The winds where wild this Morning as a blackened figure walked through the grasslands. Covered head to toe in a patched cloak he had made his way out of a brush and into and even bigger one. The grasses Dancing in the wind as he walked by them. Gawfy had heard that these grasslands where home to dangerous things with sightings of dragonkin, bandits, slavers and even beastmen. He was not here for a challenge however. He simply wanted to get to the desert, But trouble always had a way of finding him be it luck or causality things where never easy for him. He kept his hood up and continued walking.
Julien groaned as he tried to get comfortable. He's been waiting for two days and this rock hasn't gotten any better. Julien stood up popped his back and moved to a different spot on the rock. He stayed like that for a while before he groaned and moved again. He started to get tired waiting for his prey a day ago, now he just wanted it to be over so he can have a meal that he didn't have to cook and a soft bed. Julien stood up again, cursing as he rolled his shoulders, looking around.
The guy who hired him said that his target would be heading this way. Julien started to stretch when he noticed something moving. Or someone. Quickly he leaped behind his rock and watched. It was a shadow of a man, moving within the bushes, his target. Julien grinned as the shadow moved closer, he could already feel the soft feathers has he went to sleep. As the shadow crept forward, Juilen readied himself, and pounced.
Gawfy's ears perked up as he heard rock being stepped upon. He moved his head to his right and saw a humanoid pouncing towards him. He Responded with a back step followed by another Step back as the man now landed where he was just standing. Keeping his sword on his back He only stared at the man as the wind whistled in the air.
Julien looked around. The man was gone, having moved to the side. Julien grinned at the figure and drawn out his sword that was originally on his hip.
"Alright, old man. There's a bed calling my name down the road. Now, why don't we do this the easy way and just have you surrender. You can't really beat me."
I cant? The cloaked figured said as he stood. And why would that be? He asked as he took a step forward towards the man to get a better look at him. He seemed to be around his own age with light-ish armor as his preferred attire. All you see is a man in a cloak and you have already deduced you can kill me?
Julien stopped.
"You're right. All those people I killed. And for what? For a few hundred coins? So I can eat a meal and pass out drunk? What have I been doing my how life?!" Julien said. He laughed and rolled his eyes. "Ha, no. I'm going to kill you anyways. That's what I'm paid to do."
He then raised his sword and charged.
Gawfy watched as the man laughed to himself and started to charge at him. He still stood not budging an inch. He eyed the sword the man had taken into his hand. "sleek, wide, double edged?"
He thought to himself. It mattered not how ever. When the man would thrust into him he would feel the recoil of metal clashing with metal as his sword met with his own armor. You must have a lot of confidence in your Swordsmanship to just charge at me like that, You must have an ace up your sleeve, cocky kids never live this long. Gawfy then reached out to grab the man's sword.
Julien was stopped as the shadow man grabbed his sword. Julien frowned and tried to tug away. What in the world? Who the hell does that? Julien thought. He then scoffed and tried to kick the man in between the legs.
Gawfy felt the man kick him his legs, yet he did not feel a thing, though the man's foot might hurt after kicking double plated heavy armor. You shouldn't rely on parlor tricks to win a fight He said as he took a step forward and shoved the young man away from him letting go of his sword while he did it. Still with no weapon in hand You gonna bring out that Ace you have yet?
Julien stumbled back from the push, cursing out loud, and letting go of his sword. He grabbed his foot and hopped around.
"Argh! Oh my- You mother- Oh, I'm going to give it to you!" Julien groaned and limped around, trying to bypass the pain. "Just, hang on a moment. Let me just... get this."
Julien turned around, reaching into his pocket, pulling out a paper. He looked at the paper, then back at the man, still wincing in pain.
Gawfy couldn't help but to smirk and let out a chuckle as he hopped around throwing insults and curses at him. He then watched him Get the paper out of his pocket and observe it. Dammit kid, are you sure you killed hundreds of people? He asked sarcastically as his chuckling died down.
Clue walks among the plants, his expressions controlled. He doesn't like open places like this, almost no shadows at all to jump in, luckly there was some plants around here that were big enough to have a shadow he could hide in.
