OOC: I do believe we ARE the only ones. Wow, the day when there's only a few people logged in to HA2...

IC: Jeremy looked around and ordered a refill for his drink, "Well. I'm not sure, but I don't think that she went away on her own accord. If she came here by herself she would be with Nariko, and she would have already jumped us to say hi. Personally I think that she might have gotton herself into some sort of trouble. If you really wanna know, you'd have to ask Myora though, I don't really know as much as she did."

OOC: As soon as more people reply I'm going to introduce Nariko, YaY, she was easy to find huh?!

Another smile came from Kasei. "Well, then," he said, comfortingly, "I will personally do everything to help you retrieve your freind, Jeremy." The shiekah finished. "I myself lost a freind once, it saddened me. One as young as you must not suffer the pain of loss. Let us find her together!" Kasei said confidently.

OOC: We need to stop replying, i'm running out of comforting things to say.

OOC:You two are the only ones replying because no one posts here for ages.

Ryk sat down in one corner, not bothering to find a chair, instead choosing the floor as a nice place where he could scratch behind one ear with his clawed foot. Worru sat in a chair near him. "Ryk, are you sure you know this person?" the boy asked, and his guardian daemon nodded. "Yeah. Sovelis and Orphy do too. Kasei almost knows. You did, but then...something happened. Hard to explain." Ryokiden explained, eyes closed.

OOC: That's a good point Worru. Ya know Ryk kind of reminds me of a dog sometimes... Heheh...

IC: Myora sighed as she looked at the small doorway she had found at the back of the room. It was covered by a blanket and everyone in the inn was looking at it expectantly. Suddenly music started playing and she noticed a girl walking through the doorway, all the men in the inn cheered. Myora gasped.

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Out of the doorway strode a tall woman with long black hair that fell all the way down to the bottom of her feet. It swept behind her almost as if being blown by the wind as she strutted silently into the empty spot on the floor. Her eyes were an orange color, almost fleurescent yellow.

She was wearing what appeared to be very comfortable clothes. She wore loose black pants that went down just below her kneecap and were trimmed with a large lace pattern. Her clothes looked silky and flowed like her hair as she moved. Her shirt had no sleeves and the buttons were small lace balls pushed through loops. There was a white trimming that went up the center and all the way up to the top of the collar. Under her shirt there was an undershirt that looked even silkier than the first one, in the back it hung down and dragged across the ground. (OOC: I found this picture and was soooooo shocked!!!!) She was wearing long sleeves that were tight around her fore-arm where they began and ended in flayed sleeves and had almost the same lace trimming as her pants. She turned her back to the crowd and turned around slowly, swaying her body in graceful movements. She began dancing and the people around her were cheering quieter.

Jeremy choked on the drink he was sipping from. Bending over and letting the ale leak out of his mouth. He turned around and gawked at her, "Of all places..." He muttered almost inaudibly.

Ryokiden and Worru lifted their heads to see the entrance of the dancing woman, and while the young boy had his eyes on the woman and her dance, Ryk looked at their two guides. From their reactions, this seemed to be their Nariko Relic, the one who, if he had heard right, would help them find Nitara. He glanced up at his boy, and chuckled, the boy staring dreamily at the dancing girl.

Jeremy went to stand up but Myora gave him a look like daggers and than walked over to where he was sitting nearby Kasei. "Jeremy, don't interrupt her. She'll kill you. Just wait until she's done.

Jeremy nodded, settling back in his chair to wait impatiently for Nariko to finish.

Myora returned to her seat and watched as some of the people around her tossed money in to Nariko. Nariko smiled crookedly, and walked up to one of them, winking and than turning back to the middle to dance once more. She swayed side to side, grabbing a drink out of one of the men's hands and than downing it in one swig, while still keeping her dance graceful. She smiled her crooked smile once more and tossed the glass cup back at the man, who looked at her blankly. As she danced her eyes darted to the money she caught, counting it in her mind. She continued her dance, gaining free drinks every so often from unsuspecting men. Myora sighed, she's always taking advantage of people...

