III
With the blood of Aphrodite in her, Satō Sei is a definite version of her mother, though she's more like Zeus due to her nature in chasing after women. On the other hand, one of her traveling companions happened to be a child of Suzaku (Vermillion bird) and the only person to have the ability to tame the wild and perverted Sei from hitting on anything that's a female. Mizuno Yōko, a woman of patient and tolerance, as in tolerance of lover's unfaithfulness (I doubt there's anyone in the world that could tolerate Sei's infidelity but Yōko, but I'm sure that her tolerance would run out as well). The third person in the group was but a distance relative to Sei (with the messed-up relation of the gods, it's hard to tell really) as she's the bastard child of Aries, the God of War who had a child with Aphrodite (she got the temper from her father). Shizuma Yoshino never liked her godly heritage, for all she cares the man that impregnated her mother should be Cerberus' chew toy and suffered through all the tortures that Hades god in his domain.
Between the three of them, Yōko was considered to be the most benevolent while the other two could care less about things. Sei only cares about the women, while Yoshino believed that the world already died once, there's no reason that it shouldn't die again and maybe take everything even the gods along with it this time. It is a miracle as how the three of them haven't killed each other since they started to travel the world together in collecting rare species of monsters in all sizes.
Finally, among them was a much more subdue person, Todō Shimako, the benevolent daughter of Vishnu (the maintainer or preserver) had come along with the other three despite the constant arguing between Yoshino and Sei. The strangest thing would be that Shimako would never followed a stranger, that was until she met Sei and followed the blonde woman without hesitation though Sei always regarded the young demi like a sister and never lay a finger on her.
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"Let's go after them," Yoshino suggested and Sei agreed. Tugging on the snow-sunbird's reign, Shimako followed the other three out of the bustling town. Unaware that they too are being followed by two other people that happened to be in town at that time witnessing the same incident as they had, however, Shimako had an inkling feeling that they're being followed though she's sure that whoever it was isn't following her group but the group before them.
Indeed, not far behind them were Rei and Sachiko riding on their horse mount, both women too intrigued in the two young men that had managed to slay the serpent and both exuded abnormal strength in lifting the head and smashing it into the guild's entrance. Though Sachiko found it to be odd that out of 22 men, only 2 of them carried no weapons of any kind, well the visible weapons but Sachiko had her doubt that they could have any hidden weapons on their bodies with such simple clothing given no place to hide anything.
Further ahead, the group traveled with quick speed, with the two younglings leading the group while riding on their midnight-sunbirds (big as an ostrich but still looks like an actual sunbird). With their sleeves rolled up partway and their hands covered by leather gloves, Noriko and Yumi looked no different than the men that's behind them with their goggles down to protect their eyes from bugs and whatnot while riding at such a fast speed towards the river.
"The nerves…" Noriko growled riding beside her cousin. "Ignore them," Yumi said. "Like hell I will," Noriko replied pulling hard on the reign and redirecting her ride in the opposite direction instead. "Noriko!" Yumi called after her cousin after getting her own mount to halt. "You take care of whatever it is with them, I'm going to take care of these pesky bugs." Noriko called back already far away from the group. "That fool," Yumi murmured feeling a tension headache coming her way. In her moment of distraction, a larger than life paw swiped against her, sending all 21 remaining people flying right off their mounts instantly knocking them unconscious but Yumi.
Coughing, Yumi got up and brushed her clothes off, with a snap of her fingers her scythe appeared from thin air by her side. "Let's get this party started," Yumi said with an eerie smirk on her face as she grabbed onto the scythe and make a mad dash for the big feline before her. Leaving the fainting men behind and forgotten about the horses and bird as well, Yumi focus solely upon that enormous beast before her and nothing else.
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"Stay away from here!" Noriko roared smashing a rather large and heavy glaive right into the ground just a meter away from the group of 4 women scaring their rides into frantic mode. Causing them to busy themselves in getting their mounts to calm down, Noriko took that chance and severely injured them. Out of all 4 of them, Noriko took one with her as a trophy or simply of the woman's beautiful that she wanted to share with her family. With an earsplitting howl, Noriko took Shimako with her and left the others for dead.
Sachiko and Rei happened to be right behind the group of 4, but the howling caused both of them to lose control of their rides and pain in their ears. Thus, by the time the howling stopped, the two regroup and continued on forward only to discover the group of 4 now lay on the ground with severe wounds on them. Well, one of them was missing, but this isn't the time for either Rei or Sachiko to stop and look for the missing person when 3 other persons in dire need of help to stop the wounds that were inflicted upon from bleeding.
Meanwhile, driven by instinct, Noriko took Shimako and headed deep into the forest until they came to a cave behind the waterfall. Leaving her family and cousin behind to deal with the feline, knowing that her cousin was plenty strong enough to take the thing down, Noriko wanted to share this beautiful possession she'd took with her with the others and mostly with Yumi. But at the same time, she doesn't want to share this creature with them, not even Yumi and knowing Yumi, she might ended up lecturing Noriko about abducting innocent people than having a little fun with the victim. Whatever reasons that caused Noriko to abduct this woman, the young warrior isn't interested in sitting down and deduct over it as she rather let her instinct took over and just enjoy the feeling.
A/N: Yippeee... it's leaking out of my head along with my splitting headache. Well, another short one and a tiny bit of action happened, and again... the "MgM" in the middle means a seperation between timeline or jump of scene. Enjoy, ja~