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[Gabe Puratekuta]

She nodded and, as she returned to her normal appearance, bowed

[Chukchi Husky]

"You can stay here for as long as you like," the foxtaur said.

[Gabe Puratekuta]

"That's so nice of you, but I'd really like to return to the others. I have this feeling that they're in trouble...."

[Steel Samurai]

The Dualist blade began to grow black as Steel's bloodlust finally overcame him completely. He laughed madly as he drew his dai-katana, which weighed over 10 kilos, and wielded it with his left hand, his right dealing death with the dualist blade, now blacker than the sky above it. He sensed Ken heading towards the captain and laughed again. It would be slaughter tonight. Stroke after stroke he delivered, soldiers falling lifeless around him, when suddenly, he sensed a new presence come onto the battlefield. A strong presence. Steel laughed again and leapt into the air, jumping nimbly from soldier to soldier, finally landing in front of that huge presence. It was a giant of a man, well over 8 feet tall, and built like the stone wall of a castle. He tossed aside a massive wooden log which had apparently been used to bash in the door of the Sensei's retreat.
"Hello little man." The giant said. "It's time for you to die."

[Ken the Wandering Soul]

Ken continued his assault toward the leader, swinging his blade back forth against any who would stand before him. However the charge on his sword was already disapating quickly. Making the sword as light as a feather took [img]http://forums.legendsalliance.com/public/ALOT.png[/img] of spirit, especially with Ken having to reach the enemy commander. Most of soldiers that Ken left behind were seriously wounded--not mortally, but immediate care would be neccasary for them to live.

Ken cut through the ranks like butter, and at the rate that he was going, soldiers started to part to get away. In due time, Ken reached his target. The commander got off his horse and clapped his hands.

"Bravo, bravo young sir. Would you be interested in joining General Khuffie's Army? If you do, I'll drop all charges against you for killing my men."

"I could care less. Now please, surrender yourself and all your men, I don't want anymore bloodshed." Ken tried to bargain back.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, little boy."

The last line struck a chord in Ken.

"I am not a little boy!" he cried, charging froward and swinging.

His opponent dodged, drew a dagger, and struck against the metal of the Wolfen. The aura surrounding Wolfen disapated into the air.

Ken fell to the ground, his weapon feeling extremely heavy.

"What---what did you do?" the boy asked with eyes wide.

"I am Corporal Amaji. I was not promoted without reason child. I saw you magically enhance your blade and cut through the ranks." the leader spoke.

Ken stood up, feeling extremely tired. He huffed and puffed as he looked around. Some soldiers had circled around the conflict, watching was the unfolding.

"This little trinket," Amaji said as he twirled the dagger in his hand, "Is a lovely little weapon which speeds up the duration of spells so fast that they come to an immediate end."

The corporal sheathed the dagger, and drew a Claymore-sized broadsword.

"Now then little boy, lets see if you can use that sword without the spell."

Ken gripped the handle of the Wolfen tightly, bringing himself up to his shaking legs.

"I don't need help... to defeat you!" the boy declared.

He charged, making a large, gradual swing at Amaji. Amaji easily dodged the slow swing, bringing his sword down on the Wolfen, knocking it to the ground. Ken once again laid on the ground panting--to add insult to injury, Amaji kicked Ken a few times.

"Well, well, it looks like no more than a little dog with a few lame tricks."

Amaji kicked Ken more, making the boy cough up blood.

"Well? Say you last words, or are you resigned to die already little boy?"

Ken slowly got himself onto his hands and knees.

"My name... Is Ken Miyamasa..."

The boy looked up Amaji, piercing the Corporal with a bestial glare.

"And I.. am no dog... I am..."

Ken called on the last of his spirit, and trandformed himself into his wolf form. Amaji stepped back a little bit befotre regaining his composure in fornt of the growling wolf.

"Hmph, you have another trick. No matter..."

Amaji charged and sliced at Ken, who dodged.

"You can't evade me forever, boy!"

However, Ken no longer cared about the name-calling. His mind no longer functioned under Ken's usual mindset. Only the raw instinct and intellect of battle ruled his body.

Amaji put away his sword and pulled out his dagger.

"Come oh come little boy!" he taunted.

The wolf snarled, going into a run. He then jumped, using his weight to push the Corporal to the ground. The wolf then went for the neck as Amaji stabbed the dagger into the wolf's fur. To Amaji's dismay, nothing happened.

