'Do you really want me to answer that?!' he said on loud tone.
He sighed. Just leave it to Arthur to set up camp in the middle of a lion pit. Then again, he had been traveling with a bunch of anthro tigers so the guy probably figured it couldn't hurt. He snickered about is own inside joke for a moment.
'What the hell were they thinking just taking off like that anyway?!' he grunted. 'And why did you let them?!'
He sighed again and lay his head back to think. He's gone one night and everything goes wrong... how do they do it.

Silvia stopped and looked silently at the two cats for a few seconds.
Then, making no effort to hide her sarcasm, "Riiight."
She half expected this to be some sort of contrivance of Slade's to somehow try and get her to come to him, as she thought it highly unlikely that he would have just given up like that. So with these thoughts in mind, she continued, "Just what do you want?"

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Olivia, due to her being in tune to these sorts of powers, was immediately aware of the fact that the two cats had teleported into the building. She concentrated and tried to "follow" where they were going and sense what they were up to.
This was becoming more interesting than she had thought!

Krisha ramained there a few seconds... Speechless. She was partly surprised and partly angry because her joke didn't work. She she followed Silvia.

"WAIT! Why didn't you get scared?? Any normal human would have freaked!" Krisha hastily.

"Krisha! Lets first find the others. I don't wanna get lost in this hospital." Kix said and turned aroound.

"NO, I wanna know what this human is up to..." Krisha said.

Now Silvia looked surprised, "What, aren't you...?" she stopped herself. "Why wasn't I scared? I've met talking animals before, if that's what you're asking. In fact, I met a talking eagle just the other day... geez... so much has happened..." she was more thinking aloud than talking to Krisha now.
She was silent momentarily, then said, "And I want to know what you are up to; I'm sure two talking cats visiting a hospital isn't a normal occurance, even in such a strange place as this..."

"Talking eagle? That must be Pseok..." Kix said, as she was sure a giant talking Eagle was not something you'd see every day.

"And we... Are just looking for Kaira and Art who are looking for Charger... Not a big deal really." Krisha said, "But when and why did you meet Pseok?"

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"Join forces..?" Akky said lowly and stared blankly at Fisher.

This guy seemed powerful... He might gain something from it. Als he was quite tired of being alone.

"Ok... I'll do it." He said, "... But... I'd like your help then. I wanna get my revenge on Kix and her stupid group. They all deserve to die..."

Flying above the mountainside, Pseok tried and failed to see any sign of his attacker. The only signs of the fight were his own melted footprints on the stone. He could see nothing moving on the hill but smelling meat he flew down to see a rotting dead sheep in a stony hollow. It looked like something had been eating it but he couldn't tell what. Resigning himself to failure he pulled away from the mountainside and flew down to the camp at the bottom of the mountain. Streak and Blaze were still there and he landed beside them.
Pseok: "It's ok, I found Dave; he;s headed to the hospital to see Charger. What are our plans from now, i mean once Charger's out of hospital?"

Art shrugged. "I don't know. I thought Pseok was responsible. I didn't think he'd lose the kid, okay?"
Art sighed. "Come on. We should get back to the others."
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Fisher smiled. "Yes, yes. I'm sure they've all been very naughty and need punishing. First you help me find the boy. He'll lead us to the others."
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Blaze and Streak looked up at Pseok. The both thought the same thing, but Streak, being more bold, said it.
"Are you out of your mind? You loose the kid, then you send him on his own into that town?"
Blaze shushed his sister. "Hey. He's a human. He shouldn't have any trouble there."
Streak huffed. "I don't like it."

Akky thought it a bit over..

"Ok then..." He said. He wasn't good at finding living things with spells like Kix, but he could find items. Like things with metal on the.

"I can probably track him down via the guns..." He then said, "... Want me to find him now before it's too late?"

Pseok looked irritable, "Hey, I didn't lose him on the mountain, I... Alright, I did, but that's only cus I had to fight off whatever it was that attacked me and turned into that stupid phoenix again. The options were to leave him or kill him and I stand by my decision. And what's wrong with leaving him in town? He's a human and he's in a place full of other humans only a hundred metres away from the building where Art and Charger and the tiger were or at least heading for! What's going to happen to him on a large road in a town?" He looked no less annoyed, "Anyway, I wanted to look for that... whatever it was that attacked me, so we know what we're dealing with and so it doesn't come down here and attack you guys. I couldn't find it and as far as I know it could be a few metres away from where we are now."

