OOC:Hi hi I am going to be starting an rpg and i wish for you all to join. All you have to do is make a profile of your self on here and you are able to join you do NOT have to ask me first. Spelling and grammer mistakes is fine as long as people understand what you are saying. You are only able to speak out of character here in OOC. and you speak in character out side of the OOC.....The story really comes at random....mostly it will have to tie in with what everyone else has typed. The minimum length of your post at least has to be 2 really good paragraphs...Or you can just post more then that. Thank you......}

Hamina slowly walked along the banks of and off beaten path at the edge of a thick forest.She took in the sights around her and watched as the birds flew by and the gentle breeze slowly picked up the fallen leafs and made them dance in the air. As she walked more she slowly came up to a large lake that seemed to twist and turn at the farthest end away from her. She found a large rock at the edge of the land and she sat down on it.

"What a beutiful sight"

She smiled and pulled out her flute and began to play a soft but happy tune which seemed to echo itself through the surrounding area. Her music seemed to quite the birds and seemed to soften the winds breeze. It seemed like it slowly stalled them just long enough to hear the tune.

Sitting silently in a knarled old tree above, Ayame listened to the flute music in silence - staring at her slightly swinging feet in silence. She could feel vibrations - soft, fast ones - through her fingertips and the young girl was sure that a mocking bird was causing them. The wind blowing softly was against her pale cheek was warm and steady, like a mother's touch. After several minutes of simply staying perched there like some stone guardian, Ayame choose to break the silence.

"Hello ma'am."

IC: Race raced through the woods watching as the great and beautiful beast ran through them. It was so flawless in its sprint, so beutiful with its leaps. He would be amazed, if hadn't seen this so often. But it was stil a beautiful sight. Then, the tiger stopped, and race did to. He heard a flute playing an amazing tune. He looked around to see if anyone was near, then realized he was lost.

Not long ago did the other elves, dark elves, destroy his home, and everything he knew, and this song reminded him of the joy of life. For some reason, the sorrow left him while this song was played. He pulled out his harp, climbed into a tree, and began to play along with the tune. His harps string, echoing throughout the are.


OOC: Uh, what all races, and classes are there.

Ayame frowned in thought, her eyes scanning to skyline - or at least what she thought was the skyline - uselessly. She stood slowly and carefully, keeping a firm hand on the thick tree trunk. With skill born of years of blindness she climbed slowly - but surely up the tree. Finally she got close enough to feel the vibrations of the harp playing through her fingertips. Who ever was playing was close by - maybe ten feet away.

"Hello?" She called softly, keeping her voice light and non-threatening. She couldn't feel any ill will from who ever was playing so she gribbed the tree branch above her and pulled herself up. Ayame sat daintily on the branch and used to vibrations to figure out where the music player was sitting. Once she knew, Ayame turned slightly so she was facing the person.

{OOC: any class or race is fine as long as it is not a godly form, that is invincible.}}


Hamina quietly played the tune to her self. She heard a tune not far from where she stood playing along with her song. She stoped and stood up quickly knowing she was not alone. She turned around slowly to where she faced the begining of the forest line. As she stood there she scanned the tree's slowly, finally she stoped at the top of the tree line that was right in front of her.

She noticed a girl dressed in blue also scaning the area. Hamina slowly walked over to the bottom of the same tree that the girl was standing on.


"Hello, miss im sorry, but do you happen to know where that tune seems to be comeing from?"

She slowly floated off into silence waiting for the young girls answer.

Race jumped in surprise when the strange, apparently blind girl, pulled herself up next to him. "Hello to you too." He said quietly, trying not to sound threatning. "I am Race, who might you be?" Right then, he heard the music stop, then lloked up, and quickly climbed higher as an elven half breed approached.

"Hello, miss i'm sorry, but do you happen to know where that tune seems to be coming from?" He heard her ask.

He jumped out of the tree, and landed behind the elven half breed. "Why, that would be my harp you hear." Then, seeeing the flute in her hands. " I suppose you be the one playing that beutiful tune." He said, climbing back into the tree beside the blind girl. Turning to her, he asked, "Not to be insultent, but, are you okay, going around without any type of guide, being blind and all."

ooc: Race is a wood elf, so, he has a high spirited, or dark personality, depending on the situation. But he also rather hyper.

Ayame smiled kindly and nodded. "I should be fine, thank you." She smoothed the wrinkles out of her dress as she listened silently to the wind blowing. "You two make beautiful music," she murmured absently. "Could use a violin though." Ayame nodded slightly to herself but otherwise remained silent as she stood carefully on top of the tree branch. She started to slip when she realized there wasn't any tree beneath her left foot, but she quickly righted herself.

She blinked and stared for a long moment at the moon - although how she found the moon was unknown to even her. Battle. Clashing. Blood. Ayame frowned to herself and sighed. "Another war... perhaps I should find a guide..."

Hamina stared at the wood elf for only a moment and then she started to speak.

"Yes I am the one playing that tune, I was taught by some one that I happen to be looking for right now, I am travilng by myself though. Right now the closest city im headed to is the human capital. Im looking for others to help me along my way, but yet all of my searches are in vain. I am Hamina Moonblade The half water and half hoteru elf. And miss Seeres if you do not mind I can be your guide, It seems you might need some help, considering that slip you just had could of been much worse."

Hamina stared at the two still slightly amazed that she was not alone while she played her flute. She then noticed the harp that was in the wood elfs hands and once again she spoke to them.

"Im amazed that you can play along with the tune with no mess ups. Where did you learn such a gift like that?"

Race looked at her, then the blind girl. "I will aid you in your quest, as a wood elf, and a brother of the earth, as you are its sister. That would makes us, well, it doesn't matter. And the harp playing, I was tough by my mother, though she is gone now." He looked at the moon and frowned as he began to remember the day the drows (dark elves) attacked.

Blood had stained the ground, the fire refelcting off of it like the moon in the water, many peoples crying, others sceaming or dead. He sat there, motion less, expressionless, and watched.

"AH" he screamed as he snapped out of it. Then, as though there nothing wrong, "May I ask for you names?"

As he asked the ladies names a young girl who seemed to be running from something bumped into him. She hit him so hard they knocked over.

"Mmmm" The girl mumbled holding her head and trying to shake off the pain. Just as she looked at the guy she knocked over she heard a howl and the sound of animals and men coming after her.

The man she knocked over stood up in bewilderment and watched as the girl ran behind him. Three men came up and looked at him and noticed the girl clinging onto the back of his shirt/robe (?) in fear.

"Give us the girl!" One of the deep men said. She looked up at the elf and her eyes pleading to save her from these men!

Ayame started in shock as thousands of vibrations shook her - temporarily leaving her dizzy. She stumbled back a bit but caught herself quickly. She turned her head in the direction of the men and stared at them. "Can we help you?" She asked airily. Ayame froze for a moment - her eyes wide before shaking herself slightly. Ayame waited a moment for an answer but apaarrently not getting one she sighed and allowed herself to drop down to the ground next to Hamina. She stumbled back a step, but was easily caught by Hamina.

"Ah, thank you. I think I just may take you up on that offer of yours." She then stood straight and shook herself slightly. Ayame made sure she was facing the men. "now, what - may I ask - has Cecelia done to provoke such treatment?"

"May I ask what the child has done wrong?" He looked the men over, and quickly leaped on to one of their heads, seeming light as a feather, he continued, "Cause if I don't see it fit to chase her down like a rabid squirell, then i may cause you some real trouble." He smiled and lept back down, landing in front of Cecelia. He drew his sword, and swung it around, then put it up, sat down, and began to play the harp to a playful tune.

Looking up at Hamina, he said, "Come on, play along with your flute." He got up, and began to dance around the men to the tune. The dogs just sitting there bobing thier heads to the tune. "Round and round the simpleton, around the filthy simpleton." He began to sing. "Cirlce the filthy dirty roten men."

"She stole food from the marketplace. She's been stealing from the market place for weeks now and we finally have her in our grasp. Give her to us, so we can teach her the punishment for stealing!"

Cecelia looked like she was about to cry. She was afraid of what the men might do to her. Whip her, beat her, prison? All of those things were rushing in her mind. She whispered softly to Race (?) "Please help me!" She once again hid herself behind Race (?) and watch as the men get irritated.


(So it is okay that I joined?)

Hamina looked at the men as they spoke in the rough tone that made her even more curious about what was going on.

"If you want her you got to kill us first."

Hamina with drew her sword from her sheath and she stood in front of Race, and the two girls.

"......Im eager to fight right now so please....Come".

Hamina stood there silently in her fighting position waiting for the human men to attack. She did not know what to expect so she was prepared for anything to happen.

The men were not to eager to begin combat. They drew their weapons hesitantly and looked at each other.

"Is this really necessary?" The one man asked. "All we want is the girl, nothing more! We need to bring her to justice. Just hand her over and lets forget this whole 'combat' situation!"

One of the men commanded the dogs to get ready for battle. They began to growl and hunched their backs. They showed their teeth and their hair was on edge.

Cecelia began to back up slowly. She had no weapon, nothing at all to protect her except for the man she was hiding behind.

Three of the men brought out their bows and reached for their arrows...

Race saw the men lifting their bows and quickly pulled out his, strung it, and fired three shots right into the three mens bows. "Now tell me, why do want to hurt such a young girl. I am sure her reasons for what she had done are quiet reasonable." He put armed his bow with another arrow, and shot between the feet of the man who had the dog. " Now be a good man, and sit down." He said very confidently.

Now putting his bow away, and drawing his sword, he stood beside Hamina. "Please let me know your name, elf woman. It would be nice if I did have to continue to refer to like this." He looked back at the blind girl. "And that goes for you too blind girl, and you little girl." He looked back at the men. "Now, are we going to fight, or will leave this little girl alone? Because if we have to fight, I can guarantee, that you will go home crying about missing fingers, or arms, or other limbs." He smiled, and began to do a strange tap like dance, anxious for their answer.

I've got a better understanding of what's going on now, altough there doesn't seem to be much plot. You really went abstract on this.

IC:

"Mmm....apples are delicious..."

Kichiro took the bite out of a red apple. He was seated on a thick branch of a tree. He heards a twang.

"Hmmm......? But I was enjoying my apple....."

The arrow went through the core of the apple, sticking it to the tree. Kichiro sighed.

"Why is it whenever I find some peace around here, somebody has to go disturbing it?"

He swung himself so that his head was visible to the ground.

"Alright. What do ya want? I'm busy."

A mob of angry townspeople where standing in front of him.

"Um. Hiya?"

The leader of the mob stepped forward.

"Kichiro Ochi! Get down from there! Your wanted for three murders!"

Kichiro looked confused.

"Umm.... (O.O)?"

The leader drew his sword.

"We've been authorized by the Prince to kill you! Step down and make this easy."

Kichiro sighed again.

"I just want to eat apples in peace....."

The leader looked even angrier.

"IF YOU WANTED TO ENJOY APPLES THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE MURDERED THREE PEOPLE!!!"

Kichiro sighed another time.

"Fine. I'll come down."

He swung himself back up and disappeared in the leaves. The villagers heard him rustling around. His head popped out from the leaves.

"Just a second."

He went back into the leaves. The mob saw his foot appear on the trunk, and they watched him come down.

"WHAWAWAWAWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!! YOU TOOK ALL THAT TIME TO GET A BASKET OF APPLES!"

Kichiro just looked at them a bit confused. He pulled the apple out of his mouth.

"Tell you what. I bet I can kill you before each of these apples hit the ground. If I don't, whoevers left, can kill me. I won't resist."

The mob leader spoke again.

"Why would we take that bet?"

Kichiro drew his sword.

"Well, either way, your gonna die. Just thought I'd make it interesting."

Kichiro's eyes turned red. He threw the apples into the air, and lunged at the crowd. A few seconds later, the entire mob lay dead.

"What do you know! The were still falling!"

He wiped his sword on the ground and picked up the basket of apples.

OOC ~ I think.

*I'm confused are these the dudes that were after me? Or are these your own townspeople?*

{OOC: Like I posted one the 1st post the story will be made up as it goes. Acs means basicly what extra things you are wearing like earings or a ring or even like if you carry a flute or a harp or something extra. Yes those are the men after you.}

Hamina looked at Race then smiled slightly to him. She thought to herself about him asking her a few times for her name and then tapped her finger on her forehead.

"I am so sorry it looks like I spaced out slightly...sorry... My name is Hamina Moonblade, I am a elf priestess."

Hamina then looked at the young girl in curiosity and relized that she did not have a wepon to protect her self with. Hamina opened her pack that was on the side of her waist and pulled out a Tanto {Sorta like a dagger but a tad bit bigger}. She tossed it to the young girl and spoke.

"I know it isnt exactly much but its a start for you. Keep that and learn how to use it at least, though you will need something that suits you young one. Later when these ignorent men decide to leave we will find something for you."

Hamina then looked over to the blind seeres and spoke once more.

" Miss Ayame I would suggest you go over there by the lake and stay there until me and Race are done. It is for your own safty at least, I do not wish to have anyone hurt."

Hamina then stepped foward a few steps and looked at the men and the dogs. She slowly cacualted to her self about the tactics that they might have and that they might use.

" Where is your proof that she did these things purposely, as Race said she must have a reason to do these things. So answer me this.... Do you know that she had a reason or is it that she did these things just out of spite."


{OOC: If you have any other questions just feel free to ask. I may not ask them right away though because at the moment I am having computer difficulties. So I have to use my school computer. And I do not mind if you guys join it is no problem with me, I would just like if you guys read the first post on here and you are able to follow those rules and if someone else can not read your post you need to edit it. Also if I am not on at the time please ask Lady Obsidian or Neko oni or some one else who has been on here for a long time... Thank you!!}

Race looked at Hamina, "Hamina, thats an, unusualy, yet, very pretty, name." He looked at the men again, who still stood there. "WELL!" he yelled, making two of them jump. He giggled to himself because of it. "Are you going to answer the my question or not. He picked up a pebble, and threw it at one of the men, hitting him square in the head. "Heheheh"

He pulled his bow and shot the dogs leash, letting it lose, and it took off into the woods. "Bye bye puppy." He then mumbled something in elvish tounge to hamina, "This are a bunch of hopeless men, let us just scare them off, and not spill any pointless blood, i have seen that happen to often in my last 120 years." He looked back at the girl. "Whats your name, so that I may get to know you a little better with out having to refer to you rudely."

