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Her panther Kari had come to walk next to her as they left town. She noticed someone stop farther up the road. She used her thumb to partialy insheath her sakabato and kept walking toward him. Kari began to growl softly but Lyoko told her to hush.

A large winged shadow passed over the village, many of the people looking upwards to see Aideens unfamiliar shape in the sky.
The fear wafted on the winds and Aideen caught it immediatly as she flew past and into the forest landing within its tangled matter and waited for the nights excitement to come.

Ryu blinked, was he so big his starry attire made him seem the nigth sky? "Clearly you fail to see the sun has begun to claim the sky, but no matter. It is true the peasents fear me, I killed there beloved leader and have a fondness for combat. which at times tends to spill out fromt he battle field to claim a random farmer or two. As to why I'm here, I was actually returning home when I'd caught your scent, and I must confess, there is something...alluring about it." He said this last part with a malicious smile.
"Now I've had plenty of visitors to my region in such a short time, I had to excuse the first cause she belonged to someone with which I have a treaty agreement, the following two were members of the agreements, thus I could do nothing to them. You however, have to allegence, thus, I'm free to do with you as I see fit." He looks her up and down for a moment and says with a smile "and I must say, in your cast, I see fit to do plenty of things." He ends with a deep chuckle, like distant thunder.

The boy's body had been sent far enough to land before the rest of a hunting party, to which he was a scout. When they saw this, two of the younger men yelled in horror, one crying out "brother, BROTHER." An older hunter looked ahead and saw part of a tale, and quickly moved to silence the grieving younger men "be silent fools, their is a dragon in our midts, if we're careful we just might catch it off guard and have something of use for the war, one way or another." The two younger men nodded, and moved their brother to a safe hidding spot, then began to circle around in the underbrush, getting ready to catch Aideen.

"I don't suppose I could invite you to visit my castle and share in a meal, that we might converse with one another and thus learn more about eachother?" Ryu asked. he was feeling generous for now, but if they resisted, he'd take the vampire back by force, and the panther as a rug.

Ryu gave a broad smile at her excepting his offer. o O ( oh how this one fails to see the trap she's just about walked into) he thought. He gives a slight bow "then we shall leave now for my castle." He takes a few steps back, then his form turns completely dark before lengthening and expanding, till finally a large oriental dragon float before them, he lowered his head so she and her panther could climb on.

Ryu then lifts his head from the ground, his main making for an ideal harness to grab hold of. He then wound his way into the air and headed for the mountains. As they drew closer, his traditional japanees styled castle came into view. As he came to land before the gates to his palace, the gate began to open by unseen guards. "well here's our stop." he said and lowered his head for the girl and panther to get off.

Ryu shifted back to his human form and looked to Lyoko and kari "follow me my dear guests." He then leads them through the gates, past the rather simple court yard and into his garden area.