The creatured tilted his head, he thought all organism knew what Shie were. Apparently this world was a great deal different than the one he came from.
"Oh, so you live in groups? Well would we be allowed to visit your pride's Leader"
Riza asked the creature nicely, she needed to learn as much as possible about these creatures and being kind was the best wasy to get information without possible comflict.
"Of course, you may follow me"
The creature slowly walk towards Riza. She kept guard up however the creature seemed to be docile. They all followed the creature.
The short walk led them a short distance outside Liore. Soon they were surrounded by by about 2 dozen of those creatures... way more than Riza had presumed there were. She became a bit uneasy however she could take a some down at least, plus a few of her men had skills in alchemy with could probably keep them safe. They walked up to a large one, she looked older than the Shie that had brought them here.
"Why do you bring these creatures here Shuuk?" The old Shie ask the creature that had brought them here.
"I'm sorry for not askin permission but they wanted to know about how we got"
"Tell them to leave us, they won't be of help to us.."
"But... They want to know what happened and how we got here. Plus we did take their food."
"Lies! That food wasn't eaten so it was for taking. They shoudn't leave it viewable in they don't wish for it to be taken."
Shuuk gasp and sighed, there was no convincing his leader.
Riza decided to speak up,"Excuse me but humans share their food which is why it was viewable. Please if you need aid we will help you. All we want in exchange if your help to find the reason your kind and come here"
"I don't know about your species but we do not take to pity." The old Shie stood up on her four legs and gritted her teeth, seeminly offended by Riza. "Leave my pride to it own faith."
Gluttony was very confussed by all the talking and wasn't able to follow it, however, he notice the creature giving an angry stare towards the Colonel so he decided to waddle over by her side.
"Miroka, please allow me to speak to the humans." Another one of the creature stood, it also look aged.
"Very well... You may speak as long as these creatures leave us afterwards"
The unnamed Shie spoke, "I am second to the Leader. I am sorry she feel threaten by your presense however we have been without our home land for too long"
"Your homeland?" Riza asked.
"Yes, we come from a place known as the land of Ishan. It is a place in which is like this world except there is much difference in the life that lives there. We seek to return there but we cannot unless the Crescentbird allows it."
Riza thought for a moment, Crescentbird was a name she had heard before.
"Phoenix of Alchemy is legend, not real." Gluttony spoke, which was odd for him if it wasn't about food.
"Maybe in your world, but in ours this mighty creature truly exists as does an entire race of Crescents"
Riza now could remember were she heard of the Crescentbird. There was an old story dating back to before recorded history that a great bird came from the sky call the 'Crescentbird' and brought alchemy to the world. It was a fictional child's tale as far as she could recall that explained alchemy to kiddies. "So the Crescentbird brought you here?"
The leader called Miroka decided to speak again and respond to Riza's question. "No she did not. It was some creature from this side foolish enough to open the gate. And if you humans really want to help why don't you find her and ask her to allows us to return to our world? You can start by defeating the icerat"
"Icerat? What's that some kind of dragon or something?" One of the soldiers joked.
"Yeah, we'll go slay it and get a magic sword of something." Another replied and laughed.
"Actually, the icerat is a tiny creature that can control the flow of ice. It gets it power from the Crescentbird." Miroka replied very seriously, she wasn't joking at all and was somewhat offended by the ignorant humans she had to deal with.
The two soldiers stopped, they had seen the ice around the city. Which probablymeant this cat was telling the truth.
"Then we'll find the icerat and capture it and it return for this information we'll allow you to leave without further bother. However please refrain from getting your food in human territory as we'll have to bother you once again." Riza told Miroka.
"Fine then! I wish to be left be anyway. So now you have what you need. So do me the great pleasure of LEAVING!" Miroku said raising her dark and strong voice.
Riza nodded and bowed. She signal to her soldiers to leave.
The Shies all look at their leader once Riza & co were out of view, one spoke. "You should have told them the Crescentbird kills anyone that bother her during her nesting."
"Let them find that out of their own. We'll keep watch and once they get close enough to her we'll just rest close until her nesting is done in which we'll ask her to return us." Miroku smirked, she needed to find some use for those humans.