Nariko looked over at the bar, and suddenly noticed Jeremy. She stopped her dance abruptly for a moment and almost tripped, cocking her head to the side. "Jeremy?" She whispered quietly, than she looked around once more, spotting Myora. She recovered and began her dance again, still a little surprised that she had seen Nitara's cousins. Something seemed to be troubling her, as her crooked smile now vanished to reveal a slight scowl. She looked at the amount of money on the floor and decided she would have to dance a bit longer. She didn't want to waste a good day of profit just to see why they were here.

After a while of continuing her dance she drifted off toward the back doorway again, glaring at Myora. She nudged her head backwards slightly before disappearing behind the blanket, and everyone cheered. Myora motioned for Jeremy to get up and began walking toward the door, now that the empty spot in the room had been filled in. Jeremy looked over his shoulder and motioned for the others to follow as well.

"Well, don't we have someone different appear," Cathy muttered. She stared at Jeremy as he motioned to them. "I think he wants us to follow." Kayla looked at her and sighed.

"Wow, even a complete moron would figure that out," Kayla muttered. Kyle snickered. He stopped at Cathy's glare. "Don't you two start anything," Kayla warned. She let out a sigh. "Le'ts follow."

OoC: Kasei, I couldn't help but to tell that you were spelling friend wrong. I don't know if you were doing it on purpose or not.

OOC: Oops, I meant to say "Fiend"

IC: "Oh?" Kasei asked as the girl appeared. His eyes narrowed. "What have we here?" He seemed quite annoyed by the appearance of this girl. The shiekahn stood up, just as Myora came over. "Hmph." He said as Jeremy was warned. A scowl was all over his face. As the girl continued the dance, it was obvious Kasei was getting more and more annoyed, the bill handed to him for the drink burst in to flame as the bartender set it down, and the mug that the Rebel Flame had drank out of was now red-hot.

"That.....that little bitch." Kasei muttered to himself, the palm of his hand was resting on the pummel of the scimitar at his waist. He was pissed about something.

The girl stopped dancing, and Kasei looked as stiff as a tree. He nodded slightly as Myora motioned to him, and started walking. His footsteps were heavy; though not stomping like a big baby, each step seemed to shake the room as he followed.

OOC: You're about to see why Kasei's so enraged. I am quite supprised that that is the picture you took. When I tell you in the next post, you will either laugh...or be shocked.

OOC: . . . . I do believe I'm confused . . . . . . . . I'm sure I'll laugh AND be shocked ( ), I'm that kinda person. . .

IC: The room's walls seemed carpeted with long tapesty-like scarves of varying colors. It appeared festive and pleasant and in the center was a small dark wooded table with a few chairs around it. There was a bed with multi-colored coverlets lying upon it, spreading out every which way in a pile of confusion, they gave the impression that they were stitched together as if they needed patching. Myora and her brother stode quietly in and looked around, Jeremy muttering a silent ''Wow." to the scarves that surrounded them in an array of bright colors. (He hadn't noticed Kasei's little obvious anger spurt a moment ago)

Nariko Relic was sitting on the floor upon a dark black and white rug that (despite being on the wooden floor) looked quite comfortable and inviting. She had her money all placed in a little woven basket sitting upon the table and she was leaning back upon a wooden chair. Myora was a little surprised that she wasn't sitting in it, wondering why she had instead chose to use in as her back rest. She had her legs crossed and her arms behind her head in a relaxing position, awaiting her best friends cousins to enter her inn room.

"I stay here a lot." Nariko said plainly, "They gave me my own little private room back here, I fixed it up a bit."

Jeremy nodded at the scarves that adorned the walls, "I see," he replied without much emotion.

Nariko leaned forward and looked a bit surprised as the rest of their party walked through, "Gosh, brought o' lot o' peeps with ya didn't you My?" she inquired, though it wasn't much of a question.

