Well, the small down time is over! prepare for a good 2-3 chappies that lead to some major shit! Are you ready my friends? good, read on.
Chapter 10: Again With The Desert
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Cally awoke the next morning feeling great. Okay...She was a little sore, but other than that she felt great. For some odd reason locrusilas had come home later than the pair had expected, and when midnight rolled around and the dark leader still didn't show up, Ink had bursted back into his room and ravaged the archer on the spot.
The blonde creaked her eyes open, immeadiatly noticing that a small ball of white fluff had replaced the summoner who she fell asleep next to last night. She scratched the small dog behind the ear and blue eyes met blue eyes.
"Where'd kin go kane?" She asked and the dog got up, stretched, and jumped off the bed as if to say 'Follow me, i'll show you'. When she still sat watching the dog, he yapped until she got up. She slipped on Ink's hoodie from last night and zipped it up. Cally got up after the small pit bull puppy and it led her out the door.
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When the dog led them to the office of the house/base, she knocked twice and entered. The girl was met with the sight of what appeared a polar opposite mirror, provided you changed the faces.
Kin, or Ink, and Locrusilas were sitting at the desk on opposite sides, both shirtless in pajama pants; Ink's were a light blue color and locrusilas' a dark red. Both were drinking coffee out of white and black cups, respectively. Next to Locrusilas was Aberaii, wearing one of the snow haired man's black button-up shirts. How she was out of the hospital so soon, Cally wasn't sure.
The archer walked over and sat down next to Ink. Kane had trotted over and jumped up in her lap when she sat down. He stretched, laid down, and before anyone even said anything was snoring on the blonde's legs.
"Good morning everyone." Cally said after she yawned. Everyone answered back in their own way.
"Good morning Cally. I trust you slept well." The bi-specaled leader said and threw something her way. She caught it and looked at the object in question, eyes going wide as she realized what Loc had just returned to her.
It was her red scrunchie. She fought the urge to blush and quickly put her hair in a pony tail again, nodding that she slept good and looking off; becoming very interested in the books on the office shelf.
"Anyway, I'm gonna cut straight to the point." The dark skinned man said and took a sip of coffee before continuing. "The chief isn't dead...I don't know why, but he popped in our window last night at the hospital. He healed Aberaii with some kind of tool i've never seen before. Then he handed me this-" Locrusilas tossed fat bag of money on the table."-and this-" At this he held up a slip of paper. The writing on the front looked rushed and shaky, but was clearly an address.
"He told me to meet him here two days from now." The leader said and he put the slip of paper on the table.
"So the guild is back in order? Nobody's losing their jobs?" The archer of the group asked. This time the brunette was the one to respond.
"No, the leader said he was disbanding the guild permanantly. Everone lost their status as a guild operative of the H.S" Cally frowned. She was cancelled before she even started working. Wait...no one else in the room looked worried. Whe looked at each of the other three.
"Relax..." The druid spoke now. He had been smoking for a while now, appearant from the ash that had yet to fall of the cigarette. "You may not be part of the H.S. guild anymore, but all of us are now full time west burthurope guild members." He finished and took a drag of his cancer stick. "Lemme repeat that...ALL of us are W.B operatives." She finally caught the message and squeeled. Everyone laughed and the dark man began speaking again.
"Ok...for the next thirty six hours we're officially on break." Locrusilas said with a smile and Cally got up, claiming she was going to make some breakfast. When Ink still remained in the room Loc attempted to wave him off.
"Go do what you want. Have fun-" Ink cut him off before he could get any further.
"Aaaaactaully, my snow haired friend, we were thinking of maybe going to the duel arena...do a little team fighting...did you wanna come?" Ink asked after a moment.
"That all depends on my teammate...aberaii?" Loc looked over at his fiance.
"Well, the chief said I should be in good condition...I mean...I'm up and moving, aren't I? She answered back and the leader nodded.
"Alright then kin, I guess we'll see you soon." Locrusilas smiled and Ink flashed him a grin.
"Don't be mad if I have to wind up whuppin' your sorry ass." Ink flaunted and Locrusilas made to throw a book at him. The druid walked out and the dark man turned to Abaraii.
"Sometimes I really hate that fucker" Fe said, full grin on his face.
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Cally was currently in the rec room watching some form of show on what kind of wood worked better with what metal for crossbows. She was about to demolish the pancakes she made earlier, and was fully clothed in her traditional red tank top and red pants. The was about to take a bite when Ink soared over the back of the couch, dressed in his white hoodie black short combo.
