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"hmf....how irritating...." Kokujo frowned up at the rumbling sky and down to the odd reptilian creatures, then quickly setting off through the plains briskly. He quickly took his shuriken from his back and flung it in a high ark, causing it to end up lodged in the rubbery ground a medium distance away, one of it's sharp points sticking upwards towards the dark clouds. Sure enough, after a few moments a large bolt of lightning descended from the sky near to Kokujo, but was drawn to the shuriken like a lightning rod. Kokujo hoped this would be a reliable enough defence for him to fight without concerning himself with lightning. At least the place had an abundance of shadows thanks to the clouds.

He continued forwards towards the lizards as one jumped up, aiming it's jaw for his face. Kokujo simply ducked, the lizard missing and ending up draping itself over Kokujos shoulder. Kokujo tossed it off to the ground behind him in time to spin out of the way of another lizards jaws, catching it in the face with a back-hand blow from his mechanical arm. The creatures rubbery skin protected it from a good deal of force, but the blow had stunned it enough For Kokujo to lunge forward and stab the sharp claws of his mechanical arm into the lizards chest, killing it.

There were plenty more though. "tch....too slow" Kokujo said to himself. He reached up with his other hand, slamming it into the ground which sent a wave across the shadows on the ground. the suddenness of it caught most of the creatures off guard and put them off balance or sent them tumbling. Kokujo quickly took advantage and moved slightly forward, stamping a foot authoritatively on the ground, this time causing a wave of rising black spikes to ripple out. Though the agile lizards would have had little trouble dodgeing such an attack, the first wave had made them mostly unable to react in time, and the majority of them were skewered. the remainder retreating to regroup. Kokujo saw his chance and made his dash for the centre tower, retrieving his shuriken halfway and phasing into the shadows for the rest of the journey to avoid the lightning.

After taking care of the zapzards, the group reaches the tower.

"Nice job, guys. We made it."

The tower isn't exactly a lightning-rod, but rather a contained area with an open room. If anything, it's more of an execution ground because there's nowhere to go when lightning strikes.

"Silver's in there. He was sentenced to execution. I doubt he's the one who did it. Anyway, according to that guy's mind....the next large bolt is scheduled to happen in ten minutes. We have to hurry."

They enter the chamber, with absolutely no guards. Silver and Sierra are in the chamber, just hanging out. They're not restrained or anything. Either they escaped, or they have that much faith in the lightning.




Silver notices the group and waves. "Hey guys, long time no see. Did they get you on some false charge too?"




Sierra is relaxing, just finishing a bottle of whiskey via chugging. "Hey Jasso. I'm dry over here." She notices the group. "Yo. What's up guys?"

Neither of them seem particularly worried about anything. They may as well have been at a bar, hanging out.

"Hey, we come all the way though zapzap land and rubber face-eating lizards to rescue you losers, and you guys are just hanging out getting drunk, I demand expensive compensation, I'm thinking maybe an angelic halo, at the very least" Corbenik said, disgruntled.

"....false charges? So, it appears you were set up like us...." Kokujo mused, though still not fully trusting Silver "Those guards didn't seem that strong though....did you allow yourself to be captured?...hmf, you don't exactly look like your need saving" he added, folding his arms once more. At least now they could get some info from them though.

*Kyla gives Kold "a look"*

Murk? I don't know that name. Kold, have you been keeping something from me? Who the heck is Murk?

*She then looks at Silver*
Sigil? What Sigil? We're here to get some tear thing to make the key to get to Yokoshima. What the hell is going on?

"How annoying. I try to keep my past behind me, but it keeps coming back to haunt me one way or another." He turns to Kyla, and reluctantly explains. "Over two hundred years ago, I was part of an assanation organization. Silver, Murk, and myself were part of it. As you've already seen, Murk leaves nothing but destruction in his wake. He was given the code name 'Reaper' because everywhere he goes, he brings death. There were others, but Murk is the most dangerous. When I saw his signature phrase 'death-virgin' I had to find out for sure."

Kold walks over towards the center of the room.

"I don't really care how or why he's here, but I'll kill him again."

Kold draws Sohi and glazes it with a layer of ice. He slams Sohi into the ground and creates a sigil out of ice that he spreads over the top of the ground. The ice glows with a a pale-blue light.

Kokujo glanced sideways at Kold, at least satisfied that they had gotten a straight answer finally. "I see....so do you think he's after revenge on you two?..." He asked "...If you already defeated him once then this shouldn't be too much bother. We can make this worthless feud quick then get back to why we're here in the first place..." he added, not wanting to waste more time than was needed.

*She rolls her eyes at Kold* Yeah...ex-wives, past as a malicious assassin who "killed" his one partner, the other psycho you were teamed up with. Quite a lot of information you didn't bother to mention to me.

*She unsheaths Hien, its sheath ripples away as it turns into flame and vanishes. She points it at Murk*
Ok ugly, we don't have time for this. We have bigger things to deal with, and you're in the way.

"Who cares if I'm being used. As long as I can kill people, it makes no difference to me who I work for. That's how it's always been for me."

Murk responds to Corbenik by saying, "When I was alive, I liked to feel the blood of my victims between my toes. Though I can't feel anything now, since I'm a zombie."

He looks over to Kyla and gives her the same look a 5-year-old gets when he opens presents on Christmas. "You'll be my favorite. I'll remember ripping your curved body to shreds for weeks!" He moves forward and lets Hien stab him in the chest, and he makes no reaction, probably because he can't feel pain.


Kold is utterly disgusted and royally pissed at Murk for making Kyla his target. "Murk, you sick b*****d! You're not laying a finger on her!"




"What a freak. He doesn't seem concerned about revenge or anything. He's just a lunatic."



Silver loads his guns and prepares to fight. "I definately think this isn't going to be easy...."

To be continued....