He slapped him self in the head. "OH GUENAVYR," he called out. And a beautiful great white cat (An albino panther, that is twice the of your average panther) came strolling out of the woods. He said aomething in a tongue he barely understood himself to the cat ablout who where freinds, and who weren't. He also told Guenavyr to protect the young girl. "It is alright, she is your freind." He said to the little girl as Guenavyr approched her.

ooc: guenavyr is Races' freind, not pet, but freind from the deepest part of the wood elves forest.

"My name is Cecelia! Thank-you for sticking up for me! It's not easy when your an orphan!" She said smiling and rubbing her neck!

"So who are you? May I ask what you're doing in the woods? Almost nobody comes into the woods because of the increasing dangers!" She asked.

{OOC............They are still alive we are trying to make them all go away from the area we are in.}

[OOC: Not to be bitchy, but...


This post is way too short, although it does have two paragraphs. Make it longer please. All posters please take note too, thank you.

[OOC Why does it have to be so long?]



On a small coast near the Tiger river a small boy named Ted, was stuck in a tree because of the increasing danger of a penguin attack. So he mailed a letter to the Gortakin Government asking for a laser gun. He got a magazine in the tree so he could chose. He then mailed in his order form and two weeks later he got a laser gun thus destroying all the penguins who were surrounding him in hopes for a nice meal. But enough about that.



"My name is Cecelia! Thank-you for sticking up for me! It's not easy when your an orphan!" She said smiling and rubbing her neck!

"So who are you? May I ask what you're doing in the woods? Almost nobody comes into the woods because of the increasing dangers!" She asked.


[OOC there you go it's longer]

[OOC: It's actually fairly short for a minimum word limit. It used to be 1000 characters, minimum, at best. It's to keep a certain standard of quality up, because one-liner roleplay posts are a complete lack in polishing your writing skills and advancing plot. Trust me, it's not too long at all. Just describe more or let your character do more (logical stuff, I mean) and you'll have more than two paragraphs very quickly.]

OOC: I have to agree with Seluna on this. Please people, even if you don't have to, make the posts with quality. They don't have to be too long, but enough so that we don't make this thread 50 pages long and advance a total of 1 little story. Try to have them somewhere between 7-8 paragraphs at least.

Now I think I'll drop in on your characters if you don't mind.

IC:

Kichiro sighed.

"Those apples sure were delicious.....It's to bad."

He took the last bite, and threw the core away. He threw the basket on the ground.

"Sigh.....I wonder if there's anything else to eat around here."

He checked the trees for fruits. They were only cherry trees.

"Damn. Oh well."

He put his hands behind his head and started to whistle. After a few minutes, he stopped, and lowered his hands. He saw a man running down the road towards him.

"Stop Thief!"

Kichiro put his hand on his sword. As the thief was running by, Kichiro slammed the handle into his stomach. He swung the sword up and cut the mans shoulder.

"Tsk Tsk. Stealing is bad. Now let's see what you got there."

The thief grabbed the bag tighter. Kichiro looked at him questioningly.

"Look kid. I could do one of two things right now. I could check the bag, or I could check the bag with your corpse hanging on it."

The thief looked at him fearfully. He put his arms out. Kichiro took the bag.

"You stole rice? That's it? Here take it back. It's not worth me turning it. You probably need that for food for your family don't you."

The thief bowed and ran off. Kichiro saw a merchant come running. He was fat and slow.

"Why didn't you stop him!"

Kichiro sighed. It was no use explaining. The end result was always the same. He drew his sword and stabbed the man through the stomach. He wiped his sword clean on the grass and started walking again.

"Ooh. He had some fruit on him."

Kichiro felt someone bump into him. The fruit flew and fell into the dirt. Kichiro turned and saw two dogs running away from the woods.

"Damned dogs."

He drew his sword and slashed the wind. The dogs fell dead.

"Hmmph. Dogs don't usually run off like that. Looks like they were afraid. I'll go check the woods. Who knows? Maybe they have more apples."

He sheathed his sword and jumped towards the woods. He was there in two leaps.

"Now let's see what all this damned commotion is about. Hey an apple!"

He took the apple and walked on the tree branches. He saw some figures below. Two looked different than the rest.

"Hmm....? Elves?"

He looked around and saw a few other men as well. He jumped down into the middle of the clearing.

"Behold! I am Kichiro Ochi, the Red Sun of the East! What are you doing disturbing my walks!"

He took a bite out of the apple. He threw the core up into the air and drew his sword. He cut the apple into tiny pieces. He turned towards the men surrounding the elves. His face turned grim.

"Now. Which one of your dogs knocked over my fruit! Answer carefully. I'm wanted for Sociocide."

OOC: Note that Socioside means mass killing.

*OOC. Arg, this is still confusing*


Cecelia watched as the man jumped down the tree, and ate more of his apple. This time she was even more frightened.

"What the hell is going on?" She thought to herself. She stepped back once and back again. The man who called himself Kichiro Ochi, drew his sword and landed in front of the men.

Cecelia stopped, "I remember that name, but from where?" She thought to herself as she hid behind a tree. She looked at the man's facial features and it struck her. She became so frustrated and angry. He was the man that killed her family. She shook her head in disgust and tears fell from her eyes. "He's going to kill us, and if he finds out who I am..." She turned her head and looked deeper into the forest. "He mustn't know."




After the Gortakin government found out that he had used the laser gun for the use of massacring poor hungry penguins, the Gortakin government sent specially trained CIA merchants in to kidnap him and hold him for questioning. Just has the boy was surrounded by penguins he would soon be surrounded be CIA merchants.

Ted, the laser gun boy, stowed away on ship that would be crossing the Goutalene Sea. Unfortunately he didn't realize that he got sea sick very easily. So when everybody was asleep he broke into the kitchen and boiled himself some milk and then he felt better!

OOC: I'm just gonna go ahead and kill the guys anyway. It's a bother to keep them.

IC:

Kichiro started to laugh.

"You should see how you look! Your face is all sweaty!"

He bit into another apple. One of the men drew his bow. He fired an arrow at Kichiro. He swung his sword and split the arrow in half. He talked through the apple in his mouth.

"You seem a bit aggresive. I'm just trying to bring justice. You're probably the one whos dog it was, after all, the dog takes after the master."

The man never got a chance to respond. Kichiro was suddenly behind him, sword in ready position. He beheaded him quickly. He sat down and bit the apple again.

"You know. It's a bit sad really. I only have about 8 bites in each of these apples."

He swallowed. The other man had a strange look on his face. Kichiro smiled.

"What? You've never seen someone enjoy a good apple before?"

The man shook his head. Kichiro took another bite out of his apple.

"Hmmmm....this ones a bit mushy on the other side. Can't have that now can we."

He threw the apple away. Kichiro let out a sigh.

"So tell me. Was it your dog who knocked my fruit into the dirt?"

The man started to get angry.

"YOU KILLED MY FRIEND OVER FRUIT!"

Kichiro looked at him blankly. He cocked his head.

"Frankly I think my fruit was worth a lot more than your friends life."

The man drew an axe.

"You bastard!"

Kichiro looked at him as he swung the axe. He caught the blade in his hand. No blood fell down.

"You all finished?"

He gripped harder on the blade, and it crumpled.

"Look now friend. You can't expect to harm me with that weak thing. These robes are Spirit Armor. You can't penetrate it with just some ordinary attacks."

He punched the man in to stomach, sending him flying into the tree.

"Now I'll show you what I can really do."

He put the sword above his head and started to spin it.

"Spiral Destruction!"

He leaped off, his entire body spinning along with the sword. The Cecelia watched in horror as blood and bone splattered and cracked into nearby trees.

Kichiro jumped back, and landed behind her. He looked at her inquisitvely.

"Hiya kid. You look a bit familar. You want an apple?"

Race Watched the man as he pointlessly killed off the men. He walked up to the strange man, "Kochira, right?" He asked standing between him and the girl. "If you touch this inocent girl, I can guarantee you, no matter what you wear, my blade will split you in two." He looked at guenavyr, who came walking up beside, claws glowing with magical power. He spoke in the ancient language again, and guenavyr stood her ground.

"Tell me, did you spill their blood, and soil the land for, one, damned, fruit!" He looked at the man, and and waked up to him, so that their noses were almost touching. "Now tell me, did you kill those dogs too?" Race asked him, taking a step back as to be so vulnerable. "You may wear spirit armour, whatever that may be, but this blade is enchanted by the high preistess of the wood elves. And though she may lay dead now, its power still remains." Race would not enjoy a fight with a human whom killed for fun. But, if it where to come to that, then it must.

Then for no aparent reason, "Oh yeah, my name is Race, and if you wish, I will be your guardian, and watch over you. I will explain later." He turned back to Kochira. "Now, draw your blade if you are guilty."

Cecelia, traumatized by everything couldn't move. She just watched in horror as dead bodies lied in front of her, and blood spilling from her bodies. She didn't know what to think, she wanted to run away, but, Race said he'd look after her. Even So this knew guy, Kichiro Ochi, killed her family. What if he defeated Race? What if he found out who she was?

He always had frayed with her family. Causing trouble, just for fun. Killing farm animals, stealing our fruit. He thought it was okay because it was 'his' land. But it certainly wasn't. He was just a spoiled brat who got everything he wanted when he was a child. Then when her father caught him and turned him in...he escaped and slaughtered her family.

Memories of her past began to flood back. Staring into the eyes of her killer. She wanted revenge! After all that she as suffered and he can just kill something over something so petty, she knew what she would do before she would die. She was determined to get revenge!

OOC ~ Gah! I'm sorry I didn't respond eariler. I was sick all weekend.

Ayame sighed and put her hand on Cecelia's shoulder. Leaning in, she whispered softly in the girl's ear. "Shhh, child. Bestill thy fears. Race will not lose, when the time comes for a fight. Now come, will you lead me away from the scent of this spilled blood?"

Taking gentle and slow steps as not to cause the girl any fear, ayame lead her towards the clean smell of the lake. With a soft sigh of happiness, Ayame sat down and patted the ground next to her.

{OOC: sry computer problems so I could not really respond over the weekend.}

Hamina watched Ayame and Cecilia walk over to the lake. As soon as they made it there she turned her attentions back to the problem at hand.She joined Race and she then started to chant a spell in her.

"Erk na der leviat pi noi toh has dew nert uy!"

Water started comeing out of the lake and slowly made its way to Hamina's sword.Once it got there it started to flow around her sword to what seemed like an aura.After that she looked at Kochira and spoke once more.

"Yes draw your sword and when you do you will face your conciquences."

OOC: Kichiro is so misunderstood. Oh well, that's how people react.

IC:

"Draw you sword coward!"

Kichiro looked up.

"Hmm?"

The elf had his sword drawn. Kichiro sighed.

"I'm not here to hurt any of you. I don't fight those who don't bother me."

The elf looked a bit puzzled. Kichiro disappeared. They looked around for him. He hung by the legs from the tree above him.

"So your name is Race? And this is Cecelia?"

He dropped down.

"Please allow me to introduce myself in a more proper manner. My name is Kichiro Ochi, wanted S-Criminal."

He drew his sword, causing the group to tense. He looked at them puzzled.

"You still think I'm going to kill you?"

The Elf called Race spoke.

"Yes! Your a serial killer!"

Kichiro sighed, and stuck the sword into the ground.

"Perhaps you need to think about what I did for you three. Those men would have harmed you. I saved you."

Race shook his head.

"We could have done this without spilling needless blood!"

Kichiro sighed.

"Those men were grunts of a mercenary group. Katsuro. They raid, kill, rape, and all that bad stuff. But most importantly, they are determined. One way or the other, someone would have died. Most likely them. Even though I killed them, I saved your concious."

He turned to the lake. Race jumped in front of him. Kichiro looked at him.

"I must see the girl."

Race gripped his sword tighter.

"You won't get near her murder!"

Kichiro was up next to him in a blink of an eye.

"My quarrel is not with you elf. But if you do not move, I will make you."

Race pushed against him. Kichiro grinned.

"So you made your choice. Time to move"

He grabbed Race's sword and arm, throwing the sword back into an sturdy tree, and flinging Race to the side. He turned to the Race, who was in considerable pain.

"Don't try to move. Even as an Elf, you're not nearly strong enough to take on an S-Criminal. You don't have the power I have."

He started walked towards the lake.

"Cecillia. I will not harm you."

He sat down next to her. She moved away. Kichiro sighed.

"Your father died a few years ago. Please undestand this. I did not kill him."

She looked at him angry and confused.

"Of course you did! I saw your sword! Your face!"

Kichiro shook his head.

"I might be considered a murder, but I am not. Only those who are marked for death, or oppose me die. And even then, I let those who oppose me live. I did with your father."

Kichiro called his sword over. It flew into his hand.

"This is Lord Kazuki. While it is a blade of great power, it is vulnerable to spirits. I did not know this at the time I found it. I did not kill your father. Your father was marked for death by the Gods, and my Lord Kazuki was the executioner. That's why I wear spirit armor. Because it let's me keep control as long as the impulse is not too strong."

He got up again.

"Everyone thought I was the demon of the village. I was accused of theft, killing livestock, harrasing people, and other things. But I didn't. All I did was eat the fruit on the trees that grew around the Village. Nothing else."

He put the sword in his holder.

"And now I'm looking for those who did do that. Who brought me dishonor. And who gave me this blade."

He appeared near Race, who was still on the ground. He held out his hand.

"Here. Let me help you up."

Race grabbed his hand, and Kichiro pulled him up from the ground. He turned to speak.

"I would like to travel with you."

ooc: Not to be offencive, but people not try to control my character please. race would have followed Kichiro, and watched him closely, and though i forgot to put on the chary sheet, race is 1 third demon, and drow elf. so his abilities have quite the range. he can use all three of their abilities quite well.

IC: Race stood up. "So, you wish to join, sorry I lost my temper at you, though, I will watch you closely." Race walked to the tree, and pulled his blade from the tree. "So, Cecilla, the reason why I offered to be your guardian, follow me, so that I may explain." They walked a ways into the woods.

"Cecilla, I, myself, am also an orphan. I lost all of my family, when me and Guenavyr where out in the woods. A huge war party of drows and their allies attacked my home. Not a single person was left alive." A single tear stroled down Races' face. "That is why I offedred to be your guardian. I know the pain you feel. I know the hate you feel. Though, I know not any fear, that is where anyone outdo me in experiance."

