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Seeing that this people wouldnt cause her too much annoyance like most of the world seemed to be against her, she sat down against a tree, her back and arm muscles relaxing as she laid her hand on the child of the foerst.

Taken her other hand she slipped her slender fingers up and around the bow, the aarows on her side, and put it on top of her lap. Pulling her legs up closer to her she unhooked a dagger from her boots and started to work on a branch nearby, slowly and steadily turning it into a minature spike. When she was done she drove the pointed end into the ground right beside her. If anyone gets too close to my pack I will hear them break this. Trisha thought to herself as she let her eyes fall closed.

A little put out that all she got for her entrance was a small and sleepy response she simply replaced her hood and dropped crosslegged to the ground, wrapped in her cloak, sending Kyr to an overhead branch with an indignant squawk. She leaned back against the trunk and began rummaging in her pockets. She produced a dagger and a whetstone and proceeded to sharpen the weapon with a rythmic Shwihnk noise. It calmed her nerves and put her into a half trance that allowed her to rest but remain awake as she studied those around her.

Blade slept for quite a while, unmoving from her spot even though she did wake up several times. Blade slept until she felt most of her energy return, which actually wasn't very long. She was used to getting a short amount of sleep. That was how a spawn hunter had to do it. You couldn't spend hours sleeping. You had to sleep and then wake up as soon as possible. Even though Blade knew that the others probably wouldn't wake up for a while she was still stuck in the habit of going to sleep late and waking up extremely early. Lovely life, really. Blade could really only get a good long sleep if she stopped at an inn and slept in a warm, soft, comfortable bed. Nothing could quite beat sleeping on a bed. Although she had had several cases where she'd gotten so used to sleeping on the ground that she would just end up sleeping on the floor instead.

Blade sat up and stretched, looking over at Eni and Rina and gave them a small smile and a quick wave before standing up. She was dried off now, or at least her clothes were. Her hair was still damp, but since it was so short she hardly even noticed. Blade reached down and grabbed her things, which was mainly just her belt and her two swords. She gave Eni and Rina a wink at the same time as she stood up as a silent way of telling them that she would be back. Then Blade walked off into the trees, not bothering to look up at the those who were lurking there. She traveled for a while, far enough to where the sight and sound of the crackling fire had died off. Once she'd traveled a good distance Blade put one of her swords on her back and kept the other one her hand and began practicing with it. She could vaguely remember nearly killing herself with one of these swords when she'd first gotten them. She'd also had to use two hands because it'd been too heavy for her. The swords were long and heavy, but different from a normal sword. Because Blade could hold the sword at its center the weight distrubited itself to where she could move it faster than she could with any normal sword if it were the same weight. Pretty nifty, but you still had to be careful.

Blade had been practicing when she'd suddenly paused, sensing something in the air. She spun around with her sword out in front of her only to see nothing but thin air. She, however, knew better. The second that she saw that there was nothing in front of her she'd turned around just in time to dodge the spawn that had been moving through the air at her. She moved off to a side, narrowly missing the long claws of the ocean blue spawn. The spawn landed and then turned around, its tail flickering as it stared at her. The water spawn. It took the form of something that appeared as if it belonged in the water with its long elegant body which glimmered as the moon light touches its scales. Its four legs were long as well, with paws that were clawed but also webbed. Despite the fact that the spawn was a thing of evil, it was actually beautiful. Or at least if someone didn't know what it actually was. Blade grabbed the other sword on her back and placed it in front of her, locking her eyes with the spawns. The spawn's eyes were a dark glassy black while Blade's were sharp, vivid icy blue. After a few moments of staring at one another the spawn's tail twitched, brushing up against the ground as it opened its mouth to reveal the hundreds of sharp teeth that stood in precise rows inside of its mouth.

"You can't scare me." Blade snapped back before she ran forward and then swung one sword out at the spawn. The spawn drew back and hissed, and suddenly its body melted into water. The water fell and drained into the ground, however Blade was too damn stubborn to just give up there. She put her swords away and then her own body transformed into black smoke and then formed with the shadows, and within moments it followed the trail of the spawn. The spawn went to the nearest water source: The lake. Blade followed but had to avoid getting hit by the camp fire light, however within movements she was back inside the water. The spawn itself reformed, taking its solid form at the deepest parts of the water so it couldn't be seen. Blade manipulated the shadows around it, making the spawn become trapped within the dark depths. The spawn sent out a current of its energy which knocked Blade out from her spot. Blade gritted her teeth in pain against the heavy pressure that pushed itself against her before turning herself into a shadow again. She couldn't stay down here or else she'd die. Just as the spawn got ready to swim off Blade ordered the shadows to push the spawn strait out of the water, which was exactly what they did. Then Blade shot herself out of the water soon after the spawn had been thrown out. A long black streak of shadows shot itself out from the water and then turned into curling black smoke. The smoke took form again and Blade reappeared, flying unhappily through the air. Blade cupped her hands in front of her and then sent out a string of fire out at the spawn, which sent her backwards. She landed painfully on the hard ground, the spawn letting out an angry screech as it was thrown to the ground, burned by the flames.

