her some way of covering herself. Seeing as how she wasn't in the best condition to walk, he helped her onto her feet and walked her towards wherever would be a good place for magick to timeskip the from. Sweallow chuckled a bit to her response. If she could make responses like that, then she must have been feeling better then yesterday. He placed his hand to his chin as he thought about when an full heal should be expected. "You should be able to move without too much pain in your back in a few days, as for a full recovery. That should take up to a week." With all the running that Zephyr had been doing, it was somewhat impressive that he hadn't fallen over due to exhaustion. he was nearing that situation though, he burning of his legs could only be ignored for so long before his body made the decision that his brain didn't agree with. Zephyr had just ran past the city gate, but paid no attention the the guards that were there nor the man who was throwing rocks near the river. Though hopefully the man noticed him, for that was when he legs gave out and Zephyr fell into the river.
Luck would be on Terra's side for Sweallow had not heard of her and simply nodded when she gave her name. "Pleasure to meet you Terra, you may call me Sweallow. Sweallow Cauther." As far as he was aware, there was no special reason behind his naming, not that that matter at all. "Is your back feeling any better?" Having just treated it, he doubted that it would be perfectly fine in a single day, however if there was any slight pain or anything along those lines, then he'd like to know so that he could treat it. "Yes, I can clearly see that you're doing something. I'm not blind." Kruez said nonchalantly. The other man started to approach him, talking about the apparent bounty that Tatiana was worth. Kruez didn't know that, though he wasn't even certain whether or not Tatiana had mentioned that and he just wasn't paying any attention at all. Oh well, bounty or no bounty. It matter little to him. Shortly after being asked about the bounty, the other man walked back to Tatiana and cut free her dress from around her body. "Yeah, I'm kinda going to have to interrupt your 'fun' if you don't mind. Not that your caring would affect anything." Once again said in a nonchalant manner, though this time with a hint of bluntness, Kruez start to walk towards the two brutes.
After boarding the ship, Reitan didn't do a whole lot. Part of him still wanted to fight against that demi god, it had been whole since he'd been up against an opponent like that. Not strictly referring to a demi god, but more so someone to cause him to have to think about his next actions and how to proceed during a fight. Fortunately they were on the opposite sides of this war and thus the odds of the facing again were quite good, he needed to wait til then. With his lance placed on his back, Reitan started to walk around the ship toward the nearest room. In that room he found some girl he didn't know. Said girl was also tied up so that was also something to take note of. "So, who are you?" Reitan questioned.
It should be no surprise that Lumen has gotten the best sleep out of anyone on this mission so it made sense that he was a bit dishearten when he actually had to get up. He'd reach the pinnacle of comfort, a state no man has ever reached before. Leaving this state now would be madness. Which is why instead of getting up right away he took a few more moments to soak in all the comfort, embrace it, savor it while he could. When Laurentius had spoken to him, he'd accomplished his goal of enjoying pinnacle of comfort. Having done that, he slowly made his way out of bed. Just because he enjoyed the comfort for a bit longer didn't changed how he didn't want to get out of bed. Regardless of that he did and made sure to grab the bag of coins and headed out. Now as for where he went, hmm he decide to go to the blacksmith cause why not.
Despite still being unsure as to what to do in regards to the whole situation that he was now in, seeing the mob of people approaching was more than enough reason for him to follow being Veera. Entering the courtyard behind Veera, he sighed before answering her question. "No, I'm more of a wanderer. One who just got here I might add."
Having left Pandemonium Sieg traveled across the rooftops away from the area. He was curious as to what had happened there and while he did, he held no desire to ask other people. The silence that came with being alone was something he'd gotten used to. Not that he had much of a choice. It was either get used to it or quite possibly go insane and since he clearly still had his sanity, the choice he made was clear. He had gotten past a couple of buildings before he heard the sound of a scream. Not so much a scream of terror or pain, but more of one out of aggression. Still it was enough to grabbed his attention. Sieg looked down the alley and saw four people. One of which must've been a warlock due to the animal like feature they had. The jury was still out on the other three. Excluding the one that was currently on her back, the other one seemed to have a handle on the situation. Maybe if things started to take a turn for the worst he'd intervene, for now though he'd spectate.
Lumen went to sleep in his own bed, with blackjack and hookers.