"Think on that, now, let us return." They headed back to the lake where the others where. Race walked up to Kichira, and whispered in his ear, "If you even think of hurting a single person here, or anyone who doesn't deserve pain, I will show you a pain that you will never forget." Taking a step back, Race held out his hand, "Till then though, freinds?"

{OOC: Ok please if the person says it is alright then you can control other people's characters please do not use them with out permission from the characters owner.....}

Hamina stood there looking dumb founded not knowing what to say. She had her sword in her hand and nothing was going on. She sighed the sheathed her sword and started to look around at the dead men and she watched Race and Cecilia walk off in to the woods. She then turned to the lake where she say Ayame still sitting. She smiled to herself and walked back over to the large rock she sat on before. She then hoped on the rock and pulled out her flute again and began to play the same soft tune as she did earlier that day.

{OOC:Sry its kinda short but i got to get to class.}

OOC: My apologies. I just needed someone to do some small conversations, otherwise it would have been a monologue. By the way, anyone I'm traveling with has permission to use KICHIRO (that's right, get the name correct), but please do his personality correctly. I'll tell you if it came across to bad.

And I allowed to use Race and Cecelia, since we are traveling together?
IC:

Kichiro took his hand.

"Friends."

He disappeared again. The group looked around for him. He was by another tree, filling his bag with apples. He hummed to himself. Jumping down from the trees, he landed infront of Race and Cecelia.

"Well, I'm ready to go whenever you are. Lead the way Lord Pointy Ears."

He heard a twang. He drew hiw sword, and stopped the arrow with the broad side of the blade. Race drew his sword, and prepared to defend Cecelia. Kichiro turned to him. He took his bag off, and handed it to Race.

"This is the time where I must fight. Whoever shot that is filled with murderous intent."

He bit his finger. A drop of blood came out. He used it to paint symbols onto his blade.

"Lord Kazuki! Show your true form!"

The blade changed from the normal sized Katana into a much more massive one, roughly the size of a steel paddle. The majority of the blade was jet black, but the edge was a clean, bluish silver. Intricate designs decorated the edge.

"Race, Cecelia. I am afraid that I must kill whoever is here."

Race was prepared to protest. Kichiro stopped him.

"I know. But this is another S-Criminal. You see this arrow? The design comes only from one man. Misurgi Hizu."

Kichiro stopped threw more arrows. Even with the gigantic blade, he still retained his speed.

"Misurgi Hizu is especially dangerous. He's killed far more people than I have. And he seems to have a deep rooted hatred for elves."

Race was about to speak again. Kichiro continued, not pausing long enough.

"You won't be able to defeat him. Even with that fancy blade of yours, you won't be able to touch him once. Among convicts, he's a legend. I wasn't aware that they let him out. I suppose that they'll kill him if they capture him, so I might as well finish him off. What you need to do, is stay back. This is a fight beyond your capabilities, especially when you have to defend an untrained girl."

He turned towards the direction of the arrows.

"Karuska Mizo!"

He slashed the air with his blade, causing thousands of cuts to appear in the trunks. Over a hundred arrows came from another direction. Kichiro smiled.

"Found you!"

He jumped over the arrows, repelled off a tree, and repeated his wind attack. He arrived on an empty branch.

"Damn. He should have been here.....wait. Whats this? Blood?"

A splatter of blood had been sprayed against the tree.

"I hit him. But where is he....now....Cecelia!"

Kichiro moved as fast as he can. Misurgi was just about to strike the pair. Kichiro hit him in the stomach with his blade. Misurgi was sent flying into a tree.

"Race, Cecelia, I want you to move. Cecelia's the target. Get to a safe place. Now!"

Kichiro didn't wait for them to move. He drew another bloodline on his blade. It began to glow.

"BASAGI!"

The glow concentrated into the tip, and then fired straight into Misurgi. Kichiro walked over to the hole where he had once been.

"Damn. He dodged it."

He heard and explosion, and felt thousands of arrows hit him.

"Damn it! They went through my Soul Armor. It absorbed most of the energy, but I'm still hurt bad. Damn him, he's good."

Kichiro flexed, and sent all the remaining arrows out of his flesh. The wounds began to close almost instantly. He looked around.

"I'll need to use my full speed for this...."

Kichiro waited for another arrow. He moved faster than a blink. The last thing Misurgi felt was a steel blade pierce his stomach. Misurgi smiled, and held up a bomb. He spoke his last words.

"We will...kill...her...."

The massive explosion sent Kichiro smashing into a tree. His heard a crack. Coughing into his hand, he gasped. It was bloody.

"Damn...It cracked my Soul Armor....One of those two should have some medical skill...."

He walked over to where they were sitting, and collapsed. He spoke before passing into unconcious.

"He's dead....your safe...."

His vision turned black, and the sword turned back into it's normal form.

"Damned fool," Race said picking up the unconcious body, "I know where we can find some herbs in this forest to take of him, that and my nature magic should help to repare his spirit armour, if not, my DROW magic will." He looked around to make sure no one was watching, then placed Kichiro on Guenavyrs' back. Race began to meditate, entering Kichiros' mind.

Race looked around the curious place, this mans imagination, was almost peaceful. Race cared not. He quickly found Kichiro, "You know, if you where to listen, you know I have with me drow magic, and demon strength, plus the speed of the wood elf. I am more than a match for you. But that is not why I am here."

Kichiro looked at him curiously, an apple hanging out of his mouth, "mph,"

"Take the damned apple out of your mouth," Race stood there, then asked, "Is you spirit armor designed by drows, oh what the hell am I asking that for." Race took a big wiff, "Yep, thats Drow spirit armor. I can smell their magic anywhere."

Kichiro nodded his head. "Yes, this is drow made armor, why do you ask?"

Race stood there for a second. Then, "Because I am one third drow, and I possess the magic to fix it. I hope."

Race was roused by Cecelia. "Yes, how may help you." Race asked as he stood up, and pulled out his harp, begining to play an odd tune that gave off a magic aura. He began to chant something in the wood elf language, until Kichiro began to wake up. "I can not completely cure you, unless I have the proper herbs, but now, unless you want to leave you armor broken, chant with me." Race changed the song he was playing, and began to chant along with the sound, in an ancient drow language, tought to him by his father. The Drow High preist. Which, in drow society, was a great honor, him being male and all.

ooc: yes you can use race, but remember, he is very understanding, stuborn, and protective. especialy over Cecelia, now that he feels it his duty as an orphan, to an orphan, to give her family.

OOC: You all also have my permission to use Ayame as long as you do her personality correctly.

Ayame blinked, listening to the sounds of a fierce battle. Her ears perked slightly once the battle was apparently over. "I smell fresh blood," she called to the others - whom she knew were just across the clearing. "Who has fallen?" She stood easily and followed her eyes towards the sounds of soft chanting and heavy breathing. Ayame paused, just a few feet from her other companions and cocked her head to the side. "Who ever was fighting was hurt badly. Is there perhaps something I may do to help?"

OOC: Okay, Cec, Kichiro's gonna start training your character, if that's okay. I'll let you post with your answer before I start.

IC:

Kichiro stopped chanting.

"It's fixed."

Race stopped as well with a sigh.

"So Kichiro, where did you get Drow Spirit Armor? It's not exactly something that you can by at a market."

Kichiro sat up. His wounds still hurt, causing him to grimace. He checked to make sure he wasn't bleeding to bad.

"Let's say I traded something for it."

Race looked at him curiosly.

"What exactly, did you trade?"

Kichiro smiled. His teeth has little bits of blood on them. He grimaced again. Three or four ribs must be broken. He would attend to that later.

"I traded a man's soul. Fitting isn't it? A soul for Spirit Armor."

Race looked alarmed. He drew his sword.

"You've delved into the black art of necromancy? That's forbidden! I should strike you down here!"

Kichiro shook his head.

"You presume to much. No, I didn't use necromancy, or any other forbidden magics. I don't use magic at all. Perhaps I should tell you the story."

Kichiro laid down again, resting his hurt ribs.

"Once, about three years ago, I was just starting on the path I'm on today. I had just been able to control Lord Kazuki, and was getting quite strong. It was then that I discovered that I had abilities that aren't normal."

He coughed a bit, then sighed.

"You could have seen that during the fight. I'm not a normal human. That's why I'm telling you, even with you being a third demon, that you won't be able to defeat me. Maybe as I am now, when I'm under control, but not when I'm fully unleashed. You see, I'm a channel for the Shinigame. I'm a Death God."

He grabbed an apple from his bag, and held it up to the sky, inspecting it.

"As one of the Death Gods, I am extraordinarily powerful, but being half Human, I'm still bound to this World, and all those needs. I do however, have a much longer life span, even more so than some Elves."

He put the apple down on top of the bag.

"You see, I had not discovered all of my powers, in fact, I still am. But one thing I can do now, is enter the Spirit World. You entered my mind while I was injured."

He looked at Race.

"For your own safety, don't do it again. You see, my mind is completely open to all Spirits. The souls of the people I have saved can take rest there. In a way, I'm sort of a carriage for the dead. One of those people is a Drow Elf."

He looked at the sky again, and put his arms behind his head. His ribs were starting to heal already.

"He had been murdered. By another S-Criminal. I found his Spirit wandering a pathway that I traveled. He said he was running from Demons. So I told him to stay close, and to make a long story short, I defeated the three Demons chasing him. He rewarded me by completing his last possible craft, weaving the Demons energies into this armor. He told me that to make it stronger, the unrighteous would have to be weaved into it as well. Since he could not be allowed into the Spirit Realm, for what reasons I don't know, he asked if he could stay in my mind. I said he could, and it started a tradition. Currently, a dozen souls take rest in my mind, those who can't yet pass into the Spirit Realm, but have been deemed good. It makes my mind quite peaceful actually."

He sat up again. His ribs had almost finished healing.

"Where is Cecelia?"

Race looked at him questioningly.

"Why?"

Kichiro stood up. He pulled out a roll of bandages from his bag, and removed the top half of his robes. His body was covered in intricate scars, the marks of an S-Criminal. He began to bandage his wounds

"That man's last words, were that they would kill the girl. I assume that this is about Cecelia, but I don't know why. I want to train her."

Race looked somewhat hurt. He stood up as well.

"I could easily train her! I'm an Elf! My race is skilled in combat!"

Kichiro looked at him, and smiled a bit.

"I admire you enthusiasm, but I need to be her main teacher. She doesn't know the basics of combat, and while you can teach her other arts, I have some skills that are necessary for survival. I can sense most people around me, if they aren't hiding. Like that thief hiding in the bushes, waiting to jump out and take my bag."

He drew his sword, and slashed the wind. He heard a small cry, and a teenager jumped from the bushes, a red mark across his bare chest. Kichiro disappeared, and appeared again infront of the boy. He held a plump bag, and a short sword, with an engraved hilt.

"Here. Take these. I give them to you freely. Stealing is dishonorable, but you're a poor boy. You have much suffering in your soul. Take this gold, and feed your family. Take the sword, and train with it. When you hold it, you will know what to do."

He walked slowly back to Race.

"This awareness only comes to a few people, and I can tell that you either don't have it, or it isn't developed. Even those without this gift can use it somewhat, and that's what she needs. If I'm away, and you're ambushed by two or more S-Criminals, unless you get far stronger than you are now, you won't survive. But if she can become strong enough, you two can buy enough time to escape, and then set up a defense while you wait for me to come back."

Cecelia appeared from the bushes, with the herbs. She almost dropped them to see Kichiro standing. Kichiro smiled.

"Cecelia. Would you like to learn how to defend yourself from men like that one?"

Race stood up behind Kichiro, "If only the fool understood the power of the storm demons, also known as the great gods of thunder." Race walked up to kichiro, and grabbed his shoulder. "Kichiro, I want to fight with you, go full out, I will show what I am capabble of, I do this for my honor, but that is not all, a demonstration against me, will show Cecelia how you do your certain moves, and then, we shall spar when you need to demonstrate certain moves to her. It is realy quite a simple idea. And it may just work. Oh, and a shinigami is simply a demi-god of death, just as the demons of storms, are of, well, storms."

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Kichiro asked, a curious look on his face.

"Positive," Race said, drawing his blade, as his form began to molt to that of a dark blue haired, gray skinned demon. His sword took the shape of a lighting bolt, and his gauntlets molded to his skin. However, the silk remained unharmed. He took up his balde, and took one swing, the trees behind Kichi ro shatered, and he was thrown to his feet, however, Cecelia remained un harmed. "Bring it on, Kichiro, show me the power of the Shinigami!"

Guenavyr walked up to Cecelia, who hoped on her back, and Guenavyr took her to asafe distance.


ooc: Part of drow magic is necromancy, which is what he used to fixed your armor, though, you can't nknow that yet.

{OOC: Its ok just try to ask first.}

Hamina quickly turned when she heard the sound of battle in the forest. She quickly put her flute away and jumped up to where she saw Ayame. Slowly she walked over to her and looked around. Then she caught the scent of blood.

"Race! Cecilia! you guys ok?!...........".

She looked at Ayame curiously as she cocked her head. She then noticed that she was sencing something. She slowly moved her head in the derection that Ayame blind eyes were looking in. She noticed a gleaming light a little ways in the forest.

" Perhaps from a sword?"

Hamina slowly took Ayames hand and they both headed for the forest.

OOC: No offense Neki, but Kichiro will crush your character. Fast. Your guy is only 1/3 Demon. If you want to drag this out into a long fight, then you'll have to invent some new way to do it, cause this will be over soon.

IC:

Kichiro sighed. He drew his blade.

"Race, swallow your pride for a second."

Kichiro watched as Race's Demon Form held the blade at ready. The ground was cracked with power. Kichiro sighed again.

"So be it. I will fight you. But if you can use your special form, I can use mine."

He took off the bandages, and bit his thumb again. He drew several symbols on his stomach. Those around him heard crackling as his spirit armor retreated into his Soul. The symbols dissolved into a seal, which made the flesh under it glow faintly with a white light. The seal's effects spread throughout his body, including his hair. Everything it touched turned white, until it finally reached the blade. It was transformed into a Scythe, bound to his arm with a chain. Runes where inscribed into the blade. The seal stopped spreading after it had completely coverd him. The final transformation ended with the letters for Life and Death appearing on his forehead.

