Perditions Tale, Chapter 1: "The First Night"
 

"Alright men," The king said, pacing about the room. "As you may already know, at the changing of the guard last night, it appears someone got inside and kidnapped the princess Lady Seilen from her own room. We believe it was the work of the sorcerer Skurai who is rumored to live near the Hikage Mountains." The king stopped pacing and looked at the misfit group of 'heroes'. "You have been chosen, heaven knows why Sir Hessian chose you, to undertake this mission of finding the location of the princess and rescuing her... good luck, and godspeed."


The large group wandered out of the castle after the king had breifed them.
"Finally done?" Cesia Illuser said. She was leaning against the castle walls, waiting for them.

"Why didn't you come in?"

"Meh..." Cesia scoffed, then walked over the the group. "I hate castles. Everything is too... formal." She rummaged around, "Plus I figured that if there was anything I needed to know. I'm sure one of you guys will be able to tell me. Unless none of you were listening." She smiled as she pulled out a small bag, "Plus while you guys were in there, I saved us some time by buying some items for us." She tossed each of them a few potions, giving any left over to Dawn Trevelyan, since she was the healer in the group.


After a long afternoon of walking, the group finally set up camp for the first night. They had camp set up a few yards off of a large horse trail in the woods. A small fire was burning in the center of the camp...

(OOC: alright, just talk and do such like that. An event will happen soon enough. But I'll be off and on, we're re-arranging my house for some dumb reason and I have to help every now and then. ^^; But, thus starts the RP. Whew. I hope I did alright. ^^)

Tamakatari searched the ground near the camp. He found a broken stick by an old tree. He picked it up gently, and slowly pulled his leather gloves off. He took a firm hold of the stick, and closed his eyes. The stick began to glow, and then became almost a liquid. In a few moments, it transformed itself into a large Zanbatou. It's pole was thick, and the large blade on top had several symbols inscribed in it. It wasn't one of his better ones, but he didn't need to be fancy. He just needed it for guard duty.

He looked at the others in the camp, and sniffed. He didn't like groups. He'd rather be by himself. He would have gone after the princess alone, but he knew he'd have been killed going in alone. Whether he liked it or not, he needed them.

Kazuki stretched and yawned, then chided himself for his weakness. Granted it was pretty late... but he had to keep his eyes open. After all, they were in the middle of the woods, and who knew what evil lay in the darkness?

He took out a portion of his beef jerky and started chewing on it idly as he looked around the campsite. A motley crew indeed. There was a healer sitting down by the fire, not bad-looking, but Kazuki wasn't in the mood for it. There was the Captain of the Guard with his big shiny sword and big clanking armor. Then there was a wizard type, looking all grim and fierce. Kazuki pegged him as being one of those evil mages that he'd had to spy on during his internship. Beside the wizard was a cat curled up by the fire. Kazuki took the it to be the wizard's familiar, and mentally revised his opinion of the wizard down a couple of notches. He hated cats.

He looked to the perimeter, where one of their group had made a huge sword appear out of nowhere. Kazuki thought of asking him how he had done it, but decided not to. The other guy didn't look like the talking type.

Cid took the break in the travels to sharpen his sword. He looked over the group. Each had a reputaition for "special" talents let's see if those talents would be necessary.

Cesia was sitting in the grass, close to the fire. She glanced around at the misfit group. <Why would the captain pick these people to go on this mission?> She sighed and looked up, trying to see a sign of some stars through the trees.

Kazuki finished the last of his jerky and sighed.

Oh well, I should at least get to know these guys a little better.

He stood up and walked over to the girl Cesia.

"Hi. Heard your name was Cesia. Mine's Kazuki."

He extended a hand to her and smiled. Or at least he tried to smile, under the mask.

Cesia looked over at Kazuki, she uneasily shook his hand, "Nice to meet you. Looks like this group is gonna be together for awhile now until we save this princess."

"Guess so..."

He picked up a pebble and tossed it into the fire. The silence was getting a little too awkward for him.

"Well... the king did say something about all of us having a special ability of some sort before telling us to go. I guess being a ninja counts for me, but what do you do? Wait - let me guess - you're a *thief*."

"Can the chatter and get some rest." Cid said. He resheathed his sword and leaned against an oak.

Vace had found a nice tree close to the campfire and was leaning against it. His eyes carefully looked over the group, assesing strengths and weaknesses, but he still couldn't figure out why they were all there. <Meh, such is life, always unpredictable. Who knew I would end up as part of this band, trying to save the princess from a dark wizard. Desperate times call for desperate alliances> He thought, then settled back against the tree he was leaning against and rested his eyes, still alert to the events happening around him.