OOC: I know. BM, I would just kill this thing(Wounding it and it running is probably a better idea... Less god mody since none of our guys SHOULD be coming close)

"Is that all you got." Cid said gripping his lance tighter. He charged at the creature.

(ooc: I haven't god moded yet. Everything i've done has been perfectly within the bounds Celes and I discussed so get off my back.)

"Wow.. he's either very brave... or extremely stupid for running in there again." Dawn sighed a bit, then murmured softly to herself. "Probably the latter..."

The creature shook its head, sending bits of blood, bone, armor, swords and spittle flying out. It quickly (for a creature of its size) rounded onto the house, kicked Cid away while he readied the hefty lance, then tore open the roof.

"Mmmm...female meat...so soft..." It growled, tongues darting in and out as it eyed Dawn and Cesia.

Jude decided that this was the perfect hero moment, and readied his spear, jumping straiht into the air. As he was about 30 feet up, he let his wings flap out a little to adjust himself, then folded them back in and freefell, spear pointed down.

As the creature began to rear its head to strike, Jude came crashing down, driving his spear all the way down into the exposed skin, then forcing the handle to go in nonetheless.

The beast let out a horrible wail, and attempted to grab at its head, and Jude decided to let his spear go for a moment, and backflipped off.

The creature began to curse in some strange toungues, then rolled back and forth on the ground trying to pry the spear out, but to no avail. It weakly got up, and began to charge Jude, who merely jumped out of the way and watched it lamely fall to a slump.

Jude walked over, found the spear, and yanked it out only to find it covered in purple and orange guts.

"Yuck...shit." Jude said aloud, then cursed himself. What self-respecting Dragoon ever said "yuck"? Not him...maybe they didn't hear?...

He walked over to the group, specifically in front of Dawn, and bowed.

"Hello milady, my name is Jude, a humble Dragoon who just wanted to help." Jude said elegantly, then twirled his spear sending various gut parts to land on Cid and Thid. "Is there any other way I can help you today?"

(OOC: Wee part of the group...ish...I guess we can say the monster is just in a mini-coma of sorts?)

OOC: I say we have it smack your guy into a wall, then it runs. And you probably would have thrown guts on the girls too...

*glares at the newcomer for getting monster guts on him, then he taps Dawn on the shoulder*

"Sorry to break up this little greeting but Lynx looks like he got hit with a cart, perhaps you should help him?"

[OOC] and with that i'm off to bed. You can control my character if you want, otherwise just assume i'm silently following [OOC]

OOC: I'm ok with the getting hit into wall thing...just another chance to mack up with Dawn...I go to sleep now...

Cid burned the filth off till none remained. He was limping. "Glad to see the lack of teamwork continues. I wonder how any of you plan to survive this mission, I really do."

Dawn yelped a bit as the monster started to come down on them, but stopped, seeing an odd image suddenly leap up into the air, and land onto the beast. It squirmed and howled, managing a final attack before falling down to the ground with a loud thud.

She started out, stopping when the Dragoon stopped before her and the others and bowed.

"Hello milady, my name is Jude, a humble Dragoon who just wanted to help."

She blinked a couple of times as he spoke pretty much straight to her. Turning her head and looking between the others for a second, she looked back at Jude again. "Eh.. thanks." She smiled a bit.

She quickly snapped out of it as Thid told her about Lynx's condition. "Oh no.. Uh, please excuse me... I need to go find Lynx." And with that she hurried off to find the poor cat.

<Great, along with all the personalities running around, we have Mr. Junior Hero, showing off his kill. Now I know why I did my jobs solo for so long> Vace said, holding leaning against a wall and catching his breath after the close call with the monster.

"Going... To... Killl... Bird... Man..."

After a couple of minutes of searching, Dawn found Lynx all bent out of shape (pun intended? ^^; ). "Lynx, can you move at all?" She knelt down next to him, gentle brushing through his fur.

"The moral of the story CHILDREN is, Captain Cid is always right. You should not ignore his recomendations. When he says we should leave, we should leave. Now I swear the next one of you son's of bitches talks back to me. I'm collecting your head and I'm mounting it on a spike back at the castle." Cid mounted his horse.

OOC: Hehe, pathetic attempt to get this to work in his favor...

Lynx couldn't even look at Dawn. "Ow..."

ooc: don't make me get celes to smite you she's pissed as is.

Cid rode up to dawn. "Fix the cat and get ready to move out."

OOC: Overall, and most of it was over you.

Taim poked his head out the door of the house, blinking sleepily. "Hey, guys. What'd I miss?"

OOC: holy shit. i go have supper, and come back to 8 new pages.

OOC: How long was your supper? I Pmed you a very summarized version...

ooc: Hardly. and the posts stop now. Celes will create a new thread tommorrow.

"Don't worry... I'll fix you up." She shut her eyes and just as she was about to start working on healing the cat, she heard Cid barking at the others again. "Ugh... I swear. He's so inconsiderate. If that Jude hadn't of shown up, we'd all probably be worse of than you right now." Getting her small rant out, she got back to the job of healing Lynx, hopefully before Captain Ahab could get there and force her to stop.

Vace simply looked in shock at Taim, and said, "You could sleep through the apocalypse, couldn't you?"

