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Roran almost gagged at the smell. "God damn, that's peutrid!" Still not able to see, he stummbled a little, but kept going. "No, my brother is a genious. He wouldn't send after me, he knows what I'd want. So kill me now, just to make the war start sooner." Spitting in the direction he htought the man was in, he stopped moving. He buckled his knees and fell to the ground. "I'm not cooperating any more."

Syrva screeched as the striker picked her up, but what could the horse do?

"Joseph, we need a plan. You're smart, and were once a bandit yourself. What do you think is going on?" Lucius was walking through the halls at a near jog pace, Joseph at his side.

"Well, Lucius sir, I really don't know. My best guess is they want the war to start, but I still don't know. They could just want Roran dead."

"Roran is King now, Joseph. Give him the respect he deserves." Turning a corner, Lucius' top four guards were there, all sober. "Okay men, King Roran is gone. You know what we've got to do." Seeing the men nod, the five guards headed for the stables.

Akori sighed, "by the sound of this letter, I doubt that they will harm Roran until they have what they want, meaning if we go in secretly, pretending to only send oyu we could easily attack them....but of course it's your final word that counts since you're older, so your desision." he said, handing the letter back to him.

Hector smiled, "interesting, we wake up and are talking about matrasses....how random" he said quietly, lying on his back, his hands crossed behnd his head, he looked at the ceiling.

((Rico is nowhere to be found as he left the castle without saying where he left too. But Xander doesn't really knows that.))

"I shall setup a meeting with these bandits. When they agree and tell me where this meeting takes place, I want you to follow me. After the meeting, wether it ends in our favour or not, you follow these bandits to their hideout. They might expect us to send someone after them to try and find their hideout so make sure they don't see you." Xander sighed. This wwasn't the perfet plan, but the only way to try and find these bandits.
"If you find their hideout, send a message to me and I'll return with reinforcements. While you await for us, you can attempt to rescue Roran. Because resscuing him will be best left for a single or a handfull of persons, rather then an army. It's a simple plan, but hopefully effective."


As Roran was placed on a chair, still unable to see due to the mask and tied up to the chair, he couldn't do much.
"This is only temperarely, King. Tomorrow, a scout will see if Xander has paid the ransom, which he most likely did not. The scout will return and meet with Xander for his response on our demands. He'll send someone after my scout, when this persone learns that my scout is a guard of Keros, his only conclussion is that Keros has you imprisoned. And word has it that all the Kerosian royalty are returning home. I wonder if Xander will make the right conclussion of that action. But I'm off. I need to make sure Xander still follows the plan."
The boss nodded to his righthand, making him in charge till he returned. As he walked up some stairs, he entered a small hall. This hall had a secret passage in the wall. Pulling a torch, the wall slidded to the right and the boss now entered a small library. As the wall closed behind him, he took of his mask, grabbed a bag, with clothes and switched into his daily outfit. As he left the room he walked down the stairs, greeted some fellows bandits, in civilian outfit, set to guard the house entrance, while running outside.
In the middle of the street in the town near the Kerosian castle now stood Rico with a smile on his face as he believed this city would soon be under Syra's rule.

((And that's why Rico is nowhere to be found. wink Of course, nobody knows Rico is actually the boss of the bandits... Except Roran, if he listened very carefull to the boss' voice and recognized Rico's! razz ))

Akori nodded, "I guess Amy should stay here in her state she'll most liekely turn her back on us" he said, sighing troubled by the fact that he didn't knwo what was wrong with her.

((Caught the clue Warrior wink ))

Roran's eyes opened wide. "Rico..." Struggling with the boss now, he finally gave in. Once tied to the horse, he slid off and was dragged the rest of the way. Using his feet, he tried to guide the ropes over rocks to cut it and get free, he only hurt himself. As he was placed in the chair, he had cuts and bruises on his body. "Damn you all."

The striker landed and gently let Syrva and Dagger go so they could continue running while the striker headed off to the base for instructions. It had brought the horse and wolf where they needed to be, but the large dragon-like creature could not manuever well through the trees as it needed to and it was forced to stop. It flew back to find all the strikers still gathered around the unconsious Queen and the lead striker.

We cannot wait any longer for the queen to wake up. The Syrians will attack and Keros will fall. Without the forest there will be no prey and our kind will die out as well. The lead striker spoke telepathically to the group. Nodding their heads in agreement, the rest began looking at the queen, still waiting for something. Lowering his head, the lead striker opened his giant maw and bit down into Amaya's wound for a few seconds before letting go as the wound began to heal. It was only temporary and would only last a few hours but they had no choice.

Opening her eyes, Amaya looked around and sat up. Her stomach was fine, but she knew what the strikers had did and why. She rose to her feet and climbed up onto the lead striker's back. "Dariya take me to the castle. The rest of you, get my army back here now." She commanded before all of them took off. She already knew what was going on, and she needed to protect her kingdom. Dagger and Syrva would have to find Roran on their own.

Akori frowned, "Then I have no choice but to take the witch with me, she is the only one who isn't injured, and fights like a trained defender." he whispered not sounding too delighted by it. "Amy, get ready, we will follow them" he said. Seeing Xander disappear with Rico, he thought it strange, Xander never hid anthing from him, weird that now he would start, but after some time, Akori shook it off, having enough to deal with at the moment, but he became extremely mistrustful to anyone. He sighed, eyeing Amy, "Get ready, we will leave" he whispered to her again.

Hector sighed, "great, bad luck in luck huh?" he said, kissing Vivian shortly, "be right back, I hope" he joked, not knowing what was going on, he ran to where Xander and the others were, "you called?" he asked, slightly annoyed that he had been disturbed.

((geez, alot of skilled generous writers here sweatdrop really hard to keep up))