Clue's sensitive hearing detects cursing in the distance. Clue slinks into one of the larger plant shadows to watch from the distance, although to him a distance is only 20 feet away. He also groups up the shadows, near by, to help him keep hidden.
Clue stares at the two men, one jumping around holding his foot while cursing, the other looking at the man jumping with disdain and he also had a wisp of a smile on his face.
Julien glared. "Yes."He said, drawing the 's' out, "I just wasn't informed that my target was all, uh, decked out." He mumbled the rest. He looks like the guy on the paper. I think. Julien put some pressure on his foot. It felt fine enough. He bent down and picked up his sword, flipping it. He took a stance, smiling.
"Ok, old man. Get ready to eat my steel." Julien said, waiting for the man to arm himself.
Im not that much older than you. He said as he watched the man pick up his sword, but his would stay in its place. He held his arms open as he said Well let me have it then, but be warned it might not be as easy as you think. Maybe this kid did not have any special abilities and was getting by on chance, Lucky kid. Kid. He felt odd calling the man "kid" this as he was around his age
but it way he acted he just couldnt help it
Clue stares closely at was going on down below. Ever since his rebirth, his emotions were more visible than it used to be, if one could see Clue, and that is a big if, they would see his interest clearly on his face.
Clue creeps in a little closer to make sure he misses nothing.
Julien smiled. "Nope I definitely got you now. I'm going to be sleeping light tonight" He took a step forward watching the other man's movement as he sung down, his sword. Aming for the chest.
Gawfy steps forward again as the man once again came at him with a downward slash. He waited until The man was right on top of him. As the man swung down he un buckled his cloak with his right hand, tossing it at the man while holding up his left arm to block the sword strike.
Clue sits back and watches the fight with extreme interest, forgetting just where he was.
Coming up behind him as a large cat like creature. It had sharp claws, it was a good 12 feet long and 9 feet tall.
Behind that one was around eleven others, all different in sizes, most were smaller, but there were a couple that were even bigger.
While they couldn't see or even smell him, that does not stop them from touching him. The leading one bumps into Clue with great force and set him flying, although it was actually Clue leaping away from it, not even the most masterful assassin can hide him self while he is in the air in broad daylight.
Clue seemingly appers out of nowhere falls towords the two fighting men.
Julien saw the man reach for his cloak. Quickly, he cut it away and felt his sword connect with metal. He leaped back to get a better look at this man, too see where it was best to strike. Right as another man lands in his way.
He understated the kid, He was able to cut much faster than last time. but he lept back as hit attack hit. Not soon after a man fell from what he could only guess was the sky. He then picked up on the bigger footsteps behind him. Being a demon hunter and hunting large beasts he instinctively drew his sword in a flash from his back and turned his back to the two men.
Clue grunts as he hits the ground. He stands up and wips the dust of his cloak. He looks at the the man who turned to face the cats.
He looked even stronger up close, but Clue was pretty sure he could take him with his own speed, Armor can't do much when the opponent aims for the open spots. The other man Clue couldn't tell, but he was in an agreement with what the Man with armor said, this one probably had an ace. And depending on what exactly that ace did might determined the fight, although Clue had his own tricks up his sleeve.
Clue turns back to the man with armor and stares that the cat things that made him jump.
"Lucky kitties, you couldn't even see my, yet you still got me...." Clue says with a sigh as he draws his longest blade. It was actually extremely short compared to the armoured man's, but it was perfect for Clue, fast and shape.
"Let's play." Clue says as the cats begin to surround them, and with his other hand he draws a knife.
Julien blinked as the falling man spoke to himself and faces the cats. He was paid to get one guy, but two with a bunch of cats. No sir. He would have to be paid double. No. Triple. Plus tax. Money is key.
"Well, ladies. I'll leave these cats to you. I'll be sitting here. On my rock." Julien said as he turned and walked back to his 'rock house.'