Myora nodded, "Surprised to see us, you looked it, I would have never thought I'd be able to screw up your dancing."

Nariko leaned back again sighing, "Yah well don't get all up and braggy about it. It ain't like it's that big of a deal." she stated plainly, she was talking rather quietly. "So, why are you here?"

Jeremy began to answer her, "Well judging by the way that you--"

Nariko interrupted him, "Just get to the point Retting, ya don't have to comment on my dance."

Jeremy scoffed at her, "Fine, Relic, we're here about our cousin." He looked over at his sister who was nodding slowly in agreement.

Nariko laughed absent-mindedly, "And so are all of them?" she asked, referring to Kasei, Kayla, Cathy, Worru, Kyle, Ryokiden, Orpheous and his possy.

Ryokiden gave the new girl careful once-over, studying her with his angered glare. Now, he wasn't angry, per say, but he was just irritated that Nitara didn't just pop out of somewhere in a puff of smoke, and shout "TA-DAA!' at the top of her lungs. "So," he started, pushing past the others to stand near their two guides, "As you understand we're looking for Nitara, how about you tell us where the Fox-Girlie is, if you know?" It was the best he could do, seeing as he was known to lose his temper quickly.

Kasei payed no attention to these little words at all. What interested him was the girl in front of him. The one that so annoyed him. The talking was done. He took a step forward. In a flash, his hand was at Nariko's throat, and she was being held in the air. He wasn't putting deadly streangth in his grip, but if this girl tried to escape, she would die, instantly. The Rebel Flame payed no attention to the others in the room. His glaring eyes were burning themselves directily into Nariko's.

"Tell me," He said, "Where have you been all these years, Zephie?" He asked. His voice was neither kind nor considerate. He was angry.

OOC: Sorry for the god-mod. Just change you're story and quickly tell Kasei he has the wrong person.

FYI: Worru may already know this, but Zephie is Kasei's first child, his daughter. And the picture you showed us is almost the exact same as another picture I had a few months ago that I used when thinking on Zephie's personality.

Still, just hurry up and deny any relations. DO NOT try and fight Kasei, that would be today's definition of SUICIDE.

Nariko looked down at his hand around her neck and attempted a sigh, though it didn't quite come through. She laughed in her head, Well, well, this is a bit knew., she looked over at Myora, though she didn't look very stressed.

Myora gasped slightly, "Uh. . . Kasei, I'm thinking you have the wrong person." She muttered as Jeremy poked his shoulder.

"Who's Zephie?" He inquired curiously.

Nariko caught Myora's eyes for a moment and she felt a wierd rushing feeling within her head. Suddenly she heard Nariko's voice, but her mouth was not moving. You might wanna get him to let me down. I mean, it's nice to experiance new things and all, but this is gettin' old really quick. Myora looked around for a second before looking at Nariko confused. I want to help you find Nitara, and I might know something that can help you My.

Jeremy looked at Myora, wondering why she looked so puzzled. Nariko broke eye contact with her and than looked at Kasei, waiting patiently. She seemed oddly calm about her current situation. Myora nodded to Nariko and looked back at Kasei again, "Yah. . . Could you put Nariko down?" She said again, still wondering how Nariko had managed to get inside of her mind. Although it was a little obvious, but Myora must not have been thinking very hard.

Kasei's eyes widened a bit, and he turned his head to look over at Myora. He quicly turned back to look at the one in his grip.

"Oh...." He said, looking slightly embarrased. He loosened his grip, and set Nariko down on the floor softly. He noted how calm the girl seemed, even though he could have crushed her neck a second ago. Kasei's hand fell back to his side, and he took a step back.

"Sorry."

"S'fine." Nariko replied with a wave of her hand, eyes closed and grinning widely. "Anyway, as I just told My here." She continued, gesturing toward Myora, Jeremy noticed the nickname and cringed. Why did she like his sister but seemed to hate him? Nariko finished, "I think I have some information concerning Nita."

