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Theresa: We are sorry for the long hiatus… last time on Between Skorm and Avo...

Hiding at the steps the three young heroes overheard everything that went down. When they herd The Guild Master approaching the stairs the three of them swiftly but quietly dash back to the map room. They couldn't believe what they herd. Jack of Blades has returned! And he plans on destroying everything! They were slowly starting to wish they hadn't heard any of that.

"Whets wrong with you guys? You look pale." Asked Jewels.

They all just looked him with shocked eyes.

"Jewels... You are not going to believe what we have to tell you."

"And that would be?" he asked while book marking the page he was reading. However Briar Rose, Grepher, and the Guild master interjected first. "They were just about to explain your mission. The four of you will take part in the destruction of the resurrected Jack of Blades and his unknown blood-kin. You all have one hour to gather things you think you may need. We will all regroup back in Oakvale then. Anyone who doesn't show up will defiantly miss out on things that happen every so often. On that note you have to understand your lives will be in the most danger it's been in ever thus far and if you don't have your stuff together you will die, its as simple as that."

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"WHAT!!?" the four yelled.

Shoving past them all Grepher mumbled something only for the ears of the younger heroes. "Die sooner or die later."

"I'm going on ahead. Rose I'll leave "Dancer" to you." With those last words he made his way past the front doors to only he knows. "Lets hurry." Not wasting anytime Rahn grabbed hold of his sister's arm dragged her over the Cullis Gate and transported them both back to their home in Knothole Glade. Both Silverna and Jewels watched as the two of them were instantly transported away. "You two had better get moving as well. I have to go grab someone in Hook Coast. Jewels you still live in Oakvale correct? Silverna, I expect you to not mess around." It was now Briar Rose's turn to teleport out.

Heading to his house in Oakvale Jewels parted ways with Silverna leaving her running to her house in Bowerstone. She wasn't sure what she should take with her once she got home. She just decided to take the things she normally would have, that and a steel katana she had received back when she was still an apprentice. When she was sure she was set she locked up and hurried out of Bowerstone. When she made her way through the gates she was unexpectedly greeted by none other than Grepher himself. "You ready?" He asked. She just looked up at him. Just trying to figure out what was doing here. "If you are ready to go quit standing around like a moron and lets go!" Before she could say anything or take a swing at him he was already ten feet away from her walking toward the Lookout Point.

"Hey! Move your little ass!"

'I'm going kill this guy. I don't care if he is a legend. Oversized son-of-a-bitch!'

She quickly ran and caught up to him. From all the way from the Lookout Point to the Greatwood Caves Silverna was always more then eight feet ahead of Grepher. His longer legs were the reason he kept a distance between the two. That and Silverna didn't want to have to keep jogging to catch up, otherwise she'd start to feel slow. Then suddenly at the entrance to Darkwood he just stopped.

'Did something happen?' She wondered as she quickly hurried over to him. "What's wrong? Why did you stop here?"

He turned to face her.

"Nothing is wrong. You're just slow. Hurry up!"

That was it. That was the last straw. On pure impulse she just threw the heaviest punch she could and aimed it right at his face. Just as fist was about to connect with his chin her vision suddenly went completely black and fist made a sharp sound passing through the air alone. Quickly panicking Silverna immediately reached for her eyes fearing that her eyes had just gone blind on her. Something covering her head and face.

'A hat?!" It was the hat that Grepher was wearing. However when she removed it from covering her eyes Grepher was no longer in front of her.

"Damn girl you're slow." Hearing his voice behind her she quickly spun around with a spinning sidekick touching only air again.

"(Sigh)… You got some moves I will admit to that." After missing for a second time she spun around again only to see Grepher sitting down on a nearby boulder. With his hat now clutched in her fist she had a much clearer view of his face. His hair was long and black with a reddish tint if you look real close. He had it pulled back in a low ponytail wrapped in a black leather sleeve. He had matching slanted scars on both cheeks point toward his nose starting from his jaw line. He also had a third long horizontal scar going across nose and face.

'Whoa…'

"What's with that dumb-ass look on your face? You have nice movements but for Briar Rose's student you could use some polishing."

"Keep messing with me and I really will hit you next time."