Gawfy watched as the man next to him drew his blade. The other man vocalized his disdain for fighting such a large foe and decided to not get involved "discretion is the better part of valor i suppose." He thought to himself. As he thought this one of the beasts leaped at him. Gawfy took his blade into both of his hand and swung it like a club with the sword's now dull side facing the beast. The sword made contact as the very audible sound of bones breaking filled the air. The beast flew a couple of meters to the left of gawfy where it landed and did not get back up. It was not dead yet but with his ribs and front right paw broken and undoubtedly bleeding into its lungs it would be soon. Two others jumped down but not close enough to engage immediately, The others seemed to back away out of sight, Gawfy turned to the man next to him as he lifted his sword like a lance. The others are going to flank us it would seem He said in a very calm tone
Clue nods to the mans statement. "The name is Clue. You?" Clue asks as he tosses the knife into one the cats eyes. Another knife appears in his hands, that promptly gets thrown also.
Clue starts to manipulate the shadows, to keep him out of the sun light. If other look at him now, they would see that Clue seemed to be stronger and his surrounding was darker and colder than before. Clue further manipulates the shadows even more so that his sword was now covered in visible shadow. Clue looks up from his sword to the cats.
"You ruined good entertainment..." he mutters, thinking back to the funny fight that the cats messed up. Clue takes a step back to dodge a cat's claw and he slashes its chest. The cat yowls and leaps back. Clue picks up on a low growl coming from behind he and he see a large cat next to the man on the rock.
Julien ducked as one of the beast swipped at him. He ran past quickly and got to his rock. There was a little knook that he just might be able to squeeze into. Julien slid and shoved himself inside. He felt his shoulders cram up and slowly realized that he was stuck. Half his body still outside, ie. his head.
One of the cats seemed to noticed that he was stuck and is slowly walked over, a cat like grin on its face.
"Oh I'm so screwed! Wait a minute kitty, let me get unstuck before you- Ah Peantbrittle!" Julien said as the cat swipped at him. The beast would have gotten him but his sword and arm were still free so he spent his time swinging at air.Best defense ever.
"good thing cats like to toy with their prey" Gawfy thought as he Dashed away from Clue. His sword tore through the cat like beast Attempting to mangle the man who was just trying to kill him. He had aimed for the creature's lungs and drove it in at an angle to where most of the ribs would break and the sword would pierce at least one lung. With a deafaning crash the beast fell to the ground gasping for air it could no longer hold. Gawfy got his sword out of the beast and walked over to the man who was stuck giving him a firm boot in the ass to send him on his way into his so called "rock house" He turned around to be met with three more low growls. He then took hold of his sword to right side letting the tip rest on the ground behind him leaving his left arm free.
Clue srugs as his question was ingnored, and killed the cat that was bleeding on the ground from his earlier attack. Some people weren't very talkative in battle, but Clue always like talking. In fact Clue actually made a person mess up from Clue's constant talking, and well lets say rest in peace...
Clue looks around to see that they were completely surrounded by the remaining cats, and they looked quite mad. Clue sighs and puts away the blade he was wielding, while playing tag with a cat, and draws a different blade from the shadows. This type of blade was created by Clue, so there's no actual name for it, but is was large, required two hand to use, and was slightly similar to a saw, at least one without teeth.
Clue reinforces with shadows like he did before and attacked another cat.
Julien glared as his target kicked him. He was still stuck and his sword couldn't reach the other man.
"I had it covered!" Julien yelled, trying to pull himself out. There was nothing to grab on and he personally didn't want to fight those cats. Although, if he killed that cats and his target he might be paided lovely. Julien looked up, only three cats left.
"I call the one on the left! He's mine!" Julien yelled as he slowly got unstuck.
Yeah really looked like it. He said as the man ran off to fight one of the cats. Gawfy watched as the men scrap up the remaining cats. He put his sword into the ground and began leaning on it.
Clue yawns and leaps next to the man with the big sword, the one who won the earlier exchange. Clue leans against the rock and watched the other man fight the last 3 tigers. Or not. Clue turns to the man with the big sword and says.
"We got company." Clue turns around. As he had thought there was actually 6 left, 3 for little man and the other 3 for them.
There was originally 12, and they had only killed 6 in the first place.
"I knew I did not count wrong." Clue says as he redraws his sword from the shadows.
Julien leaped around, mocking the cats. Eventually he got bored and killed them. It's no fun if the cats Do the samething over an over. Hissing and whatnot. Julien turned around his arms open in triumph, but the others were looking at other cats. Julien sighed. He didn't know what he was expecting. Maybe an applause, girls running out from behind the bushes, drinks and money in hand. But fantasy is nothing but that. Julien walked up next to the others, his face in a pout.
