Horizon

[tronethiel7]

~~Will~~

A dark hooded figure stepped into the shadows next to Will. "Ah, where have you been?" Will mused. No response. "Silence...what a surprise." Will took a step forward. "Anyhow, I need you to create a distraction, a rather large one if you don't mind. I'll leave it up to your discretion what exactly that might be, Blade." Will had turned his gaze to watch towards the Priest and two Alien girls who were now quickly moving towards the market. When he looked back at Blade, no one was there. Not particularly surprising, he was good at disappearing, as well as appearing...

~~Blade~~

Blade slowly walked out from a slit between buildings and made his way into the path, directly blocking the moving group from entrance to the market. The hooded figure reached into his cloak and pulled out four medium sized spherical objects. They had two inner compartments, one of them was filled with highly pressurized liquid, also known as starlight. It was usually used as an oil for Selki lamps, and was known for it's extremely slow burning while producing a vibrant blue flame, but with the introduction of human technology it was rarely used in developed parts. However, when the liquid was highly pressurized the burn time was significantly reduced, but could still continue on for a few minutes while creating an immense flame of intense brightness and heat. The other compartment had just enough gun powder to ignite the oil. Blade tossed the spheres in a line behind him. The pathway at has back was consumed by a wall of eerie blue flame that would be impassable for the next three minutes. He drew his sword with a clean motion and looked onward as they stopped in front of him.

[sarahjoy78]

Sarah gasped as the flames shot out in front of them. SHe grabbed her sword and pointed it at the guy in front of them. "Who are you and what do you want," she asked.

Briar ran straight to Ji when the flames came. "Ji, Are you okay," she asked holding her.

[rocklobster]

Damien pulled out his laser pistol. "Yes, I'm a priest and I pack a gun. Consider yourself warned."

[tronethiel7]

~~Will~~

Will pulled the hood lower over his head as he approached and bit down on a small metal disc, a voice tone manipulator, it slightly shifted his voice into a lower range. Anonymity would be his friend today. He removed two laser pistols from his belt, and moved quietly behind the group as they gazed intensely at the wall of flame and the man at its center blocking their path. Just as was with a few feet of the priest her heard him say, "Yes, I'm a priest and I pack a gun. Consider yourself warned," Will saw him wince as he responded, "I would suggest you follow your own advice." He joined this statement with the pressing of his pistol to the back of the priest's head, and aimed the other one at the two women next the girl.

[rocklobster]

"Oh, please, a human shield?" Damien rolled his eyes. "You do realize you're close enough for a leg sweep."
He immediately got down and did a leg sweep, hoping to throw the man holding the hostage off balance.

[sarahjoy78]

Sarah looked at the Damien who was fighting, Will. "Will, What are you doing," she said.
Briar looked at her. "You know him," she said. Sarah looked at her. "He's my Lieutenant," she said. Sarah looked at the other guy who was still in front of the fire. "I don't know him though," she said looking at the guy. Briar held Ji. "We need to get her out of here. It's to dangerous," she said. Sarah looked around. She looked at Damien and looked at Ji hoping that he would get the message that Briar was taking her somewhere else. Sarah looked at the market and saw another road past a tent. "There," she whispered. "Run." Briar held Ji ad ran down the road and didn't stop. Sarah walked behind Damien who had just did a leg sweep knocking Will off balance.

[Wolfsong]

*Yune*

Yune was startled at the sudden turn of events. Damien and this Will were fighting, and there was this fire everywhere. Briar was taking the child elsewhere. After a moment, she decided the better choice would be to help get the child away.
"Hang on, Briar, I'm coming with you!" and she bolted after them.

*Nynniya*

Cold...she was so cold. She had no idea how long she'd been that way. She was not sure where she was anymore, either. Wherever it was, she couldn't feel the wind from outdoors. It was dark and stuffy too.
"Life is hard," she thought sadly. "If only..."
After a moment, she decided to try again. Slowly, her slim fingers began feeling the wall she knew was in front of her. She found the little bolt she knew was the bolt keeping the small metal sheet over the window locked, but she couldn't seem to get it to move. She had been working on it for a while, however, and was beginning to think she had it figured out.
Slowly, she eased up the pressure on the bolt. It was rusted, and gave a loud screech as it protested against her. She began building the tension against it, forcing it to give. She had been trying for months now. it had to be getting weaker! With a loud metal groan, it suddenly gave, and she pitched forward, slamming her chin into the wall. She whimpered slightly, but was able to force the sheet up. Sunlight poured through the opening, and she had to close her eyes. Once they adjusted finally, she crawled through the broken window -"I wonder why they never fixed it"- and ran away as fast as she could.
"Freedom," she savored the word. "If I can get away. I hope Ji finds it as well."

[Ally-Ann]

OOC: I think I should bring Orion in.

IC:

Ah, the market, Orion thought with bliss as he strode through the town in a rather glorious-looking matter. He glanced upwards, admiring the blue sky and dot-like clouds. People and a few aliens were bustling about, and the tall explorer inhaled the wonderful scent of the outdoor market with adoration. He would have stayed at his house, but waiting for dear little Emily was taking quite a while, and he needed to stretch. The child had told him that she had to run and get something, but Orion was beginning to think that perhaps she had to go back to the orphanage.