"Hey." She said and she made a waving motion with one hand while the other hand stuffed her face with pancakes. He laughed and changed the channel to a report on some new breed of bug. The blonde finally swallowed and spoke up
"So are we still going to the duel arena?" Cally asked and the bunny man nodded.
"Yeah, in fact Locrusilas and Aberaii are coming with us." He smiled but Cally was a little dissapointed...but she'd have to mess with ink's head a little bit.
"Aww...I thought it was gonna be just us." She said a little put down.
"Don't worry, once we take home the gold we'll go out for drinks, just you and me." He grabbed the blonde's hand and she smiled, but quickly changed her face to a faux-frown.
"Fine...but in return you gotta do me a favor." Cally crossed her arms and nodded her head triuphantly, a smirk plastering itself on her face.
"And that would be?" the druid asked scooting himself closer to the girl.
"...Take off your hat." She commanded and ink dropped his head in dissapointment, thinking she wanted something else. When the blonde snapped her fingers, the tan man walked over to the door, peeked out, locked it, and returned to the sofa; hat off and ears standing up.
"I love your ears..." Cally said and started scatching his ears with her fingerips. He took a deep breath and began making purring noises. The girl bit the tips of his ears again and the purring sound was now a steady rumble. "...They're so sooooooft..." She licked the edge and the bunny druid visible shuddered. His eyes were closed and his hand was clenching. Cally muttered one last thing into his ear before getting up and leaving the room, talking about having her fill or something like that. The animal man couldn't quite connect words together well at the moment, but he remembered a laugh and was left on the sofa.
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It was noon and by the time everyone got ready to leave and in Al-kharid, the duel tornament sign-ups were almost over, and Ink and Locrusilas had to run to reserve a spot for the four of them. The fights were a two-on-two match style, and everyone in the sector had to sign the liability waver. As they looked around, they noticed that the tournament was fairly small. There was only eight other teams in the room, making ten teams total.
Before long, the first match was called. An orange haired man with a green spear and equally green chainmail walked into the arena, followed by a bald man in brown robes. They were greeted by another man and a woman; the man had long brown hair and carried a giant stone hammer. He was shirtless, but had a bear skin kilt on. The woman with the shoulder length black hair had a row of darts in her fingers, and was dressed in snake skin armor.
The fight began, and the orange haired man rushed the barbarian looking man, but had to jump back when the raven haired woman began throwing a barrage of darts at him. The bald man began shooting the darts out of the air with water missles, and caused an earthquake with an earth wave spell to disorientate the dart throwing woman. While that was going on, the barbarian and the spear man were going toe to toe. The barbarian would swing the massive hammer, and the nimble man would dodge and let a flurry of stabbing motions at the brute. the barbaric man sidestepped them all and grabbed the spear. The bald man noticed his teammate's trouble and took aim at the kilted man. He let out a fire blast at the woman before slicing away at the barbaric man with air waves. The magic was just bouncing off the barbarian, and before long he grabbed the orange haired man by the throat and was yelling at the pair to concede. They did, but neither pair could continue. The fire blast meant to stall the woman had hit head on and she had third degree burns on her left arm, and the two warrior men had tapped. Both were sent home with one hundred coins to compensate and for a good match, but the crowd was upset with the short match.
Soon the next match started, and the first team to walk in the arena was a bald dwarf with what appeared to be bombs of all sizes where ever he could fit them, and a female gnome with the traditional green gnome tunic and a bow and arrow for a weapon with rope in a contraption on her side. The other team was made up of two twins; one male and one female. Both had blonde hair, blue eyes, and wore a full steel armor suit, and were equiped with a steel sword and kite shield. Loc commented from fighter's pit that he could easily wipe the floor with the dwarf and took a sip of the bottled water all fighters were given for free, but it was soon hanging to the wall from an arrow that the tiny green woman shot. The dark man was about to say something to the green thing, but Aberaii pulled him back to watch the fight which had just begun.
