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"If anyone is to blame for this mess, or rather, for not preventing it, it is I. Maero isn't at fault here, it's me" Kat idly twirled the hammer in his hand. "Hell, I egged it on. I couldn't have stopped this, but I didn't, Because I don't trust you Rouchlos...you say we are free to leave? How does your King feel about that?" Kat pointed the spear-tip at Rouchlos, growling, fliping his hair back. "I know he is here, I feel his energy, I remember that dark feeling...I am seriously doubting that he would let me go so easily. So, what do you plan on doing with us, Rouchlos? And don't give me anymore crap about we are free to leave."

"So he is here..."

"And if she wishes otherwise? What will you do then?" said Brom to Rouchlos. He was laughing on the inside. A few hundreds? Ha! Try alot more than that my dear boy.

((Um...I hope everyone is not waiting for me to post because I am under the impression that Tsubasa is next in line for that positon?!))

Kat nearly dropped his hammer in surprise from Maero's statement. he recovered his composure and stood infront of Maero before getting on his knees so he could look her in the eyes. He knew nothing he could say would change her mind, but he also knew the King was a being of pure evil. Kat's mind raced with thoughts, he shook his head slightly then smiled at Maero.

"I'm not going to abandon you here, little one." he said quietly before standing back up "I'm going to stay by your side, and protect you from anyone who might want to harm you." he steped to Maero's right side and gripped his hammer tightly, he stared daggers at Rouchlos, wanting to kill him right then and there, but knowing that would only put Maero at jepordy, he calmy stood by her side, siently, he was going to be her Aegis, and woe be to those who sought to harm her.

Brom looked down at the young girl before him. She was brave for her age, a trait that could benefit and both curse her depending on how she used it.

"Little one," spoke Brom quietly, "Even if you stay now, he will not let you leave late even if you wish to do so as you say. Then you will be on your own. I doudt that your friend here will be around much longer despite your wishes and his." Brom looked at Rouchlos, "Accidents happened alot in this line of work. For that I know all to well." Brom cracked his neck and stretched his shoulder suddenly as he spoke to Rouchlos, "...and just so you know young man, your men insisted. Do not put their stupid on my hands."


"Do not let the girl leave no matter what. I do not need this one permission to have her stay!" The voice roared in Rouchlos head as if was bouncing off his skull like a ping pong balls. The King didn't care for the men, despite one being Brom, he only wanted the girl and he didn't care if she was of her free will or forced into staying here.


Brom head suddenly reared up and then down to Kat's, "Young man, if you must, kindly force your escort of the young female rider out of here. You won't have anyone get in your way. The elves you met earlier will find you shortly after you get pass these walls, go with them but do not doing anything they say other than follow them away from here. I will be joining you later." Brom moved infront of the two riders and tapped his blade on the ground in unknown rythm. He was infront of Rouchlos now, "Oh and I forgot to mention something to you. I hope you enjoy your new entrance."

The room suddenly shook violent sending everyone to their hands and knees. A cloud of dust and debris filled the room of dazed people that tried desperately to rise to their feet and weapons. Mearo felt someone grab her shirt and before she could fight back, the hand picked her off her feet and threw her back towards Kat. The young rider was on his feet, weaponed in hand. Behind him laid a new cave with light at the very end of it. The walls were still glowing red from the heat of the spell that had formed it.

Brom's sword glinted in the dust. "I don't have to tell you to move again do I young man," bellowed Brom to Kat as he went on the attack. He knew Mearo attitude towards violence, but this was no time to act kindly on it. There were times for such sacrifice, but now was not such a time. There were things much bigger than she could understand happening now that refused to allow her give into Rouchlos wishes.



*Kings Chambers*


The King's face was a mix of scowls and growlings frowns. The old ex-rider had pulled on over on him. He had spread himself far to thin and he could not afford to lose a brand new female rider.

"DO NOT LOSE HER!"