"This is what I was talking about. A mere part Demon can't hold out against the power I have."

He turned to Cecelia. He smiled.

"I'm sorry that you cannot answer yet. I will end this quickly."

He turned back towards Race. As he walked towards him, the grass under his foot died.

"Race. I must warn you know, that I will hold to your challenge to the fullest. I will go all out, and if you force me to, I will kill you."

He drew the Scythe off his shoulder, and planted it in the ground. His voice became a low whisper.

"Right now, there is no seperation between me and Lord Kazuki. When we are one, I achieve powers that you never could accomplish as a full Demon. While I am only a Demi-God, Lord Kazuki is the God of Death. That is the true reason why I'm an S-Class rather than an A-Class. Because I channel Gods."

He lifted the Scythe out of the ground. Marking a line by Race's feet, he walked a few meters back, and marked another line.

"Until the match starts, you will not pass this line! Now take your position!"

Both men took their fighting stances. Kichiro sighed again.

"I am sorry Race."

They both started at the same time, knowing that it had started without hearing it. Kichiro didn't raise his Scythe to block. Race struck out at his stomach. Kichiro smiled, and twisted to the side. Race gathered electricity on his sword, and sent a bolt at Kichiro.

"Is that all Race?"

Kichiro caught the bolt straight in the chest. He slumped over, causing Race to smile with satisfaction. He blinked, and found Kichiro missing.

"Now it's my turn!"

Kichiro caught his left leg with the end of the Scythe, and landed a punch on Race's kidneys, sending him flying into the air. Kichiro launched himself up as well. Something blue caught his eye.

"Damn. He's using a sword as a defense!"

Kichiro raised his Scythe to block it, only to find another blue streak coming at him. Kichiro smiled.

"You're good Race. If you had more power, you might prove a match for me!"

He kicked off Race's spine, sending himself flying towards the Earth. Swinging the Scythe around, he threw it like a grappling hook, and wrapped Race in the chain. He saw electricity come down the chain.

"I'm not grounded Race, it won't even hurt me."

Kichiro pulled to chain downwards, sending Race hurling into the ground. He suddenly felt a violent shock.

"Of course! He was waiting for me to do that so I would be grounded through him!"

He let go of the chain, and drew claws from his hands. It was time to end this. Landing on both his feet, he faced Race.

"You're good. I'll give you that. But you're panting. Stop wasting energy. Now I will end this."

Kichiro disappeared, moving faster than light. Race looked around in confusion, only to be hit from behind. He felt blades scrape his skin, but no blood came out. Pretty soon he was covered in these. He fell to his knees. Kichiro stopped moving directly infront of him, sending a wave of dirt crashing into trees.

"Race, I told you, you are much to weak to fight me. It's over. If you continue to fight, you will die."

OOC: Neki, I'm sorry but, for your story, Race cannot win to Kichiro. If it get's to the point (which I know it will), where Kichiro is about to die, he becomes a full Death God, and kills everyone. So, yeah.

'HAHAHA!!" Race began to laugh, as he stood. "You would think someone like you would understand." Race said taking back his original form, though, for some reason he began to spread angels wings. "The demon I am part of, was a god. The god of storms himself. Father Storm as the wood elves knew him." Race pulled out his harp, and began the most buetiful tune. "My mother told me, that when i would need to, to play this tune, and call upon my mothers father. His power will come to aid, and I will prove to you that you cannot so easily strike me down."

Races' eyes began to glow with awhite furry, until they where solid white, then the harp began to take the shape of a battle axe. "Have you wondered, why I continue to only tell you bits and peices of what I am."

Kichiro looked at him stunned by the energy coming off of Race, as it quickly raised and stopped, just at Kichiros' current power in his other form. "But I had won, why to you not give up." Kichiro said, trying to keep his cool.

"I never lied about what I am, i am still 1/3 demon, it just happens to be a god." Race looked up as clouds began to gather in the sky, dark, raging storm clouds. And then the thunder began to rumble. "You here that. That is the sound of a fight that might just not end.

Quicker then he ever had, race attacked Kichiro, who quickly brought uo a block, just to be thrown back by a burst of lighting. Then, with a quick counter, Kihiro threw his scythe at Race, forcing race to take flight, with no way else to block it. Race then pulled out his enchated bow, and degan to fire bursts of lightin from it. Kichiro could do nothing but inch closer, and avoid the shots.

"Kichiro, now after this final blow, we shall see, whom is more powerful, if it harms you, I am the greater, If it harms me, you are the greater, if it harms no one, then we are equal. Race threw a chain to Kichiro, whom caught it, "Now, channel all you enrgy through this, I warn you though, we willl be weekend after this, it may even Kill us." They both began to channel all of there energy through the chain, and chain almost instantly became stone. They both fell to there knees at the same time. And soon, couldn't release They where both as good when With a stroke of luck, Cecelia and guenvyr broke the chain.

They both hobbled over to her, and leaned on guenayr. "Do you get it now,Kichiro, We are both equal in power, though, you may have something hidden, I am sure of it, you still will never beat me, and I, shall never beat you. OH, and i did sense that theif behind the bush, I simply did not care he was there."

They both looked up at the girl that just saved them, and both said "Thank you," Then fainted.

ooc: NO more trying to be better than each other, its childish, besides, this is haminas' rp, she should be the main character, where is she anyways.

OOC: Mmk. You did his personality wrong by the way. He doesn't get afraid or stunned, even when he's about to die. I should have explained this earlier, but his main personality trait is not putting effort into things. And I do agree, it is quite childish. But do work on your spelling.

IC:

Kichiro felt the grass blow around him.

"Hmm?"

He reached out with one hand, and grabbed a handful. His fight with Race had drained him. That elf was far more powerful than he had though....

"Kichiro. Get up."

Kichiro opened his eyes. A figure was standing over him.

"Hmmm? Your not Race, Cecelia, or anyone else I was traveling with. Who are you?"

The figure didn't answer him. It held out it's hand, and pulled him up. The figure held a broken Scythe.

"This will never again be held by you in the Physical World. I am sorry Kichiro, but you won't be able to use my full Form again."

Kichiro bowed his head.

"I am sorry Kazuki-sensai. I underestimated my opponent."

Kazuki turned away, and the Scythe reverted back into energy. He sighed, and held out a Sword.

"But now Kichiro, there is something here I don't understand. I am standing before you, and yet you still carry my Sword."

Kichiro gasped, and pulled the Sword from it's holder. The blade had changed into the Second Stage, roughly 1 2/3 meters long, and a 40 centimeters wide. The decorated edges had been replaced by new ones, and the the handle was wrapped in vines instead of cloth. Kazuki tried to touch the blade, but could not lay a hand on it.

"It is just as I thought. You've finally been able to seperate yourself from me. You are no longer dependant on my ability to fight. I will still be able to aid you sometimes, but I'm forced to step back."

Kichiro nodded. Kazuki walked slowly away, and started to fade.

"You can no longer use most of the techniques that I taught you. And since your blade has no name, it will remain in this form. Find out how to use it. Goodbye Kichiro....I will be watching you."

Kichiro watched as the scene faded, and he found himself in an apple tree. A rock hit him in the arm. It was Race.

"COME ON DOWN YOU LAZY BASTARD! STOP SLEEPIN IN THE TREE AND GET DOWN HERE!"

Kichiro blinked, and swung down. He landed strangely on his foot, and stumbled.

"My Soul Armor....is it gone?"

Race and Cecelia looked at him strangely. Race was the one to speak.

"Say, Kichiro. Where's your sword? It's usually on your side, but I don't see it."

Kichiro looked around, but couldn't find it anywhere. He smiled.

"I'll be able to do fine without it."

He grabbed the apple bag, and started to walk with them. He turned to Cecelia.

"So, what is your answer on training with me?"

{OOC: guys why can't you just agree on something instead of arguing constintly.....}

Hamina Walked to the edge of the forest and stopped.She thought to her self for a few moments and began to pace around the plae she stoped at. {{{{OOC: My character does get too impatient sometimes}}}}.

"....What in the bloody hell is takeing those two so long?...."

Hamina then Asked Ayame to stay there and then she entered the forest and began to walk in a straight derection that she saw Race and Cecilia walk in. She slowly made her way in the forest until she came upon Race and cecilia.

"Race come we must head out to the human capital. Forget that strange man he just does not know who he is dealing with....Cecilia you must come too at least you will have some place to go and be around people that you know will not hurt you....Plus I left Ayame there by the lake I do not wish to make the blind one wait......."

Hamina stared at them patiently waiting for some sort of reply from them both.

Kichiro shook his head.

"So impatient. Cecelia is being pursued, why, I don't know. Race is as strong as me, but the people after her are equal or greater than I am."

Kichiro shrugged. He pulled an apple from his bag.

"I need to travel with her and Race, at least until she can adequetly defend herself. Besides, I have information on these people. And I gave my word to Race that I wouldn't harm her."

Race nodded.

"He did give his word. And he does have a point. Even though we are equal, he has information the enemies we face. I don't know their weaknesses. He does."

Kichiro bit into the apple again. He felt odd without the weight of a sword on his side.

"And another thing. These other S-Criminals usually don't go public. I know this. Once you get out of there, whether by escape, or by probation, you don't do anything that would get you back in. You stay out of the way, and try to live in peace. That place is hell. So they're searching for something. But I don't think Cecelia is it. But if she's important to them, at least we can find out some of their motives when they attack her. And they will attack her."

Kichiro sighed, and threw the apple core away. It sunk into the ground.

"Looks like I'm coming with you though. But I can't enter the Human Capital."

They all looked at him inquisitively.

"Why not?"

Kichiro gave them a look that said "weren't you paying attention?"

"I'm an S-Criminal too. I'm just not evil. But their's still a bounty of....hold on."

He pulled a poster from his bag. It had his face on it.

"They should have used a better picture. Ah. Here it is. Kichiro Ochi, S-Criminal. Wanted for Murder, Theft, Assault, and Escape. Resisting Arrest, etc. Notice: There is a Bounty for 3 Million Ryou, still open, on this man. Dead of Alive."

He put the poster back in.

"Yep. If I go in there, you won't remain hidden at all. I'll be able to sneak in now and then at night, but in broad daylight? No. I'll stay on the outskirts and......think..."

He smiled.

"I'm sticking with Race and Cecelia."

OOC: Yes Hamina, I'm in the little posse. You can't just shake me off like a bad case of flees! *sob*

I'll remain as a supporting character though. Incase you're dense, I've set it up so that Kichiro won't be involved in whatever happens in the Capital. He'll be outside training, probably fight some people, etc. And I'll get him a cool hat.

Race looked around patiently, when he noticed Hamina gettin impatient again. "Sorry, Dear sister elf, we got distracted." Race looked at Kichiro, and shook his head. "Well, Hamina, lets us be off. Guenavyr, come." The Great panther was by his side in a matter of seconds, and they ran towards the lake, leaving the others behind.

"Ayame, oh Ayame, where are you." He found her laying behind a rock, somewhat staring off into space. "Ayame, just out of curiosity, what is that hidden power I sense in you. It feels as though you can see right into my soul, and yet, it is comforting." Race layed down beside her, and Guenavyr layed between them. Ayame began to pet the great cat, making her purr.

ooc: You said your character was a seer right, well, I thought it was time i brought your ability too.

Hamina sighed and decided to stop talking when she figured out that she would not be able to win this conversation.

"Very well I do not wish to argue at the moment, but Kichiro if you do happen to make one wrong move....Your mine."

Hamina then turned to Cecilia and the grabed her hand. She then faced the direction she came in and started to walk until they both saw Ayame and Race lying there. Hamina walked Cecilia over to them and began to speak.

"Well I think we have had too much fun for today why don't we try to get some rest, I will go look for fire wood in the forest. Do you think you guys will be able to set up camp and catch some fish and get some water? When I get back I will help with whatever else needs to be done. Kichiro do you think you could help with the fish or something don't take this wrong, but you kinda look like a fisherman....hehehehe"

Hamina smiled and then headed for the forest. she then spoke again.

"Ill be back in a secound guys."

She then faded off into the forest.

{OOC:Sorry Kichiro just wanted to liven things up a bit."

OOC: Alright. I'm starting to train Cecelia now (since she hasn't posted in ages). I'll let her choose her own weapon when she gets back.

And there's a little tie-in to her training with how Kichiro's powers work (since he doesn't use magic)

IC:

Kichiro was down by the river. He saw the silvery scales of fish going by. His hand struck out, and grabbed the tail.

"Fish number five..."

He sighed, and placed the fish on the stick. So boring....

"Hmm?"

He felt Cecelia walk up behind him. She looked a bit nervous. Kichiro smiled, and stood up to greet her.

"Good morning."

She looked down.

"Um....I'm a bit embarressed, but...will you train me?"

Kichiro grinned, and put his arms behind his head.

"It's easy to get embarrassed when you're around someone as good looking as me! Ow!"

He stumbled to the side with the force of Cecelia's slap. He fell, and rubbed his cheek.

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT PERVERT!"

Kichiro sighed again. He got up, a serious look on his face.

"Alright. I'll train you. First, get rid of any excess clothing."

He caught another slap, shaking his head.

"Not like that. I meant capes, coats, anything that will get in the way."

Cecelia removed a few pieces, and folded them on a rock. Kichiro removed his bag, placing it on another rock. He drew a line about two feet wide.

"Stand here. Feet should be at both ends of the line."

Cecelia stood. Kichiro checked her positioning.

"Good. Now, put your hands out like so. Alright. This is called Basic Defensive Position. It's been designed for maximum movement with minimal energy. "

Cecelia nodded. Kichiro grinned with a sort of malevolent satisfaction.

"Feeling confident? Do you think you can skip the basics?"

"Yeah! This is easy Kichiro!"

Kichiro looked a bit put-off. He shook his head.

"You will call me Kichiro-sensai while I am teaching you. You have to treat people who help you with respect."

He searched around for a tree stump. Finding one, he put a large rock on it. He motioned for Cecelia to come.

"Now, break it with your hands!"

She looked at it in confusion.

"But this would take a pickaxe to break! How can anyone break it!"

Kichiro shook his head again. He lifted his hand, and slammed it into the rock. It shattered into dust.

