Chapter three: recruits

It has been a week since the easy raid on the valley of peace, sure they heard that the five were looking for the bandits that had done it. but they never got close to finding the culprits. Which they were taking a stroll though the bamboo forest, Jin wore a grey cotton shirt, green trousers, and her snake sword at her side. Dexter only wore black clothes and was using his weapon as a walking stick. He still had the iron wolf mask on.

"do you think the dragon warrior and the rest of the five will find out we stole from the valley?" Jin asked as she saw master crane fly above them.

"nah, those morons would be dealing with other bandits. Besides all they have to go on was what that old goose had to say." Dexter answered, he looked at the she-wolf, "are you scared?"

"no, just I don't want to fight the dragon warrior. A legendary warrior, worth over fifty Kung Fu masters. And a thousand warriors." She shuddered.

"so you're scared," Dexter said, then moved his head to the side as Jin tried to slap the back of his head, " come on you can do better than that, can't you?"

Jin growled as she unsheathed her sword, Dexter grinned underneath the mask has he got in a guard position. The wolf went in for a stab, only to be parried by the shaft of the polearm. Which was expected, she jumped back to avoid a punch from the human. Now she was in range for the blade of the weapon, she had to step back to avoid being slashed at. Dexter moved closer each time she moved back.

"are you really playing like that?" Dexter asked as he missed again.

"it is the only way to beat you, just stay out of your reach and am safe." She explained.

"if I was only going easy on you. yet am not going to stop, a tie than." He lowered his polearm. And took a deep breath.

" it seems so," she walked up to the human, and slapped him in the back of the head. " come on, the ox meat we got a few days ago is calling my name."

He nodded. Together they made their way back home, until a group of coyotes dressed in patched up clothes and had their faces covered ambushed them. four carried a spiked club while one had a spear. One of the coyotes-the leader they guessed- walked towards them.

"hand over any yuan that you have and no one will get hurt" the coyote leader said.

Dexter looked at this guy, was he serious? Can't this guy see the polearm that he had and the sword that she had? And the bandit had only a spear that has seen better days and was going to use it. better get rid of this idiot. But he was jut out of weapons reach, so he took a step forward. Slashing the coyotes chest, the blade bit deep into his flesh and bone. He fell back dead, all in a mater of seconds.

The four other coyotes stared wide eyed, at seeing how fast the masked wolf moved.

"now what shall we do with you?" he asked as he took a step forward.

They cowered, " please don't kill us!" one of them yelled.

"y-yes please don't kill us, will do anything that you want." A female coyote said.

"anything?" Jin asked, looking at the female.

She nodded.

Jin leaned over towards Dexter and whispered, " we could use servants."

" I agree, but how about troops?" Dexter said, " you know, so we wont be easily outnumbered in a fight." Then he turned towards the four, " I will let you live,"

"oh thank you so much-"

"am not finished," they quickly quieted down, " you will serve me and Jin, doing everything that we ask of you. Understand?"

They nodded, but the female spoke up, " what will you be asking of us?"

"nothing much, just to join us as a bandit clan and Gain anything that your little hearts desire, to an extent of course." He said to the female coyote.

The four stood up and bowed to the two. Better following these warriors then the last guy they followed they thought. Which wasn't a hard choice really.

"good now follow us, oh wait how rude of me. What are your names?" he asked them.

"Feng."

"chu."

"han."

"sima."

All the coyotes gave their names, with that out of the way. Sima the female coyote spoke up again, she asks a lot of questions Dexter thought.

"what are your names?"

"Jin and his is Dexter," the she-wolf answered, "but it will be master Jin and master Dexter to you four."

"master Dexter, I like the sound of it," the masked human said to himself.

The six traveled back towards the hut, Dexter told the four to get rid of their clubs. They did, then he said he will go buy them some proper weapons and armor. He grabbed some treasures and made his way out.

"how long do you think you will be gone?" she asked. Holding out his hooded cloak.

"not long, maybe for a few hours at the most," he answered, " don't worry about me, just make sure the four coyotes don't go into the basement. And find out some information, like what was their past occupation or are their more of them nearby stuff like that."

"got it," Jin said as she looked over towards the four, "I wonder if they tasted ox meat?"

"I don't think so," Dexter said, pulling the hood over his head and covered half the iron mask. He made his way towards the valley of peace.

Once there he went straight towards the blacksmith, ignoring odd looks from the animal people. Where he saw a male fox working at the forge, there he ordered some swords, spears and four armor sets.

"that will be thirty-two thousand yuan," the fox said.

"that much! Ugh, fine, "he dug into his robe and pull out a jewel incrusted jade cup, "will this cover it?"

"yup that will do," he said, taking the cup and giving him the equipment and a simple wooden cart to carry it.

He made his way back home, when he arrived he was surprised at what he saw.

Standing around his and Jins hut was thirty coyotes dressed in various bits of armor and wielded an odd assortment of weapons. He saw Jin making her way towards him.

"Jin what happened?" he asked her.

" I don't know, I questioned the four and sima said there was some more bandits not far from where we are, and they came after an hour since you left. And they been here talking and waiting for you." She answered. Looking a little flustered.

Dexter looked at the large group, this was going to be a headache.

A/N: Well I hope you like them, or thought it was okay.

Is there any stories out there that had a human oc eat meat? Like the pigs, sheep, or goat of the world of kfp. Anyway I sure you noticed this is taking a rather fast approach, well i wanted this to hurry along, but at the same time I didn't want to put to much filler. So this is what came up…well thanks for stopping by, more will be posted soon...

Around a month, but if you enjoyed this story then I would be posting more than one chapter. Hopefully around five or at the least three more at a time. Well see yea.