"You didn't watch me. Man you guys suck." He stated as he continued forward, facing the rest of the cats.
Gawfy dashed Towards the one cat that had his attention while the others went for Clue. Gawfy raised his sword and yelled as he brought it down on the beast's head Smashing its skull and spine as its body slammed into the ground. Gawfy Pulled his sword from the Dead beast's body as he looked over to clue
Clue watches the cats with curiosity.
'Why do they keep on attacking even though we killed all but theses two. They must know they won't win....' Clue thinks to himself. Clue shrugs, he had seen stranger things; Like gods for an example.... Clue leaps up into the air, throws for knives in a split second, uses the shadow of the man and teleports behind the cats. With 2 slashes from his blade the cats die, and each had their eye's pierced by blades. Clue stands up and recalls his knifes back into the shadow and turns back to the man with big sword.
'Wow, if he does not tell me his name soon, I'm going to call him MWBS for man with big sword...'
"Yo." Clue says with a wave of his hand when he sees both of men watching him.
Julien pouted even more. Not only did the others ignore him, but they also killed the rest of the cats. Julien shrugged. Back to business. His targets back was to him, allowing Julien to come up from behind and grab the guys helmet, bring his sword up to cut him down.
Gawfy watched as the man cut killed the last two beasts with his blades. He did not witness any quick movements as he did do. Gawfy began to walk up to clue As the other "assassin" Reached up for his helmet and started making sparks on his armor. Gawfy Held out his right and and spoke. Names Gawfy, Slick moves you had out there. You some sort of mage or rouge?
Clue ignores the sparks flying off the armor.
"Clue, and I'm a little bit of both. I can control shadows, and that is used to help my 'certain' skill set. Who's your friend there?" Clue reaches forward and shakes the man's, Gawfy, hand. Clue then looks behind Gawfy and watches the other man futilely try to cut open Gawfy armor.
"His armor is doubled layered, you might have a better chance at stabbing between the holes in his armor than slashing at him." Clue helps the man. Clue then turns back to Gawfy.
Julien stopped swinging the sword. He wasn't tried but he was getting annoyed. How the hell could this guys armor be so strong, it really pissed him off. Julien glared at the other man as he spoke, trying to give Julien tips.
"I don't need you help. I can kill this bastard." Julien said turning back to the target. Julien sneered and grabbed onto the helmet with both hands and pulled.
Gawfy's head tilted back as the man pulled on it. Its an extension of my torso armor ass hat You are not going to be able to pull it off. He said As he kicked the man away then turned to clue. Dont know who he is but he claims to be an assassin Who is trying to kill me for a .....reason, Not as good as you id wager. He said as he thought back to the man's comment about pin pointing the weakpoints in his armor. Any reason why those beasts showed up? Never seen anything like em in these parts. He said to clue as he Sheathed his sword onto his back
Clue shakes his head as the man does something weird to Gawfy's head heam.
"I haven't even been here for long, but from the information I gathered, they don't belong here." Clue shrugs. Clue turns to the man on the ground.
"Alright Mate. What your doing here.... Well.... It's not working. You keep on calling Gawfy here old man, but he can't be older than 20 and your probably older than 15, are you sure he's your target?" Clue asks with a raised eyebrow.
Julien released the helmet. The guys foot tried to kick him away but Julien just side stepped it. The two continued talking and then they brought up Julien.
Julien frowned as his target called him an assassin.
"I'm not an assassin. Those guys kill for a living, I don't. I'm a mercenary, I do whatever people pay me to do. Most of the time it's to track down their god dam cow or something like that."
The other man, Clue, spoke about how this guy wasn't his target. Julien stepped back and pulled out his paper again, looking from it to the target. Again, the picture looked the same as the man in front. Nope definitely the same guy. Julien looked up.
"We already did this. That guy right there I my target. That what the paper says and that's how it's going to be." Julien said, putting the paper away and raising his sword again.
So other worldly? Damn have i been there and done that. They did seem not to care if they died ot not, You think they where summoned? He said as the kid said he got paid to do what ever people told him to. Gawfy turned to the kid. So less of an assassin and more of a whore? He said in jest with a slight chuckle. Listen kid i havent pulled out my sword the entire time you have been coming at me, You have any idea as to why? he asked
Clue nods in agreement to the otherworldly part.
