Saga: Enemies and Allies Anew

[Archer]

As the remains of Harpie and Kraken lay, flesh reeking as the midday summer's sun beat done on it, Kilix leant up against a tree, his body still aching in pain. His armour had been removed from his torso, KGB flying it back to the ship in search of a replacement and some repairs, and crimson blood sat congealing on his arm, the area around his battle wound shaved so that some low-budget surgery could be performed to help the wound back to health. The Liixan held a syringe in his fingers, fiddling gently with the needle, not sure whether or not to use the syrum to heal his body. Although it was surely a powerful concoction, sometimes some natural healing did the body good, and Kilix could already feel his natural healing abilities melding the damaged tissue back into one.

If it wasn't for the blazing sunlight, he probably would have missed it altogether. A sideways glance caught the reflection of sunlight from it's silver surface, and then the look captivated him. He stood again, a sharp pain ringing through his arm as he did so, and moved slowly towards the object. He knelt down, picking the object up between two fingers and examining it closely. A ring, silver, with a diamond embedded in it. "Interesting..." he mused, walking back over to the tree and laying back against it's trunk, the bark scrating at his back pleasantly.

He looked at the ring for a moment, before opening a space on his belt, placing the ring inside, and discarding the syringe as he lay in the summer's sun.

(Not brilliant, but it's done )

[damian]

The townsfolk had since abandoned their homes for the moment, fleeing to what they believed were safer abodes in a town nearby. The only movement came from a few carrion birds who gorged themselves on the corpses that littered the ground. As a trio of especially noisy wretches began to squabble in amongst themselves for a pecking order, they almost immediately stilled, as did their neighbors. All at once, the vultures of battle and all of the other birds took flight as a large black splotch appeared on one of the undamaged church walls, facing towards Kilix.

Out of it popped a very comely girl with long black hair and liquid brown sugar eyes, black gauntlets shimmering in the bright light. Almost immediately following was a gentleman with flaming red hair who face planted almost instantly, and a cell phone that skittered across the dirt for a few feet. The girl had landed on her feet, and was almost immediately doubled over in laughter.
"OMG! You seriously can't land on your feet ever!"

Crimson, the red-haired gentleman in person, leapt to his feet and dusted off his shoulders quickly, readjusting his jacket with a tug and turned on Elena with a mock glare and crossed arms, saying,
"Well maybe next time I won't bother coming with you!"
Elena, playing along, gasped and pretended to be hurt, before smiling and saying,
"Nah, you wouldn't wanna miss this Crimmy!" Crimson's shoulders sagged noticeably and he stuck his hands in his pockets, saying dejectedly,
"Please stop calling me that..."

That was when Elena noticed Kilix, behind Crimson, and pointed, crying out,
"Hey WOW! It's a kitty-cat man thing! How cool!" Crimson turned around and saw Kilix as well, then noticed the ring instantly, the light glinting off it to attract his attention. He approached Kilix, pulling up his jacket sleeve and and undoing his cuffs as he approached.
"Hey man, I'm Crimson, and the over-stimulated chick with me is Elena..."
"OVER-STIMULATED?! I am NOT!" Elena snapped, catching up to him and crossing her arms defiantly.

Pulling up his jacket and shirt sleeve together, Crimson showed Kilix his wrist. On it, the mysterious wrist-band shone, the minute peridots sparkling in the light. Crimson, after making sure Kilix had seen it, let go of his sleeves again, and they fell back to their original position.
"Cool huh? Elena seems to know a lot about them..."
"But I can't tell you!" Elena butted in, her sing-song voice sounding childish and innocent. Crimson could hardly believe that this was the same girl who had so easily killed Siren, before they came here. She obviously knew something she wasn't telling, especially after she had urged Crimson to pick up the weird wrist-band that had been left behind spo vehemently. Sighing inwardly, he wondered how he got himself into situations like this.