"Ow! My ******** head...." Blade growled before she forced herself up, swaying for a moment against her head rush. Blade didn't like to display her powers, however if it was between a choice between dieing, killing a spawn, or keeping her powers a secret, Blade was certainly not going to take the last option. She glanced back at the others for a split second, knowing that anyone who had been sleeping would be rudely interrupted by the chaos that had currently appeared.

Rina deeply listened to Eni speak in her tongue. She was very curious on what she was saying. She smiled back at Blade when she awoke. The girl wondered were she was going, but didn't ask. She found out the hard way not to ask too many questions to strangers.

Rani and Rina had met a very livily traveler when they frist started their journey. Rina grew to like him quiet well. She badgered him with questions untill he finally threatened to kill her. Rani quickly got rid of him then. She hadn't asked many questions since then.

Because Rina was deep in thought she didn't notice when Eni stood. Only hearing Blade curse got Rina's attention. She toke in the fact that shadows were attacking a spawn to deep consideration. She knew of no one who could control shadows. That fact was new to her, but the girl noticed it was the water spawn that had attacked.

Quickly, Rina stood and took up her bow and arrows. She ran to Blade only to stop five feet away. "Want any help?" She asked as she readied her bow with an arrow.

Rani, who was only ten yards away hear the fighting. He got back quickly to see the fight. The moment he saw the spawn, he sent flames at the spawn. Not really caring if Blade had a plan. He knew spawns were tricky and that you had to deal with them fast.

Kai ended up walking through the whole town. He walked out sighing "Everything was too expensive." Kai said as he yawned. He actualy wasn't tiered but he was bored. kai looked around befor finding a tre to lay in. It wasn't a big tree but he didn't care. In one big jump he was in the air and over the tree. kai came crashing down into the top of the tree and moved around. Kai found a comfortable position where he was siting on a branch. Kai stared at the sky as he sat with his arms crossed and his legs along the wole length of the tree branch. Kai put his bag on a small branch above him and took a book out. He began reading it, actualy it was more of studing it. Kai looked it over, he knew most of the ancient languages words but some were still a bit dificult. Kai yawned agin. "i wish something would just happen, who cares what just something." kai said as he continued to try and desipher the rest of the book that he hadn't done.

"Help is always great." Blade told Rina as she heard the girl run up behind her. "Rina, I want you to aim as best as you can at its legs and at its tail. I can make it stop for just three seconds so aim as fast and as well as you can."

Now Ebon came up to join them, in a rather lazy manner in fact. He didn't seem to think that the spawn was going to get back up. "Be sure that it's dead first." Blade responded to Ebon, still looking at the spawn. "A spawn does not die from just one hit like that. And it's a water spawn so my fire shouldn't have effected it so well...."

A few seconds passed but the fire continued to burn away at the limp body. However Blade refused to believe that the spawn had died so easily. It was tricking them, she could sense it.

Then the water in the lake stirred, swirling around once before it rose up into the air and took the form of a jagged ice dagger. The ice flew down directly at them, making Blade jump back. The ice shattered, sending out sharp chips everywhere as if it were glass. Blade covered her face with her arms and then looked back up just as the water spawn stood up and began to shake itself. The fire began to vanish from its body, turning into steam as water filtered out from the scales that rippled along the spawn's body. The spawn began to draw back, obviously deciding that it wanted to flee. Blade made another growling sound, lifting one of her hands up and pointing it at the spawn.

"You stupid piece of crap! You can't run away from me that easily you b*****d demon!" Blade fumed as she reached back and pulled off a sword from her back. The spawn was a good distance away from Blade, but that didn't matter to her. Her heart was thundering loudly in her chest, adrenalin sweeping itself through her veins. If she could kill this spawn, it would take her one more step closer to destroying Tidal! He would pay for what he had done!

Blade flattened her pointed hand and then stretched her fingers out, calling out at the shadows. The moon was half full, and with Blade standing in its light she wouldn't be able to hold onto her power as much as she would like to. But at least the moon wasn't full, then she would have been in some deep s**t. Blade blinked once and something that looked like black ink seemed to spill out from her pupils and then cover up her irises. Then the shadows around the spawn stretched up, locking its feet and its tail. The spawn screeched again, jerking itself around to try and get itself out from its prison. Blade could hear it, the scream echoing through her mind and her body. She could also feel small thin scratches appear where the light of the moon hit her skin. The light was peeling her skin open, but not fast enough to where it could cause Blade too much damage.

Trisha flicked her left eye open as she saw everyone stand, and then it hit her. Something isn't right. Lifting her bow off her lap she forced ehrself up with her legs as her back crawled up the tree.

Opening her other eye as she stood tall she sniffed into the air and opened her mind to the forest. Breathing in she let all the sounds on the campfire and the chat of the people here drift away to the back of her mind. All the animal's have left this area of the forest, even the protectors of the forests are gone.

As Trisha opened her eyes and went back to her regular breathing pattern, the sounds of the camp came like a bang back to her head, making her rush her hand up to her head. Shaking it off she looked back at the people at the fires, and for the first time, spoke. "All the children of the forest are gone, and I have a feeling that that thing in the fire isn't the only one here."