"This is why you don't skip the basics. Now, practice defensive positions!"

After they had practiced basic positioning, Kichiro again brought her back to the Stump. This time he sat down on it. She found a rock and sat as well. Kichiro began to speak, holding his finger up for emphasis.

"Now, you'll begin rock breaking training. But first I need to explain how it works. No, a normal human can't break rocks. Even elves can't break some large ones. So humans used tools. I don't, and neither will you. What we use is energy."

He picked up a stick, and drew a diagram in the ground, which consisted of a few equal sized circles.

"Now, think of this as the rock. When you hit it here! (pointed to the spaces), it will crack easily. But when you hit it here! (points to circles), it will take far more strength than normal."

He erased the diargram.

"Now, you need to learn about the energy. Three types of energy exist. The first is Physical Energy. This pertains to the muscles, organs, and other things with the body. If you increase this, you increase your strength and speed. The second is Spiritual Energy. You use this for summoning, abilities, and to become more powerful. This energy cannot be expanded on, only discovered. You unlock more and more the better you get. The final is Mental Energy. This is how people generate illusions, and do other tricks. This is good to have for strategies. I am bad at illusions, so I rely heavily on the other two. You might be more suited to this one rather than Physical Energy. The elf could help you."

He drew another diagram, this time of a body, with a cutaway. It showed the Stomach, Heart, and Brain. The stomached represented Physical Energy, the Heart Spiritual, and the Brain Mental. He explained to Cecelia how to concentrate energy into her body parts. Soon she was ready to smash the rock.

"Alright Kichiro-sensai. I'm ready."

Kichiro nodded, and brougth the rock to the stump. She gathered energy into her arm, and hit the rock. The stump was driven into the ground. Kichiro stood back a bit, in slight shock.

"So much power...."

He shook himself off. Cecelia was panting.

"You broke the rock, but you don't have control. You'd kill almost anyone with that punch, but you'd never hit them. Once I run you through some combat training, you'll start to learn control. But now, you're exhausted. Take a break, we're done for today."

She bowed, and walked off, exhausted. Kichiro smiled, and went back to fishing. That was some strange power.....he thought to himself.

Race too, was fishing. Almost swimming. "Come here you big bugger," He said diving after a fish. for about ten minutes he jumped in and out of the water like a dolphin, each time, throwing a big fish onto a sharp stick sticking out of the ground. "That makes ten he said walking out of the water. He approached Kichiro. "You know, she is part water elf, couldn't she do the fishing, and me the searching for wood. Sorry, but it just sense. Oh well."

Kichiro just shook his head as race pulled harp and began to play music that sounded amost like water. The water raised out of the lake and began to dance around, and race began to chant, and the gound in a certain part of the ground shifted, and turned solid. He put the water in it, and the water began to boil. Soon the water was clean, and packed. Race then took off into the forest, searching for Hamina. "There you are!" Race shouted when he saw her.

He approaced her slowly, then took the fire wood she was holding, "If you don't mind, your music is just so beautiful. Is there anychance, that, well, if I were to teach the magical toons tought to me by family, would you teach your tunes." He smiled and began to climb a tree, where he found some eggs. "Oo, breakfast. Oh well, that can wait." He hoped back down, and walked beside her, admiring the scenery.

Hamina looked at Race and smiled slightly to him.

"Sure if you'd like but you can not teach it to any one else.... Though I do not mind if another elf learns it, but I do not wish for human's to learn it."

Hamina then thanked him for carrying the wood for him. After that they began to walk back to the camp were Hamina found ten fish on sticks ready to be cooked.

"Wow good job....."

Hamina then saw Race putting the wood between the fish. She walked over to him and began to chant a spell.

" Ger likuj opiuy we na ton ma def gando."

Hamina then lit the wood and a fire shown itself. Soon after that the fish slowly cooked itself. Hamina smiled slightly then walked over to the large rock that lay near the camp. She then pulled out her flute.

" Race I think ill start to teach you some of my music right now if that is ok with you. It will not be alot, but it will do for tonight."

Hamina sat upon the rock and waited for Race.

Race walked up to the rock, and sat down on it. He pulled out his harp. Hamina began to play a tune, it was the one he had heard in the forest. He had followed it quite well, though not perfectly. Race already knew how to play the flute, so he watched the notes she struck, and played them on his harp. Soon they had a calm, beautiful tune going that woke up the night, and could probaly raise the sun with some magic. "Race, you are doing well, I am almost surprised at what you can do, had not been for what you did in the forest."

"Thank you, Miss Hamina." Race said, feeling that she was greater in magic, and probaly older than him by a few years. Though, he had never seen a mortal, nor immortal, other than his mother and father, who could play so well. He thought he had fallen for her, though, he wasn't sure if it was admiration or what. "My mother tought me to play the flute, so transfering the tunes that you play on it, to the harp strings, shouldn't be to hard, no, it is the magic that is placed in music, that is the challenge, I myself can sense your magic grow stronger as you play, though, do you know how to transfer that power through music?" He asked, still playing the tune.

Hamina looked over to him and smiled slightly.

" Magic and music are similar in a way but some are able to put it as one. I can do this and apparently you are able to do it as well. Though this flute came from a magical being. His name is Crystalex Lucuthasdules. The Water Dragon."

Hamina then again continued on with her tun as Race began to play once more. Slowly Hamina played so Race could get the tunes correctly. After she was done she looked at Race and smiled once more.

"You are gifted though maby I can teach you more then how to play my music....Are you interested. If you are you will learn the magic that I was tought from someone {She will not tell any body the name of the person.......} I will not teach you all of it though because I wish to keep my Hoteru teachings secret, It is only to be taught to other hoteru. Though I can teach you the other magic I know if you'd like."

Hamina then waited silenlty for an answer from Race.

OOC: Now to give Kichiro his new powers.....if you were following my posts you would have seen that he lost his blade. And for clarification, when he lost his blade, he lost almost all of his powers. And please work on your spelling.

IC:

Kichiro looked over at the pile of fish. Over 100 were flopping around. He sighed.

"I think I over did it. Time to put a few back."

He grabbed an armful of fish and set them back into the river. It left him with about eleven. He left the fish on the rock, and grabbed the bag full of apples, munching on one happily. He passed a cave, and stopped. Something had caught his eye, a bluish-green glow from the back. He walked inside, and found a waterfall, surrounded by trees. A perfect spot to train. Kichiro put the apples down, and removed his upper robe.

"It looks good. I need to regain my powers if I'm to survive."

He ran himself through thirty minutes of drills, testing his speed, endurance, and the like. He stopped, and started to pant. A rustling to the side caught this attention. It was an assasin. Kichiro reached for his sword, but found air. The assasin laughed.

"Kichiro Ochi, the one and only Shinigame of this world, without a sword? Hahahahaha! This is going to be easy!"

Kichiro moved. He was about to claw the assasin, but stopped.

"Spikes.....damn"

The killer smiled.

"Now it's my turn!"

He lunged from the bushes, and pulled out a katana, aiming it straight for Kichiro's heart. Kichiro put himself into defensive stance. Without realizing it, he placed his hands on the ground, and a bone shot out, stabbing the man through the heart. Kichiro stood back, and looked at the bone retract. It looked hard and fossilized, like it was made out of stone.

"So this is what my new powers are.....interesting."

He placed his hands over the man's body, and removed the bone. He placed it on the ground, and it came together, forming into a mass. He drew his claws and carved the mass into a Death Mask.

"Now.....This is vey interesting. It will serve as a nice vessel for the souls of the damned."

He placed the mask into his bag, hiding it under the apples. He put his robes back on, and then grimaced as his stomach hurt. He looked, and saw a seal forming. It was blood red.

Race looked around, and noticed everybody was either Asleep, or gone, except him and Hamina. "Wow, all alone, and nothing to do. Oh, wait. Ok, teach me this magic, and I will teach you mine. But first, to show you what my music can do."

Race began to play a romantic tune, and roses rose from the ground, blooming quite quickly. The thorns on the roses began to shrink away, and the roses curled around until they formed a heart. "For you, as a gift of my gratitude for your teachig me of your magic." He began to laugh at his attempt to fool himself, and fell off the rock backwards, knocking himself out cold on a rock. "Now how the hell,"He said, passing out.

Hamina laughed slightly as Race fell of the rock. She then looked at her gift and smiled slightly to her self. She then hoped down from the rock and went to Race's side.

"Race are you allright?....Race?"

Hamina started to shake him lightly and then sighed to her self.

"I know how about this."

Hamina took her flute and choose a high C tune she then blew on it as loud as she could hopeing it would wake Race up, but she tryed her damndest not to wake the others. As she blew the tune she noticed no one was wakeing up. She then sighed once more knowing that her efforts were in vain. She then stood up and spoke in a small whisper.

"I will just teach him some tommarow.....hehhehehe...."

She then noticed that Kichiro was not there. She glared at the direction he was sitting at earlier. She growled to her self, and began to walk to a part of the lake were she sinced a water fall. She was water elf so she is capable of hearing and sinceing any type of water form, though she was also good at the other elemental magic as well.Hamina made her way to were she saw a large cave she noticed the water fall, but she also saw a faint blood red glow. She glared again and got a feeling that Kichiro was in there. She walked in the cave quickly and began to speak.

"Kichiro I know you are in here!! come out and tell me why you acting so strangely!!! also why did you leave with out saying were you are going!? Hey Kichiro I know you can here me!!!!!"

OOC: I'll introduce this part, but it's only Hamina and Kichiro for this. And please note, in this form right here, he cannot be defeated. It's for the storyline, and it's filled with all sorts of badness, but he's going slightly insane with his new powers. Hamina has to talk him out of it (like Sasuke and cursed seal)

IC:

Kichiro opened his eyes. Everything was pitch black. He spoke, and heard a cold voice that was not his own. He felt as if he was watching from the third person. He did hear a voice, which sounded like Hamina. He looked around for the origin. He could see nothing. The cold voice spoke again, inside his head.

"So you've finally awakened. My other half. Now I can show you the true power of the Shinigame."

Kichiro felt a heavy blow to the chest, and became unable to move. All he could do was watch as the second conciousness took over his body. It pulled a sword from it's stomach. The blackness exploded, sending pearl white shrapnel everwhere. Kichiro recognized the waterfall and Hamina. The voice spoke again.

"I will allow you to hear as well as see."

His ears percieved what his body heard now. Hamina was yelling at him.

"What the hell do you think you're doing!"

The cold voice spoke. Kichiro felt his spine shiver.

"Silence mortal. I am the Shinigame. I have marked you for death. Now you will die."

Kichiro watched as the sword swung, sending a black wave of energy towards Hamina, who nimbfully dodged it.

"Why are you doing this Kichiro!"

"That name is no longer mine!"

The sword planted itself in the ground, and his body took a stance. Pulling upwards, it summoned hundreds of small bones like spikes out of the ground. Hamina dodged them, and landed on a rock. Kichiro's body moved, aiming a punch for Hamina. It hit the rock instead, causing it to vaporize. His body turned and scrathed Hamina on the arm. Kichiro looked at his hand, but did not see the blood. The voice spoke to him.

"The blood is not on your hands. It is on mine. You are weaker than me. You are beneath me. You are not fit to have this body and these powers."

His body took five bones and pinned Hamina to a rock. The cold voice spoke again, sending Kichiro to the ground with fear.

"Now is the end for you elf. I have deemed you unfit for life."

OOC: Up to you to finish it. You have to talk him out of it, but most of the fighitng will take place in Kichiro's mind.

Ayame sat on a sturdy tree branch, listening to all that was going on in the clearing below her. She was silent - making sure none of the others knew she was awake. She sighed softly, turning her gaze elsewhere - if only to move her eyes. She then heard an uttered statement - not to far away and frown. Ayame stood slowly and carefully - as not to make too much noise. Slowly she crept forward - listening intently to the voices and sounds around her. Her eyes were drawn to something - her own will not equated. In her mind's eyes she could see the flowing waves of energy - all of them a bright blood red. Someone was in a bloodlust.

Hamina was amazed at his new found strength and sought away out of this.

" Kichiro?........no your someone much more cold blooded I can sense that all you want is blood, and right now you want mine. Kichiro I know your in there some where and I know that you would not harm me because of what you said to us earlier. Now if you don't mind Kichiro get this basterd of of me I am not interested in getting hurt or hurting others severly. I have to much work to do and he is interfiring with it. Kichiro I know you here me!!! Please get this Baka off of me.!!!"

Hamina struggled under him and kneed him in the gut a few times. He took the hits but did not budge. Hamina glared at his eyes and noticed they were not the over protective of Cecilia eyes they were ones like a demon ready to kill its prey eyes. Hamina then took her hand and put it on his sholder and began to speak again.

"Kichiro please snap out of it, you know damned well how to so get out of this stupid demon like thing er what ever it is and come back to us..........."


Hamina looked at him noticing no change and then she started to get pissed. Hamina started to growl to him loudly and then she started to change. Her eyes were the first to change. They turned a deep demonic yellow with silver out lines. and her hair and cloaths turned white. She then growled again.

"I AM NO MORTAL HUMAN IM MUCH OLDER THEN YOU AND I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DO NOT GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME. NOW DO AS I SAY OR YOU WILL FACE MY WRATH. AND DO NOT THREATEN ME OR IT WILL BE YOUR DEMISE PATHETIC MORTAL."

She then grabed his hands and she started to dig her claws in deeper.

Race woke up when a burst of hateful enrgy arose over the area. "What the hell was that?" He asked jumping out his dose. He got up, and could feel the dark energy being emitted from everywhere, but the source was obvious. He ran for it as fast as he could, when he reached the area, he simply ran in.

"Kichiro, drop Hamina!" Race called out to him. He charged at Kichiro and daged a few, what apeared to be bones. As he came upon Kichiro, though, he was cought up in the aura of hatred, darkness, and bloodlust. Soon, race lay there, his magical sense overwhelmed, panting, though staying in conciousness. " Let.... Her..... GOOO!" He screamed, lunging at him. He was thrown aside, and knocked unconcious again.

"heheheh, fool."

OOC:Well since your using Hamina Hami I guess ill use Shiju then, but I wont be adding any of his history or his powers or weapon abilities. Everyone will just have to find out as we go what they are, Oh and one more thing please do not use my char at all in any ones post other then mine. I've been working on him for six years and I'm quite touchy about him. Ah yes and Hami if my post get deleted in this rp I'm out to work back on my rp site. *grumbles*

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IC:

"....Calm down Hamina."

