Hyrule Adventures 2

The rain had stopped and the clouds had cleared up showing the beautiful afternoon sky. It was a mild day. Not too hot. Not too cold. There were a few puddles from the previous storm dotted on the streets of the castle. There were people on the street returning to do daily chores and talking about random things.

All this was accompanied by the padding of feet. Kon, Kuro, and Kurita had been running all the way from Hyrule Field to track down a few people he had met earlier. They had shed their black cloaks with blue clouds revealing a blue tunic on Kuro with a sword strapped to his back, a green Tunic on Kon with no visible weapon, and a black tunic on Kurita with a sword strapped to his side. They were being led by a Rito with a white tunic and a sword on his side.

The Rito finally landed in front of a fairly nice looking inn. "This is the place," the Rito said when the three of them caught up. "I'm pretty sure this is where their scent leads to."

Kuro stopped to catch his breath. "What was your name again?" he asked.

"Doboroku*," the Rito replied.

"I guess we'll just wait here for some people," Kuro said, leaning against the inn wall.

OOC: Part 2 finally!! You don't have to have been involved in Part 1 to join. The only requirement is that you try to make a good post. Not perfect, just good.

*Kudos to whoever knows what that's from.

"So this is were these villains are hiding?!" Edward appeared to the scene having followed the group after the fight in the plains.
"These people have a lot of guts, my Suit is absolutely ruined! there is blood everywhere and it's torn and ripped apart because of the rough movements! I’m happy my beautiful face is not wounded or scarred because of their impudence!” The young man complained.
But instead of complaining even more he glanced to the Rito in white. He quickly took the man's hand an shook it gently. "I thank you a million times for healing my good looking body after such a unpleasant pasttime. Edward Ricardius is the name...it's a pleasure."

Aiden had watched the group head off without her and was slightly hurt, but she understood. Shuffling her feet she sighed, useless, that's all she was. She picked up her other clothes and folded them by a tree, maybe she'd come by and pick them up sometime. Letting her hair down she headed back to the courtyard, maybe she could be more useful there. Her big eyes scanned the crowd when she saw Kuro and the rest. Almost instantly her cheeks flushed with shame, it was a pride thing. The other man seemed to have taken the fall in stride, not at all shamed by the experience. She wished not to cause problems, still she had to thank the Rito and apologize to the rest for her failure. Swallowing her pride she approached, "I am so sorry I was of no use, I probably caused more trouble than I'm worth, but thank you for healing me none the less."

While it was not like Aiden to be somber and doubtful, she had failed. Her perkiness had not helped.

Ooc: The Rito sounded like dogs for a moment.. following scent LOL

"It's a pleasure to meet you too," Doboroku said. After Edward and Aiden had thanked him, he shook his head. "I wasn't the one who healed you," he explained. "That was Yuki who is...gone. Where is she?" he asked.

"Kon and I will go find her," Kurita said, walking out of the castle courtyard to search for her along with Kon.

"Kuro looked to Aiden who wasn't at all seeming like herself. "Don't say that," he said. "The battle wasn't very long at all. You couldn't really get into a rhythm in such short time. Besides, those guys are elite assassins. They aren't supposed to be easy to kill," Kuro explained, hoping that would bring back her perkiness to help with the fight ahead.

"Ah...is that so, my bad...I would love to meet Yuki too.." Edward said, after hearing Doboroku’s tale.
"But mister Kuro, I'm not frightened by these ruffians! I will show them how gracious the mystic arts of the great wizard of passion's fury can truly be!" The man said overly enthusiastic as always. "And they have to pay a new suit for me!!!!...so since we both are so willingly to take down this thug...you are always able to count on my fiery magic!" He finished, but his expressions suddenly turned to serious again.
"But now... could you please tell me if you have some kind of strategy to deal with likes of them?”

Aiden's eyes would not meet Kuro's, failure was unacceptable, yet so was avoiding a problem. Lifting her gaze she offered him a half hearted smile and attempted to brush off his concern. With a shrug she spoke, her voice calm and cool, "The battle would not have been very long either way, least for me. I left you to fend for yourselves, no amount of time would fix that. In any case I will not burden you in your next battle." Speaking for a moment in ancient she asked the gods to bless his travels. "Thank you and good luck." She turned to go, but could not make herself leave her friends, it was not in her nature to abandon anyone...

OOC: Hiya. just ignore me for a while. Placeholder for actual post.

EDIT: IC: Kasei smiled somberly as he took another swig of the hylian ale in his hand. Fortunately, there was no way he could ever become drunk due to his . . . unique body composition, but he could still enjoy the great, that is, horrible taste of liqour.

As he walked down the street, an interesting sight caught his eye; a group of almost five that seemed to stand out in the street. AMong them he recognized Edward and Aiden, two relatively new beings in Hyrule that he had never truly become acquainted to. Now seemed like the best time, so he decided to stoll on over.

He arrived just in time to listen to an excerpt from the explanation. "Expert assasins, eh?" He asked from next to Aiden.

Kuro thought for a moment about Edward's question. "No," he stated bluntly. "I'm not sure what to do about them strategically."

He placed his hand on Aiden's shoulder. "Don't say that," he said. "I'm sure you know that it's not right to say bad things about others. And in my opinion, it's equally as wrong to say bad things about yourself." He removed his hand from her shoulder hoping this would help. Kuro wasn't good at comforting people. He had comforted his brothers when they were younger, but he always had help from the other brother. He was usually the one that was getting comforted though.

