Within Castle Walls

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Krad gave a gasp as he hit the water, he tried to move only to be paralyzed with pain, he winced and looked at his leg to find blood stained water.

The amethyst eyed boy frowned and dived into the water without a moment's hesitation to find the blonde letting out his breath. He swam over as fast as he could and grabbed the other hunter by the waist and swam upwards. As they broke through to the surface, he heard Krad give a gasp and cough a couple times. When he finally managed to drag them back to the shore the blonde flinched and looked at his leg, "Crap…"

The redhead ran to the blonde's side, "Krad? Are you alright?"

Krad gave a pained sigh, "Do I look alright?"

"Aside from your bleeding leg and the fact that you're soaking wet, you look perfectly fine to me."

Golden eyes glared at the redhead, "When you least expect it, you'll find a rat sleeping in your shirt."

Daisuke laughed, "Sure, let's get that leg bandaged up."

And so, the younger two ended up dragging the large centipie head out of the swamp while Dark helped the crippled Krad hobble out, "You think you can handle riding your pegasus? You know you can ride with me if you want."

Krad snorted, "I'm not that weak, this is just a scratch."

"A scratch that could've torn your whole leg off…"

"…but a scratch nonetheless."

Dark smirked and helped the blonde onto the winged horse before dragging the head with him to his wyvern, "You're going to have to bring the head twice after this you know…"

"Shut up."

Satoshi frowned, "Where are we going?"

"To see Towa-chan of course."

"Isn't that the healer that overreacts to everything?"

"Yup…and we better get there soon before Krad dies from blood loss."

"Honestly, I think I'd be happier just sitting here bleeding to death."

The hunter gave him a funny look, amethyst eyes twinkled in amusement, "Nonsense! I will not have any of my teammates bleeding to death for any reason…with the possible exception of the creep."

Blue eyes narrowed, "If you're not careful, the next person to be bleeding to death will be you…you better watch your back."

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On the way to the town Krad frowned, "Can't we just leave my leg the way it is?"

"We still have to hunt tomorrow Krad…"

"I know but still…remember when you showed her your shoulder?"

Dark grinned, "Yea, she threw me out of the house for flashing her."

"…I don't want to get kicked out of the house…"

"Don't worry, I'll go with you, if she kicks us out at least there'll be something to land on."

"How…touching…who's landing on who?"

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And so, they landed outside of town, Dark ended up carrying the blonde over to a house nearby while the younger two went to trade in the head, "Why are you carrying me?"

"Because I don't feel like having you walk with a messed up leg."

"It's not messed up!"

"No, it's a very slim and muscular sexy leg that's momentarily messed up."

When they reached the house a girl ran through the doors happily, "Dark! Krad! Hello! I had a feeling you'd be coming! I saw you through the window!" The two blinked, the gray haired girl blinked, "Oh my…did you two get married?"

Krad blushed, "No!"

"Krad just got bitten by a centipie and now he can't walk."

"Oh…come on in then! I'll fix you right now!"

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"Stupid Dark…" Satoshi growled while dragging the oversized head behind him.

"Well he went to escort Krad so isn't that a worthy excuse?"

"No!"

"Oh…"

"The only worthy excuse I can think of right now would be that he got flung onto the unknown continent and couldn't make it back here in time."

"But that's impossible…"

"Exactly."

"How can anyone have that good an aim as to fling Dark onto the unknown continent? And who would want to fling Dark there anyways? If they wanted him dead they could just feed him to some rabid furling or something."

Satoshi blinked stupidly, "…erm…okay…"

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"Just wait for a moment and I'll get your leg fixed right up!"

Krad sat down on a bed, still soaking wet, he frowned at his ripped pants, sighing he cut off half the pant leg to give the wound some air. "I'm goi-"

"Ahhhh! You pervert!"

Wide golden eyes looked up, "Wha?"

"Trying to take advantage of me in my confused state are you? Is Dark not enough for you now? My virgin eyes! Keep your pants on! I'm not interested despite how wickedly handsome and charming you are but you have to be loyal to Dark!"

"What? Tow-" The girl ran out of the room babbling incoherently, Krad blinked in confusion, eyes still wide, "…what about my leg…?"

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Daisuke tossed the bag of money up and down while Satoshi walked beside him shoulders slumping, tired from having to carry something so heavy, "Do you think Krad's alive?"

The blue haired boy frowned, "Who knows. Towa might've ran out on him…again…"

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"Towa-chan? What happened?"

"Tell your boyfriend to hide his well built body from my sight!"

Dark opened the door to see a very baffled Krad sitting staring at him with widened eyes there while Towa remained as insane as ever, he gave a sheepish grin, "…on the bright side, she didn't throw you out of the house…"

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"What's taking them so long?"

"Maybe Towa threw them out of the house."

"Come on, we should go check on them."

Daisuke laughed, "Wow Satoshi, I never knew you cared about them."

"I don't, but someone has to carry those stupid demon heads…"

As they reached the healer's house they could hear crashes and headed in to hear Dark trying to calm Towa down.

