(Hero Path) Port Town, D'niw

[Raven Kouryuu]

Freya sighed. She was lost again. She had lost her temper at her master and stormed off, taking her things with her, and hadn't bothered to rationalize the fact that she didn't know where she was. She tried to remember her silent lessons about fitting into a crowd, like walking with purpose and not being too interested in anything, but there were so many people, and so many new things to look at. She looked around and noticed that she could see the docks from where she was at, and began to marvel at the sheer size of some of the ships. Fen never took large ships, only the smaller ones. She wanted to go and explore, but her stomach began to rumble. Fen had given her a good amount of Naes and a card with Mets, but she wasn't fully versed in their usages. Regardless, she was hungry, which meant that she'd have to work it out on her own. 'Better than having to rely on that witch of a woman. She never explained things right,' she thought angrily, heading off to the nearest tavern.

[A.C.E.]

/Urufu got off of the ship he had been traveling on from Cei, since Reconisance was one of his main duties as a Ceian Assassin. Urufu looked around at the port only to think about his wife Sierra and how she was doing all alone in Rief, then snapped out of it since Ace would be mad if he didn't get the job done. besides the sooner he got his job done the sooner he could go back to being lazy and seeing his wife again. Urufu headed down the pier when the ship had stopped and walked down passing several fishing boats piling their nets full of fish onto the docks. Urufu got a great wiff of the fish and became intoxicated by the wonderful smell, so much he snuck 10 fish from a nearby net and then hid in a warehouse and started eating his snack. after eating the fish raw and and thus fulfilling his desires Urufu grabed part of his cloth to wipe away the blood that was all over his face.(after all people seem to think wierd things when they see a half naked man with blood all over his face) After cleaning his face Urufu walked around town to see what else there was to do since it seemed he was too early for meeting his target. Luckily Urufu had gotten the easiest mission since he was always to lazy to do the hard missions that Ace and Sierra do. Urufu headed to the nearest fountain and started drinking the water from it since he was thristy and the seawater didn't help his thirst. then Urufu looked around and started smelling around for anyone with the scent he was given but didn't smell it so his target was at least not in town yet, so Urufu headed to warehouse again and took some of the hay that was laying around and lay down on it to go to sleep while he wait.

[Kurai Shinen]

Kurai woke up on a ship he had stown away on and saw the nearing of the port, after all, it was the last ship going. Once the ship got to the port, he started looking around for a place to stay for a while and saw the warehouse and walked towards it. Kurai looked inside for anyone else, his poor eyes didn't see anybody, so he put all of his things next to a corner and left to look for some food. Kurai found a lot of fish, but saw that no one is looking, so he took five and hid them in his robe and walked back to the warehouse. Kurai sat in the corner next to his stuff, and began to eat the fish. He kept three for the next day, so he rested because of how much of a headache the ship had gave him.

[Raven Kouryuu]

(Since it's obvious we're not getting any more people for a while, I guess we'll have to make do. :/)

Freya glanced around nervously, unsure of where to go next. She had overheard conversation about a nearby tavern, but when she passed by, she saw the loud, boisterous crowd inside and chickened out. She didn't particularly like being around a lot of people. She could feel them look at her as she walked by, and it was beginning to unnerve her. 'Maybe I should try to retrace my steps and find Fen. As much as I don't like her, I'm no good on my own,' she though ruefully. Looking around she noticed she was in an area used for storage, or something. She saw buildings that looked like warehouses, and the crowd had begun to thin out. Nearby, there were several medium sized ships, lowering nets full of fish to the docks. Noticing the sun beginning to set by now, she became nervous again. If she didn't manage to get directions to an inn, she'd have to spend the night outside. Normally it wouldn't bother her, but sleeping outside inside a town was different then if you were out in the countryside.

[A.C.E.]