"He's all bark... No bite... Or brain..." Lynx moewed loudly(cat version of groan I guess). I was promised an archer... We needed one...

"I see your injuries don't prevent you from bitching about everything. Well rejoice your ordeal is almost over."

Despite Cid hovering over her and outright bothering her the whole time, she managed to cure Lynx, for the most part anyway.

She picked him up carefully in her arms, giving a daring glare to the man on the horse. "I guess we have to leave now." She said lowly.

Taim blinked at Vace, and ran a hand through his hair. "Probably. If given sufficient motivation. So i'm guessing something happened then?"

Seeing the body of the monster he nodded sagely. "Ah. Big scary monster. Got ya."

OOC: : P yeah, IHMN, i got the PM. But i figured there would probably be a reason for Taim not showing up to cower behind Dawn with Thid. And i was only gone for, like, two hours.....

Jude managed to wipe off the remains of the guts, then slid over to Vace, the only one who seemed coherent enough and wasn't busy.

"Whose the hard ass? And why are you all together anyway?" Jude said, motioning to the barking Cid.

Lynx got up and stretched out, to check if he was healed fully. Which he was. He walked over to the group, and looked at Cid. He laughed, then turned away, looking towards the direction of the wizards castle(Or whatever he lives in). He's going to regret coming on this mission...

Kalimare finally came back from hunting, ironically after he was needed most. He held a deer over his shoulder by the legs, it's neck was torn. Kalimare had reverted back to his normal form. He looked around, seeing a dead monster lying on the ground and everyone seemingly ready to leave.

"Um, did I miss something? Oh, I got us some lunch when we need it."

Lynx walked up to Kalimare, and sniffed the dead deer. "We'll leave after we eat... We haven't eaten in a while. Someone start a fire."

OOC: Just start next chapter saying we ate, then left(Or else we would all be weak and die)

(OOC: Thanks for not leaving me in the dust, guys! (sarcasm is very strong here.) Now I've got to say what my character had been doing. I'll just say that he went out looking for Kalimare. But first, I have to do what Celes asked me to.)

Tamakatari had been sleeping in the room that Cid had killed the leader in. No one else wanted to sleep in there, so it was the quietest spot. Tamakatari didn't really mind that someone had died in there. It was just a room, that no one else was using.

He had slept peacefully, until the morning. He felt someone shaking him hard, trying to get him to wake up. He opened his eyes slowly, and was fully ready punch who ever had woken him up right in the teeth, but then he was startled. He saw the princess, his angel. She was waking him up. <I must still be dreaming.> he thought to himself. He must have been dreaming about when the princess saved him from death on the side of the road. But then, he blinked a few times, and he realized that it was Cesia, only she had her hair down. She walked away, and he was left a little startled.

"Damn. I'm losing it. I'm seeing people as my angel. It must be true what they say about sleeping in the same room a man died, it screws with your head."

He saw that the group was running outside, and he felt the ground shake a little. He rushed out with them, and noticed that Kalimare wasn't there.

"Damn it. Of all the times to leave!" Tamakatari took a stick out of his cloak, and it changed into a large sword. He saw Kalimare's tracks in the dirt, and hunted him down. He finally found him some time later. He brought him to the source of the sound, but it seemed that the fight was over.

"Guess who I found." Then, he noticed the new person. He raised his sword and pointed it at him.

"Who's he."

"Uhh...a friend I hope...saved this lovely little angel here," Jude said motioning to Dawn who had returned with Cid, "And killed that big thing over there. Name's Jude...you must be the leader since your asking all the questions...right?" Jude said introducing himself and venturing a guess at the hierarchy of the group.

Lynx started laughing at the mention of Tama being the leader. "Him? The leader? Oh... That's great..."

Jude spun around wildy again, drawing strange looks.

"Ok...am I the only one who'se hearing voices? Cuz this one annoying thing keeps popping into my head..."

"It's just the cat. And no, I'm not the leader, thankfully. If I was a leader of a group, they wouldn't be a bunch of dumb-asses. And I mostly work alone. That man over there is the leader." Tamakatari pointed at Cid.

Lynx corrected Tama. "He's our leader by title... Really, he has no idea what he's doing."

"The cat talks in my head...and the guy who couldn't attack his way outta a cloth sack is the leader..." Jude muttered. He honestly didn't know which was worse.

After returning to the others with Cid, Dawn was taking what she figured would be one of her last moments for a while to get a little more rest. She wasn't really paying much attention to the others, save for when she heard Jude talking.

"...saved this lovely little angel here,"

She quickly looked up, and found that he was motioning blatantly towards her. She quickly turned her back to him, appearing to be stuck up, but in reality was trying to keep him from seeing her blush.

What's with this guy? He keeps...

She glanced towards him, hoping he wasn't looking.

He keeps going on about me..

Finally they got on the topic of who was leader and she turned back around, pulling her hood down low over her face to continue feigning resting.

(OOC: alrighty then, now that we have the whole party, we can finally REALLY make it to the wizard's castle. I'll make a new thread shortly, so if you have anything you want to finish up saying here, then I suggest you hurry 'cause I'm gonna skip forward a little bit (not too much, but enough so that we're not walking and arguing the entire chapter))

OOC: Let us eat...(When won't we be argueing when Cid's here?)