While he's not good with summoning magic it was entirely possible, although there were multiple other ways for monster from other worlds or dimensions, to come over to this world that did not require summoning magic.
Clue keeps himself from laughing and takes a step back. He had a feeling that the mercenary was about to get pissed, jest or no jest.
Julien puckered his lips and held his hands together, fluttering his eyes.
"I'm assuming it's because your not gay. But it's fine, I can understand why a son of a whore isn't. And I must say," He said holding his hand up and kissed his fingers tips, flinging his hand back, "Bravo at resisting my chram. Good boy."
Gawfy laughed as the kid said this to him. His laughter calmed down as he spoke in a now solemn tone Ive Been on dozens of battlefields and killed hundreds if not maybe thousands of people just like you kid. Cocky and arrogant, And for what a couple of coins? I guess so, but killing you wouldnt bring me any joy. Only cut your life short, so find another executioner because ive had my fill of young men. He said as he turned toward clue. We should investigate where the hell these things came from, any normal folk wouldn't have stood a chance against them.
Clue sighs at the mercenary sexual joke. It was quite funny. Clue gets serious at Gawfy statement.
"Yes we should. Little mercenary, me and Gawfy have something to do now. I suggest you scatter now, well, that is if you don't want to came with." Clue turns back to Gawfy.
"The creatures are not from an element plane, as they didn't dissolve into their element after dieing. But that doesn't help much..." after mussing for a moment he speaks again.
"Ok, they came from that direction, so they should have their 'base' or home there. It also might be a portal, so watch where you step. Don't want to end up in another world." Clue says and waits for Gawfy's response.
Julien interrupted, stepped inbetween the two. He didn't really care about the cats, the two can discuss this later, when he's done talking.
"I'm not little, and I never leave a job unfinished. So I'm going to keep on following you untill I kill you or something else does, either way I get paid." Julien paused looking at the two. Then he stepped back. "As you were.'
Gotcha, This isnt my first time dealing with otherworldly beings. He said as he started walking in the direction the cats came from. I take it this isnt your first time dealing with shit like this? He said to clue
"Nope, I have hunted a couple of demons or two. They like to pull in people. It would be terrible if these cats are lead by an intelligent species." Clue starts to walk after Gawfy. Clue wipes of all dust and such that might have gotting on his clothing during the battle.
"Have you hunted before?" Clue ask Gawfy, and after he responds Clue turns to Julien.
"You?"
Julien looks at the tall one, his face twisted in a 'You got to be kidding me' look.
"Look here man. I hunt quite a lot. Happen to drink twice as much, but I do hunt. Just not from things of a different world. No one had paid me to do that shit. Technically I shouldn't even be following you without getting paid double the amount. Twice over."
Well if these beasts are demonic we are gold, But they do not have a demonic look. Gawfy said as he kept walking with clue.im thinking the were summoned. by who i dont know. Gawfy had an idea pop into his head. Julien, Right? has Anyone else beside you been paid to kill me? He asked. Anyone looking magical?
Clue nods slowly as he continued to walk. "That makes sense..." he mutters. He glances around, trying to catch the sight of anything near by.
"... Guys? Did you notice? There's no birds. Or bugs. Or any noise at all really... In fact- guys?" Clue spins around to find that he was alone.
"....." Clue scratches his head. "Well, Thats not cool." then he just shrugs and continues to walk, unaware that he was drawn into an illusion, made by a powerful creature with ill intentions.
Julien shrugged at his question.
"Could be. I was pretty drunk at the time. I didn't really listen to anything but the cost. If there was another guy he wouldn't want to work with me. Magic tends to negate when it comes near me." Julien said scratching his ear then wiping it on his pants. He looked up and noticed that Clue had stopped moving, his face blank. "Whats up with the tall fella?"
Gawfy walked over to clue along with Julien as he spoke. Something is amiss here. He said before taking out his sword as his hairs stood up. Julien sword, Now! somthing is headed this way. He said as he started looking in all directions as entered a fighting stance
Clue continues to walk down the path, that seemingly went on forever. His face was neutral but theses who know him would be able to tell he was pissed.