[Jimmy Claymore]

Jimmy had found a small silver glint on the floor and was very quietly examining it, it looked like a tiny silver necklace and with a small sigh debated tying it round his neck. He felt a little worried about it, I mean, why should anything that he found on this monster be of any use to him? Or even something mid-way good... but despite this he picked up the small chain of silver and clipped it on behind his neck. He felt slightly uncomfortable as he looked at the small piece of saphire embedded in it. He felt a bit calmer when he looked at it but something inside him was riling up and he had to breathe deeply to focus on keeping the Demon under-wraps. He shuddered a breath and quickly moved away into the church and sat on one of the pughs to try and keep himself under control. He was recovering quickly... he might not be able to control it much longer. He clenched his hands and tried to focus on his humanity and light, he wouldn't give in again... there was no telling how many people could be hurt if he did.

High above the same town a small burst of fire masked a figure falling from the sky to crash into the streets and stood up clad in black clothes and with a spiky mop of black hair
"Man o Man, where is Claymore?" He muttered and started pacing around the streets nonchalently. He'd been told that there had been some kind of monsters roaming around but he didn't really care. They couldn't be bigger than a fire-spewing terrifying crimson dragon, he saw two people up ahead, one of whom was clearly Gyro and the other... the other looked actually kind of cool. He approached and noticed their two artifacts even as they put them away and grinned viciously
"Oh how sweet! Matching jewelery! Sup Gyro, have you seen Claymore around? I've been... asked to find him. At the threat of starvation..." Technically true, but he wasn't going to disclose the fact he had a woman to report back to. Gyro would have a field day, he looked at the two of them and at the new guy he didn't know
"Hey Gyro, how come you have someone half-way cool to hang around with?"

((OOC: There will be a reason Rizuk's being nice to Crimson, and i'm throwing him in to contrast with Jimmy and his role. If that's alright >_<))

[Archer]

Unsurprisingly, the Liixan’s afternoon sunbathe was cut short by a crashing noise followed by raised voices from the nearby village. Kilix turned his head, one eye squinting as the sunlight poured into it, to see two youths near to this side of the village. One was a young man in a leather jacket, with small flecks of soft brown dirt littering his face, and the other was a young woman, with long hair and interestingly, a pair of black gauntlets. The latter seemed to be bent double in laughter, the former seemingly very annoyed.

After a few moments of raised voices, the girl turned towards Kilix, and immediately burst out a phrase that would hold her in the Liixan’s contempt for a long while to come.
"Hey WOW! It's a kitty-cat man thing! How cool!“
Kilix only just managed to hear this comment, immediately baring his canines at the pairing in a disrespectful leer, only to retort his face to normal as the man with red hair approached him.

“Hey man, I’m Crimson, and the over-stimulated chick with me is Elena…” the man said, obviously as unimpressed by the lass as Kilix himself. The girl Elena said something after this, but he placed it at the back of the mind under “Useless Drivel”. Pulling himself up by his good arm, Kilix shook himself slightly to dislodge the dirt in his fur, before extending a hand to the newcomer in friendship.
”Kilix Gyro, it’s a pleasure.” he said, somewhat sarcastically. However, instead of taking his hand again, Crimson did something which made Kilix even more intrigued. Allowing his sleeve to fall slightly, he revealed a silver bracelet embedded with jewels; of the same calibre as the ring now enclosed in Kilix’ utility belt.

“Cool, huh? Elena seems to know a lot about them…” he stated, Kilix only giving the girl a sideways glance before she launched back into another bout of “Useless Drivel”. Kilix was about to make his own comment, when a familiar energy appeared in the corner of his mind.

"Oh how sweet! Matching jewelery! Sup Gyro, have you seen Claymore around? I've been... asked to find him. At the threat of starvation... Hey Gyro, how come you have someone half-way cool to hang around with?"

“Gives me something different to compare with you, ya know,” Kilix grinned at his ‘friend’. He still felt a bit sore, but there was nothing he was going to do about that yet. There was something strange happening which he couldn’t quite put his finger on. But something told him he’d find out soon enough.