"Pseok?" Silvia asked, "I don't know what his name was, but I came across him in the forests some distance out of Los Santos. Or, what's left of Los Santos. Which isn't much...
"Anyway, this eagle was with some gunslinger and he spotted me following them so he came over and set my horse free. Then, for some reason, the gunslinger decided to help me find it again... Wait... My horse!"
She suddenly realised that she still didn't know what had become of it. "The Flaming Arrow" had told her he got rid of her horse and her gear, but she didn't know how. Then she gave an uneasy glance over the top of the cats,
"Feels like someone's watching us..."

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Olivia smiled to herself. They were indeed being watched, but not in the normal way. But more importantly, this was confirming what Slade had thought about Silvia. It was only a matter of time now...

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Slade and Daniel were still standing on top of the cliffs, looking out over the city. But eventually, indicating to Daniel to follow, Slade started walking down a path leading down.

'Yea sure,' Charger said as he gently got up. 'Doc said it needs to stay in this stuff for a week. But there is no reason for me to stay here, right?'
He didn't wait for an answer and just hopped over to the door. They could fix his arm, but his leg wasn't broken or anything, it just had a large bruise that hurt like hell.
'I suggest we get the others and get out of this creepy town as soon as we can before someone gets hurt. Come on.'
He dragged Art with him into the hallway.
After a few moment he stepped back into the room with a mumbling 'oops' and quickely opened the bathroom door.
'Sorry about that,' he grinned.
'Yea sure, whatever...' Kaira grumbled and follow them both outside.

On the way out, the three of them passed by Dave, who had been sitting quietly in the lobby, waiting for them.
"Hey!" Dave called. "Wait up!"
Art turned and looked at him. "What ... what the hell are you doing here?"
Dave: "I came to find you guys. Pseok dropped me off uptown."
"Where did you sleep?"
Dave grimmaced. "Under a log up the mountain."
Art winced. "Dammit. Look, Dave, Pseok can be a little out there sometimes. Don't let him lose you again."
Dave explained the Pseok had been attacked by some creature, forcing him to run away.
Art sighed. "Whatever ... I don't have to like it. Let's go."
---
Blaze and Streak exchanged looks. "What was this thing that attacked you?" Streak asked. "It doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard of."
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Fisher shrugged. "Do what you want to do, Akky. I know you're good at what you do." More flattery. Fisher's way of gaining trust.

Pseok looked strained, like he was struggling to remember. "I only saw it as the phoenix and it's hard to remember... It looked human, in fact it was a girl, maybe a little younger than Dave. I don't really see her in my memory, I see how the phoenix remembered her... she... It's like she had claws... And It think she was going to bite me, that's what caused me to change. The phoenix didn't kill her, her forehead was burned, so if you see a human woandering around with a big burn on her forehead expect the worse."

'Hey kid,' Charger grinned at him. 'Still alive I see?'
As they walked trough the lobby to the exit, suddenly a voice behind them.
'Hey hey! Hang on!'
It was the doctor that had been looking after Charger.
'Where do you think you're going?'
Charger turned around with a surprised look.
'Getting away from this scary place, what does it look like?'
'You can't go...' Doc. Oran replied, kind of hesitant.
Charger grinned for a moment, then fully turned to him and looking down on the small person.
'Realy...' he smirked. 'What are you going to do? Drag me back to my room?'
Kaira pulled a small grin about it. The doctor didn't reply.
'Thats what I thought,' Charger said, then turned around and headed for the exit. It was then he spotted the rope around Kaira's neck.
'Hey, you remembered. Good girl,' he complimented her, but then took it off. 'You don't need that anymore with me around.'

Blaze and Streak exchanged another look. "A human that bites? That's odd," Blaze said.
Streak looked at Pseok. "You say it looked human? How sure are you that it was a human?"
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Art: "Fine. Now can we get out of here before something bad happens?"
Dave nodded. "Yeah, this place gives me the creeps. I can't help but think something strange is going to happen." He paused, then said, "Well, something stranger than walking around with a talking tiger and a tiger-man, anyway."