A little while ago he figured out he was stuck in an illusion, and while at that point he did not care, he got mad after he couldn't get out.
He tried killing him self, he tried to burn down the forest, he tried to go backwards. He even tried to enter the shadow dimension, which he never does. None of them worked.
Now Clue was rushing down the path trying to find the end of it, which would hopefully get him out of the illusion.
Julien looked around, pulling out his sword. Clue was still out of it and Gawfy was already in a fighting stance. Julien looked across the grassy plains, the winds ran in between the grass, making them dance.
There was a shadow walking towards the three of them. The shape was tall but not as tall as the two men standing next to Juilen.
"Hey, right there old man. Someone is coming up." Julien said nudging Gawfy
Gawfy readied his blade as the being made its way over to them. Gawfy wasnt going to waste any time on semantics. Juilen cover your ears! He would shout as he took a knee and lifted up his left arm. A deep Ker-thunk could be heard as the firing pin shot out followed by a loud explosion. Smoke shot out of his arm fogging up the little area they where standing in.
Clue heard shouting and a boom like sound. He frowned and looked around, but he knew he was still in the illusion. Clue sighed and kept on walking. But he realised that every time he moved forward the sound got louder.
So Clue started to run in that direction with all of his might. The illusion surrounding him started to shimmer and warp.
"Fucking hell!" Julien yelled covering his ears "What the hell was that!" As the dust cleared out, he could see Gawfy on his knees, the figure that was coming towards them was now gone. "Did you get them?"
Dont know! cant see a body. He said as the pain was starting to settle. The cannon on his left arm was useful but not with out consequence. Gawfy couldnt tell if it was just dislocated or fractured but his shoulder was hurting. He did his best to hide this fact. Gawfy looked back to to clue. Julien, Check on Clue. Its likely i killed it but it could materialize again.if its otherworldly. He said as he pulled his sword back out walking to the taller grass where it was last seen.
Clue panted as he see the path ahead start to widen. He heard people talking but it was all mutilated and he could not understand what was being said. Clue puts on another burst of speed and leaps out of the illusion. Clue grabs the closest creature to he and throws it to the ground, his hand pointed at the man's throat.
Clue glares at the man, ready to kill him, then he realizes he was on top of Julien.....
Julien nodded and jogged over to Clue.
"Hey, you still there man?" He asked, reaching out and grabbing the man's shoulder. Julien yelped as Cule came to life, grabbing Julien and slamming him against the ground. The breath was kicked out of Julien but it still didn't stop him from talking.
"Hey, buddy. So I see that your doing well. I'm not actually in the mood to fight. I think we'll call it a draw." Julien nodded to Clue's side. As Clue had grabbed him, Julien pulled out his sword and had it's point at Clue, ready to skewer the man. "Plus there's currently something out there. I think you want to kill it. Not me."
Gawfy turned around to see clue now on top of Juilen. As he did the hairs on his neck stood up as he turned his head back again. The same hooded entity was back with a blade readied above its head. It began to swing downward as gawfy threw up his arms over one another to block the blade. The blade was then caught in between his arms. With his sword on his back he had no way to immediately kill the thing. He would then force the blade away with his left arm and grab the man with his right Throwing him away with all of his force. The thing landed gracefully roughly ten meters away. Gawfy drew his sword as the thing started running at him again
Clue grunted with an nod of apologies to Julien and leaps off of him. Clue looks around and see's the fight with Gawfy and the shadowy figure.
"Let us go and help." Clue says to Julien. Clue draws his chained sickle and dashes off to help. With his other hand, Clue grabs a couple of throwing daggers and he tosses them at the figure, only for it to smoothly dodge them, but it did it by leaping even further back. Clue slides to a stop at Gawfy's side.
"You okay?" Clue asks, while 2 more throwing knives appearing in his hand as the thing starts to move forward once more, at an even greater speed than before.
Julien stood up and brushed himself off. He then watched as the other two fought the figure. Julien put a hand on his hip, sword still in it, and with his other shielded the sun and squinted, trying to see what the figure was.