The familiar voice rang in the echo of the cave which she was sure to be recognize to her ears he stood in the entrance way the water fall rushing behind him giving him a flicker of light which was water trickling in his hair. He stared coldly at the man holding Hamina and was not amused by his pathetic attempt at strength he holding a woman by her neck which gave him a flashback of his past, this not being a good thing.

"...You will release the girl, or I shall make you ether way being fine with me. If you wish to test your strength you can do it with the master other then the learner. Now shall I teach you the vast meaning of power that you so desperately crave? Or shall we do this an easier way."

He drew his sword and held it motionless in front of him, the blade glowing with a green light souls being heard moaning and screaming echoing through his mind seeming to call for him. He readies himself in a battle stance he clearly focusing on something more beyond him readies himself for demonic energy and his mind focused on him his free hand raising in front of him it sparking with energy.

"If you wish to taste the ground feel free to attack me."

His aura flowed through the room clearly being emmense in size it being enough to draw back armies before him.

{OOC: Ok Kichiro remember what I said........Not uber god powerful thingy.....And ok Shiju and thanks for joining the rp neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! Oh and Ayame what I told you at school for a possible story line im gonna change it around a bit...We are still gonna head to the human capital though, but the way that this rp is going with its lovely detailedness its gonna be a few regular days before we get there.}

Hamina looked over to see who was telling her to calm down when she noticed it was none other then her master Shijumaru Moonshimmer. She thought for a brief moment then started to thank the goddess he arived. Hamina spoke up.

" Get this Baka off of me please.... He is waaaay to annoying. Though im curious as to why he suddenly has a seal on him and it was not there before. I also do not like the fact that the person who was traviling with us is now trying to kill me."

Hamina looked over to Shiju and gave a sobbing look to him. She then relized he had pulled out the shadowlight and was ready to fight Kichiro.

"Shiju he is not him self but he is pissing me off, earlier he said he does not wish to harm me or the others that I had met, but now all of the sudden he seems to want to kill us...... I do not know why but those eyes are not his.... It kinda creepin me out.."

She slowly faded off her words and turned to look at Kichiro again. She glared at him once more and started to get even more angryer when she noticed he threw Race to the ground. Hamina was not about to let him hurt anyone else any more, but she knew at that particular moment she was not able to do anything until he realesed her. Hamina started to dig even deeper then before and she started to growl that seemed to echo slightly through the cave.

"LET GO OF ME!!!!!!"

Hamina struggeld under him trying to break free but still to no avail it did not work.Hamina looked at Shiju again and she knew he wasn't exactly paying attention to her but to Kichiro. She sighed and decided to wait for the moment he would release her.

{OOC: Ok can I ask a question Kichiro why is it exactly you wish to make your character undefeatable, Everyone does have a weakness. please do not take it offensively but it is just a question.....ok back to the post.}

Hamina waited there patiently, but slowly started to get impatient.

OOC: This is the only time I use this form Hamina. It's the uber godly powerful because it's THE God of Death. The most powerful one, and that's what he's channeling. It's one of those unwilling things, and it's very draining on him to use it. And the weakness (it's not Kichiro's, but this forms), is that Kichiro can be talked out of it. He has to fight his way out with it through will power. That's the weakness.

IC:

Kichiro gathered all his will power, and concentrated them on the Voice.

"Let go of her bastard!"

His body went limp, completely ignored during the fight with the two Souls. Kichiro pushed as hard as he could against the Voice. He put into his fight all his emotion.

Kichiro felt the bonds holding him break. The voice screamed at him.

"Bastard! Stop!"

He reached into his stomach, just where the seal was, and pulled out his sword.

"Shiraiga!"

The a strange light came out of the blade, and cut the darkness away. Kichiro felt his sense regain, but pain began to shoot through his head. The other concious was fighting with his will again. Kichiro gathered the remaining bones about him in a protective cocoon, not wanting any interferance.

"I won't let you control me again."

Race was beginning to come to. He saw Ayame in a bush, concentrating on a rotating ball of...bone?. He noticed that Kichiro wasn't here.

"What the hell is that?"

He looked in a mixture of wonder and horror at the swirling bones.

"If Kichiro comes out like he was just now, we'll all be dead...."

The torrent was beginning to split. Race heard Ayame gasp, and kneel down, panting. The torrent split entirely. Kichiro fell to the ground. Race watched as he rose to a standing position. His eyes were black, with yellow pupils. Race froze. Kichiro walked towards him, sword ready. He swung it high, and Race prepared himself for death. The blow never came. Kichiro ran the sword through his stomach, causing the seal to glow again, and the sword returned to his soul, awaiting the next time it would be used. Kichiro reached into his bag, and pulled out the bone mask that he had made.

"You see this Race....this is what I am. I'm a monster."

Kichiro fell to his knees, and wept. He punch the ground, breaking it. He released all his agony and torment into those punches.

"WHY!!!!!!!!"

The cry continued to echo into the air. Kichiro stood again, and grabbed his bag. He threw it over his shoulder, but held the mask.

"Race. When the others wake up.....I will be gone. I'm going to make sure that this mask never gets into the wrong hands. Tell them I am sorry. Ayame can explain. But whatever you do, please, do not tell Cecelia what I did here. Please. I feel like she's a daughter to me, and it's my job to protect her."

He turned and started to walk away. Race called out to him.

"Kichiro! Will you be back?"

Kichiro continued to walk, and then disappeared. Race swore, and pursued him. He stopped, out of breath by a tree, where he saw a pile of apples. A note was on top.

"I will be back when you know despair. That is all I know"

Race crumpled the note, and threw it on the ground. He looked towards the sunset, and where Kichiro was headed.

OOC: From the time of now, until you reach the Human Capital, you won't see Kichiro. He's off doing stuff that i'll reveal later, so i'll post by having Race read his journal.

EDIT: I hope this is better. I won't use characters that I don't have permission to use, but please don't get involved with fights that weren't supposed to invovle more than a few people (like this one). Thank you, and again, I am sorry.

OOC:What the hell? Okay maybe you dont know how to do this so I will explain.
You control your OWN char not mine, any movements, actions, and talking that my char does are not decided by you.
now please redo your post so we can actually have a battle here that includes only your actions, then I will post my actions simple.
Im starting to wonder if your doing this on purpose since you have been told the same thing over and over again.

and yes I know im being rude, but as I said before I dont like people messin with my char.

{OOC: Kichiro if you do not stop I will talk to the forum moderator. So once again DO NOT USE SOMEONE ELSE'S CHARACTER, UNLESS THEY SAY IT IS OK, SO DON'T USE SHIJU'S OR MINE........Ayame and Race said it was all right but do not use any others...please this is reallllllly starting to get annoying.!!!!}

{OOC: I know I should of posted them together but I am sorry.....so don't say anything about that.}

Hamina flew backwards when Kichiro threw her. She landed on a rock which shattered behind her knocking her slowly unconsious. Before she was in total darkness she listened to the fight slowly going on.

"Damnit"

Hamina then fell unconsious. She slowly drifted through the dark still hearing everything that was going on.

' hold on a moment guys i'll be there soon.......'

{OOC: Ok I can not really think much for her to do right know since she can't really wake up.....so I'm just gonna go along with the story plot. I guess.... Oh and Kichiro I have spoken with the Forum moderator and you should be getting a email soon. Please stop using the characters that do not belong to you, you will end up ruining it and every one will not want to rp on her any more and that will not make me very happy. Im already in a not so very good mood today so please do not make this any more trouble then what it's worth, because I would love to keep this rp going please. Thank you and I do hop you listen to us this time. Oh and one more thing stop giving everyone injuries when no one else has posted to actually say they got those injuries...... I will go along with just this one, but from now on I post my actions in this story. Thanks again '/.\'}

OOC: My apologies. I thought you gave approval for Hamina to be used. I won't do it again, I'm just used to a different style, so I post it instinctively. And my apologies again Shiju, I really should have read your character profile more carefully. But I do question why your character was there for the fight, or why everyone else was there. It was really supposed to be Hamina and Kichiro, but oh well. It's a moot point.

Now that i've been scolded quite thoroughly, I think I'll get to editing that post, and making my announcement that I won't be doing the whole Journal thing with Race, because I haven't even thought of his past. So I'll introduce a new Character to keep me busy, and though it might seem ironic, please do not use him in either combat or conversation. Once i'm finished the edit, I'll make his profile.

EDIT: Okay, I finished the editing of the post. It made it so that it was a conclusion, and so that nobody I wasn't allowed to use was involved.

ooc: ok, sorry that I've been for a while. I am confused as of whats going on, oh, and I will no longer be letting anyone use my character, unless its just for a few words.

Race returned to the cavern by the waterfall, and woke Hamina with the magic of his harp. She seemed to be in pain. He held her head. "Hamina, are you okay." She et out a little moan, then was back out. He set her down, giving her his shirt as a pillow. Then he stood and walked towards the strange elf that had just entered the cave. Though he was a fellow elf, Race was catious enough to grab the hilt of his sword and hpld it at the ready, Guenavyr, though, started rubbing up against the elven man.

"What in the," Race began to say, then let go of his blade, "Who are you, and why is Guenavyr rubbing against you like that. Normaly she eats people if I am catius of them." Race shrugged his shoulders, then began to inspect the strange elf, waking in circles around him like a cat. "AH HAH, you must be her," pointing to Hamina, "boyfriend." Race smiled a clueless smile hhaving no idea what in heck was going on, and hopping for an explanation.

{OOC: lol thats an interesting concept there}


Hamina slowly drifted through her mind. She knew she was still blacked out and she did not know why she could not wake up, but she would wait. She could still hear everyone talking but for some reason she could not speak to them.

' damnit this is so annoying... Shiju, Race ill wake up soon.'


Hamina slowly drifted back into her slumber waiting for her eyelids to gain enough strength to open them once again. She knew Race and Shiju were in the cave and she could tell that Kichiro had left. She did not know where Ayame and Cecilia were but she knew in her head that they were going to be alright.

{OOC: Still I am unconcious........ how lovely. Ill wake up next post kk but I got to get to class so bye bye.}

OOC: Is my new character approved?

And an announcement, i'm gonna kill of Kichiro. Not for any guilt or whatever from screwing up back there, but because his character isn't going in a direction that his personality would allow, a.k.a. being dark, brooding, and traveling well with a group. So i'm going to kill him off.

I'm not banned from this or anything, am I?

{OOC: Very well you can kill off your character if you choose. And Yes your character is approved. And Race Shiju is not my boyfriend he is my Master, Sensie kinda thing. We are siblings in real life...... This is just going to be commenting the prievios post by chrono soul so i will wait until some one else decides to post. Oh and we are haveing difficulties with the computer at my home so Shiju and me will have trobles trying to post, though I am still fully able to post at school but after the school year ends I will have a slight problem though. I will try my best to make it to a friends house that has a woeking computer with internet or I can always go to a public Library or we just by another computer then buy internet..... This is getting to be such a hassel.......Thanks, and no Chrono you are not banned just do not do it again please}

OOC: OH goodie..I like the new skins as well. Now to begin the story of Hideyoshi Ochi (and i might add a little side-kick later, but i'll see...)

IC:

Hideyoshi stood on the borders of a charred village, the smoke still rising into the air. He recalled the last few words of the old man.

"Hideyoshi-sama....why?"

He smiled, and remeber what he said back.

"Because I can."

He gripped the hilt of his recently bloody Katana, and turned to walk away. Only one person occupied his mind now, his long lost brother.

Kichiro Ochi.

"I've finally found you brother...now you will feel the last punishment of the Clan."

Hideyoshi felt a surge of energy beneath his feet, and twirled to the side. Bones appeared out of the ground where he had just been standing. He smiled. Kichiro walked out from the bushes. Hideyoshi almost felt nostalgic.

"Little brother. You've changed so much. Wolf hide as clothing, a huge sword, and some new powers. It brings back memories."

Kichiro didn't speak. His eyes had become black, with a yellow iris. Hideyoshi smiled again. He unwrapped his hands, revealing the two symbols for Fire and Shadow.

Kichiro made the first move. His sword upraised, he swung down to where Hideyoshi had been just before.

"Bastard! I'll kill you here!"

Kichiro turned, swinging his sword horizontally. His eyes were normal again, and they grew wide with fear as he felt hands on his stomach, gripping his clothes. Hideyoshi spun him around, and threw him up in the air. He stood below on the ground, gathered fire into his palms.

"Twin Fire Dragons!"

Two flames in the shapes of dragons appeared from his hands, and they both started to attack Kichiro, who was helpless as he flew up. Hideyoshi recalled the dragons, and jumped up himself. He was falling just above Kichiro.

"Little brother...Do you know what happens to the rocks that come from the sky? They burn as they fall..."

He placed his hands on Kichiro's chest, and launched him into the ground. Hideyoshi landed softly on two feet, and started to walk away.

"Bone Coffin."

Hideyoshi was suddenyl surrounded by bones. Kichiro had survived. A cold voice spoke through the barrier.

"Hello big brother...i'm sorry I couldn't throw you a PROPER greeting. I didn't have the explosives necessary...I'll settle for puncturing holes in your entire body..."

Hideyoshi dodged a bone just as it came through, but it knicked him in the shoulder. It drew back, with some blood on it. He heard the Voice again.

"I hope the rest of your blood...is this delicious."

Hideyoshi knew fear for the first time.

"It's not time for me to die yet, Little Brother."

He concentrated enormous energy into the Fire symbol on his right palm, creating a black fire. He drew back his arm, and hit where Kichiro's energy indicated. The attack went straight through the bones of the barrier, and connected with flesh. The barrier disintigrated, and Hideyoshi stepped out. His eyes were blood red.

"No more games Kichiro"

{OOC:Ok that is a slightly interesting thing there but good post I guess.}

Hamina slowly opened her eyes to see Race cirlcling around Shiju and Race's little pet nuzziling Shiju's leg.

"Aggh!"

Her back and her head hurt. She rubbed her head slightly still wondering what was going on. She looked up at them and noticed that they were way to ocupied with something else. She slowly tried to get up but to her luck she could not. She let out another groan of pain then landed back on the ground with a loud 'thump'. She noticed then that she had fallen unconcious and once again she wondered to herself. 'Where is that baka Kichiro?'. She then spoke with a slight angry monotoned voice.