"What, bu--AAAAAH!!!"

The wolf tore at Amaji's neck, thrashing wildy. Within the seconds, the corporal was dead. The wolf stood over the limp body, howling. All the other soldiers that witnessed the event ran and scattered in fear. Many of soldiers ran, shouting "Corporal Amaji is dead! Corporal Amaji is dead! Run for your lives!"

Wolf Ken however, still felt the urge for battle--he mauled the soldiers that stood their ground, and barked at those who ran away.

The Beast within Ken had awakened, and would not stop until all threats were gone.

Edited by Ken the Wandering Soul, 31 December 2006 - 11:33 AM.

[Steel Samurai]

OOC: I'll do the writeups for the Woods/FF Rps if no one else wants to

Steel smiled and launched himself at the giant, swinging his blades in an swift arc at the giant's throat. The man's head slipped off of his body onto the ground with a thud. Steel flipped in mid air and landed on the other side of the giant. Not a drop of blood could be seen on the blades as Steel sheathed them. From behind him Steel heard a loud laugh.
"You thought you could beat me that easily?" The giant's body, still standing, turned and picked up his head, putting it back on his head. Not a drop of blood could be seen. "Now it's my turn." The giant pulled a massive saber from his back, easily as long as the giant was high, and swept it at Steel with a speed that belied his girth. Steel quickly used shunpo to dodge out of the way, but as he pushed off the ground he felt a tearing sensation in his thigh. He grabbed it convulsively, and landed on his back 10 feet from the giant. Diel. He'd overdone it in the madness of his bloodlust. Steel slowly got up, using his Dai-Katana as a support. The Giant looked at him and laughed. "Pulled a muscle have we?" Then 400 pounds of flesh began charging towards the stooped figure.

[Chukchi Husky]

"You can return," the foxtaur said to Motoko, "but I need to talk to Husky before you leave." The foxtaur then walked towards Husky, giving her the necklace. "Hold onto this, it might be needed in the future," she said to Husky, then she touched Husky's nose, which surprised her. "You can also turn back to your normal form if you want to," the foxtaur said," You can change between them whenever you want." Husky then tried turning back. Husky turned back into her normal self, but it made her faint.

The foxtaur then walked towards Motoko, holding Husky in her arms. "Take her somewhere safe. She'll wake in an hour," she said.

[Gabe Puratekuta]

"O-O-Okay...." She did as was told and waited for her to awaken at the edge of the forest.


After a while of waiting, Motoko started to feel tired herself. She curled up in Husky's arms and front paws and quickly drifted off to sleep

[SL the Pyro]

OOC Post (this is just to regale everyone about what happened before the server crash)

If you might've noticed, all of the posts from after New Year's are gone. So rather than have everyone waste their time with typing everything again, I'll just type up a summary.

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-Ken and Steel battled an army of Legends Alliance soldiers; Kitsune soon joins the fray
-Ken was a wisp for a while, but is now stuck in his wolf form until Dorm War 2; something strange is also happening to him other than being stuck in his alternate form...
-Steel and Kitsune are now going to a town after hearing a scream
-Ken's and Steel's FF tattoos are burning, signifying that they are needed (for the Dorm War, I'm guessing); I'm unsure of what Ken will do, but I know Steel will go to where he is needed after investigating the woman's scream
-Motoko (status pending) and Husky are rushing to where Ken is, thinking he is in danger
-Button, Hali (NPC) and Z are at sea heading for the "garden" (refer to previous pages), but a sudden change in current has forcibly changed their course and they are now heading towards the Dorm War location
-Z's plan is revealed; go to the "garden" first, then solve the mystery of the Crimson Chests (he suspects that DarkJuno may already have the third chest), and going for the scrolls afterwards

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There, that should about patch things up. Now if DL14 can get his "The Storm" topic back up, all will be well with LA Chronicles again.

Edited by Dark Link, 15 January 2007 - 08:40 AM.

[Steel Samurai]

Steel limped into the small hamlet Kitsune had spoken of. It had been a rough journey for him, but he had finally made it. There. He could sense horses in the building next to him. Dawn was just breaking as he slipped into the stable, emerging seconds later leading two horses. He quietly mounted one and rode out of the town back towards the field.