[damian]

Crimson smiled at the approaching young man in the dragon's shirt, then frowned slightly at his matching jewellry comment.
"Ah you're just jealous you're not part of the club, Dragon-dude." he said with a grin, joking with the stranger.
"In case you hadn't heard, I'm Crimson, and she's Elena." Elena however, had seemed to unfocus again, like she had earlier before Siren and Cyclops had appeared. Crimson didn't put two and two together here, and just shrugged apologetically to the other two.
"She does that sometimes. No idea why..."

Turning to Kilix, he sat down as well, his left leg straightened out completely but his right drawn up at the knee, his right arm hugging round the knee and his left hand lying at the hilt of his sword, drumming it with his index and middle finger in an idle fashion. The wrist-band resided on his right wrist, and could just be seen as his hand hung relaxed, the joint of his elbow wrapped around his knee. He smiled up at the sky, which was now a beautiful blue, and the bright sun shining down on them without a cloud in sight. For such a violent day, the weather was strangely perfect.

"So, Kilix," Crimson began, turning away from the azure sky, "How'd you get your ring? Mine dropped out of a massive sand-freak with one eye." The smile on his face might've made it look like he was joking but he was serious.
"What's your name Dragon-dude? Y'know,I have tattooes that look just like that shirt..."
Removing his suit jacket and throwing it on the dusty ground behind him, he rolled up both his shirt sleeves and showed Rizuk Nogard and Suicard.
"Introduce yourselves, guys."

With that, both dragons rippled with sudden movement, then their 2-D ink heads rose off of Crimson's wrists and blinked white eyes in the sunlight. Then they looked around, Suicard asking,
"Where the heck are we...?"
Nogard however had cocked his head to the side, looking up at Rizuk with some interest.
"Hey, Suicard, do you recognise this guy?" Nogard turned away from frowning in confusion at Kilix and looked up at Rizuk as well.
"Hey yeah! It's Rizuk!" Crimson looked from one dragon to the other in confusion, then looked up at Rizuk and asked,
"Are you Rizuk? And if you are... how do they know you?"

[Jimmy Claymore]

Rizuk was beginning to be a little bit over-whelmed, firstly, Gyro had had a half-way decent come back, second was this guy's tattoos were talking to him. He crouched and looked at both of them carefully, his orange eyes scanning them to look for key details before announcing
"I have no idea who those two are... Oh wait, yes I do! Nogard and Suicard... Wow, you're sealed inside someone's fore-arm. You must have come a looooong way in the wrong direction. Well, props to you red haired guy, you've got two bona fide Dragon's at your beck and call. Hope it helps you..." Rizuk stood up and cracked his shoulder blade with a satisfying noise and looked at Gyro again
"So can you find Claymore? You have any means of like... sensing or tracking or... anything? Come on, your a science geek whip me up something! I'll even kill someone to make it even!" Rizuk's offers of murder aside, he was pretty determined to find this brat, even if it was to try and get in Gabe's pants. He growled as he started imagining the hard-ships he'd have to go through just to get her to loosen up a bit, and he bet Claymore was probably hiding from some enormous monster of pure bubbling insanity after his Dark Energy. Why did everything bad happen to him? He sighed and sat down next to the red haired guy with the Dragon Arms,
"Alright, I'll give you some history. Oi! Gyro! If you want to hear a story gather round!" He cleared his throat and rolled his head back with his eyes closed before speaking "My name is Rizuk, Rizuk Ryujin. The rest of my family's dead so I'm pretty free to say what I like without fear of someone getting pay-back, and I'm a Fire Elemental but I've learned some control over outside forces to try and strengthen my own abilities. I was the one who destroyed the Mirror of Pockus in a last ditch effort to finally do something good, but I'm still hear, Kamikaze didn't work. NOW, I'm helping this Claymore Brat at the request of his Guardian Angel. And he's not a great fighter, so Gy... Kilix, I'd appreciate some help." He turned his head back to the red haired guy and asked
"Oh yeah, what's your name by the way?"