Kuro looked at Kasei. "Yeah," he replied. "Trained in killing and armed with powerful weapon's and spells."

"But..but..what should we do against such a formidable enemies? As you look what they are capable of with just simple sword strikes! They are faster then the wind's that blow on Ruto's peaks!" Edward could not understand how he lost to such a 'simple folk', he was trained to survive in situations like that but was overwhelmed by their strength.
That was actually the main reason he stayed around...and of course to pay those assassins back after his defeat.
But how serious as he took these matters he could not maintain this serious look forever. By hearing Kasei's voice he suddenly turned to his normal cheerful self.
" Kasei..!!! finally a familiar face!"He quickly jumped in front of his partner.
"Arn't you looking dashing today!..as usual of course!"

Aiden's over excitable personality meant she was very over excitable, so when Kasei's voice came from beside her she was quite startled. With a yelp like noise she shed away and almost melded herself into Kuro's side. Her heart was thumping like a bunny's, overly fast. Taking in a deep breath she reguarded Kasei with wide eyes, after her defeat she was a tad more skittish than normal. In fact normally she was quite bold, but yet jumpy. If she heard something in a bush she'd shy away and maybe squeak, but then promptly go examine it. Now, however, she stayed next to Kuro, as if seeking comfort from his strength. Swallowing she nodded, her curls bouncing about, not yet able to speak.

"Calm down Edward," Kuro said. "We'll think of something to do about them." Well, he hoped so at least. He didn't think about those thing too often. It was his nature to attack without a second thought. Not a good idea when he thought about it though. he had been injured too many times in battles due to his headstrong nature. Kuro looked over at Doboroku. "Any ideas?"

The Rito Nomad thought about the question only to come up with the same answer as Kuro. He shook his head. "No. I've got nothing."

Kuro sighed. He wasn't doing too great today. He's unable to defeat enemies of his, he can't cheer up a normally cheerful person, and can't think of a strategy to defeat the enemies that were hiding out in a nearby inn. This is lovely, he thought to himself. Then an idea came. He looked at Aiden. "Do you have any ideas on how to defeat 'em?" he asked.

Kasei, who is used to a simple "Hello" from various members of a group at different intervals, is one who does not fully enjoy several greetings at once. The first, and most loud, one to come to his ears is the shriek of Aiden, which could have easily broken his left eardrum. "What's wrong?" He asked, thinking the girl might have hurt herself.

His queary, however, is interrupted by a good freind, Edward. "Flattery will never get you anywhere, Edward." He said, with a cheery smile on his face. He held out his hand to give Ed a freindly shake.

After this, he listened to Kuro's brief explenation. "Experts in killing and good with spells, eh? Doesn't sound to different from any standard assasin. I could probably defeat one easy!" He said confidently.

Kuro grinned a little at what Kasei had just said. "You've clearly never met these guys before. They aren't people to underestimate," he explained. What he said was true. They weren't to be underestimated. But then again, what assassins should be underestimated? It's pretty uncommon to find an assassin that could be killed in a second. These people, weren't like that.

"Kuro's right," Doboroku chimed in. "These people are tough cookies," he said. He had never referred to anyone as that, but assumed it was pretty accurate. "They hadn't received many blows by the time Yuki and I got there."

Kuro stared at Doboroku. "'Tough cookies'? They aren't cookies. They aren't even edible," Kuro said. He had never heard anything like this before and frankly, thought it was pretty stupid sounding. He rolled his eyes, shook his head, and sighed. "What a day," he said to himself.

Aiden was still watching Kasei with interest, well he wasn't trying to be threatening. "Oh no, sorry, I just wasn't expecting anyone to.. sorry." Her cheeks flushed a light pink and she bent her head, "I guess I'm just a tad jumpy." When the other newcomer entered Aiden seemed to get a bit more quiet and backed a bit further from the group. She didn't leave though, Kuro had asked her a serious question, and it caused her heart to hammer in her chest. He respected her opinion and they needed a plan. Zoning out to the others yammering she plotted.

These people were skilled and obviously well trained, so not just anything would work. Biting her lip she tried to concentrate harder. If she better knew the skills of the group it would be easier, but.. Swallowing she sighed, "We need to get close to them without them knowing or caring. Learn their individual weaknesses then either divide ourselves and go after them... or get each one of them on their own." She lifted her bright green gaze to Kuro's. "They are hunting you and will know exactly what you look like, so you'll have to leave the blending in part to us. I can get into the inn as entertainment.." Here she did not go into detail, but as a bard she had many talents. If she cleaned up and fixed her hair it would be easier for her to blend in. "Kasei could go drink, same with any others.."

Shaking her head she scoffed, her idea was silly. To brush off her stupidity she just shrugged and shut back up.

OOC: It's Edward not Azador nor is Azador Jarod, Jarod Azador, Azador Edward or Edward Jarod….lol

"Flattery?..I don't know of which you speak.." Edward said and gave his friend a firm handshake.'hmmm...How can we ever beat such ruffians? We lack skill... We could just barge and unleash everything we got...but there are too many people...and the casualties number would high...especially if my beautiful fire magic would mix with that of Kasei's, utmost destructive...' Edward frowned by his own thoughts, there just had to be way. He suddenly turned to Aiden with a smile, after hearing her plan.
"Miss Aiden, that's a wonderful idea!...at least it was better then what I had planned.
But they will recognise my lovely face right when I enter the pub, and I believe it is the same case for you too." He explained
"Maybe..just maybe if we dress up differently it might work."