[Mystic Kitsune]

Upon seeing Steel return, Kitsune could only mumble "Its about time..."

He noted the second horse and turned his head a bit "I don't need a horse..." he said as he got on the second one. Rather uncomfortable too, he hates horses.

[Steel Samurai]

"Fast as you may be on foot, you cannot outrun a horse." Steel paused as another scream ripped through his skull. "And we don't have time to waste. If you're coming with me that is." He kicked his heels into the horse's sides and galloped off to the North.

[Mystic Kitsune]

"Keh...I hate horses..." he mumbled to himself as he mimicked Steel in kicking his heels into the horse's side. The horse whined and galloped to catch up with Steel's horse heading North.

[Steel Samurai]

They rode fast and hard, covering miles in a matter of minutes. The screams had subsided into whispers, faint voices which Steel could barely make out . . .Are we safe? Shh, he's coming . . . I'm scared Gredal . . . Don't move and we'll be fine . . . "Hold on . . ." Steel thought "We're coming." He bent low over his horse's neck and urged it on, letting the horse weave it's way through the trees and slopes while keeping it in the same northerly direction . . . the direction the voices were coming from . . .

[Mystic Kitsune]

Seeing the trees that were whizzing by, Kitsune got somewhat homesick. How long had it been since he had left the woods he was hidden in for so long? With each passing tree, he went deeper and deeper into his own thoughts about how long he had been away, and wonders if he would be going back...

[Steel Samurai]

All of a sudden they came upon a large clearing, a rather incongruous mansion in the middle of it. Here. This was definitely where the calls for help were coming from. A few horses, armored, saddled, and happily munching grass, were walking around in front of the clearing. Angry shouts could be heard from inside the building. Steel turned to Kitsune. "Fifty footsoldiers and 3 officers. I'll only be able to use one arm. Think we can take em?"

[Mystic Kitsune]

"50 footsoldiers? 3 officers? I think you by yourself could handle that much!" Kitsune said as he leaped off his horse.

"But Im bored, so lets get to the killing." Kitsune said as he unsheathed his sword.

He got his sword glowing and ready to perform a kaze no kizu. He waited for Steel to get ready before he begins his charge...

[Steel Samurai]

"Ha. I don't know about that." Steel focused. "They're hiding in a closet on the second floor. Do the honors, if you would"

[Mystic Kitsune]

As soon as Steel told him about the second floor, a blinding flash was emitted from the sword as a beam of light shot straight at the foot soldiers incinerating some and blasting others.

He charged into the suprised group and started slashing away at the different soldiers.

[Steel Samurai]

Steel laughed and limped into the house, following in Kitsune's bloody wake. He gradually made his way to the second floor. There. In the closet. He opened the door carefully to see two frightened girls, one only 6 or 7, the other seemed to be almost in her fourteenth year. The younger one opened her mouth to scream, but Steel bent down and put a finger to her lips. "I'm not going to hurt you."

[Mystic Kitsune]

Meanwhile on the outside Kitsune was just slicing away with ease not finding any trouble. 10...11...12...13...14...15...

He was dissatisfied with the performance of the soldiers he was fighting. None of them have seen a [half] demon before, and they were still frightened.

One of the officers seemed to put up a better fight, parrying some of the kaze dao's blows but was soon overtaken. The other two officers were more experienced, but were discussing something amongst themselves as Kitsune chopped through the footsoldiers.

A line of ten or so archers arrived...drew their arrows...aimed at the house...lit the arrows, and fired.

Kitsune noticed this and shoved the soldiers aside and headed straight for the archers getting ready to fire a second volley of flaming arrows.

[Steel Samurai]

Steel sensed the flames as the arrows flew through the windows. He grabbed the two girls and covered them with his cloak. The arrows thudded into the ground next to him. Curses. In his present state he wasn't sure if he could land properly while carrying the children. The window was out. Looks like it would have to be the blazing door. "Get on my back." He said quickly to the smaller of the two. He grabbed the eldest's hand "Don't let go." The girls held on tight as Steel crashed through the door and ran down the spiral staircase.

[Mystic Kitsune]

While the home went ablaze, Kitsune killed off the archers, but not before taking several flaming arrows to his arm and torso.

Another officer ordered the men to stand down, and withdrew a straight sword and came faster than Kitsune knew humans could run.