With practiced ease the dwarf lit a bomb with some tinder located on his forearm and chucked it. The crowd went silent as the explosion gave the female gnome time to tie three small bombs the gnome had given her to her arrow by placing the feathered end of an arrow down in the contraption on her side. She knocked them back and after the dwarf had lit them she let them fly at the male twin; who was still recovering from the blast. The female twin rushed over to where her brother was down and they both put up their shields. A light barrier had activated, and the arrows pinged off of the shield exploding shortly after. The twins dropped the shield and began zigzaging towards the small duo, crossing back and forth in each others path. Willing his legs to move a little bit faster, the blonde boy ran ahead and delivered a low horizontal swipe with his sword, to which the small team jumped to avoid. The blonde girl came running, and vaulted off her brother's back. She built momentum as she launched towards the airborne team, and when she was close enough began spinning. Her blade glowed a golden yellow and she prepared to connect. The dwarf pulled a cord on a device strapped to his forearm and a large circular shield expanded to block the incoming blows. The boy on the ground had been charging his blade, which was now glowing the same gold his sister's sword had been glowing a moment ago. He propelled himself upwards to meet with the defending team, but mid jump he was met with a flash bomb that went off in his face. The dwarf drop kicked him in the head upon landing, and he caught his partner who he swung in an arc only to let her go and give her a little extra power to a flying kick that she delivered the blonde warrior girl's stomach, where almost all plate armor was weak and dentable. She back flipped to land and the judges called the match on a double knock-out. Everyone roared at the way the two teams fought as if they were one.
The next battle was between Ink and Cally, and a team who was currently late. The pair stood in the ring waiting for a good five minutes before the judges we're about to forfiet the other team, when a twister of pink flower petals revealed a woman with pink hair in one of the black outfits from a place Ink had read about once in a book. Something about shin-o-bee and sam-oo-ray's or something like that. The man with black hair was no better in terms of clothing, and was wearing a foriegn robe with a thin sword on his lower back. The woman took out a knife that had a hole in the handle and took a stance, whereas the man simple fell back into his own stance, hand resting above his sword ready to pull it out on a moment's notice. Ink and Cally drew their own weapons, and the blonde readied an arrow while Ink summoned a large praying mantis after drawing his red dagger. The match began and in a heartbeat both foreign fighters were gone and had reappeared in front of the opposing team. The pink haired woman swung her knife down, and Cally dodged to the side and fired an arrow point blank. It missed by a hair and flew into the arena wall, the brick shattering away from the shot. The man's swung on Ink, who blocked with his dagger while his mantis went on the offensive, only to be joined by Ink a second later. The foreign man's blade was moving swiftly, and even after blocking the mantis' and Ink's attacks had managed to get in a few of his own. the druid noted that whenever the man blocked his hit, a jolt of electricity would shoot through his arm. After the mantis swung in with both arms, Ink snuck in a kick to the man's chest.
Cally saw the man flying and took aim. She let her arrow go but the pink haired woman deflected it with her knife and threw her weapon at the blonde. the blonde archer dropped her bow and sidestepped. She caught the knife by the handle and tossed it back at the woman. The pink haired foriegner dodge and made her hand glow blue for a moment; afterwhich she slammed her fist into the ground, causing a slab of earth to fling upwards in the knife's path. A loud 'Get the fuck outta here!' Was heard in the crowd as the battle stopped fpr a small moment in awe of the power the small girl had. The battle continued when the strong girl ran towards Cally with another knife and swung, but the archer backflipped and grabbed her bow. By the time she was upright she had another shot lined up and let go. This time the dark haired man dashed over and cut the arrow before it connected with his partner, then he ran forward and grabbed Cally's chin, forcing her to look into his blood red eyes. When he let go of her, her legs gave out and she slumped to the ground. Ink sent his mantis on the offensive again, and ran over to his partner. He shook her at first, but when she didn't get up he bonked her on the head. That seemed to do the trick though, and soon both were back up. The pink woman snuck up behind Ink and tried to get him to yeild by placing a knife to his throat, but his mantis had dashed over before the pink haired woman could react and used it's 'elbow' to strike her in the face while Ink grabbed her knife and tore it away from his neck. Cally had been to worried about Ink's situation, and the man dashed forward for another attempt at hypnotizing her. The bood red man stopped mid-attack however, when Ink called over demanding that he surrender. His mantis had the girl's hands tied in a sticky web and her neck in the mantis' arm. It's claws were digging deep enough to draw blood and show he meant business.
The foreign team forfieted and the archer/druid team walked back into the fighters pit, celebrating the small win over a bottle of much needed water. The mysterous team simply teleported away, dissapointed with the outcome of the fight and Ink glanced over at his leader, who had told him that the sign up papers said something about kono-something or other. The pair shrugged and kicked back to watch the upcoming fight.
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author note: tell me...who did ink and cally fight against? first person to tell me their names and where they came from gets a kirby
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