Pseok: "Well, like you said, how many humans go around biting people? It was pretty strong. But it definately looked like a human from where I saw it I think, hair and clothes and no fur and the like. It looked more human than Blaze as far as I can tell. But then that Fisher guy looks pretty convincing and most of the time behaves pretty normally as well, but unless Roland got it wrong he's not human so I wouldn't like to make a judgement."

Streak shrugged. "Most of the humans I've seen weren't really humans anyway..."
Blaze jumped, startling Streak. "Maybe it was a werewolf? Could that be it, Pseok?"

Pseok looked slightly annoyed. "It was a human. Not a wolf. You heard of a werewolf attacking someone as a human? In fact have you ever heard of a werewolf being anything other than a myth? I haven't heard of them being real outside of stories."

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The small population of golden Valley were beginning to wake up as a short person wrapped in a dirty grey trenchoat complete with gloves and dark glasses, looking like your average 'Matrix' geek (not that the person was particularly aware of that herself) walked down the street, dark hair brushed in a rather strange style to cover her forehead and a large part of her face that wasn't already hidden by shades. She kept her head down, not that it made her any less noticable.
Elfair was... somewhat surprised by the group standing outside the hospital, it wasn't every day a... well... whatever it was, appeared here. There was supposed to be a pretty good circus nearby that kept some freaks (she'd read a few things in newspapers she'd scrounged and when she'd turned into a human) but nothing had ever come here. If she'd been aware of the events in Los Santos she might have been more able to explain it to herself.

That tiger made her sort of edgy as well, and she felt herself wishing her claws weren't so confined in her gloves and boots. That thought sent a rush of hunger to her mouth which she tried to surpress; now wasn't the best time. She passed quietly towards the small chemist beside the hospital.

She was just at the door when someone screamed. Adrenaline coursed through her body, had she been found out? What had she done that meant someone had seen her as not normal?
She spun round. There was a woman across the road screaming like a banshee, but she wasn't pointing at Elfair, she was looking at the hairy thing.

Trying to ignore it she stepped towards the chemist door but was hit by the shop keeper running out to see what was going on. As more people gathered round from the street and out of buildings she decided that this wasn't the secrecy she'd been hoping for she turned and ran, dodging down a small alley a short way down the street and hoping she hadn't been noticed.


ooc: Hope no one minds the random characters. Feel free to take control of the woman who started screaming or anyone else mentioned in the above post that you feel inclined to use.

OOC: Sorry for my long absence people, RL has been a bitch. But I want to point something out while I'm at it. I have noticed that people only keep posting as long as I'm active. If I don't post for a week, the RP is dead. Thats not supposed to happen and I would like everyone active in the RP to try and be less dependant on other players, especialy me. So that, if someone doesn't post for a while, the RP can go on. I for one might not be able to post much the upcoming weeks due to some problems in RL, and I will be taking a small step back from the RP for a while. I won't leave, but I will just post less. In the mean time, I'm trusting all you guys to keep the RP active. This is a very nice RP, always has been for the past 2 years, so lets not let it die out.

Just wanted to have that said.

Havoc

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As Charger, Art, Kaira and Dave stepped out the hospital doors and onto the square infront of it, it didn't take long before the woman had started screaming. It had become a bit more busy outside, as people we're going to work and stuff. The hand full of people on the square look up to the woman, then to the Charger and the group. After that it was just like all hell broke loose. Everyone started screaming and yelling.
'Well I havn't seen this in a long time...' Charger grinned while he thought back at the sheer chaos he created when he escaped from the zoo when he was younger. 'Come on, we better get going, Art. Get the car sta...'
A gunshot was heard, after which it became silent for a second and then the screaming started again. But this time words were also heard.
'It's that monster from the mountains! That thing killed my brother!'
'It took the life of my father!'
'And my son!'
Charger had ducked down and had pulled Kaira with him.
'What the hell?' he grunted. 'Arthur what the hell is going on!'
'Kill it!!!'
'You know,' Charger said as he got up and looked for an escape. 'Never mind, get to the others and get to savety!'
He threw his arms over his head as another gun shot was heard. By now a true mob was being formed and was quikely closing on Charger and Kaira.
'Get going!' Charger roared at them, then took of with Kaira down an alley next to the hospital. He knew that the mob would come after him, not after Art or Dave. They were human after all.
As fast as they could Charger and Kaira made their way trough the alley to another street, still somewhat deserted. On the far end was what appeared to be an old mine entrance. It looked like it hadn't been used in ages. But the old baydoors were wrecked and full of holes, big enough to get trough.
'There,' Charger said and pointed to the entrance. 'Hide in there Kaira. Go!'
'But what about you?' she almost cried.
'Don't worry about me, I'l be fine! Now go!' he yelled.
Kaira stood looking at him for a second longer with her big sad cat eyes, but then turned around and ran.
At the same time, the mob had found it's way down the alley and yet again a shot was fired. Charger quickely ran the opposite way, hoping the distract attention from Kaira.