Jeremy glared at her as she spoke, she looked at him and glared back their eyes locked and suddenly Jeremy felt the rushing feeling as well. What r'you lookin' at Retting! He heard Nariko hiss in his mind, and he yelped, turning quickly away.

Myora looked confused and walked over to Jeremy, who just shook his head, glancing quickly back at Nariko and than looking away again. Nariko grinned smugly, "That's what I thought." She said loudly before turning back to the group. She walked straight through them, not minding who was in her way, and moved the blanket aside, revealing a man with his ear up against the fabric. She grabbed it and pulled him back into her room.

"So!" Nariko screamed at him, throwing him into the ground and putting a foot on his throat, "Thought you could just come over and listen in on our conversation."

The man looked aside, staring at the others, "N-n-no Miss Relic! Really, I didn't mean any harm."

Nariko leaned down and grabbed his chin roughly, turning him to face her. "Look at me," She demanded looking at his eyes. Than suddenly he screamed and she straightened up once more, looking satisfied. "

Nariko grabbed his collar and pulled him to his feet, she threw him at Jeremy simply saying "Hold this for me." and walked over to a chest beside her bed. Pulling out a long piece of rope she smiled, and grabbed the man from Jeremy, tying the rope tightly around his body, binding him. She laughed.

"He knows something about Nita." She stated plainly, pulling a knife out of (well, her chest area) and holding it up to his throat. "Wanna tell them what happened to her?" She snapped at him viciously, he yelped as the cold metal pressed against his skin.

"I-i-i-i don't know anything."

"YES! YOU DO! I know that you know and I know what it is! So why don't you just tell everyone else so I don't have to get your dirty blood all over my new carpet!!!!" Nariko said, and the man noticed in distress that the knife against his neck was beginning to grow hot.

"Ok-ok-ok. J-j-just put the k-knife down Miss Relic." The man replied, eyeing the silver blade cautiously.

Nariko pulled it slowly away from his neck and than looked at him expectantly.

"U-umm... Well, my master sent me here to spy on you. He was afraid that you knew something about where Nitara was and would try to retrieve her. So, I was supposed to find out if you knew, so he could send people to eliminate you and anyone else who knew." Nariko glared at him, and he turned his head away, cowering from her glance.

"N-nitara is being held in one of the old abandoned buildings in the outskirts of the capitol, n-not far outside the forbidden zone, people don't usually go over there so he figured it was a safe place to hide out."

Nariko took the knife to his throat once more, "Well, why do they have her?" She demanded, awaiting an answer.

"He-he-he h-h-has plans that he needs h-her assistance in. But he wouldn't tell me what they were. PLEASE DON'T!" Nariko had pressed the knife harder against his throat and he was now shaking uncontrollably. Nariko stood straight up and sighed, putting her knife away. She moved back the the chest and started pulling out weapons, stuffing them in various parts of her clothing.

"Well, I'm leaving now. Anyone wanna join me?" She asked, walking past a very shocked Myora and Jeremy and to the blanket-covered doorway. Jeremy's mouth gawked open, and he was completely confused. He looked to Myora and whispered meekly "What just happened." She just shook her head, and began to slowly walk out after Nariko. Jeremy motioned for everyone to follow as well as he began to leave the room.

The man in the chair rocked back and forth, only resulting in his roped body falling to the floor. "YOU'RE JUST GOING TO LEAVE ME HERE!" He cried out, "I HELPED YOU! YOU HAVE TO AT LEAST LET ME GO!"

Nariko strutted back in and glared at him once more, "What, so you can go warn your master that we're comin'? No. You're stayin' right here!" She spat on his face and than walked out once more...

Ryk bent down to the tied-up man for a moment, his once normal teeth morphing into those that would frighten a shark-lion hybrid, and growling fiercely in the man's face, then standing back up, and following the Relic girl out the door, Worru quickly in tow. The guardian daemon was now quite angry, knowing that the Fox-Girlie was now locked up in some abandoned building, apparently outside of a 'Forbidden Zone'.