[kihaku]

Elena was "zoned out" because she felt like there was a familiar energy about, something about this warrior caught her attention, and it wasn't just the bit of jewelry he had in common with the little kitty-man. That, and she was a little sorry that she'd hurt his feelings. She pushed past Crimson, giving the back of his head a flick before muttering to him about not being hyper. "Hey, Mr. Gyro, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, but we just came out of a really tough fight, and I'm afraid my brain is still on 'first-impression word vomit'. Please forgive me? I promise to never do it again." She held out her hand for him to shake, her face showing sincere regret for her words.

Whether or not he shook it, she turned about and peered at the ruined church with a slight frown creasing her brow, a look of confusion on her face. "Lesse... if Kilix has the ring... then who's got the..." She turned back to Kilix and looked directly at him, posing him a question that she already knew the answer to. "Say, if Rizzizzuk is looking for this Claymore guy, and you fought Harpie, then he HAS to be nearby since Kraken never leaves Harpie's side unless in a fight. D'you think maybe he's still in the church waiting for this Guardian of his?"

Her words trailed off as she turned about, her curiosity piqued, and began to walk with a bouncy step towards the broken house of God. "C'mon boys! We got us a kid to find!" She practically skipped all the way down the road towards the broken stone walls, and when she got there, her keen, liquid brown sugar eyes immediately picked out Jimmy, though she disregarded the rotting corpse for now.

"Hey there! You're the one who beat the dead squid dude, right? Because if you are, I need your help saving the world and stuff."

[Jimmy Claymore]

Jimmy blinked a little in surprised, he rubbed the back of his head in confusion and felt the Demonic prescence subside in what could only be called extreme disarray,
"Umm, Yes I... I did beat him... Why are you asking for my help? Oh you mean this..." He blinked and looked down at the pendant he was wearing, was that why she wanted him to help? He reached for the clip but felt the catch get caught. He tried a few times but the lock was firmly fastened, he couldn't get it off. He moaned to himself, perfect, he couldn't do anything right... He looked at the girl and tried to smile as best he could
"Sorry, I can't get it off. I probably shouldn't have put it on to begin with... I'll do what I can to help, even if I'm not that strong... My name's Jimmy" He got up off the seat he was sitting on and looked at the stained glass windows for a moment. The ones that weren't already broken loomed ominously above him, he really hoped Gabe would be here soon. He'd called for her help, she'd surely be quick to respond...

Rizuk had suddenly watched Elena run off and gasped in exasperation, he stalked angrily after the girl past Crimson and Kilix without so much as a side-wise glance. It was all well and good to try and assist him in finding someone, but running off to do with it asking him first? That was not all well and good. He followed Elena round to the church and strode purposefully into it with his face firmly locked
"Hey! Where do you think you're going! We're looking for a Demon what kind of Demon goes into a... church..." Rizuk had to blink to make sure he was seeing it right, he could see Claymore, and a rotting corpse and the girl. Despite all of this, Rizuk could not equate all three things into his mind as having happened. At least one must be wrong. He sighed, resigned to not know the truth and looked up at Jimmy
"Claymore! What are you doing in this run-down church? And calling your guardian angel, she can't make it here so I'm meant to help you. You best behave yourself!"
"Ummm, thanks? I'm sorry, who are you?" Jimmy asked as politely as he could. He couldn't quite remember his face... this didn't go down well
"What the Hell!? I save your ass from Angel Bounty Hunters, Make sure you get to your tournament matches on time and get sent across the whole PLANET by your Ice Queen Guardian Angel Woman and you don't even remember me!?"
"I'm sorry, only I... I have a bad memory for faces and..."
"Maybe if I beat the crap out of you and write my name on your fore-head!?"
"No! No I'll be fine, I'll remember your name... Ryan?"
"RIZUK! It's Rizuk! Oh your in a WORLD of trouble!" Rizuk marched towards the poor DemonSpawn and Jimmy quickly retreated away to behind the decomposing Kraken before Rizuk stopped and looked at it curiously
"Wait, this is pretty old... You did this? I mean Gyro killing a monster I can see... how did you manage this?" Rizuk asked. Jimmy looked slightly awkward and wished someone would turn up to take the pressure off of him.