Urufu woke with a start as some people walked into the warehouse where he was sleeping. Ufuru quickly and silently jump and climbed his way onto the wooden beams overhead, as his instincts told him to do. As Urufu sat on the beams he watched the two men hoping that they would leave again so that he could continue his nap. unfortunately the two men started pulling some stuff out from underneath all the hay, just as three more men came in. The two men stopped and greeted the three men who just came in. Then the five men walked over and started to move the bags of stuff from under the hay to one of the carts used for carrying hay. after the men had filled most of the cart with these bags of stuff they started taking some of the hay and placing it on top to disguise these bags. Urufu figured they were drug dealers and were going to take this out of the city soon. After the 5 men had finished Urufu heard then discussing about leaving and then coming back after they talk to someone else about where they were going to take it and that they were going to get the money from a man named "Sharktooth". Urufu searched his mind but couldn't remember where he had heard that name before but put it off to the side of his mind as he listened in for anything else that they might talk about, but the men were finished talking and then left the warehouse and locked it closed with Urufu inside.

Urufu then jumped down and walked over to the cart and took some of the hay off to see what they were placing under it, and noticed some kind of drug but he couldn't tell which kind because they sealed it in bags which left no scent, which was expected from drug dealers in order to elude search dogs. Urufu then grabbed one of the bags and cut it open a little and wiffed a little of the scent of the drug and as it entered his nostrils, his mind was suddenly refreshed of where he had heard of the name "Sharktooth". That man was the one he needed to hunt, he was a man who was a well known drug dealer in Cei and had been nearly impossible to get evidence of his drug dealings or connection any of his partners. However because Cei knew this was true they sent out the Assassin Clan to locate some of the large drug shipments and try to find where the boss "Sharktooth" was and to take him out. Urufu felt disappointed because now it seemed like Urufu was going to have to be the one to kill the drug lord, which meant he would have to do work.

After realizing this Urufu went and and tried to poen the doors of the warehouse but couldn't, but he also didn't want to make it seem like someone had broke in or else when those people came back they would suspect something, but Urufu would also need to find where these men had gone to and locate "Sharktooth" before he disappeared again. Urufu then looked around and noticed a small window at the top which was probably for helping to ventilate the place. Urufu then jumped up onto the beams again and looked at the window but it was still a bit high and so Urufu would have to jump through it from the beam, hoping he wouldn't mess up his tragectory. Urufu placed his hands on the beam and aiming carefully pounched and grabbed onto the ledge of the window then launched himself out of the window and onto the roof.

Urufu looked around nd then jumped down from the back of the shed into an alley and then walked over to the front of the shed btu just as he did he noticed the first two men walking up to the door along with someone else he had not seen yet. he was walking strongly as if he were in charge. Urufu then hid behind the corner of the shed.and watched the three men walk up to the door and then the two men opened the door and the other man walked in first as the other 2 closed the door behind them. Urufu figured he ought to go back onto the roof, and then he crawled throuh the window and silently swung onto one of the beams, then crawled along the beam until he was above the 3 men he overheard them discussing the drug shipments then one of the men adressed the third man as "Sharktooth" Urufu now knew his target, and what he looked like, then Sharktooth told the men that his own people would take the drugs out of the city and once they were safe in their next destination he would pay them. Then two men walked in and took the cart and drove it out of the warehouse, the two men who had been there earlier looked at Sharktooth but as they did he killed one of them and put his blade up to the other man's throat and said "you think i'm a fool, if i had taken the cart as it is out of the city i would have been caught, you guys are incompitent fools, you guys can't even bag things correctly, i could smell the drugs before i even entered the warehouse". Urufu then realized that this man was part animal just like him. Then Sharktooth cut off the man's arm and said "next time you do something stupid like this you'll lose more than an arm. Urufu then jumped down and as he did so Sharktooth threw a knife at him , but Urufu dodged it in time. "so i see you were the one that was in here earlier, i could smell you" Sharktooth stated. Urufu then looked at the man and replied "yeah, but if it had been someone else you would have just gone to jail for possesion of drugs, but since your crimes in Cei are serious i've been sent here to kill you". Sharktooth looked amazingly at Urufu "oh so you're one of those Assassin dogs that Cei has, well i am amazed that you managed to find me and witness my dealings but i'm going to have to silence you now". Urufu looked at him and replied back "are you really going to fight? cause i don't feel like actually fighting i just want to kill you and get this job over with". Sharktooth looked at him and then jumped forward into an attack. Urufu jumped back and knocked back the man's blade.