"What in the.... Where is he I will kill him? Kichiro get your baka self centered glump back here!!!!!!!!!"

Slowly her voice trailed off relizeing that he wasn't there any more. Her curiosity still rained over her mind. She looked over to the three and spoke again.

"Shiju, Race what in the hell happened?!"

Once again her voice trailed off waiting for them to reply.

Race looked the man apparently named Shiju, "Weeeellll," he began, then told about what he remembered. He then turned to Shiju and said. "No, she can't be your boyfriend, your to old, AHHAH!" He got a look excitement on his face. "You are the man that tought her how to play her fulte, and how to fight, and all the other stuff she does so well."

He looked at Guenavyr, who looked back at him. He said something in another language, then drew his sword, and lunged at Shiju. Guenavyr, herself, jumped backwards. Shiju easily avoided it. "Yup, I was right, you are her teacher. I think." he sat down and began to think, "Oh, you tell her what happened, I was out cold most of the time, either that or to angry to really pay attention." He smiled and put his sword away, pulled out his harp, and began to play a nice tune.

ooc: Its a healing tune for Haminas' head.

{OOC:Do not use Shiju's character Race, even though it was only a half of a sectence, still you musn't, sry but I do not want Shiju to get upset nor I on the other hand, because we just got done telling Chrono the same thing.}

OOC: Do de do de do de do. Time to kill off Kichiro. And then see if someone put up the new Naruto yet!

IC:

Hideyoshi cracked his neck, and looked coldly at Kichiro. He was shaking off dust from his clothes, after being thrown back by Hideyoshi's attack.

"So Kichiro Ochi. This is your new power. It's a shame. I heard so much about the infamous "Shinigame". Hmmph. You're pathetic. You're just as weak as when i left you."

Hideyoshi sensed an attack five seconds before it came. Darts of bone shot from Kichiro's hand, which he easily dodged. Hideyoshi sighed.

"You won't let me have my monologue. You're no fun Kichiro. You should have at least kept that, even with that Demon occupying your body."

Hideyoshi said a few words, to quiet for anyone to hear. Energy gathered around him, and his body seemed to split into five others. They all moved in unison, and drew thin metal wires attached to Kunai.

"You like my new technique? It's called a body clone. They're at half my strength, but I can make alot of them. Plus, they have all the same equipment I do. It's a wonderful little technique, but it require enormous amounts of energy."

The kunai hit Kichiro in the chest, and then a second wave tied him tight to the tree. The wires continued to wrap him until he was in a cocoon. The clones disappeared, merging back into Hideyoshi.

"Now, this is something I reserve only for the Clan. It's my way of saying goodbye Kichiro-sama. Cremation."

He shot fire into the wires, which caught instantly, and created a huge fire. Kichiro screamed in pain as the flames licked his skin, and started to melt his flesh. Hideyoshi watched coldly from a safe distance. Suddenly, the flames burst apart.

"SHIRAIGA!"

Hideyoshi dodged to the side, and the attack cut through a tree. He looked at flames, and saw Kichiro come out. His face was half melted off, and the majority of him was a skeleton. He was smiling through his demonic face.

"Hideyoshi...do you really think I would be caught that easily?"

The figure crumbled into a pile of bones and animal flesh. Hideyoshi drew into a defensive stance. He felt a drop of sweat on his neck. Kichiro jumped from the trees, and his blade met Hideyoshi's. They exchanged blows, and with each Hideyoshi grew more and more tired. He drew a border of fire, and gathered his energy for a bind. Kichiro tried to move away, but was caught.

"Now let's see what's inside you..."

Hideyoshi peered into Kichiro's mind, and saw him tied to a wooden log, covered in seals.

"Weak."

A demon appeared from behind the log, and drew out a bone-like spear. Hideyoshi drew his sword, and cut it in half.

"Demon's are nothing more than beasts. As are the Gods. And beasts will take their place below me."

Hideyoshi ran his sword through the Demon's heart, and it fell, dead. He cut the seals holding Kichiro.

"I can see you fight the same fight as I do brother."

Hideyoshi retreated from his mind, and watched Kichiro slump over. He went over to the body, and hesitated.

"You fight my fight as well. And you are powerful."

Hideyoshi stood over Kichiro's unconcious form, and thought. He thought back to his Clan, before they had grown weak, before he thought of them as corrupted, when they were strong. He thought back to the time he spent with Kichiro, the time in the Cherry Trees, and training with him. And he hesitated.

"You aren't weak. Not like them. And you are teachable, unlike them. And you are strong, like they were."

Hideyoshi sat on a rock, and thought about what to do. He decided, and placed Kichiro's body on a rock. He started to make a camp, and waited for his brother to wake up.

OOC: Tricked you. I had no intention of killing him off, but I told you anyway. But now he's off limits to you guys, so don't post with him (you can think about him though, but no making up things with him until I tell you). Oh, and incase you didn't realize, his inner Demon is dead. So yeah.

ooc: Sorry, didn't mean no harm at all by it.

IC: Race felt the great power of Kichiro fade off, but just for a moment, it began to grow again, and near it, he felt another power, one he was unsure of, though it was still equal to his, as was kichiros, it came with skill that Kichiro lacked. "That ain't good." He said, then he simply fell over, unsure of what to do, Guenavyr curled up beside him, and he placed his on guenavyr, listening to the sound of the water fall. Just then the ceiling cracked. "OH...." It began to cave in, and he lept up with guenavyr heading for the exit and barely making it out, unsure of what happend to the others in the midst of the dust.

{OOC: I never wanted to use him Chrono I think it is the other way around for you there.}

Hamina watched the cave as it began to fall into rubble. She knew she could not move so she layed there hoping someone was able to get her. She held a spiritual shield up trying to block the bolders that tried to crush her head. Though she held the shield for a while all of her efforts were in vain. She was quickly buried into the rocks.

"Help!!!!!! God damnitt!!!"

She screamed but aparently no one was hearing her. Once again she tried to move but she was not able to lift the rocks with her magic or her arms. She sighed to her self and decided she would just scream her head off until someone actually noticed that she was gone.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"

She slowly trailed off and was wondering if that actually acomplished anything what so ever. She sighed to her self and just decided to wait.

{OOC:ok I am makeing one other charater in my post to join our little charade.}
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Rain slowly walked down a small path in a thick forest. She had heard a loud boom near by so she had decided to go and check it out. As she came with in a clearing she noticed that a cave had just caved in on its self. She also noticed a boy standing there with his pet in front of it. He looked slightly troubled so she decided that it would be in her best interests to try and help with whatever was going wrong. She noticed that a small voice was bieng muffled under the rocks. She sensed a similar bieng that she knew with in the cave as well.

"Shiju"

She seen him just standing there and wondered to herself.

" Where is Hamina?"

Then she relized that the muffled voce was her. She quickly walked over to a large pile of rubble and began to chant a spell.

" Huy ik plo miuy terf gea sew"

The rocks slowly floated above the groups head and slowly made there way to the lake. As the rock slowly emptied the area they were in a figure laying on the ground came into view. At first the figure had white hair and a white kimono, then she noticed that it was slowly changing into a deep shade of red. She gave a crooked frown to herself when she noticed that it was none other then her friend Hamina.

"Hamina Moonblade what in the world did you get yourself into this time?"

Hamina slowly blinked in curiousity to her self as she noticed the rocks were bieng moved. She turned her head in the direction of the voice that was now speaking to her. Her eyes grew into a glare as she figured out who it was.

"What do you want Rain?....Oh and I just had a little run in to a stupid human."

Hamina slowly sat up.

{OOC:OOOOOOOOOOOOK}

OOC: Meh. Just as long as he isn't invovled in any actions with your group. Same with Hideyoshi.

Anyway, it's time to explain Hideyoshi's mission

IC:

"Get up."

Kichiro felt cold water hit his face, causing him to jump. His first reaction was to reach for his sword. It was in it's holder, just like when he had first met Race, Cecelia, and the others.

"What the hell?"

Hideyoshi was standing over a fire, and stirring some sort of stew. He put a bit of it in a bowl, and handed it to Kichiro.

"Eat. Your body is weak."

Kichiro ate it greedily. It had an odd flavoring. He decided not to ask what it was, and continued to eat three more bowls. When he was finally finished, he placed the dirty bowl next to the fire, and turned to Hideyoshi.

"Why didn't you kill me back there?"

Hideyoshi stood up, and handed him new clothes. Kichiro noticed for the first time that his black robe had been torn to shreds, and burned.

"Change first."

Kichiro examined the robe, and found it to be a different version of his Clan's robe. It was white, with the symbol of fire on the back, but unlike Hideyoshi's, it had a wolf fur lining. Kichiro began to wonder what was in the stew.... He tried to on, and it fit. A new holder for his sword was there as well.

"So why did you save me Hideyoshi?"

Hideyoshi turned to look at him, and gestured for him to sit down. Kichiro obeyed.

"This will be a long story little Brother. I'll make it shorter, by starting from when you were exiled, at the height of our Clans power."

He took a scroll from his bag, and set it down for future use. He began to talk again, with Kichiro munching quietly on some more stew.

"When you were exiled, our father became strict. It's not a suprise really. But this strictness caused rebellion in the older siblings of ours, and they began to form gangs. It created a cycle, until the Clan was in chaos. Father looked for a way to restore order."

He unrolled the scroll, and showed Kichiro the first picture. It was one of the Gods.

"He turned to religion, something that had never been done before in our history. This is where my resentment started. They turned because they were weak. It was shameful. And then they started forcing it on everyone in the Clan and the Village."

He rolled the scroll back up, and placed it down again.

"One night, I found Father meeting with one of his so called Gods. They were nothing more than strong warriors. That was the first time I killed one of them. It was a smaller deity in Father's religion, but it drove him into a rage. I was put on trial for heresy, and I saw amongst the people that they were beyond hope. My only choice was to wipe them out. And I did."

He pulled another pot out from his bag, and started to make tea.

"But I left two people alive, besides you and me. The first was one of the Princes from the main branch, who had been to young to become corrupted. The second was a Princess from the main branch, who was his age, but unrelated. I left them in the care of some friends of mine, who shared my views on the Gods. Now I journey throughout the land. I am wanted by men, and feared by the supernatural. So far, I have killed 3 deities, including the first one before I killed the Clan. One of them was the demon inside you, my first major kill in a year. I believe it was the "God" of death. He won't trouble you anymore."

Hideyoshi poured the tea into two cups, and handed one to Kichiro. They bothed sipped it. Kichiro felt confused.

"But that doesn't explain why you let me live."

Hideyoshi put down the tea.

"You fight the Gods. I know this. I can read it in your face. You've already fought the son of one. The god of thunder I believe. He goes by Race."

Hideyoshi unrolled the scroll, which had Race's portrait on it, along with a description of powers.

"Unfortunatly, there exists plenty of these part demons. It means a large portion of society won't come back. But we can't have them running around turning people in servants, so we need to kill them."

Hideyoshi pulled another paper from his bag.

"This is our current mission. You know of the organization, Masaru? The leader is the "God" of Water."

Kichiro looked confused again.

"I'm a bit short on power. Most of my attacks were drawn from the energy of that demon-thing."

Hideyoshi shook his head.

"Maybe that power, but you have new ones. You've changed powers I believe four times now. From Fire, to Death, to Bones, and now to Wind. That I can tell. Here's something that will help you find your animal. Place your thumb on it, and send energy into the paper. The ink will form an animal."

Kichiro obeyed, and a silver ink formed the picture of a wolf. Hideyoshi looked satisfied.

"Good. Tommorow, I'll begin training you in wind techniques."

"Hideyoshi, out of curiosity, what animal are you?"

"Dragon."

OOC: Continuing. Posting OOC out of habit...

IC:

Kichiro fell asleep instantly after training. It was his third day into it, and his body and mind were exhausted. But the training was paying off, and Hideyoshi new plenty about the Wind Element. Kichiro woke up the next morning to the smell of frying eggs.

"Up. Eat."

Kichiro obeyed, and then put on his training clothes. Hideyoshi shook his head.

"Today is how to train your animal."

Kichiro nodded.

"You're a wolf. I'm a dragon. They feed each other, like Fire and Wind. The Wolf kills, the Dragon creates. Yin and Yang. Now, you know that what animal you are creates differences in your techniques. That's why I was able to defeat you when we first met. You fought like a Bull then, taking alot of damage, but able to give it back. Stop fighting like that."

Hideyoshi drank some tea, and continued.

"There are twelve animals. Bull, Dragon, Rat, Wolf, Ram, Pig, Snake, Tiger, Phoenix, Toad, Shark, and Lizard. We'll focus on Wolf and Dragon. Dragon's fighting style is close to snake, we fight very fast. But Snake's style has lots of small hits, while Dragon focuses on the more powerful blows. For every blow Dragon lands, Snake must land many more. However, Snake and Dragon have different powers."

Hideyoshi took another sip of tea.

"Dragon's power is technique transformation. My Twin Fire Dragons are a result of mastery. Those who are Dragons have increased Spirit Energy, whereas Snake focuses on Mental. Wolf is completely different, and is closer to Bull."

He paused, let it sink in.

"Wolf's power comes in numbers. Like Snake, you hit alot, and they do enough damage. But you also take alot of hits, like Bull. Wolf is a very fast paced animal, and you have to fight that way. Fight hard, fight fast, and hit them as many times as you can before they hit you. That is the basics. Now I'll instruct you in training. No sword for this."

He pointed to a tree.

"Cut a clean hole in that tree using only your finger nails."

Kichiro sighed, and got up to do it.

OOC: Done for now.