[damian]

Crimson watched the proceedings passively, producing another cigarette from his jacket pockets, and lighting it up with a twirl of his finger. In a few seconds, it had sizzled out into a stump, and he spat the ash away with a grimace. When Rizuk stormed off after Elena, he raised his wrists up to his face.
"So what's the deal on this guy?" he asked his two dragons.

"Oh, he's one of the many Dragon Gods. You get used to 'em after a while. He's Rizuk Ryujin to be precise." Nogard began, and Suicard picked up the thread from there,
"His whole family once said they were Gods at different points... But they were clearly wrong, since they're all dead, 'cept for Rizuk." Crimson frowned at this narration, a summary of a no doubt very lengthy family lineage. Rizuk was all alone now, without any family, and Crimson felt a twinge of sympathy for someone in a similar situation to himself.

Turning to Kilix, he leapt to his feet and nodded towards the other three.
"We should probably go see what's going down, right?" Not waiting for a response, he ran off after the others, and arrived crouching next to the Kraken corpse, pinching his nose and squinting. He arrived just in time for Rizuk to ask how this Jimmy kid had killed it.
"You mean you haven't killed one of these things yet?" Crimson stood up straight, still pinching his nose so his voice sounded strange.
"All the cool kids have killed one of these babies by now. Hell, even I have. 'Course mine didn't stink of rotting fish..." He kicked the Kraken corpse to emphasise this point, then turned to Claymore, who was on the same side as him of the Kraken.

"I'm Crimson. I killed the Cyclops. Check it." He lifted his cuff and showed, for the second time today, his silver wrist-band with the peridots. Satisfied Claymore had seen it, he dropped his sleeve once more, and walked away from the corpse until he judged it didn't stink anymore. Releasing his nose, he raised his right index finger and created a perfect sphere, of condensed flame.

He then set this flame spinning with his left hand, and rolled it along his shoulderblades, the flames passing over his jacket without any damage, then the ball arrived in his left hand, where he then threw it up into the air, and caught it with his right finger again, where he then blinked at the sphere, and it shot up into the air then exploded in an impressive fireworks display. He grinned with childish delight up in the fire-light provided by his powers; but there was something in that grin that would disturb the hardiest of souls. An almost manic spark of destructive lust could be seen reflected in his teeth, and in his grey, ash-coloured eyes, reflecting the heat of his flames.

[kihaku]

Elena had been forced into the background once again by all the madness that was going on about her, even though she'd almost gotten the response she'd been aiming for. Picking up a small pebble of rubble from the floor, about the size of a peanut, she expertly threw it and pelted Crimson on the right side of his head, puffing out her right cheek until she got his attention. "Yes, thank you very much for that very cool display of fireworks, Buffalo Bill, but we got other problems right now." She marched up to Rizuk and told him pretty much what she knew, though her voice carried to everyone, the remaining acoustic ability of the standing walls served her well. With a quick prick of energy, she felt Kilix stalking into the ruined house of God with an unamused aura about him. Even with an apology, she must've REALLY struck a nerve.

"Hokay then, Rizuk, my name's Elena if you didn't already know, and all four of us, those people about who aren't you, have fought what's called a Minion of Chaos, a being created by myself and two others of a fair strength. Only problem was, after two of my companions disappeared, leaving me and my friend Reiaz alone, they rebelled and ran straight here, wanting to cause as much damage and as many ouchies as they could. When destroyed, the left behind little bits of stuff, what I like to call Trinkets of Chaos." She giggled like a little girl just then at the irony of the name. "It's just funny, because trinket isn't a very threatening word, though they are very dangerous. Here's a quick break down: by using just a tiny thread of energy, someone who wears the trinket unlocks it's power. Kilix's ring can create a sonic blast of air, Crimson can create sand snakes, and Jimmy over there can now blast out an ice beam from his mouth, no matter how little breath he has. Cool, huh?"

Without warning, she dashed over towards Crimson and raised her right hand. "NEWPOWERHIGHFIVE!" With a somewhat startled look, he raised his hand as well, and received the inevitable, if outdated, high-five. "WOO!"

