Protect the Small

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Kail blinked when the gnomes showed up singing a off tune of something familure to him. But looked over the group in general and saw that he was really really not matched well. Since it seemed that most of these people were way above him. Two of them could make teleportation gates. Aria was a shapeshifter and Ilka was perhaps a very strong warrior with her blade. It seemed that he was really over his head in this world. He blinked and had to utter one thing that popped into his head. "What the hell...." he understood the mission but everything else that was going on was a bit too much. He goes over to a tree and pulls something out of his pocket and he needed something to calm him down. Kail pulls out a small thing and puts something into his ears and pressed something on a small thing. For those that had very acute hearing or more then a human being. They would hear odd music coming from Kail as he was listening to something. The language was something not native to Nova.

The blond looks at the small device and eyes the battery as he would have to really ration the battery life of his MP3 player. Since electricity or a power outlet did not exsist in this world. Kail did hope that he could learn something to recharge the MP3 player and hoped it was magic related.

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Percious layed on his back after being flipped in a way no one had really been expecting as some of the cold snow touched the back of his neck and ears. He let out a laugh as he adjusted his arms and placed them under his head in a relaxing position. haha well ms Aria Wisteria Wurud I hadn't the slightest clue my gesture would count as touching under the belt willy nilly He hadn't exactly used that specific term as it made him laugh just a little. Still on the floor he looked upwards In my defence I hadn't exactly dealt with someone who had that specific appendage, but my apologies. I would never look apon any female as less than a lady ...well unless given a reason to ofcourse. He sat upwards and looked towards Rivers when he heard his escape plan.

Percious hadn't seen anyone use gate ways that effectively and clapped his hands, It would seem you have planned out the whole thing ... Impressive. Well then you gather up the groub and the gnomes, I'll meet everyone outside of the forest. He gave a nod and stood up completely but stood there for a while, As soon as the process started he would teleport to the point they were told to guide the gnomes to.

[Mysteria]

The Gnomes didn't say anything much after. For who can dilly dally with such things as pleasant chit-chat when you have a city supply of gems loaded up and ready to go. Instead they seemed to scoff and grumble to themselves, mounting on top of their dire rabbits and carts. For they would have a long journey ahead, or so they thought. Their eyes widen at the rock that disappeared. Magic! Of course that is what it was, how else could a rock disappear in the ground other than to be smashed in. " You sure that thing is safe?" One gnome with a purple hat asked, curiosity and yet fear filling his tone as him and his mount hopped closer to the portal. Another gnome came up long side him, A green hat covering up his mess of a hair that surrounded his entire face, only his nose was visible. His long puffed out scraggly beard moved as he addressed the purple hatted one. His brows narrowed as he came up along side and stared at the portal " Shut up Vassel. A road is a road as long as it gets us to the gates." He grumbled, almost scowling.

"Well then, if you dingle berries are done chatting and having your tea party and biscuits I say lets get a move on. " The leader of this particular group of Gnomes announced. So he was the first of the nine to 'test' this portal out. With pride he road on into the portal, not looking back or checking to see if the others had followed. Though sure enough, The others soon trailed after, their mounts dashing into the portal leaving their body guards behind.

A mistake... possibly.

On the other side of the portal where the gnomes made it through, they were relieved to see the gate...However their relief was overshadowed from behind, an to the side and in front. twelve bandits had surrounded the portal. They hadn't been waiting their long, with their mount still in view a little ways off. They had stopped to water their horses before continuing on to their base within the wood. To their luck not only did they water their horses.. But their pay had suddenly appeared before their very eyes as well, what luck indeed!

The gnomes went bug eyed as they caught sight of their fearless leader hanging upside down in one of the bandit's hands. A rather large bandit who seemed to take joy in emptying out their leaders pockets with a twisted grin.