Gale wasn't wasting anytime in taking down the titans. He'd started off with a small group of them, four to be exact and had managed to take out two of them before Flame came by and assisted him with the other two. For a brief moment he was in the clear of titans, but the thunderous footsteps soon proved otherwise. Another group of titans had appeared, this time their numbers were seven. A number that would be difficult for Gale to deal with on his own. That wasn't going to stop him from trying. He exchanged his worn blades for a new set and dashed off towards the group of titans. What Gale had thought was that the titan in front him were his only threat, but this tunnel vision had caused him to miss the titan to his left that grabbed onto his his chord. Being caught off guard by the sudden tug, Gale was tossed against a nearby wall. A sharp pain ran throughout his back as his now blurred vision eventually went back into focus. His brain didn't register the hand reaching out to him until it was a few feet away from him. At this point there was little chance that he could get away on his own. Dammit, once again his own tunnel vision had costed him. First the life of his friend and now his own life. In this moment of acceptance, Gale once waited for his fate when he heard a pain cry sound from the titan. Now unfortunately for Chrono he wasn't able to kill any titans right off the bat for Flame had killed just about every titan he'd seen before he could even do something. This went on until Chrono eventually separated from Flame in hopes of finding someone else to help and as luck would have it, he did. Surprisingly enough he saw Gale in quite the situation, which made sense when he saw the eight titans around him. Tightening the grip on his weapons, he headed towards that titans that was reaching towards Gale and swiftly slashed at it's nape. While the titan collapsed onto the ground, dead, Chrono went to give Gale a hand up. "Think we can handle the rest of them?" Chrono questioned. Sure he was a part of the scouting legion, but fighting this many titans was something out of his expertise. "We won't know unless we try." That was the simple response that Gale had given Chrono. They were certainly going to try, that much was for certain.
Now unlike Teliana, Zephyr wasn't all that knowledgeable on Witch Hunter, so he wasn't all that certain as to why she said that they would be in trouble. Well other than them being in cages. That was kinda a give away that they were here for tea and crumpets or whatever you want to call it. Hearing Bryce mention the skeleton using mage caught his interest, but he kept this to himself. Just what did they want with him? Then Teliana spoke, also mentioning the skeleton mage. She too apparently knew something about him and was willing to give up that information for his release. Zephyr wanted to know more about the mage too, but he didn't want anyone sacrifices themselves for him to get said information. The next sequence of events happens in a bit of a blur for Zephyr. One of the men that had arrived along with Milosh had walked into the cage that he was in and placed a pair of shackles on him. It didn't take long for him to feel the shackles limiting his magical ability to the point where he couldn't use them the way he wanted to. This certainly would make things problematic for him if not for a certain thing. Teliana had caused an explosion that had cause the perfect diversion. Part of him hated the fact that once again someone was risking their own lives for his own sake, but he wouldn't be able to return the favor if they both got caught. So he ran. Ran as far and as fast as he could. Kruez didn't even know that Tatiana had looked towards him during Vyle's freak out. Partly because of his lack of attention towards the whole this as well as it wasn't long before he simply just walked out and started wandering about. It'd taken long enough (and totally isn't Mok's fault) for him to get bored and thus started to do what he did best. Walk around til he found something til he found something else of interest. He'd taken a few steps away from where he left where he saw something out of the corner of his eyes. That something was Tatiana being dragged into an alley. This sight cause him to sigh. Part of him really wished that it was Derrick instead of her. That way he could at least pretend that he didn't see anything and keep to himself. Hell if Tatiana could actually handle things on her own he probably would do the same. But alas she couldn't, thus our current situation. "Ah fuck it." Having said that, he headed into the alley. "So a buff guy, a defenseless girl and a dark alley, I'm guessing you lack originality then." Sweallow was in the middle of looking through some notes when he heard his guest speak. He pressed his hand down on the page he had stopped on and turned his attention towards her. "Think nothing of it, I just did what I felt was right at the time." Despite being a Doppler, Sweallow thought differently from the more trouble causing dopplers. For example he'd chosen to study in the field of medicine so that he'd be able to help other should the situation arise, much like he running into the woman he was currently speaking with. "You don't need to pay me back, but I would like to know your name."
Zephyr had remained silent as they walked towards Lu's home. The silence wasn't out of trying to figure out just what was going on, but instead it was simply because he had nothing to say at the moment. Now for when they had arrived out her house, the first thing that came to mind was "Well then, not expecting this." Sure Lu did say that her family could shift like Johanna, but Zephyr had expected them to look human, not a mixture of human and animal. After the siblings had introduced themselves, Antonio spoke about taking them back to civilization in order to find out more about them. Now their being against the idea aside, couldn't one do the same thing while leaving them where they were? "Maybe we should give them some time to think about it before setting off, besides there's still the original reason we came here."