He noticed that it held a double blade, making it look more like a giant fork. It had a black cloak, though it was more like a sheet from a bed, allowing Julien to see a hat underneath that held it up. It was fast, but it was definitely human, and sometimes Julien could see the figure's feet, wearing gladiator shoes. Julien sighed, putting his hand down. The figure had magic, but it was from other objects, meaning Julien couldn't negate it. Julien raised his sword and whistled.
"Don't you love nature, despite what it did to you?" Julien said pointing at the figure. "I mean, that must be why your mom gave you that cloak. You look better with it on than with it off. Make's sense. I'm guessing that you practiced being this ugly. Wait," Julien smiled and waved his finger. "Or does it come naturally. Ha! I wonder how many times someone came up to you and asked what kind of creature were you before you finally used that cloak." The figure stopped what it was doing and looked at Julien. Julien paused, turned around and ran, the figure running after him.
"Kill it! Kill it!" Julien screamed, not looking behind him.
Gawfy grabbed his crossbow from his side and followed the creature as it chased juilen. He took a shot. The creature responded as missed the creature as it dodged to the side. Gawfy then dropped the crossbow and took his sword into both his hands as it turned to him again. Im fine. Ill make an opening with the cannon,try to find a window to strike. He said as he walked toward it as it ran toward him. When it got within two meters of Gawfy he fired again spewing smoke everywhere once more with a loud boom.
Clue only had enough time to think 'Cannon? What cannon?' before Gawfy ran forward and shot off the cannon. At the loud bang Clue jumped. He was not expecting Gawfy to have a cannon in his arm.
'For gods sake... A cannon?!?!' but Clue was not one to miss an opportunity. Clue leaps forward into the smoke then smiles as, to him, the smoke cears up. Clue sees the figure trying to wave the smoke away. Clue frowns when he see that the was a giant hole in it's stomach and the cannon strike went right through the man. The hole looked like swirling smoke as it put it's self back together.
Clue lands on the ground silently before the figure and slashes his sword up at the man. Clue frown deepens when both of the figure's halves leap away. Clue stands up and dodges the figure's sword. The sword rotates midair and flys towards Clue. Clue flips backwards avoiding the sword. It fly's back to the owners hand.
"We're doing nothing to it. It just repairs it self. But... Something about it's sword is weird. It's like it's not even there. I can't place it, it's... It's weird." Clue shakes his head. "Maybe it's an illusion too?" Clue mutters as he rubs his hair that the sword should have cut off.
Julien stopped running and looked back. He was a little way off, he could barely hear what was going on. Julien sighed and started to hike back when more movement caught his eyes. He paused and looked around, scanning the tall grass. After a beat, he shrugged and jogged back to the battle
This was getting to be a slog. If His arm wasnt broken before it was now, felt like his entire shoulder was on fire. Gawfy gritted his teeth as the being slipped closer to him, stabbing him in one of the opening in his armor, Its blade slicing into his right leg.
Gawfy Would respond by grabbing the blade still in his leg. With a nasty look on his face he then raised his sword into the air letting out a yell as he brought his blade down on the beast with a wet nasty Crunch.
Again.
And Again.
and one more time.
Using the Dull side of his blade he pummeled the being until it was just mush on the ground. Deeply he drew in breath standing over the now red robe.
"......" Clue stares at the bloody mess on the ground that used to be a body. Clue then shrugs and walks dead thing.
Clue crouches and pulls off the hood, there wasn't much left but he should be able to find something out.
The body was completely smushed, a way only a extremely strong creature could do. Clue sighs and looks up to Gwafy.
"You okay?" Clue asks Gwafy. "What about you Merc?" Clue asks Julien as he jogs over. "It's dead. I have never seen something come back from being turned into a pancake." Clue stands up, wipping his hands clean from blood.
Julien blinked. The blood didn't faze him but it was still unsettling. He shrugged, answer Clue's question and watched Gawfy.He was still a target and after this battle Julien could tell that he was hurt. Julien smiled lifting his sword.
"You want to try round three, old man?" He asked getting into a fighting stance. Before he could take a step, a rock hit him in the back of the head. Julien growled and turned around. "What is the deal with throwing rocks at me!" He yelled, as another one, much bigger, hit him in the face. Julien dropped his sword and cupped his nose, shooting curses.