"Not possible. Anyway I hear you're from Knothole Glad. That's interesting because you don't look familiar at all."

"You saying we are suppose to know one another? What do you mean by that?"

"Maybe some other time. Right now I think we better get going. We have less than twenty minutes before we are suppose to be in Oakvale with the others." Placing his hat back on his head he stood up and dusted himself off.

'What the fuck??? When the hell did he get his hat back?! Out of my hand!' She was now a little confused, a little embarrassed, and more than a little scared.

"So girl since we are a hurry how about a race?" Grepher suggested. He just wanted to toy with her some more. He was bored. Silverna for her part just gave a look like he was drunk or something. "I don't mind running the rest of the way but why do you want to race?"

"You coming?" He started running without answering her question and with out warning.

"Hey wait!" She called out to him as she sprinted to catch up with the disturbingly fast large man. 'Why me?! Why don't we just teleport to Oakvale? But now that I think about it isn't that where he's originally from? I wonder how come I have never seen him while I did quest there. Oh wait, I forget. He's a legendary hero. He must a whole lot more important things to do than relax at home.' Pushing that aside for later Silverna had to come to an abrupt halt when Grepher held up his massive arm signaling her to stop.

Not really paying attention while running Silverna now just realized that they were already at Dark Wood Lake. She couldn't help but wonder why they had stopped all of a sudden.

"You all can all come out now we know your there." Grepher called out both loudly and calmly.

"Say what?" Said Silverna to no one. At first there was nothing but silence. Then the sounds of movement entered clearly into their ears. Within a matter of seconds the two found themselves surrounded by ten men that appeared to be assassins.

"Only ten? Oh well… Hey girl, you take four of them. I'll take the rest. Watch your ass though. I can already tell that these guys are seasoned experts when it comes to killing others. You'll die without even getting a chance to get started if you're careless." Silverna did not dare question or back talk him because the tone of his voice and the deadly seriousness it carried was similar if not more imposing than her master's when she is serious. Cracking all of his knuckles at the same time he rush forward in a blur and before any of them could react he appeared in front of one assassins with a blurring right straight which sent the hooded assassins head fly off his shoulders and into some dead bushes. Only realizing what had happened until after their partner's blood had splattered on them the remaining nine charged at Grepher blades drawn and ready to kill without hesitation!

"Holy shit… Oh fuck!" Almost losing her self after witnessing that awesome beheading she quickly snapped to it unsheathing her katana and following after them joining the fight. "Hey girl raise your sword, now!" Grepher yelled as grasped another assassin's wrist with his left hand forcing him to drop his blade. And with his right hand clutched him by his neck, rushed past the others in a blur and impaling the assassin on Silverna's extended blade. "Now you only three left." He said as he turned around with a spinning kick to the assassin that was running up on him gut sending him flying into a nearby try knocking him unconscious. Running past him Silverna dashed towards the closes one too them. He raised his sword over his head and brought it down at her aimed at her left collarbone. She raised her katana in time to block and then parry the assassin's sword away the followed up with a ball breaking kick between his legs which forced him to his knees holding himself. In one smooth motion she shuffled over to his left side and delivered a killing stroke to the back of his neck loping his head clean off. She didn't stop there. Noticing another assassin approaching she crouched down and made him fall down face first with a spinning shin sweep. Making sure he couldn't get up she jumped feet first on to his back and head she then ended his life by piercing his heart from behind.

'She's better than I thought.' Grepher mused as he rushed in another blur at his next target and simply "shoved" him sending him and his comrade behind him sailing into a nearby tree. As soon as they smashed against it Grepher rushed in front of them and with one inhumanly strong uppercut to the body his huge fist penetrated both their torsos and tree trunk painfully killing the two of them instantly. Seeing a chance with Grepher's arm still imbedded two more assassins charged at him about to simultaneously thrust their swords into his back. "They had him" or so they thought. Without even turning around to face them Grepher released a dense blast of mental energy at them which sent them launching through the air. However the blast was so powerful that as it struck them all of their bones shattered at once. With all that pain just suddenly rushing to their brains they died long before they ever came close to hitting the ground. Dislodging his now blood soaked right arm Grepher turned to the last assassin and crossed his arms. "Hey. I'm already done and I had two more people than you did. Wrap it up will ya'." Before the assassin could say "huh" the tip of Silverna's katana burst through his chest. The last thing he tasted before he died was the liquid steel flavor of his own blood.