{OOC: Alright this will be my last post for awhile since I’m moving and all, but I will be back on sometime….but I just do not know when.}

Shiju watched the man walk past him without incident and decided to let him go on his way as he seemed to be troubled enough although his actions deserved to be delt with accordingly, he did not feel like dealing with another useless drifter. Shiju simply sheathed Shadowlight, waiting for Hamina to regain consciousness. Soon though he noticed a presence of another entering the cave, but did not react to this one seeing how the aura he gave off was not one with the intent to kill. He only watched him as he went to Hamina’s side seeing he was trying to help. After the melody he played, Hamina moved slightly but did not wake which made him wonder, his thoughts were interrupted by the elf’s change in mood seeing the hand on the hilt of his weapon made Shiju give, him a cold glare, his eyes swirling with colors, he clearly not amused by his actions. The small animal he ignored and even ignored the elf’s questions, turning his attention to Hamina had awoken yelling and screaming like an idiot which made him sigh in frustration. The sound of the sword being drawn drew his attention back to the elf who moved forward towards him as an amateur leaving open at least 15 different vital points, on his body before Shiju decided to take a step to his side watching him move by. His actions did not help his mood, obviously very thin on patience for this idiot. When he sat down and asked for him to explain he decided he had enough and walked out of the cave with out a word although those who have been around him knew he was annoyed. When ever he left the cave the sounds of it collapsing caught his attention and he looked back to see the elf moving from out side the cave and no Hamina behind made him sigh once more in frustration, this day clearly becoming one of his worst. He was about to reach for his sword to clear the rubble when he heard a voice he knew as Hamina’s friend and raised his hand’s to his eye’s and started rubbing them motioning her to deal with it. When she cleared the rubble he took his hand away from his head looking at Hamina stand up.

“….Hamina be more careful of who you surround yourself with…I must get back to the matters Hamina laid out for me…and if you return soon please do so without the company of fools.”

He then turned walking off towards the west moving his hand in a gesture of by to the two girls.

“OOC: Ok that is it for me for a while ill try to keep an eye on the rp Hami….until then.}

{OOC: Oki doki}

Hamina watched Shiju walk off and smiled slightly. She then bowed to him and said.

"Aye master, and I will see you soon enough as well back with the matters at hand, though I shall fuffil my quest that she has givin me first before I return."

With that said she turned to Rain, and Race. She gave and evil glare to them both.

"First of all Rain what in the hell are you doing here, do you not think I can do things on my own?!"

"Nope..."

Hamina sighed and gave Rain another glare.

"Fine, but why is it exacltly you insest on always making sure I complete my quests?"

"Because, I am your friend and besides it looked like you did a pretty good job here don't ya think...."

"grr".

Rain laughed slightly to her self and then looked at Hamina up and down noticing her wounds. She then started to chant a healing spell.

"Heal this wound goddess of water and make this victem whole again"

Hamina was completely cured and was feeling better as ever. She gave Rain a smile, her giving one back. She then turned to Race and spoke again.

"Ok well lets go back and get Ayame and Cecilia and start twords the Human capital so I can get back to the matters at hand."

Race looked at the collapsed cave., then it hit him. Hamina was still in there. In the rush he forgot about his harp, and there for did not play one of his magical tunes to get Hamina out. Just when his worry hit a maximum, another elf showed up, she was just as beautiful as Hamina, almost. "Um," he said, then she said something he didn't understand, and the rocks began to lift. Soon, Hamina was standing up, and Walking over to the other elf, he heard Hamina call her Rain.

Race walked over to them just as Hamina told Rain that they had to go get Ayame and Cecelia. race slapped him self in the head then stuck his head between them. "Hi there," he looked at Rain, and smiled, then back to Hamina, pulling his head back.He walked around beside Hamina, and pulled out his harp and began to play a melody, this time Guenavyr her self began to dance.

And then something strange happened. Guenavyr began to take the shape of a Beautiful elven woman. Race threw her some clothes, and she hid behind a bush, emerging from them completely changed. Race smiled at her, his sister, the same blood type as him. Only thing is, she becomes a white panther, and he, a white tiger.

Hamina was shocked when she noticed Race's pet turn into his sister. She looked at Rain and Rain looked at her.

"Umm hi there....mister?"

Rain slowly replied though she did not know his name. Hamina smiled and went over to the girl after she had put on her cloaths. Hamina then spoke up.

"HI"

Rain looked at Hamina and she knew they had to get going or Shiju would ring there neck.

"Hamina, lets go...You two if you are coming along to help us you must have got to hurry it along too"

Hamina slowly turned her head to Rain and then nodded to her. Once again they all set off towards there camp.

OOC: Okay, now to advance my storyline beyond training. Hideyoshi and Kichiro will probably come back sometime either before you enter, or after you leave the Human Capital.

IC:

Hideyoshi nodded. Kichiro had finished his training, and his appearance was gaining a distinctive Wolf shape. His teeth were sharper, his build more muscular, and his eyes far more Wolf-like. He ran on all fours sometimes. Hideyoshi sighed.

"Masaru is in control of a village up ahead. We need to attract the leaders attention, so i'll go in. Go hunt for a few of there minions. I want them to fear this forest more than their leader."

Hideyoshi closed his robe, and put a wide peasants hat on his head (OOC: Think Akatsuki, but no ribbons). He disappeared from Kichiro's sight. Kichiro went on all fours like a wolf, and let out a howl. Three other packs joined him, and they seemed to understand what he wanted. Blood. Blood of the enemy. Kichiro's eyes became yellow, the pupil a slit. His fingernails grew into sharp claws, and he took of into the woods, looking for his prey.

Hideyoshi, on the otherhand, walked dignified into the town. Two guards approached him with spears.

"Hey! You can't just go walking into a town like this! State your name and buisness!"

Hideyoshi stood were he was, and did not move. He spoke in a low, threatening voice.

"My name is Hideyoshi Ochi. I'm hear to kill you all."

The guards didn't have time to gasp. Hideyoshi ran his katana through both of them before they saw. A few of the other guards saw this, and rang the warning bell. Those who did were killed, burned to death by Hideyoshi's fire. The bell had done it's job, and the rest of the guards came from the barracks, and the entire town soon came to attack him.

"You are all weak..."

Kichiro spoke these words as he walked over the dead. The other packs were busy killing other patrols, and he had encounted one on his own. Only one man was left standing, the captain. He drew his sword into a defensive stance. Kichiro drew his massive sword from the holder, and stood there.

"Make your move!"

Hideyoshi stood defiantly in front of the three heads of Masaru, the only survivors left in the entire town. The chamber was filled with bodies, some burning, others simply stabbed. The three heads had no weapons, but had powerful techniques. They eached attacked at once, one using lightning, the other water, and the last earth. Hideyoshi deflected each of the attacks, and absorbed the lightning.

"My turn..."

Kichiro pulled the sword from his chest. It had hardly penetrated his muscle, and the wound closed fast. He brought his sword down, shattering the captains blade. He brought it back, and stabbed the man in the stomach. Flipping him over, he sent his broken body crashing into the ground. He howled again in bloodlust, and went off the seek more Masaru patrols.

Hideyoshi turned closed the door on the burning chamber, and the skeletons of the former Masaru heads. He walked silently out of the building, and laid a scroll of explosives on the ground. He lit the fuse, and walked out of the town, followed closely by the massive explosive.

OOC: Done.

Race and Guenavyr looked at each other. Then they looked at Hamina, "Where coming," the twins said at the same time. Race looked at Rain, "Oh," he said, "This is my twin sister Guenavyr," She bowed, "And I am Race Sinful." He bowed. "Our quest is to help those who need it." He looked up from his bow, then stood. "And you are Rain-san, right." He looked at Hamina, "Question, does she know how to play the flute to, or does she play another instrument?" He smiled and began to walk with them. I hope I didn't make a wrong first impression on her trainer, I probably did, oh well, that is for another time to deal.

Geunavyr approached Hamina and looked her over for the first time colored eyesight then she too, continued on her way with them.

OOC: The entire storyline, now that i'm really looking at what I'm writing, isn't that interesting. I think i'll finish it up in an unrealistic immediate reaction by the leader, and then kill him off next post. For now though, it's a short painless one. Okay, as painless as a story of two serial killers can be.

IC:

Kichiro finished off the last of the patrols, and then headed to the rendevous point where Hideyoshi was waiting. His wolf features had retracted, except for his eyes. They were always the animal like yellow. His hair too was starting to turn into a wolf fur grey. He smiled, his teeth sharpened and white.

"Hideyoshi-sama! How did the operation go."

Hideyoshi leaned against a pole. He motioned to Kichiro.

"Here's a patrol. Don't kill it. It's headed towards the village, and it should find the carnage. I left some identifying information behind. It should draw out the leader. Apparently those three were high ranking, incharge of the finances or something else petty."

Kichiro grabbed a handful of snow, and smelled it.

"It reeks of fear. They saw the smoke. Most likely they dispatched a messanger header for the leader. Judging by the smell, they had a messanger ninja with them. They're fast. Good for carrying messages. Looks like he'll come out soon."

Hideyoshi nodded. Kichiro smiled with anticipation.

"Hideyoshi-sama, I have a request."

"What."

"After we finish off this one, I want to see some old friends..."

Hideyoshi raised his hat.

"The ones you almost killed with that demon?"

"Yes."

"We have a mission to complete. Friendships with elves only get in the way."

"Hideyoshi-sama, one of them is the son of the Thunder "God"."

Hideyoshi stared silently, then nodded. Kichiro grinned again with satisfaction. They both walked to a clearing, leaving obvious tracks for the Masaru Leader to follow. The trap would soon be set off.

OOC: I don't really think people will mind if i post now, since i've waited enough, and it's a seperate storyline.

Finishing up this post.

IC:

"KuyoKuton!"

Hideyoshi shot a jet of black flames from his hands, setting a special stone on fire. He placed a seal on it, and placed it in the position for the trap. It was all ready. The only part missing was...

"Hideyoshi-sama. Here he comes."

Hideyoshi smiled. So the one of the Gods was finally intervening. This would be his second major kill in a month.

"First the Death God, and now him. He might be a small god, of Ice or whatever, but it's still important."

The leader of Masaru stepped out into the clearing. He was covered in shining armor, and carried a huge sword.

"Where are the bastards who killed my men?"

Hideyoshi walked out from behind a tree, and drew his katana. He looked at his enemy, and his eyes turned the red color again.

"I am your opponent."

The Leader charged at Hideyoshi, making a huge side-slash with his sword. Hideyoshi jumped above it, and landed just in time to dodge another blow.

"You're fast for someone so fat."

Hideyoshi dodged a stab to his head, and grabbed the dull edge of the sword. His grip caused the steel to bend like foil. and he threw it through a tree. He put his own sword back in the holder, and looked coldly at the leader.

"I am not interested in a duel. I want to fight a contest between our powers. Fire vs. Ice."

The Leader stepped back, and drew power in around him. He began hovering in the air, and focused a beam of ice on Hideyoshi.

"Kuyokuton!"

Black fire met the beam, and they held each other at bay. The Leader laughed.

"It's only a matter of time before you run out of energy."

Hideyoshi shook his head.

"It won't take long. I never tried to over power you. Kuyokuton!"

Another jet of black fire came from the stone, causing the leader to stop it with another beam of ice. Using his mouth, Hideyoshi cut a string. It caused wires to bind together the legs of the Leader of Masaru.

"You're stuck now."

The Leader laughed.

"Bah. Even though my energy is being drained twice as fast, so is yours! You'll still lose!"

"Hideyoshi was only a distration."

Kichiro jumped from the bushes where he had been concealed. He drew his claws, and sprang at full speed to the Leader. The Leader was trapped, and knew it. His armor took the blow, but he was sent backwards. Hideyoshi took the chance as Kichiro recovered, and got under the falling man.

"Kuton Rendan!"

A series of blows sent the Leader into the ground. Hideyoshi stood over him.

"You are not a "God". You are a man. And you are weak. You make others weak by spreading your weakness. I cannot allow you to live."

He walked away, and Kichiro took his place above the body. He cracked his neck, and showed his teeth.

"I never did get to find out what color your blood is."

Kichiro jumped into the air, and began spinning faster and faster.

"Kuyokaze!"

The air around him turned black, and soon the forest was splattered with blood. Kichiro got up, and licked himself clean. Hideyoshi looked at him, disgusted, but he stayed silent.

"Let's go. Time to meet your friends."

OOC: Fast, but whatever.

Race Decided it was time he went off on his own for a while. "Dearest sister, I must go for the time being." He said to her smiling. He then took off, in the direction he smelt blood. On his way, he began to focus his energy, all of it, until his form took on that of a demi-god. His eyes became a watery blue, and strange symbols covered his body. Including the kanji for strom on his forhead, and the kanjis for life and death on his wrist. The kanji for hate and love on his ankles. And on his back, the kanji for dream. His hair turned into a blue, and his skin took on a thunder cloud gray. He grew white fur, with black tiger like stripes, and his fingers grew large, sharp, retractable claws. Meanwhile, his legs took on a cat like shape, and a tail grew out. He was headed for Kichiro, who seemed to have gained new powers.

Soon, he came upon his lost "freind" and stood there, staring at Kishiro as he cleaned blood off of himself. Race approached Kichiro. Race sensed new powers within Kichiro, he was more powerful, and now Races absolute equal, though, Race was sure that Haminas master was as well, more than a match for Kichiro and Race. "Kichiro, how have you been, my dear freind," He said, looking up at the other man, "And whom might you be." He asked witha smile. This man appeared to be stronger than Kichiro, though, with more passion for the kill. As Race desired to let live, this man Desired to kill. Or so it seemed. He may have kill this man soon. Or die bye his hands.

OOC: Finally someone posted. Thought this was dead.

IC:

Kichiro smiled, his wolf-like teeth a bright white.

"I've been good Race. You might have noticed that I no longer have a demon inside my head. It's fun."

Hideyoshi stared hard at Race. Kichiro looked at him, still crouched on all fours.

"Hideyoshi-sama? What is it?"

Hideyoshi continued to look. He reached for his bag, and pulled out the scroll.

"Race. Son of the God of Thunder, formerly traveled with Kichiro Ochi, part Drow."

He closed the scroll and looked at him, the cold look never leaving his face. Kichiro remeber his manners.

"Oh yes Race, this is Hideyoshi-sama. We travel together now, since he spared me. I still don't understand why he didn't kill me, but I do understand what I'm doing."

Hideyoshi stopped him, and Kichiro decided it was time to hunt for something to eat, he took off into the woods. Hideyoshi took over the conversation.

"I am here to kill your father Race. Kichiro just wants to be back in familiar company. I doubt he will find much comfort with a part-Demon, and some strange elves, but that's why I'm travelling with him. Other than that, this doesn't interest me. When you wish to direct me to the God of Thunder, I will be ready."

Hideyoshi disappeared, faster than any eye could follow. He went off to search for some more suitable food, preferably fish.