Dashing back to Rizuk, she skidded to a halt with a great big grin on her pretty face, fists firmly planted on her hips. "So, now we're on our way to try and find the other three Chaos Spirits, right the world of Dragonia, and then retire to the nearest pub I can lay my eyes on for a drink. Huzzah for heroes!"

((Kilix: Just a lil colour tidying, you orange ran away from ya. Will try n post soon!))

[damian]

The pebble made a surprising impact on the side of Crimson's head- hard enough, in fact, for Crimson to cry out. This arguably could've been because it was a surprise, but Crimson quickly banished such doubts by crying out even more, yelling,
"OW! Good GOD Elena! You throw like a girl with the muscles of rhinoes! Jesus! Is that blood?!" Crimson was pressing his right palm against the side of his head, and was now squinting up to it very close, hoping to see he didn't see any specks of his precious life-blood. Nogard and Suicard both tutted simultaneously, muttering comments about Crimson's lack of any sense of courage.

"Did she just call me Buffalo Bill?" Crimson asked, anybody in particular, and Nogard nodded.
"I'm not sure whether to be complimented or deeply offended..." he muttered to himself, then stood up straight to listen to Elena's explanation. He checked his wrist-band while she spoke, wondering how such a little object could provie him with such an interesting power of sand-snake creations, just like Cyclops had been able to do. Then a thought occured to him.

After receiving her high-five from out of nowhere, Crimson listened to the rest of her speech before, "Hold up Elly," he interjected, "How can I make sand-snakes if there's no sound around? I mean, Kilix makes his from sound, and that's always around-"
"Especially with you, big-mouth."
"-shut up, Suicard. Jimmy makes his from his breath... but mine comes from sand!" He sighed, crossing his arms childishly, "I really drew the short straw on this one, huh."

The mention of more Spirits of Chaos didn't thrill Crimson. Cyclops hadn't been tough but he'd been... persistent. And if these three were the second wave, they would probably be morepowerful than the inital starting line-up. He announced these thoughts to the others since, we all know, Crimson rarely has a thought he doesn't verbalise.
"One last thing Elly. Who are you? You turned up outta nowhere, kicked that Siren chick's ass, then tell us this story 'bout Chaos and all his toys and lackeys. No offence intended here, and forgive me if you take any but... how can we trust you?" He was a little uncomfortable asking that final question, but he felt it had to be said. She was too strong to be any average fighter- she had killed Siren without breaking a sweat, while Crimson was still figuring out what exactly Cyclops was doing.

Still, she seemed like a good guy, and so did the others. Kilix was pretty tough to read, Nogard and Suicard had already up-dated him on Rizuk's arrogance, similar to Crimson's own, and the Jimmy kid just seemed shy. He did wonder how such a kid had killed something like Cyclops and Siren, but maybe there were hidden depths to him that Crimson hadn't seen as of yet.

[Jimmy Claymore]

Rizuk raised an eyebrow when he heard Crimson ask about the Buffalo Bill name,
"Offended! Seriously, you're watching Silence of thge Lambs..." He re-focused on Elena and listened carefully to what she was saying. He clicked his tongue once she was finished and whistled slightly
"Alright, so Gyro can now unleash a blast of sonic air which is similar to something I can do... Claymore can now fire ice from his mouth just as I can fire water... and Crimson can control sand snakes, but if use my ability like Gyro's one I can do something similar... OK, maybe my dad's name wasn't just for show..." Rizuk wasn't particularly proud of his parentage, Chaos Ryujin may have been worshipped as a god, but he had nothing on his son. Although Rizuk was feeling pretty confident, he didn't seem to fully comprehend how much of an advantage these 'trinkets' gave his allies. His ability to shout and cause the Earth to ripple up in a line had nothing on a blast of solid sound and controlling snakes made of sand. Of course, he wouldn't know that, his ego made it almost impossible for him to admit defeat or that he was probably inferior to these guys... He shrugged, lost in his own mental praisings.