"There! Happy?" She removed her sword from the now limp body and placed it back tin its sheath.

"Not really. Now, where is the one I left alive?" Scanning the scatter bodies Grepher spotted movement from one of them. He was feebly trying to crawl away. Rushing over in a blur Grepher pressed his boots on the back of the assassin skull.

"Listen up you broken little shit you have two seconds before I break both your arms and legs then leave you for Dark Wood's Balverines! Tell me who sent you and where I can find them! Two seconds! One!

"STOP!! I honestly do not know who they are! All I know is six guys hired us to kill or seriously wound Death Bringer! Three of them are women! I swear I don't now their names though they didn't tell us!"

"Where do you meet?"

"We met them at the Headman's Hill with many others who wanted to learn of the bounty on you. That's all I know! Please don't kill me I've been truthful!"

Lifting his foot from the man's cranium Grepher turned to walk of without killing the failed killer. 'Headman's Hill. I already checked around there a month ago and didn't find anything unusual. That was most likely the idea. Meeting at a place where people normally don't pass often but at the same time it's a place where large crowds gather. Oh well. It's in the past. It may not be much but now I have a few idea's on where to look for these assholes.'

"Girl. Grab this fool and get ready. We're going to sprint all the way to Barrowfields now."

"Avo you got to be kidding…" Silverna sighed as she threw the assassin's arm over her shoulder and started running following after Grepher who had already taken the lead.

-Oakvale-

"Their both late. I wonder why they're both late though." Briar Rose and the others had all arrived on time for the regrouping. Except for Grepher and Silverna that is. They had all moved near the town's entrance to wait for them to arrive. "You think they're together? I mean the midget does need someone to keep her from causing trouble." Rahn half joked. It was only a half joke because both he and his twin know all too well how much trouble Silverna can get in to. All them were born and raised in Knothole Glad and got in to lots of mischief together like kids often do. And most of the time Silverna was the one who lead the way to all of them catching spankings. "Hey, miss. I just remembered is someone else coming along with us? Dancer was it? Who is that?" Briar Rose only smirked to the young man. Making him more and more curious.

"Ah! I see them. They're coming… this… way…?" As everyone looked in the same direction they soon saw what had made the young blonde's words trail off. It was indeed the two they were waiting for but both of them were covered in blood. And it wasn't theirs. The closer they got they soon noticed some wounded man being dragged by his ankles behind a royally pissed Silverna.

Before Briar Rose could even start to question the two Grepher ran past her saying, "Don't ask." Sighing in defeat Briar Rose turned toward her pupil hoping to get some form of an explanation. Not even acknowledging the gaze from the others walked past them looking for a town guard to pass this loser to. Truly giving up now Briar Rose asked Jewels to go over and assist her so they can catch up to with Grepher.

-Oakvale's Beach-

As Grepher watched the waves go in and out he waited quietly for Briar Rose and the young ones to bring their Asses down here. He didn't wait long. They all arrived immediately after dropping off the broken assassin. As he was about to tell them where they were about to go he quickly noticed that someone wasn't present. Wondering about that person he decided to get some answers. "Rose. Where is Dancer?"

"Already waiting for us most likely at your house. It's been a while since I've since I stepped foot in there as well. You change anything?"

"Not much. Come on lets not keep Dancer waiting. Oh and one more thing. If any you little fucks tell the wrong peopleabout this I swear I'll hunt you down and beat you to death."

'WHAT THE HELL MAN??!' The four thought as they followed after the big man at a much safer distance now.

When they all came to a near by rock face on the beach the four young heroes only looked on as the legendary man felt all around the large piece of earth as if were looking for something. When his hand stopped roaming about he opened his arms wide wrapping them tightly around a large section of the large piece of rock. He crouched down and braced himself for then with one motion he stood back up lifting the large boulder embraced in his arms. The feat of strength the four heroes had just witnessed had almost forced them to piss themselves as they watched this man not only lift a boulder that was at least four times the size of him but he demonstrated he could actually move quite easily as walked backwards revealing the mouth of a cave that was once hidden behind the boulder.