" Hey look boss. More of them. They're just appearing." The bandit holding their leader yelled, his tone a little slow. However it did alert the other bandits to start closing in. Best not to let their bounty escape, where ever they had crawled or spawned from. The bandits didn't care, all they saw was the carts.

[Rivers]

As the gnomes charge ahead Rivers lets out a sigh at their enthusiasm. He forms an invisible tunnel in front of his eyes to the location to check it out and sighs, then he measures where the bandit is, takes out a throwing knife, and throws it through the tunnel, just before charging through.

Just before disappearing he will say "bandits on the other side," as if he had poked his head through and seen them.

On the bandits end a knife would suddenly appear out of nowhere traveling at high speed right for his groin. The knife would then be followed by a man in a long brown coat wielding a pair of dual swords connected by a chain.

"Gnomes get behind the wagon and out of harms way." Rivers will then move to protect the gnome leader with his swords drawn, Rivers disliked direct combat, but in this situation it was the best option, unless he wanted to start revealing his tricks to the other fated.

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A happy look made its way onto Percious' face when he saw all was well. Now all he needed to do was meet everyone on the otherside. Just then he saw rivers create another gate way and stared curiously. Until he saw rivers throw a knife through it, and calmly stated there were bandits on the other side. Percious wasn't really in the mood to help the gnome with the yellow hat specifically for calling them modge podge but then again he would have been waisting his time if they all died out right there and then. So Percious calmly teleported to the location they needed to take the gnomes to, He made sure to teleport himself behind the Bandits just in time to see rivers already in a defensive stance.

Percious quickly tapped one of the bandits on the shoulder as his eyes began to glow a more violent shade of green than before and instantly put the man in an illusion where his fellow bandits were monsters , The poor bandit turned on his teammates and began to try and hack at them with his pair of axes. Rivers ,do you have the rest well in hand??

If he needed to Percious would pin them all against each other but that might result in a few gnomes facing death from poorly handled projectiles and weaponry that happened to slip out of the user's hand so Percious stood with his arms crossed as the other Bandits tried to get through to their teammate who was attacking them all wildly.

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Ilta looks uneasy about the teleportation rocks, but doesn’t say much. It wasn’t a type of magic that she was used to. She prefered her rocks unable to pop in and out of locations. However, it did mean that she would get paid for doing nothing. She was perfectly fine with that.

Ilta raises an eyebrow. “Have you ever known a wolf to get close to people for a snack? They keep their distance. We’ve killed a bit too many of them for them to want to risk death without reason. Livestock kills don’t happen until winter and only in years when there aren’t much deer or rabbits or the like. So yes, it is unusual even still.”

Looking back over to Blondie, she sees him with a different rectangle and things in his ears. She doesn’t remotely know what that thing is. She’s just about to ask what they are when Rivers says there are bandits on the other side. She runs off into the portal as her skin hardens into stone. She expected the bandits to be attack Rivers, not themselves. However, she wasn’t going to complain if there was a bandit on their side. She draws her sword and takes a defensive stance in front of the gnomes and their carts.

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Aria frowned and crossed her arms over her chest, her tail whipping about agitated.

”Well frankly its attached to my rear end; I don’t like it touched…however your apology is accepted”

Aria watched as the man disappeared, heading to where they would be going. Aria looked as the gnomes began to approach the portal ”Don’t you think we should c…to late” The gnome was gone and more were fallowing. Not a moment later Rivers shouted about bandits and Aria swore loudly. She stayed behind, instead of jumping head long into the portal. Unwrapping some of the vine from her waist and grabbing the seed pods that were attached.

On the other side of the portal almost unnoticeable next to the gnomes appearing vines began to rapidly spread across the ground; quickly wrapping around the stationary bandits whom were helping themselves to the goods. Suddenly more vines shot out at a rapid pace wrapping themselves around throats and limbs; Out of the portal stepped the tigress, golden orange glow engulfing the hands that were holding the vines. Even her eyes had a deep glow buried deep within the black pupils of her eyes. As she stepped into the deeper snow it began to suddenly steam, and melt beneath her, a thick steam like fog was quickly rising. The vines that were wrapping themselves around the bandit’s throats would slowly pick them off the ground and hold them aloft. The vines around their limbs supporting them just enough where it wouldn’t kill them.