ooc: I was waiting for anyone to post. You seem to have the important characters, I think more so since the RPG moved to OWF. You and Dave.


'It's that monster from the mountains! That thing killed my brother!'
'It took the life of my father!'
'And my son!'

Tears stung Elfair's eyes as she heard the shouts of the crowd, crouched against a wall in the alley. She hated what she was and hated what she did but when the hunger came to her she could never resist.
She heard footsteps and looked up to see that tiger thing running into the alley. That would mean the mob would follow in seconds. Cursing silently she slipped into the shadows and slid out of the far end of the alley into a sunny road beyond.

It was on the edge of the industrial area and there was no one around that she could see. She turned to run from the entrance to the alley and tripped over something. She stopped herself hitting the ground with her hands but her stolen (and badly fitting) shades fell from her face and hit the ground. Already damaged, this proved more than the old pair could take and they broke in half. Swearing, she clutched the two pieces to her face but she might as well have been trying to stop the Earth spinning round the Sun. She gave up and dropped them as she stood up. Anyone seeing her eyes would know immediately there was something strange with her, and strange in a bad way. She was about to run when the tiger man emerged from the alley.


ooc: Why were the crowd only screaming about guys being attacked Havoc? Elfair doesn't descriminate.

OOC: I haven't been posting because I couldn't think of anything to do with most of my characters and Silvia is waiting for T-nex.

IC:

Olivia's concentration on Silvia and the cats was suddenly broken by a commotion outside. She instantly transferred her attention to the group outside the building and was surprised to notice that the man she'd seen earlier was now outside with the tiger and the anthro she'd sensed before, plus someone else she hadn't noticed before. She mentally scolded herself for not noticing them leaving, then decided to go outside herself. Taking care to avoid the passage she'd seen Silvia go down, she made her way to the exit and walked out, just spotting the last of the mob of people disappearing down the alley. She noticed with some curiosity that, while most of the people in the area had gone chasing after Charger, two guys (Dave and Art) were still here and, it seemed, heading for a nearby vehicle.
She decided the best thing to do at present was wait and watch...

OOC: This post mostly develops the bitter relationship between Dave and Art, and develops Art's character a bit more. Not so much plot advancement as character development in this post. Sorry, but it felt right.