As Orion walked down the street in the direction of the main square, he could see a commotion happening. It's more of a fight than a plain commotion, Orion thought. He got out of the way just in time to see an adult or teen Selki run past him with a child Selki, and Orion's brow furrowed. He looked where they had been running from, and he could see the military commander behind the town priest, and the latter seemed to be fighting a cloaked figure. Orion gritted his teeth. They may need help. He walked towards the trio, standing straight at his full height of 6'5 as he strode towards them, senses and reflex sharpened in case he would need to fight. He wanted to help as much as he could.

With his amber eyes glaring daggers at the hooded figure, Orion folded his arms as he spoke in a slightly booming voice. "What's going on here?"

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Mira continued to walk down the hall of the main military building until she noticed a door labeled "Lab No. 1". Mira raised an eyebrow as she glanced furtively to her left and to her right. No one's coming. Good. Mira knocked on the lab door three times. It opened just a crack, half of the body of who was clearly scientist showing..

"Who are you? What do you want?" Came the monotonous voice of the white-clad scientist. Mirabelle's neutral gaze never faltered.

"I'm just a captain, but I was given these by commander Sarah to have analyzed," she replied as she pulled the energy cuffs out of her jacket's pocket. The scientist looked slightly shocked, then suspicious. Mira sighed in annoyance annoyance at his looks. "She and the priest rescued an alien slave girl, but the commander wants these analyzed to find out where they came from." The scientist sighed in relief before taking the cuffs.

"Very well, then," he stated. "Your name? For legal purposes."

"Mirabelle Emberlin."

"Thank you." And with that, the scientist pulled a recorder out of his pocket, clicked the stop button, and let the heavy lab door slam in Mira's face. She flinched slightly before rolling her eyes, and began walking back down the hall towards the main entrance again.

"I gave ny name and I was recorded," Mira mumbled as she walked at a fast pace. "Peachy."

[AdriTan]

Dridoll had gotten to the market. Fire?! Where was Briar? Was she okay? At the last moment she saw her, running away with a small child. So she ran after her. She finally caught up and shouted while they ran, "What is happening!?"

[rocklobster]

"Let's just say I think the owner of the slave I discovered probably wants her back." said Damien to Dridoll. "I sent word to the fire department."

[sarahjoy78]

~~ Briar ~~

Briar stopped for a second to let Dridoll catch up. "Hey Dri! We need to hurry! This guy is trying to take this little girl, Ji, into slavery," she said running again. "Do you know of any places that we could hide," she asked Dridoll.

~ Sarah ~~

Sarah looked up at a guy that she had never seen before. He looked maybe ninteenish. Sarah had just turned eighteen herself. An interesting thing that Sarah had found out was that Briar and Sarah had the same birthday. She looked back at Damien and then back at the guy. "This guy is trying to capture a poor little girl and take her into slavery," she responded with a look of disgust at Will.

[AdriTan]

OCC I assume Dridoll has a translator yes?

Dridoll pointed a ways to the woods. "In there, you know I know there like the back of my hand. We'll get away."

[tronethiel7]

OOC: The whole voice altering/hood over the face thing kind of implied that I was trying to remain anonymous, but I guess if Rock wants to just take it as it comes I can adapt.

~~Will~~

Will was no combat expert, but he had received thorough self-defense training from his bodyguard back home, as well as receiving above-average marks in his boot-camp exercises. His instincts started firing off as the priest dropped and came for the sweep. He lunged backwards dropping his guns and slipping a small straight bladed dagger from his sleeve. Will wound back and launched the knife into the priests lower calf. E He called to Blade who broke into a charge at the priest, dropping into a thrust without losing a step.

~~Blade~~

His orders had been not to kill, so he wouldn't, but Blade was looking to put this priest down for a while. At the moment struck the man's leg with thrown blade. The priest seemed to have some skill, but with a wounded leg no man was going to escape his trained blade. He dropped into a thrusting position gracefully and charged, streaking forward in a blur.

[sarahjoy78]

OOC: I guess so Adritan, haha

Briar smiled and nodded. "I knew I could count on you. Come on lets go," she said lifting Ji up into her arms once more and running off. She ran into the woods with Dridoll and she stopped after they had run for a while. "Now where," she asked her friend.

~~ Sarah ~~

Sarah saw Will stab Damien very quickly and Blade coming up even faster. "Damien! Watch out," she yelled.

[rocklobster]

Damien barely escaped, but received a wound in his back, near the spine.

[AdriTan]

Dridoll pointed toward a dense growth of tall, practically limbless trees. "There's a way in those that is too hard to find for those who haven't spent days trying to find it, and once through there the other trees are easy to climb. There is also an escape route that you can only get through once you've entered. If we cover our tracks well enough, they'll never know we are there and never find us."

[Ally-Ann]

Without thinking, Orion lunged at the figure that attacked Damien, tackling him to the ground so that the front of his body was pressed to the pavement. Orion had the predatorial face of a lion, pinning the attacker's head face-first on the ground with one hand while he used his other hand to bend and hold the attacker's arms behind is back. Orion gritted his teeth in anger. Injuring a priest? It must be a sin. "Who the devil are you?!" Orion hissed.

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Mira walked down the road, hands in her pockets, as she made her way past the main square and towards the market. She suddenly caught a glimpse of a commotion near ths market, and her eyes narrowed to gwt a better look as she walked faster. Her eyes then widened upon noticing a few people, including the priest, fighting. She gasped slightly when she saw Damien get a wound to the back, and she dashed towards him as a towering man with black hair handled the attacker.

Mira ran to Damien, prepared to tend to him of necessary. "Father Damien!" She exclaimed in a serious tone. "Are you alright?"

[rocklobster]

Damien winced as he nodded. "Just get me and Ji to the hospital."