Gawfy feel to one of his knees as his breathing started to get more labored.Im alive, but the arm is fucked. He said as he began to stand up once more. He then proceeded to pull the sword up from his leg. Active regeneration would be my bet. Gawfy said as he motioned over to the bloody robe. What kind of asshole would just let a cannon hit em like that? He then heard Juilen's challenge and a hollow Thwak of a rock. Clue would you check on him please? He said as he dug around in one of his various satchels for come cleaning alcohol
"I don't know, but be careful if he pulled himself back together then, he might be able to do it again." Clue stands up looks Gwafy over checking if it was fine to leave him.
Clue was hesitant, but he still turns and goes to help the mouthy Merc.
"What's wrong Merc?" Clue calls out Julien as he jogs over to him.
Julien turned to Clue, his nose had started to bleed. Julien pointed to a creature standing off to the side. It was about three feet tall and looked like a combination of a fox and monkey, red fur with long ears, a tail held a pile of rocks.
"He threw them at me!" Julien yelled. He turned back to the creature. "Your a butt ugly beast!"
The creature hissed back and did something like a laugh. It then continued to throw the rocks at him.
Gawfy could only chuckle as he watched the monkey like creature throw more rocks at Juilen.
He then poured The cleaning alcohol into his leg wound. He then proceeded to use his sword as a crutch to alleviate some of his weight. Do you think that was the last of our attackers? he asked Clue.
Clue nods in Gawfy direction.
"All except that monkey and Julien, who's trying to kill you." Clue says. He walks over to the monkey, and crouches down in front of it.
"Shoo, shoo. Go away." Clue says. The monkey thing turns to him and the rock, that Clue was not expecting slams into his face with a loud crack. He stays still for a moment then blood started to pour down his face.
"... Well..." Clue mutters as he stands back up, his face a bloody mess. He took more damage from the rock that in the fight with the shadow thing.
"Wait!" Clue yells. "Did any of you get hit by that thing? None of us did right? I know you got hurt, Gawfy, but that was from your own cannon right?" Clue walks over to Gawfy, ignoring the fact that his face was still bleeding.
Julien laughed out loud as the monkey threw a rock at Clue. He was still laughing when Clue asked if anyone was damaged. Julien sighed, trying to catch his breath.
"No, phff! I'm good-" He gasped, still giggling. Julien sat back watching the monkey closely, letting Gawfy and Clue do whatever.
Yeah it was, Damage varies on what round i use, And that last one was a pretty big shell. He said as he threw his glass bottle in the direction of the monkey. And the fucker stabbed me in the leg. The only alarming this is where it knew where to aim. He said as he looked up to clue's bloody face. oh shit, that monkey got you good. he then pulled out a Rag and threw it Clue's way.
Clue grabs the rag and uses it to stop the blood flow. 'Hmm.. maybe I was over thinking it.' Clue thinks to himself.
"It's just a bloody nose, it'll heal. How bad is it?" Clue asks as he looks at Gawfy's leg.
Julien continued his argument with the Fox monkey. The thing hissed at Julien, barring it's sharp teeth. Julien leaned forward and hissed back and snapped his teeth. The monkey was still growling but it back down. Julien humphed and laid back again. After awhile he looked back the others, interjecting into their conversation
"I'm keeping him." Julien said pointing. "No matter how ugly he is."
Its fine. Gawfy said as he looked at his leg. Been through worse. Then julien interjected.
Well first you are gonna have to stop it from Throwing shit at you. He said as he looked down at the bloody robe once more. I have a feeling he wasnt the only shit head dumb enough to wander out after me.
Clue looks around and see's nothing to do. With a grunt he plops down to the ground, leaning on a tree. He opens his bag and pulls out a canteen of water and some food.
"When you say shit head, do you me too?" Julien said, pointing to himself then looking at his pet. "I think it might include me too." The creature chittered and started to turn in circles. Finally he stopped and sniffed the air, running off.
"Hey! Fugly, bring your ass back here!" Julien called standing up, chasing the money fox. Julien turned pas a group of trees and stopped. "Whoa..."
There was a door cut into a hillside. There were unlighted tourches, the door was made up of bronze of dwraven design. BF ran up to it, chattering and scrapping at the door.
"I got something really cool," Julien called back to the others, "I ain't waiting for your lazy asses."