Blaze was silent for a minute. "Sure, werewolves only exist in stories. But what about Dave? Remember what he is. To him, we only existed in stories until he came here. So we can't really rule out the possibility of a werewolf or a were-whatever. Or anything from myths and fairytales, for that matter."
Streak was nodding. "He's right, Pseok. As illogical and ridiculous as it sounds ... he's right."
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Dave thought that the girl - looked like she thought she was the chick in The Matrix or something - near the pharmacy-place nextdoor. He couldn't get a really good look at her, but from where he was standing ... she was a cutie.
But then Charger and the others were moving along, and he hurried to catch up.
Then the screaming started. Gunshots went off. It wasn't long before Charger was shoving them away. "... get to the others and get to safety!"
Art was nodding. He understood the situation: they wouldn't be after a couple of humans. He grabbed Dave's shoulder and tugged. "Let's go, Dave. Back to the others."
Dave plodded to catch up. "What are we gonna do about Charger and Kaira? What if they get in trouble?"
Art didn't slow. "Then maybe we'll come back for them." He was talking faster and faster. "Or we'll send Pseok to check things out from overhead or something. I don't ****ing know right now, kid."
Dave winced a little at this last, not at being called 'kid' again, but at the irritation in Art's voice. He was coming off as more of an asshole than Dave had ever considered him.
"Alright, Art. Chill," Dave was saying. "I'm just saying that we shouldn't just take off--"
"DAVE, WILL YOU CUT THAT SHIT OUT!" Art snapped and stopped walking. Dave stumbled and stopped. A few people in the mob glanced over, but they were too focused on other things to care about a stranger shouting at some kid.
Art took a deep breath. "Look, Dave," he started. "Your concern for Charger and Kaira is touching. But you have to realize something very key here that I don't think you've gotten through your thick skull."
Dave wanted to retort, but he was too frightened of Art to say anything. This is crazy, he thought. I'm scared of a guy I made up.
"This isn't just some game, Dave-o," Art was saying. "It may have started out that way to you, but guess what? You're ****ing here, and this is not a frigging mad-lib anymore. It's real ****ing life. So stop acting all high and goddamn mighty all the time, like your someone special around here because you think you made me up. Just because you could probably tell me every detail about my past doesn't mean I'm your creation. You aren't above this, you're a part of it. And things don't always work out like in the storybooks, kid. Sometimes, even if you really want to, you can't. Sometimes, there just isn't a ****ing way. I know you want to go back and help Charger get away from that mob, and I know you want to make sure Kaira's okay, but I also know this: that to you, this is still a story. But it just ... ****ing ... isn't."
Dave and Art stared at each other for a full minute in silence. Dave looked away first. He didn't speak, just walked to the passenger side of the car and got in.
Damn, he was thinking. I had no idea Art was so ... articulate. He's right... but goddamn if I can admit it to him.
Dave was slowly realizing that he hated Art. He never had reason to dislike him, but he never had a reason to really admire the guy, either. Maybe back at the start of things, when he first wrote the guy down, Art was a guy Dave wished he could be ... but it was years ago. Art hadn't changed, but Dave had. And Dave was learning the truth: Art was a coldhearted man deep down, just as Dave had made him ... and Art was capable of a whole lot. And Dave knew that Art almost always had a great grasp on his situation.
All this in spite of Dave, who had once admired Art. Dave resented the hell out of it, that Art could really be this way. He hated him for it.
Art, meanwhile, was developing a healthy dislike of Dave. Some punk kid fresh out of high school shows up from another dimension or whatever and suddenly wants to run the world like a storybook. And the ****ing things Dave had put him through! His fear of cats. His fear of intimacy. The noodle incident in the third grade. Everything that had gone wrong with his life was Dave's fault, whether the kid had ever written it down or not. Because, like it or not, there was always the possibility that Dave really had thought him into existence. And Art hated the idea that there was a force out there that had controlled his destiny from day one.
Art started the car up, and began to drive back to the campsite. They rode in an icy silence.

Olivia listened carefully, more sensing than actually hearing, to Dave and Art's arguing. She remembered Fisher's conversation with Slade; his mention of an RPG or something of the like... But surely someone who had done... that stuff, surely they couldn't actually be here as well! She was uncertain, so slipping into an empty alley she closed her eyes and focused her energy once again.

<•-•-•-•-•>

Slade and Daniel stopped their descent down the mountains as Olivia's shadowy form once again appeared in front of them.
"Slade! Unexpected events have occured here at the hospital. In short, some guy with a tiger came and he and the anthro tiger have since left, taking some kid with them. An angry mob have gone chasing after the anthro, who took the tiger with him, and the other two headed to a car nearby and just left before I contacted you. The interesting thing is, I listened to their conversation - more of an argument if you ask me - and it may interest you. Do you wish me to show it to you?"
Slade nodded, "Go ahead."
Olivia's shadowy form wavered and dissipated, being replaced by a similar form of Dave and Art, repeating their words and actions from a few minutes ago. Then Olivia's shadow reappeared.
"What do you make of that?" she asked.
"This could be of interest to us," Slade replied, "Follow them, if you can do so without being seen. I will attempt to locate them from here and determine their destination..."
Olivia nodded, "Understood," and here shadowy form once again faded away...

