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Dart

"Well, that was entertaining." Choji muses dryly as they observe a brawl going on down the street as they wait for Hinata, Neji, and Shikamaru to come out of the shop. "I wonder what the fight is about this time?" He wonders from his position on Choji's shoulder.

"More then likely, some guy ripped another guy off." The monk muses and he sigh, privately agreeing with Choji on that one. "I wonder who's going to break it up. I'll put gold on some wizard or cleric." He says as he gives his friend a feral smile and Choji seems to smirk in reply.

"I wager three gold that a paladin or a fighter will break it up." Choji says and the tall Half-orc offers a finger. He places his clawed hand on it and they shake, after all, he's sure that Naruto won't mind lending him some coins if he lost. With the betting made official, they return to watching the brawl, waiting to see who will put a final end to it.

"What are you two doing?" Neji asks as the Drow comes out of the shop with a slightly sour expression on his face. "Just waiting to see who wins a friendly bet." Choji says while he doesn't say anything other then tensing up.

Finally, somebody wearing a robe arrives and begins to berate the one who's kicking the fallen opponent. He flashes Choji a toothy grin while the Half-orc just sighs. "I take it that Dart won then?" Neji muses and he can't help but nod. "Yes I did."

Soon after the brawl ends, Hinata and Shikamaru exit out of the shop. "Now that we have food and water, we're mostly all set for heading there tomorrow." Hinata muses and he hums.

"Are we going to sell the Hippogriffs and the Pegasus before heading into the keep?" Neji asks and Shikamaru shakes his head. "We'll use them to get to the keep, we'll leave them under an illusion spell that should cancel out after a few days have passed, if we don't find it in there then we can always reclaim them, if not, well I'm sure somebody who likely needs them will find them." The Half-elf says and Neji shrugs.

With that, they head back to the inn before he heads to get Kiba and Naruto. Hopefully Kiba hasn't cursed Naruto while we were gone. He reflects thoughtfully as he rides on Choji's shoulder in a pose that should cause people to automatically admire his magnificence.

After all, how often do these people get the chance to see an actual Fairy dragon?

-)T(-

As he speeds through the forest, he hums a song he heard from a pair of bards who were play for coins. He didn't have much of a singing voice right now but that doesn't mean he can't memorize the songs he's heard while traveling about this plane. Even if most of them came from Hinata, the sole female of the group and their bard, who's likely composing an song about their adventures while they're looking for this magical sceptre.

He's not sure why they're looking for it but it's an adventure and something to occupy his time before he returns to his lair, hopefully with some scrolls and magical trinkets as well. Naruto's a fun guy, despite his race. Who knew that Rakshasa are capable of having a funny bone? He muses thoughtfully.

Soon enough, he finds Kiba and Naruto wrestling about on the ground with Kuusou and Ino waiting patiently by the two, although he didn't like the look in Ino's eye... but then, he never liked Ino. "I'm kind of surprised that you haven't transformed, bone breath." He says as he moves to hover over the pair, well out of their reach.

Finally, Naruto gets off of Kiba with a pleased look in his blue eyes while the warlock just growls mockingly at him as the Dire Werewolf gets to his feet. "I just didn't want to ruin my robes like I usually do when I transform." Kiba states in a surprisingly calm fashion.

"You could have gone totally canine and slip out of them." The black furred Rakshasa points out with humor sparkling in his blue eyes. "And hear you tease me without the ability to talk back? Not going to happen." The warlock says giving the humanoid tiger a glare which causes Naruto to shrug in reply.

As he's about to move to land on Naruto's shoulder, an arrow flies at him. He manages to evade it simply because he was already descending downwards. Naruto fires off three Magic Missiles and within seconds, the scent of blood fills the air and a sorcerer is revealed who's clutching his right shoulder, glaring spitefully at Naruto.

Kiba fires off a fireball and it hits the tree next to the sorcerer. He hears the sound of steel and glances to find Ino and Kuusou rearing as a Shift comes into view. Ino moves to attack the Shifter Ranger while Kiba's Hippogriff pulls away, unprepared for hostility coming from either of the two, Ino manages to hit the female in the shoulder, forcing the ranger to drop the bow.

Within seconds, the sound of something solid hitting metal rings out as Ino's hoof stomps on the sword that the ranger had once held in her hand. Ino whinnies and as he turns to look at the offending magic user, he finds that Naruto's already has a dagger pressed to the human's throat. "Why did you attack us?" Naruto asks in a very icy tone, not that he's complaining since if he hadn't began his descent, he might have an arrow in him at this very moment.

The crossbow lay forgotten in the sorcerer's hand, so much so that it fell from the injured arm that's connected to the shoulder. "Wanted to kill the Fairy dragon so that I can sell its parts. Do you have any idea how rare they are? Or how much people are willing to pay for even a minuet scale? We could retire with the gold that its corpse could bring in!" The sorcerer's eyes were a blazed at the very thought of the future he envisioned.

"It won't have worked any way, the wizard goofed in the summoning." Kiba tells the sorcerer while Kiba slams the butt of the staff that Kuusou had strapped to his saddle. He puffs out his chest in an offended manner but did agree with Kiba's assessment of his situation.

I'm so bore of being green. He thinks in a sulky fashion as he hovers close to the ground. "That wouldn't have been our concern." The sorcerer states in a semi-calm manner, not caring in the least about the dagger at his throat.

"How was I to know that the blasted Nightmare would assess in the attack?" The Shift says in a defensive tone, clearing speaking to the sorcerer then to them. "Ino's bitchy from the moment I met her and she'll likely still be bitchy long after I'm gone from this plane." Naruto says and he perks at that remark, filing it away to think about at a later date.

"Well then, what should we do with them now?" Kiba asks Naruto and within seconds, an evil smirk slowly appears on the fighter's face. Within a few flaps, he raises higher into the air to circle over head, curious about what's about to happen to the pair. Kiba seems to look puzzled before something dawns within the warlock.

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"Shouldn't you have left their hands free at least?" He asks as he matches the stride of Ino's movement. Sure the pair had tried to kill him so that they can make a fortune off of his cooling body, but he really had to wonder how leaving the two of them naked and tied up was any better then killing them in cold blood.

"They likely have a third party member, if not, then what kind of ranger would that Shifter be if she can't cut through that rope with her claws or teeth?" Kiba says and Naruto nods in agreement. He still didn't know if that's right or not.

"It shouldn't matter if we robbed them of everything they were carrying, they were trying to kill a member of our party. Unless you wanted to die and for us to sell your corpse to a bunch of drooling magic users?" Naruto muses, glancing at him with his head cocked to the side.

"Err, fine, you two win. I just hope they don't try and steal back their stuff." He says, mixed feeling flood through him at the thought that the pair had been willing to avenge him if he had died by those two.

"But how will you explain where you got that stuff? I mean, you've got armor meant for the feminine figure." He says, feeling proud that he managed to remember that word instead of using woman, girl, and female.

"We'll cross that bridge when we get there." Kiba says and he drops it so that he can help round up the other Hippogriffs and Hinata's Pegasus.

-)Be Continued . . .(-