Jimmy however was perhaps the polar opposite to Rizuk
"Ummm, I... I don't know if I could beat another one, I mean I only won through luck last time... it just kind of fell onto my sword and sorta died.." Jimmy didn't really think that he could beat another one. But if his Other Half came out he could probably take on another one like Kraken... but his Demon would then go around and start killing random people unless he was there to hold him in check... but if he was there then its power would be held back and they might lose... He shook it off, there wasn't any point thinking about it... maybe Rizuk would help him out so that he didn't lose too badly... He looked up towards where Elena was
"I guess I shouldn't really try and back out now I'm involved... I'm part of this now... I'll help as much as I can..." He wanted to punch himself but instead bit the inside of his mouth quietly as he fretted about what he was going to do.

[kihaku]

Turning now to Kilix, who definitely seemed to be the most mature of the group, she gave a great big genuine smile at someone who she felt was going to be of actual tactical help. "I believe it'll be easy to find where the others are, but Reiaz didn't believe Dramanius, the Will, could do something like this. He and I were forced to leave the OtherRealm, and come here, but now we're sepera-"

Her mouth stopped mid-sentence, her eyes glazed over as if in a trance, and her whole body went rigid like he was frozen solid. "Someone... not a Chaos Spirit is tapping into our energies! OMFG, that is so dangerous! A new gate has opened, and... oh no, it's Kihaku! The Eye can't open a gate, he's lost his memories!"

Elena seemed now to be almost on the verge of a panic attack, her face rosiate with worry, her hands flapping about as if she'd just seen something icky, and her feet wiggled with anxiety. "We need to go to an island nation... it's... people live in houses that move! Houses that can cross oceans... named after a little red imp? Does any of that make any sense to you three?" Her liquid brown sugar eyes shone with worry, her voice practically trilling with a need to close whatever "gate" had been opened.

[Jimmy Claymore]

Rizuk groaned and pinched his nose between his thumb and fore-finger
"Alright, alright, moving houses is Rues. And that last part also helped me, but I refuse point blank to explain how I know that. Right! We're going to Rues!" He scowled and stalked moodily out of the church leaving the rest behind. Jimmy waited a few seconds before speaking up again
"So, ummm, what are we going to be... dealing with? You said that a gate had opened, a gate where? And whose Kihaku?" Jimmy was pretty new to the entire "world shaking fighters" scene, and he didn't know many people (or indeed make much of an impression on them when he did meet them) but he'd never even heard of this one. At least he didn't think he had. He saw how Elena was panicking and awkwardly patted her on the shoulder, he wasn't good at comforting people and he'd just have to hope this was good enough. A few seconds passed before Rizuk returned and shouted loudly
"Which way is Rues!?"

((sorry its so short, im sorta tired, i'll expand it later))

[damian]

"Ooooooh, Buffalo BILL! ...Hey!" Crimson realised, thanks to Rizuk's mention of Silence of the Lambs, that he should in fact have been offended. But the moment had passed now, it seemed, as Elena was suddenly doing that far-off look she sometimes did. Crimson looked in the direction she was, frowning, not really seeing anything of interest.

Hearing her explanation, Crimson quickly cottoned on that she was talking about Rues too, and nodded in agreement with Rizuk.
"That sounds like Rues alright. But named after a little red imp...?" he shrugged, as the latter part seemed useless in all honesty.
"Right then, to Rues it is." he said with another nod, then kicked off the ground and floated up into the air steadily.
"Careful, Incendarius, we don't want you falling again." Nogard added aloud, breaking Crimson's concentration and causing his ascent to waver slightly. Crimson's cheeks flared as red as his hair, and he turned away from the others muttering at his wrist to shut up.

He looked out to the direction he knew Rues lay in, making a mental map as he did so. If they hurried, they could get there within the hour. If they really hurried, they could get there within the half hour. And if they really hurried they'd be there in minutes. Crimson liked the sound of the third one, and yelled over his shoulder once the blush had died down,
"C'mon you guys! Last one there's a rotten Chaos Spirit!" Coining the expression from Elena, he had no idea what it really meant, but it worked. The air grew wavy around him, as if he was giving off heat (which he was), and soon he raced off into the distance, towards Rues, and this mysterious "gate".
(OOC:Assuming we are moving to Rues now?)