Charger kept running down the street, dodging angry and scared people. He looked around for an alley to disappear in again, and soon found one to his right. Quickely he made a dash for it, ran into it, went left, and looked straight into a gun barrel.
Before he could even concider whacking the guy holding it and continueing his run, he felt a painfull surge trough his right shoulder, and almost immediatly after that started dozing off. First his arm, then his upper body, his legs. Then he collapsed. Just before he went unconcious (sp?) he could see a guy standing over him, looking with an almost sickening smile down upon him. Then the man looked up the the mob that had followed Charger here.
'D,n.. w.r.y peo.le, we h.ve it .nd.er c.n..oll...'
It was the last Charger could hear before he passed out.

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Meanwhile Kaira had ducked into the abandoned mine entrance and had been spying trough the holes. She saw how Charger disappeared into an alley and how the mob followed him in there. And as much as she wanted to follow him, she knew she couldn't.
After seeing nothing else after a few minutes, she started looking for another way out. Going out into the streets would mean getting shot or something. She saw nothing but darkness.
But... she did feel a draft coming from behind her. She sniffed around. Yea it was definatly fresh air, which had to mean there was another entrance somewhere.
Depending on her feline eye sight, she entered the shaft, looking around for another exit.

occ: I guess I always saw Art more like Jaws in James Bond. Almost to good but so unlucky you had to like him.


Pseok was slighlty annoyed by now. "Well then maybe it was a super powerful human from planet Oblarbar weakened by exposure to citrus fruits but still strong enough to take down a small elephant. Sure there's a lot to consider but lets not go crazy."

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Elfair was taken by surprise as the tiger-man ran past but fortunately he didn't seem to notice her at all. He ran to an alley on the oposite side of the road and seconds later the hole mob came following. Thinking quickly she clutched at her face and dropped onto her knees, pretending to be hurt (or maybe drunk, she hadn't quite made up her mind).
The crowd passed her, to wrapped up in their anger to pay any attention to the injured, no, drunk (definately drunk, easier to ignore) girl moaning at the roadside.

In the alley people started shouting. She made out the words "Under Control," and risked uncovering her eyes and looking up. for a second before lowering her head she felt she saw someone looking in her direction. She quickly curled up again and heard the crowd cheering. Then someone else started shouting, though she couldn't make out the word over the noise of the crowd. There were footsteps running away and then a shadow came over her. She looked up between her fingers to see two men standing over her, one holding a gun.

She suddenly felt confined in the gloves and boots she wore. Knwong she was in danger and deep down feeling no choice but to defend herself, her hands went to the ground, muscles tense, she bared her teeth and hissed at the men standing over her. She leapt aside as the man fired his gun, springing forward with her arms and legs. The shot missed, but not a bullet, which puzzled some part of her deep down. She was on her feet now and twisted round to attack the men, jumping at them. Another shot fired with a quiet hiss (not like the bang of a bullet) and this time her luck failed.
A surge of numbing pain shot straight into her torso. shocked out of the leap she landed badly, twisting her ankle. Unconsciousness swept over her like a wave of sticky oil.
"Sh. w.s ..lp.ng th.. m.rder.r......" She heard a few broken voices crying out, and then nothing but silence.

Art and Dave rode out of town. There were a few more gunshots, and a few outbursts of cheering from the town behind them, but nothing more.
Dave was still sour at Art for his outburst. Art himself was feeling angry, but not much better. He hadn't meant to explode ... but he was glad he had given Dave a piece of his mind.
After several minutes of driving, getting more than halfway back to the camp, Art finally spoke up. "Look, kid ... Dave ... I didn't want to shout."
Dave rolled his eyes - this sounded like how his father might start an "apology."
Art didn't notice. "I just ... with Charger being injured, and now getting chased off by that mob ... I've traveled with Charger longer than you have, and I don't think you've noticed, but--"
"He's sort of the leader," Dave finished. "That's always been my understanding."
Art nodded. "Yeah. And now he's gone, and someone needs to shoulder the weight. Charger is the link holding all of us together. I don't know what to do about all this."
Dave was silent. He didn't really believe that Art felt bad about what he'd said. And he was right: Art just didn't want to have any bad feelings between the two of them.
They continued in silence.
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Streak shook her head. "Okay, Pseok. Okay. But remember what you said about Fisher? He looks human, but I'd bet my freedom that he isn't."
Blaze was nodding. "And what if it was a were ... something? If it doesn't attack us again, we'll leave it alone."
Streak gave Blaze a look. "And if it does?"
Blaze thought for a moment. "Then we fight back. Maybe Art has some silver bullets."

