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"What a nice, peaceful village" came a voice from the woods.

Within the mingling trees, Drake casually stepped forward. The lake was to his right and the open space it held gave fair sight to the village before him. Even from far off, the appearance of armor could be seen. Plus, the one wyvern was the very same Drake had kept seeing with the Learanian army. He smirked. "...Too bad everyone in it is going to die."

Without warning, the peace the simple village had quickly began to turn into war. Fear spread through the villagers as bandits rushed toward the village. They had full rights to lose their hope. They probably didn't expect the war to go so far deep into Learania.

But it had.

Drake ran through the streets, taking on anybody that came across him whether is was purposefully or by accident. The massive blade could be seen swinging about, following by the flinging of blood. The axemen laughed as they instilled terror into their victims. Some began to light torches and set the feeble homesteads aflame. The Learanians better have rested while they were able. They were in for a fight.

Once Drake was finished with this village, there would be nothing stopping him from getting to the gates of Eyris...

Just when he thought the cat had his sense back, the tiger saw the goofy look again. Few seconds later, the cat started to change his form and started to rub against Rajin's legs. Was that a purr he made? ... Damnit, it was.

"You gonna be ******** kidding me." Rajin lowered his brow, annoyingly. Well, at least it wasn't dangerous or out of control. However, seeing a cat doing that sortta ruined his pride even more. Hadn't that cat had pride of himself as a cat laguz? Seriously, that cat was making himself looked more as a domestic housecat.

Before Rajin could do anything, he suddenly heard something from across the lake. Turning his head around, the tiger saw group of bandits running toward the village. Rajin let out a curse. Great, just ******** great. It seemed they could never get a break from it. Oh well, at least now he could let out his stress and frustration now.

The tiger was about to make a dash when he felt something rubbing against his leg. Looking down, he saw the cat continued rubbing him. s**t, he nearly forgot about the cat being high. Well, there was one thing he would.

Rajin quickly picked up the cat and headed toward the lake. Whether the cat continued to rub him or not, the tiger ignored it. They had serious things to worry about. When the lake reached to his knees, he stopped.

"Sorry buddy, but we got s**t business to handle." Rajin said. He quickly let go of his holding and let the cat dropped into the lake before he turned around and ran. Whether the cat came to his sense or got angry, Rajin didn't have the time to check on him. There was a battle in this village. But which priority should he go first? Protecting the injured and defenseless people in the village or kick the bandits' butts?

... Well, it was very obvious which one he would pick.

Rajin shifted into his true form and dashed off toward where the battle was taken place. He could hear the screaming in the village as well as smelling the metal weapons and blood flooded the streets. And what's this? He heard something kindling as well as smelling something burning.

When he made a turn, he saw the homesteads set on fire. Great, the bandits had decided to burn down the village too. This would not be good for the tiger. It looked like he had to be careful of where he would be fighting. He didn't want to get all burned up.

Not letting the bandits take any further, the tiger rushed toward them as fast as he could. When he approached them, Rajin let out a roar of battle before pouncing the nearest bandit and sank his teeth at the neck. He hoped that the bandits didn't carry any torches with them. It would be difficult for him to get near them if they used the torches as weapons.

It only took a moment for Zeiss to realize that there was the sounds of fighting and screams off in the distance...in the direction of the village. So much for relaxation. Right now, he needed to get back and mount Rubley, so he could do his share of work, and help out.

So heading back to the lake, he dropped his prized fish in a bag, and then mounted Rubley, and started back for the village, with his Steel Lance in hand.

Getting to the village, Zeiss looked for the one that would be leading their troops, and only came up with a lone lancer on the ground, so he had Rubley get close to that lancer, and then said, "What can I do to help out the troops here?"

After jerking the bandit's neck and heard the loud snap, Rajin let go before he saw something bright was heading toward him. The torch smacked against the tiger's neck and fell to the ground, causing the tiger to let out a loud hiss. Although the force of the torch was more of a light punch and the fire didn't spread too quickly, it stunned the tiger quite badly. Man, it felt like he was stung by a hive of bees.

Rajin pawed the torch away from him. When he saw the brigades holding the torches at him, he gave the bandits a low snarl. Although the fire from the torches and the burning buildings were away from him, he could still feel the heat roasting him well. Damn these bastards. It looked like they figured out his weakness. Great, if only he had someone to watch his back. How the hell was he going to tear these bastards if they used torches against him? Well, staying away from them wasn't going to work. These bandits knew he was going after them and it would be useless for them to run away from him. It looked like they were in a stalemate situation. Now how the hell could he turn the favor to his?

The tiger eyed on the bandits, one by one, until his eyes fell onto the one who didn't carry the torch. Suddenly, an idea came to his mind. Bingo!

Rajin sprinted toward the said bandit. If the others planned to attack him while he was running, he'd dodge them to avoid the fire. As he came close to the bandit, he back-stepped his pace to avoid the axe being swung down at him and pounced. But instead of sinking his teeth into the bandit's neck, he used his front paws to shove the b*****d toward the other bandits. If this worked, it may cause the bandits to loose their balance and maybe drop the torches. Maybe two or three bandits would be shoved, but damn, it would be great if it caused some domino effect. That way, he didn't need to deal with the fire.

Meanwhile, down a street not to far from where Sunil was currently, a man cried out in despair.

"My Cabbages!" He wailed as he fell to his knees, mere moments beforehand he'd been peddling his wares with a smile on his face and a spring in his step. Then a bunch of bandits chased away his customers, he'd been in the process of hightailing it himself when a large blue beast rammed into the side of his cart (which he couldn't bare to leave behind) and knocked it over, spilling his lovely cabbages in the street which would present a slipping hazard to anyone who came this way. "Why! Why?!" He questioned the sky.

With nothing else to do now, the Cabbage Man hightailed his a** out of town. After the incident in Eyris he was debating leaving Learania for greener pastures, maybe the plains. There was a demand for cabbage in Aldriana he'd heard, a nice quiet place the plains were.

It didn't take long before Zeiss was attacked by enemy units. A dull arrow shot towards him...thankfully it was inaccurate, so it flew close by his ear, but doing nothing.

So while Zeiss was waiting for Ephraim to give him an answer to what he should do to help out, two cloaked enemies came forward and from behind at Ephraim, so Zeiss focused on taking care of one of them to help out his ally.

So between the two that were going at Ephraim, the best choice was the one going at his back. A quick move over Ephraim, and dropping behind the cloaked figure, Zeiss then thrusted his lance at the back of the one attacking Ephraim from behind, striking the arm with the dagger glinting in the sunlight. "I've got your back."