”Halt your actions and drop your arms, that’s an order”

Arias voice came out as a boom, harsh and commanding; perhaps the dumber ones would be tricked into fallowing her command anyways. Any ones she missed she knew the others would handle with ease.

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Kail then sees the portal opening and then things went to hell and sighed again. As it sounded like the warp gate had backfired slightly. He turns off his MP3 and stuffs it into a pocket into his jacket. He withdraws both of his knives and held them underhanded then straight up like a sword blade. "Well......this was not going to be easy. Lady Luck must want to do us up the arse" he said and then followed after the rest of the group. Then he sees Aria going for a non lethal approach to make them go away but looks at her. "Aira, I know that you don't want to kill them. But there going to keep doing this. I rather take them down now before there a threat again to others. Besides all of you seem to have ungodly powers that can one shot these fools" he said and would only go in for the kill. If the bandits had not backed down to Aria's threat. Although if these guys did bite the big one by them. He was going to loot there bodies.

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A high pitched yowl came from one of the bandits, a yowl that should not be humanly possible. But in an instant the once alto became a soprano as a dagger came from thing air and imbedded itself squarely in the family jewels. The leaders eyes had bugged out, as a man with two swords stepped out of the portal. In anger he whipped the gnome at the man, using the tiny hairy person as a projectile. Then promptly sunk to his knees holding his precious family jewels.

The bandit which Percious magicked began to see even gigantic gnomes everywhere…how on earth had they gotten so big?! He let out a loud war cry and sprang into action, he wasn’t going to be beat by no gnome. He swung an axe he wielded wildly, the gnomes advanced on him and he swung harder. He was a beast, a wild card, UNSTOPPABLE! He alone would survive this encounter! A maniacal laugh coming from his throat as he continued to swing his trusty axe.
The gnomes seeing all hell break loose did not waist a second in diving behind the carts, well the ones that weren’t being looted anyways “PROTECT THE GEMS! That be our life blood. You horn girl stop them!”

The bandits took a step back as they see the snow begin to melt and the fog start to rise up around them all. They could sense something was about to happen, but didn’t know what exactly. The vines striking up and wrapping around their throats still took a good number off guard. One managed to cut back a few with his axe. However, three others struggled against being the vines around their necks and limbs. When Aria shouts for them to back down, the one who managed to escape the initial vine attack ran full speed to the tigress who he assumed was the leader.

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Rivers catches the gnome that is thrown at him and says "That's just plain rude." before setting him down. "Take cover, this could get messy." He says before leaping onto the cart of gems.

"Hey fellas," He says and then releases several blades from basically nowhere taking the bandits in the legs and arms. He noticed one charging at Aria and shrugs. His funeral. The bard thinks to himself and then returns his attention to the issue at hand.

If any of the bandits tried to leave the scene he would put a knife in their back, or leg or front...mostly just in them.

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Horn girl? Ilta guessed that was her most identifying trait, but really? She snorted at the name, but she did as asked and ran toward the bandits looting the gems. Despite coming at the bandits with her sword over her head in the ochs position, Ilta looked remarkably calm. That was what was important. Staying calm despite chaos breaking loose. Besides, bandits weren’t the most frightening thing she’s fought. Unlike Kail, she fights to disarm. Her incoming blow is easy to deflect. It is meant for that. As soon as their weapons meet, she would channel earth magic throw the opposing weapon and warp and bend the metal. It would render the bandit’s utterly useless. However, if the bandit didn’t deflect the attack, he would soon have a sword going through his face.  