Urufu then crouched low and said "i really hate having to get serious in a fight, but if you make me serious then i can't guarantee that you will die a quick and painless death" but Sharktooth just ignored it and started swinging his sword around trying to hit Urufu, but Urufu kept evading the blade. ten Urufu got tired of evading and then lunged in for the killing strike after he saw Sharjtooth leave an opening, but just as he did Sharktooth pulled out a small dagger and swung at Urufu, but luckily Urufu turned his body to avoid hitting hit. Sharktooth then lept forward to strike Urufu as he landed on the floor but Urufu put his palm on the floor and then swung his legsaround knocking Sharktooth off of his feet and Urufu twisted himself just right and sprung himself at Sharktooth as he was falling and sliced his abdomen open with his hand. Urufu turned around with blood all over his hand and walked up to Sharktooth "well you are sure to die now with your guts spilling out, too bad you didn't want to make it quick and easy" Urufu then noticed a shadow behind him and kicked backwards and sent the man with one arm flying and smashed through a pile of hay. then Urufu turned around and felt the Sharktooth stab his leg as he lay on the ground. Urufu in a rage then took his hand and slashed it into Sharktooth's arm and then did the same with his other arm and Urufu looked at himand said "next time you do something like that you will be in a lot more pain so just lay there and die". then Urufu took his hand and wiped the blood off on Sharktooth's shirt and then used part of Sharktooth's shirt to make a bandage for his leg.

Urufu then walked out of the warehouse and walked down the street with a bit of a limp and then he he got one of the messenger hawks from the mail center and had it send a message to Ace and the other Assassin members. Then he headed into a nearby tavern and figured he would just sit and have something to drink until he felt like leaving.

[Kurai Shinen]

Kurai starts to wake up and gets up, picking up his sythe. Kurai picked up all his stuff and left the abandoned warehouse, then started walking around town to find anything odd. While he was walking, he took out his sythe and started swinging it around vertically, and tried his best to not hit anyone around him. Then he noticed the day was nearing end, he thought it would be a good time to start easing hiss mind from the past, beacause he always feels calm during nights, esspecially full moons. After walking around town, he went to the docks and sat and stared at where the moon would be by the time night approaches, he suddenly lost his concensience and woke up mext to his body sitting motionless on the docks, he got up and walked to a building, before he can open it, he regains his concenscience and returns back to the docks, still sitting. "woah... never gonna try that again..." Kurai murmured. Kurai started to stare back at where the moon would by the time night nears, he began to wait.

After a while, he got bored and started to swing his scythe around again, careful to not hit anything. Kurai got bored of that too, so he started to gather up rumors and find out what information he can get. After that he began to look around for any thing strange. While he was walking, he didn't pay attention to what was in front of him and bumped into a redhead.

[Kurai Shinen]

*Argh, Raven isn't posting... Gah...*

Having ignored the redhead, Kurai continued off to looking. After passing the numerous groups of people, he decided to just wait on top of one of the buildings so, he climbs on top of a wall and looks for the tallest building in the port. He begins by hopping building to building, then stops every once in a while to check for anything strange going on, then finally stops at what he thinks is tall enough to wait. Kurai reaches into one of his robe pockets for a paper he recieved from a stranger back in Rak'd with the location of D'niw written on it, he looks specificly at what time because the stranger also said that somthing will happen in this city at the specified time, which is at Mid-night. After putting away the paper, he takes out an emblem that is shaped like the wings of an angel, embedded with his name on it, and starts admiring it. Since night is near he puts the emblem away and starts to scan the area while nibbling on a fish. Moments later, night fell over the city and, Kurai started to look harder, thinking, "what is going to happen?" then started brainstorming ideas of what might happen.

What seemingly happened is what Kurai did not expect but, he got engulfed in darkness and started to hear a familiar voice saying, "Kurai, before this event happens, I have somthing to give you, also, this event is just initiation.". When Kurai came back to the real world, a new scythe appeared right beside him and, saw his name embedded on the blade, just like the emblem he got and thought, "why am I getting all these things?" and he also thought, "what initiation?". After pondering this, he realized he wasn't in the town anymore, and was in the seemingly endless plains faced with what would be a demon howerver, it would seem that this one doesn't have that much difference from a human, just the fact that it was wings and one horn growing directly from the middle of it's forehead, equipped with an axe, it wouldn't be, or shouldn't be a problem.