'For Avo's sake! That isn't possible! Neither his arms nor legs seem to even to tremble with all that weight. 'Come on! Grit your teeth! Grunt!! Give me something that shows your at least a little human!!' Silverna's mind screamed.

"Get in quick." He commanded. "I don't won't anyone to see this entrance if they don't need to. Now hurry up."

Not wasting a second they all scrambled inside the cave. Once they were all inside Grepher checked all around to make sure no one was watching any of this. Once satisfied, he proceeded to enter the cave backwards while still holding the massive boulder. When the massive rock was firmly back in place he hurried to the other end of the cave and caught up with the others. When he arrived he quickly noticed that all of them except Briar Rose had their weapons drawn and ready. He moved alongside Briar Rose to see what was up and saw that before them was the same kind of assassins that attacked him and the kid while passing through Dark Wood. They were all dead. Most of them were not even whole. Different body parts lay scattered all around. The only thing more disturbing than the massacre before their eyes was the amused grin that not only plastered Grepher's face but also Briar Rose's.

"Dancer's skills have improved again it seems. What's the number? A little over thirty?"

"Hmmm… Can't say with all these severed bodies. But if I had to make a guess I'd say either thirty-five to thirty-eight. And then there is possibility more are up ahead. Well in any case lets just hurry up see if there are any left.

Now all of them were moving double time. And as the younger heroes followed after the two legends they were taking in their surroundings. None of them had been to or herd of seen such an area. Why was that? This bothered Jewels a bit more than the others since he was born and raised in Oakvale. He had always assumed that that he knew every inch of Oakvale. On the other hand the man he was now following was also Originally from Oakvale. It's only natural since he is older. On the other hand, Briar Rose also seemed to know about this place. 'Does only the older generation know about this place? Also, are there more Locations that we do not know about?'

After short time of running they all fond themselves was standing in front of a large pair of wooden doors. Two more assassins were fond laying dead in the dirt. One was cleanly cut in two. And the other look liked he was mauled by a large animal of sorts. Walking over the corpses like the trash Grepher placed his hands on the doors pushed them open as if they had the same weight as a normal door. Not even mentally questioning his preternatural strength anymore the others quickly followed after him and Briar Rose.

Looking over to her left Briar Rose quickly noticed the large boulders placed on top of Cullis Gate. "Grepher why is their a huge rock there?" Either because he didn't wish to admit that he was the one who placed them there or he was just being him he just shrugged and kept on walking.

After some more walking through this unknown area they had finally arrived at their destination. "Home sweet home." Said Grepher. He called it a home making it sound like a house. But no matter how you slice it was more of a small fort or bunker than a place to live. As they approached it everyone came to a halt as what appeared to be the front door opened. If it wasn't for their training Silverna and the others may of jumped out of their skins instead of drawing weapons at the site of the large white Balverine head coming out the door. "Relax! This one is with us." They looked at Grepher and Rose and saw how they were so the lowered their weapons but not their guard. After completely stepping out in to the open they could now see the beast head was in fact a hood connected to a white pelt fashioned into a cloak that shielded the wearer's body. "I saw what you did on the way up here. Your technique has improved once again. That's good see since you'll have your work cut out for you from tomorrow onward." When Grepher didn't get a response he realized what was wrong instantly. "Oh if you're wondering about them they're going with us as back up of sorts. I'm sure Rose has explained all of this."

"…Yeah." The voice was very low monotone but clear enough to understood.

"Good. Now take off that hood and introduce yourself." After nodding the person removed their hood and stepped past Grepher.

'Beautiful…' was the only that crossed all four of their minds. This person, she was beautiful beyond what they thought beauty was. With long, gleaming black hair that surpassed her thighs. And eyes colored as orchid topaz. They radiated a beauty and strength that surpassed the gem itself. Rahn for himself didn't trust his own eyes and ended up punching himself to see if he was under some sort of spell.

"My name is Kokoa. My other more known name is Blade Dancer."

-To Be Continued-

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