"Put down the knife Towa, you're here to heal, not kill…that's right, put down the knife. There, now can you heal Krad's leg? Whoa! Put down the knife!"

The two burst through the door to find Krad sitting on a bed, pressing himself against the wall panting with his eyes very wide and possibly fearful while Dark took the knife out of the healer's hands. "What was she trying to do?"

The blonde looked over, "S-she said I needed stitches…"

"And…"

"I said no so she took a knife and told me she would see to it that I needed them…"

The younger two looked over at the healer again, "…wow. I'm scared…"

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"That wasn't so bad was it? We didn't get kicked out of the house."

Krad frowned as he sat on his pegasus which was trotting along with the other three, "Aside from nearly having my leg cut open by some mad…person."

"Makes you wonder how she can run a business so well…"

The blonde nodded in agreement, "I'm surprised she has a business at all if she's going to threaten to cut up all her patients…"

"You'll go bald faster if you hold grudges."

Krad blinked before petting his ponytail over his shoulder, Satoshi sighed, "Looks like a hotel night tonight." Dark cheered, "Shut up Dark, you better get well soon Krad."

"Hey, that's not within my control."

"Well then…will yourself to get better then."

The blonde huffed, "Go drown yourself."

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It was the middle of the night when there was a shriek from outside that woke the four of them up instantly. They rushed to the window, Satoshi looked up, "It's a torie!"

Dark frowned as he strapped his cloak on and pulled his goggles down over his eyes, "What the hell's a torie doing here?

The four of them grabbed their weapons and made their way outside, "Krad? What are you doing out here?"

"What does it look like Daisuke? I have a bow and arrows with me. I hurt my leg, not my arms."

"All we have to do is kill it right?"

"Dark, you're such an idiot sometimes."

Satoshi raised a brow, "Don't you mean all the time?"

Krad shrugged, "That works too, it's illegal to kill a torie."

"Why?"

"Because they'll all die off if we kill them?"

Dark frowned, "What's so bad about that?"

"They eat demons."

"Oh…well then…what now?"

"We need to scare it off you retard."

Violet eyes blinked, "Okay…what are they afraid of? Bugs?"

Satoshi looked over boredly, "As easy as it is to compare you to some stupid demon right now and have the demon look better than you, I won't…just because we're in the middle of something here, maybe later. Anyways, Dark, that's a torie, that's not you up there flying around terrorizing people. If that was you up there, I'd have no problem killing it."

"You know, you could've just said no."

"Guys?"

"Why would I when you left it wide open to insult you?"

"…guys…"

"Most people would resist the urge to!"

Krad frowned and took a shot, narrowly missing the demon, it shrieked and backed away from the two. "Watch it you two!"

Dark rolled his eyes as he backed up, "This is your fault you know…"

"We'll continue this, afterwards."

"I suggest paying attention to where the target is before you two lose your heads."

The two leapt away as the torie swooped down once more, Dark frowned and took a slash at it causing it to flap its large wings to fly upwards, creating somewhat a miniature dust storm around the hunters. Amethyst narrowed as icy blue clenched shut, waiting for the dust to settle, "Dark! Satoshi! Look out!"

Suddenly there was a blast of fire that hit the bird demon and disappeared, the torie gave a terrified shriek and flew away. Once the dust had settled, the two could see the blonde staring bewilderedly at the redhead, "Daisuke…did you just summon up fire?"

Wide ruby eyes blinked, "…did I?" Then he collapsed on the ground.

Satoshi frowned and ran to the redhead's aid, he scooped him up, "I'm taking him back inside."

Dark nodded, "Alright, goodnight. We'll see you in the morning." The blue haired boy nodded and disappeared through the door, "Well that was interesting wouldn't you say?" Then the grateful townsmen appeared, but the hunter dismissed them with a wave of a hand and a grin, "We can talk about this in the morning, no? I'm afraid we're all very tired from today's events."

The townsmen nodded eagerly and smiled and thanked them once more before retreating to their sanctuary for rest. "Let's go onto the roof…" A quiet voice spoke up from beside him.

He looked over, "Not tired? You should be the most tired out of the four of us…"

The blonde shook his head, "Not really…"

"Alright then…" He helped the other up the stairs onto the inn's roof where they sat there, "You can see all of the moons tonight…"

Golden eyes flickered up at the three glowing orbs in the sky, "Yea…"

The two chatted silently for a bit, the blonde's voice grew softer and softer, Dark knew he was making an effort to stay awake, "…how's your leg?" No response. "Krad?" Something was leaning against his shoulder, he looked over and found the blonde asleep, he smiled and wrapped his arm around the other's waist, before turning his gaze back to the moons, "Goodnight…"

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Tories:

A very large bird, resembles a Golden Eagle only with a lighter brown for feathers. They prey on smaller demons and dwell about cliffs and deep within old forests. They rarely come into contact with humans aside from when they or their territory is threatened or when their young has been taken away.

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Nya

Whooo another chapter of this fic! Towa's quite mad isn't she? XP What else do I have to say...? Hmmm...I forgot so I suppose I'll just yea...go...bye! Enjoy!