The demon noticed Kurai and threw the axe at him. Kurai ducked and took out his scythe and and made a dash to his left, then dived to dodge the axe again and, thrusted the ground with his scythe to regain his balance, then pushed himself towards the demon. The demon caught his axe then made a lunge towards Kurai but, Kurai has already out smarted it, he spun around and stabbed the demon and, with his momentum from spinning got his head thrown down and the scythe got through the demons head and into the ground. Kurai said "This is nothing, try harder next time.". Within a blink of his eye, Kurai was back in town, exactly where he was, on top of the building and, Kurai noticed a piece of paper on the floor that said "congradulations on passing, your first mission is next week, same time." it also contained some gold. "at least they were nice enough to pay me." Kurai said as he picked up the note, he saw the back and it said, "also, the gold is how you get to the next demon but, we put in a small amount just for a reward. the gold required: 1,000", "damn..." Kurai said as he counted the gold, he came up with 1,100.

[A.C.E.]

/After sitting in the tavern for most of the evening Urufu got up and left the tavern and decided to check out the closest job posting to see what jobs he could take since he was getting low on money. Urufu looked at the board and noticed nothing big or something stupid or hard for a low amount of money, until Urufu saw a paper saying something about helping someone out and that he needed a group of bodyguards to travel with them somewhere. Urufu noticed this and thought it shouldn't bee too hard of a job and the expenses of traveling would be paid for including food. so urufu looked it up and found that he would need to meet the client in a few hours in front of the north gates.


(OOC: this is a BIG FRICKIN' hint for all of you so we can get the party together and all we need is for aoi to figure out which person he wants to need bodyguards unless one of you out there want to be the one to hire us then go ahead, but i'm doing this cause no heroes are doing anything and no heroes are meeting so i'm FORCING everyone to meet so we can do something for once with this group)

[Raven Kouryuu]

Freya wandered through the town for several hours before finding the inn, which also doubled as a tavern. Heading inside she managed to eavesdrop and catch the prices for a room. Ah, what terrible luck. I'm short, though I do have enough to pick up some warm food. Scanning the room quickly she noticed a small board covered in papers. She walked over and scanned it, noticing that they were job requests. She figured if maybe should could find one for the next day she could start saving up some money. What caught her eye though, was one that was for this very evening. Being a bodyguard should be too much trouble for me, and it's terms are good. she thought to herself. But first, she wanted a real meal, since she had time.

A few hours later she made Freya made her way to the north gate where the request had specified. She let her eyes wander the square, watching people come and go.

[Rinna Shizshiro]

Rinna was walking around the capital of D'niw waiting to find out when her depature for morephus was going to be. She sat and wondered what Vincent was doing since they fought 5 years back. She had to collect the bounty on his head since it was her duty at this time plus she wanted to beat some since into him. " I hope that bastard doesnt try anything sneaky or else im actually going to kill him this time." she let out a deep sigh after saying that knowing Vincent was and still is her best friend. she looked towards the sky and wondered when the others would return from there mission. Even though she wasnt friends with them she didnt like to be alone. She wondered apon a place of great memeories of her childhood with Vincent. It was a park and she sat and the swing and remembered all the times that were shared here. She began to miss the old days when everything in the world was good and she could just relax.

She looked at the time and decided she should head back to the main part of the city so she can keep on duty seeing how no one came to this old part anymore unless they had ties to it like her but then again alot of the people from this part are dead. She got back to the capital and and opened her spell book Gungir and wondered why everything happened the way it did. ' Why did Vincent go renegade why do i join the order why was i granted this great power. nothing makes sense she said out loud." she giggled alittle and thought things could be worse she could be the one being hunted or being used in some weird sketch like some manga or book. As she finished her sentence her comm beeped and it ment for her to depart on the tripp to Morpheous. She went back to her room gather hr items and started on the long journey