Olivia watched as Dave and Art drove off, then, walking down the road until she was out of sight of anyone in town, she stopped and held out her hand. She smiled; she'd always wanted to try this one out...
A beam of brilliant white light shone forth from her hand, but stopped after just a few metres and stayed there, looking like some long white pole. Olivia took her hand away and watched as the "pole" gradually expanded until it was the size and shape of a small car. Then the "whiteness" faded, leaving a small, perfectly usable, black car on the roadside; lacking only licence plates. But she didn't care about trivial details like that, opening the door and turning the key that was already in the ignition, she started the engine and drove off after Dave and Art, taking care to stay far enough behind that they would be unable to see her but close enough that she could still sense where they were...

<•-•-•-•-•>

Slade made his way back to the top of the cliffs, followed by Daniel, and stopped at the top, overlooking Golden Valley once again. He stretched his arms out to the side and a blue aura of light seemed to appear about him.
He stood completely motionless, but for the slight movement of his hair every now and then as a breeze caught it...

Kaira made her way trough the mine shaft. Even with her feline eye sight she had trouble navigating trough the mine. More then once she had bumped into a wall or a wooden pillar.
As she went on she wondered if Charger was okay. She wondered what suddenly had happened and she wondered if going into the mine was such a good idea.
The draft w as getting stronger though, so she was definatly going somewhere. She only hoped that exit wouldn't get her into more trouble.

OOC: Uh, I've been away so logically i havent been able to reply... Now i finally have the time. So...

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Akky focused on the guns, and he ran in the direction he sensed them. When he reached the town, he saw Charger and the rest, they were having trouble with a mob of angry people. Then to his joy, he Kaira left Dave and Art.
He followed them discretely, untill they got in a car.

"We are gonna have to use a car." Akky said, "unless you can run really fast."


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"No one's watchi-" Krisha was about to say, when they got interupted by a distant scream.

"What's going on?" She asked and ran outside, towards the scream.

Then she saw what was going on, but they could only see charger and Kaira run off in the distance. It was too late to follow them. But Krisha thought she saw something familiar. A bit further away, she saw a Black cat and that weird guy they had met earlier.

"Kix is think you boyfriend is here... And he's taken a friend with him. Hmmm... Looks like they are following that car." Krisha said, and pointed at them.

"Oh? I dont have a boyfriend..." Kix said and looked in the direction Krisha was pointing at.

Then she saw who it was, and panicked. She quickly hid behind a bush. Krisha did the same.

"I wonder what they're up to..." Krisha said, "Lets follow them."

"Are you mad? I don't wanna confront him... I don't wanna see him." Kix said.

"You don't have to confront him, just follow him.... Don't worry he wont see us." Krisha said and suddenly turned invisible, "C'mon."

Krisha followed Akky and fisher. Kix didnt have a choice if she wanted to stay with Krisha. SHe had apparently made her mind, so she turned invisible and followed.

PSeok grinned. "Well she or it seemed pretty scared of fire so we'll just wave some burning torches around. Maybe you two would like to go into town and by some pitchforks?" He gave a now familiar face that was meant to be a grin only it was done with a beak. Then he looked up. "Hey, I hear a car, sounds like its coming this way. Maybe its the tiger bringing Charger and the humans back." He grinned again.

Dave and Art pulled up at the camp. They both got out of the car, and they were clearly both in sour moods.
Streak: "Where are Charger and Kaira? And where did you leave Kix and Krisha?"
Blaze stood. "Art, you didn't leave them in town, did you?"
Art sighed heavily. "Yeah. I did. I'm a totally irresponsible asshole. Cut the shit."
Blaze and Streak winced.
Dave: "Art, shut up." He turned to Blaze, Streak, and Pseok. "Guys, Charger's been taken by an angry mob. I think they're confusing him for someone else. I guess some monster's been running around killing the townfolk. Charger sent Kaira off to hide and sent me and Art back here. I haven't seen Kix or Krisha for a while."
He looked directly at Pseok. "Do you think you could go and fly over the town? You know, see what there is to see? Maybe find Kaira, Kix, and Krisha?"
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Fisher looked down at Akky. "We don't need to drive. We don't even need to run. We'll wait here. They're bound to come back to the city sometime. So they'll pass by here again."
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P.S. I was looking at my avatar and realized I have a huge nose. God damn.