Before he could think any thoughts he was locked in a fierce battle with a arm going ablaze.

[Steel Samurai]

Steel limped out the front door, blackened but quite sound of body, save for the ripped muscles from the last fight. "Kitsune. Stop playing around. We need to get these girls to shelter."

[Mystic Kitsune]

He finally landed a blow across the officer's neck and pushed him aside, he charged up another kaze no kizu and fired it behind him while he approached Steel.

He said nothing as he motioned toward the horses, he set the two girls on his own horse, and helped Steel onto the horse Steel was riding before.

[Steel Samurai]

Steel kicked the flanks of the steed and rode off, the soldiers in hot pursuit.

[Mystic Kitsune]

Kitsune was shooting short bursts of light from his blade at the pursuing soldiers. He couldn't do much due to all the trees surrounding them...

[SL the Pyro]

(If I may, it's time to take back what's mine.)

At the bottom floor of the burning house, Koran listening to what was going on. "A battle... wait; is that... Kitsune I sense...?" he thought, not forgetting Kitsune's powerful aura from when they'd met on the island with the Crimson Chest. His ice-elemental properties meant he liked cold places, and under the house was the perfect place. His blue cloak was mucked up by the mud, but he didn't care. He wasn't blue since he didn't have his ice shield on; his skin was tanned and his hair was bright blue, and his eyes were a crimson colour. He slowly got to his feet under the hole under the house he made, and immediately took notice of the abnormal heat. "Heat... so much heat... what's going on?" Putting on his blue ice shield again, making him look like a blue human being with completely red eyes, he leapt out of the hole he made, crashing through the floorboards and landing on the floor just as Steel left; he only hoped that Steel assumed is was the ceiling breaking due to the fire.

When he noticed that Steel took no opportunity to inspect what happened, Koran looked around; it was a raging inferno all around him. Very bad given he was an ice-elemental, so he had to get out of here fast, and also be careful not to be seen by those attacking the house. ON his way out, however, he noticed something on the ground. They looked like papers. Koran began to reflect on a few things. Z had given him a telepathic communication through the crystals he brings with him, informing him about the scrolls that Steel possessed. He was also told that Steel occasionally travelled with Kitsune.

"I wonder... could this 'Steel' have been the one who rescued those two girls who were screaming? If so, then are these..." he thought, reaching down to pick up the rolls of paper. He examined them; one was filled with a bunch of characters that he did not even begin to recognize. The other appeared to be some kind of translation.

The stolen scrolls. They had to be. Koran praised his fortune that the scrolls had not been burnt, let alone that Steel so carelessly dropped them in the first place. "He must've dropped them in his haste when he was resucing the two girls. This is too perfect... guess I've got an early birthday present for Z." he thought. He stuffed the scrolls into his ice sheild at his waist so that they wouldn't succumb to the fire, and manipulated the ice on his arm into a long, spiked club of sorts. He used it to smash through the side of the house opposite of where Steel left, and disappeared into the dense forest.

A good and bad day all in one as far as he concerned; good because Koran had retrieved what Z had lost, possibly out of pure luck, and bad because now he had to find a new cold area to meditate.

On his way, he took out a keychain similar to Z's, though instead of a blue crystal with the other ones, there was a black one. It glowed at Koran ran, and he began telepathic communication. "Z, where are you? I have a little present for you..."

[Steel Samurai]

Steel sighed as the sounds of pursuit faded. It seemed as though they had lost their pursuers, for now at least. Suddenly his Forsaken Fortress tattoo pulsed again. The pain coursed through his body and he slumped on the neck of his steed, holding his arm. He pulled himself up. They had arrived back at the hill above the Sensei's burnt out retreat. Steel slowly dismounted. "Kitsune, I fear it's time we parted ways. If what I overheard the guards talking about was correct . . . we will soon be on opposite sides of the war . . ."

[Mystic Kitsune]

"I'm afraid so." Kitsune already knew that comment was coming. He had heard it back when he was in the town. Not like he was a woods nationalist, but he did owe the trees some respect.

"Well, Ill be seeing you later then. Im sure we'll meet again soon." With that, he jumped off the horse and watched the two horses leave his sight.

He put his sword away and let out a sigh of relief. He was by himself again and that's all that mattered. He wasn't too big on the cooperation thing anyway.

He walked slowly back toward the woods he started this long journey from...