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Aria twitched her fingers and the vines hooked up around the trees, furthering a net around the entire area. Aria flicked an ear towards Kail when he gave her the suggestion to just kill them all.

”Unless I need to I rather not, we take the ones we capture to the crown…We are very fortunate to have a lovely two lovely people in or little group that make the job of transport so much easier.”

Aria rolled her eyes as the man charged, one her vines shot out at the weapon while the rest of her jumped up and brought her hind claws down slicing the man from neck to navel with large feline claws. Not enough to gut him but he would need a healer as she kicked him away.

”Could someone please disarm the ones that are trapped….”

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Sure, Percious gave Aria a nod then his eyes began to glow their usual green and that landed the armed bandits in an illusion where their arms were severed by the members of the group Percious was working with it seemed all too vivid, they were trapped then suddenly the people guarding the gnomes began to slash away at the arms of all the trapped bandits..well atleast that's what the bandits saw. Instatly the brains of the armed bandits beleived that they had just lost limbs and began to send the corresponding messages through the nerves and muscles of their arms and hands. This caused the remaining bandits to scream in pain as their brains stopped sending comands to the limbs it was tricked to believe were gone all their brains did now was send the feeling they would get had their arms actually been cut off this caused them to drop their weapons.

They could see large amounts of blood poor from their sockets, the chaotic nature of their situation seemed to please Percious. He may not be god of chaos anymore but chaos in the air still had the same taste it did back when he could feed on it. To other people it seemed like these people were screaming for no appearent reason but they could feel the pain and since the body could only take so much pain before passing out Percious assumed they would be out in a few minutes.Atleast when they wake up they'll have all their limbs in place so it wasn't too bad.

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Kail seeing that most of these guys were handling them selves much more then he. While trying to figure out what to do, he gets out of the way of one bandit attacking Aria. The man got sliced to ribbons as the woman clawed him with her nails. The blood that was gushing out was something that slightly sickend him. But had to keep it down since this was perhaps how the world worked. The blond moved more into the fray as more of them were falling into the illiusion of the man in green. He sees the one man that was being effected by the hallusinations. As the man went for another strike on his own men. Kail rushed in and started to go into a flurry of strikes with his knives. Several of these were left and right strikes with his knives following up with a brutal snap kick to the man's chest sending him back. Kail looks behind himself and gives a cold glare.

"Surrender or die in obsecurity. So the choice is yours....I just hope I don't have to carve you all up like a turkey" he said coldly. Trying to make himself sound like a cold hearted bastard. But added a hint of insanity to make him have more levels of fear to instill. As there were a few that were still cowering from the attack that there friend was doing on them.

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The gnome that Rivers manages to catch looks scared beyond belief. After all, this was the first time that he was used a projectile. He doesn’t manage to thank the man before being told to find cover. He ducks below the cart of gems, watching everything unfold.

There isn’t too much the bandits can do from the sudden appearance of a blades. Thankfully, most are wearing some form of armor, but a few have knives sticking out of their arms now. Two even try to hide behind the same person from the attack.

The bandit fighting Ilta takes the bait, and tries to block her blow, only to have his axe sundered. Between that and watching the other bandits, his eyes grow wide and fear and he drops the gems.

Aria’s vines and claws hit their targets almost simultaneously. The bandit isn’t sure exactly what happens as he rolls around on the ground, groaning in severe pain. He looks down just to make sure he wasn’t disemboweled, but there is a lot of blood.

As Percious’ illusions hit their minds, the uninjured ones begin to yell as if in more pain than the bandit with a gash in his torso. The weapons drop to the ground, but so do they as well, sobbing about their (not so) missing limbs.

By the time, Kail kicks one in the chest, the bandits are ready to surrender. The one in front of Kail holds his hands up, and the rest who aren’t in pain follow suit. “We surrender.” It’s up to the group to decide what to do with the bandits. However, the gnomes can easily get into the city from here. In fact, most of them already started checking the carts and dire rabbits.