His voice echoed through out the cave halls and Rouchlos complex. His anger flowing them just much. He could waste such anymore of his energy on acquiring Mearo. He needed else where. "You best not fail me Rouchols!"


*Relena chambers*


Relena eyes opened slightly and despite her condition a smile formed on her lips and grew into a pleased grinned. She looked over to Gwen and the young infant. "Gwen..." She could hear the guards guarding them running off despite their orders to stay no matter what. "...run!"

Kat covered his face from the dust, coughing from the sudden rush of wind, forcing some of the dust into his lungs. looking up at the hole, then at Brom, and then at Maero, who was now being controled by her dragon. There are three rules to life: You wait for things to happen, you can make things happen, or you can wonder 'What the hell just happened?' In this moment, Kat was in the middle of rule three. then, when Kat heard the voice of the king, he snapped back to reality.

"Oh damn, he's pissed!" Kat said in surprise, quickly he brought his fingers up to his lips and let out a shrill whistle. The ground started to shake as he lifted Maero up and flung her over his shoulder. Tenchi came bounding into the room at full throttle lowered his head enough for Kat to jump over it and onto his neck, running down his faithful companion's spine until he was in the middle of his back, sitting down and craddling Maero in his arms like a child, leaning forward to protect her from any falling debris.

"We've got to move, Tenchi! Go, Go, GO!" He screamed over the din of battle, Tenchi lept into the air and soared towards the opening, before they flew through it, Kat called down to Brom.

"Stay alive, old tops, I've got questions for you later!" Tenchi soared out of the new opening and into the sky, and away from the hide out. Ripping through the sky at incrediable speeds, Kat sighed and leaned back on his mount, looking down at Maero. "Seriously...what would you do without me?" he said half-laughing as the aderline in his system started to fade. 'Tenchi...lets look for the Elves, they might be able to help us out in this situtation' Tenchi nodded and started flying towards the outside of the mountains, in search of the Elves.

With a sigh sundagarm leaned against the leg of his dragon watching the village. Why he was there he did not know. Behind him his dragon shifted slightly to better catch the suns rays against her black scales. with a nervous look on his face the elf twisted his blade into the sand. why had the letter told him to be here? the price for his services were heavy. as a outcast rider sundagarm and his dragon Reloria simply traveled together. finding work to keep busy. "if this is a waste of our time i will not be amused." Reloria thought to her rider. sunda reached over and and picked a wineskin out of the saddle on her back and took a deep drink. With a sigh he replaced the skin in the jet black saddlebag. in the town a quarter-mile away he could sense massive flares of magic. something that worried the outcasts. if this was to protect their town then the rider and dragon pair's employer had wasted their time. only the lives of the two mattered to them. protecting people they didnt even know? if they had the money to afford sundagarm and reloria then they knew escort and guard duty was not in their job skills. assassination, espionage, mabye the occasional debt collection. But long term protection? Reloria's teachers were still searching for her. the main reason they were always on the move. without being asked reloria lifted her wing over sunda providing some much needed shade from the sun. "two more hours rela. then we're gone." he thought to her as he leaned back against her foreleg

"that's a neat trick..." Sulfur thinks to her self as her eyes catch onto the attack sent her way. Letting her heart beat that much faster as this chase was keeping her ready and let her put the few hundred years of training that Rouchlos put her through to use. With one last beat sending her body forwards and slightly up she curled her neck and foiled her wings sending her back against the brunt of the flying daggers protecting the only soft spot on her body with her back of rock hard scales.
As the 20 daggers landed against her body quite a few of them were deflected, merely bouncing off her scales. A few of them though found the small weaknesses between her mighty stales. sticking into her body enough to be a nuance but not much more as eh opened her wings back up barrel rolled out of her fall and resumed her pursuit letting her scales open up wide in the air whipping around her body as he left a noxious trail of poison behind her. as she pushed her body faster and faster gaining ground like it was no bodies business from under Kat's mount.