Slade had been silent and motionless for some time when his glow suddenly disappeared and he opened his eyes.
"They're here - or not far from here. They appear to have a camp near the foot of these mountains."
Daniel looked up, "Well, if you're so keen to see them, why don't we go pay them a visit?"
Slade smiled, "Not just yet... I have something else I need to do... Come!"
The two vanished from sight...

<•-•-•-•-•>

Slade appeared in the passenger seat of Olivia's vehicle.
"Slow down and stop," he commanded. Olivia looked a little surprised, but obeyed his order. As they stopped, Daniel walked up to the driver's side door.
"Sorry, Spark," Slade started, "I've got a new job for you. We'll take the car, I want you to go immediately..."

<•-•-•-•-•>

Silvia followed the two cats again and looked when Krisha pointed out Akky and Fisher.
"Him again?" she exclaimed, then listening to what the cats said, "You know that guy?"
But the cats had already disappeared.
Right, she thought, this is weird. She decided to watch what happened, though, unlike the cats, she couldn't become invisible so she had to stay a discreet distance

The draft in the dark mine tunnel became more strong and fresh with each step Kaira took. She figured she was almost there, but then stumbled onto a pile of rubble.
'Aaaww...' she whimpered, and looked around to see if there was a place to get trough. The darkness didn't make that easy though. So with the help of her paws and her whiskers she tried to find an opening in the rubble. Eventualy she found a hole which she just managed to sqeeze trough, cutting her back in the process.
'Ouch,' she gasped as a small pain surge shot trough her body. She looked back to see how big the damage was, but couldn't quite make it out in the dark.
She decided to move on, and before long she felt the draft stronger and fresher then ever. Some faint light was shining from around a corner a while away. No doubt there was an exit there. She hurried over, only to find this side of the mine baricaded by wooden boards.
'Damnit!' she cursed, and tried to see yet again if there was a hole she could sqeeze trough somewhere. No such luck though, this entrance was well baricaded. For a second it looked like she had no choice but to go back.
But right as she was about to turn around, she heard some voices. If she didn't know better she'd say she heard her own name, and Charger's. She perked her ears and listnend in, then suddenly reconized one of the voices.
For a moment she smiled. It was that kid, whatshisname, Dave!
When they set up camp they had done it right around the corner of a mine shaft, which worked out well in this case.
'Guys!' Kaira then yelled from the shaft. 'Can someone give me a hand with these boards and let me out of here?!'

Blaze's head snapped around towards the voice. He wasn't sure at first ... but it sounded like Kaira.
Streak had heard it, too. "Come on," she said, motioning to the others.
She stood and moved in the direction of the voice. Blaze rose and followed. Art and Dave eyed each other, and Art went ahead. Dave stayed behind with Pseok.
Art caught up with Blaze and Streak. They found a line of boards on the ground. It was rather out of place.
Blaze crouched down and knocked. "Kaira? Is that you?"
Streak smacked the back of Blaze's head. "Of course it is! Art! Help him get these planks up."
Art got down and began to lift the boards off of the hole.
They were all relived to find that it was Kaira, safe and sound.
Streak: "How did you get down there?"

Kaira was relieved to see the boards being removed and having some more light fall into the mineshaft. With an elegant jump she leaped up the slightly steep ramp the led out the shaft and joined the others on the surface.
She looked at herself before answering, her beautifull white fur had dirty smudges everywhere, and the cut on her back had caused a nasty red bloodstain in her pelt, not to mention that it was still bleeding.
'Charger got chased off by a mob, I don't know why,' she sighed. 'He sent me off to hide in a mine. I followed the shaft, and now here I am.'
She looked around to Blaze and Streak, then to Art.
'Do you guys know what happened down there?'

ooc: sorry guys, I wrote a post yesterday but it got deleted.


Pseok, who'd been on the brink of taking off towards the town, stopped and edged over to where Kaira was emerging from the earth. "Well Blaze has lots of useful ideas. Anyway, I'll go have a look for Charger, it wouldn't be the first time I had to save that guy's life. Dave, you wanna come? Two pairs of eyes are better than one, even if one pair is pathetic hman eyes.

Dave glanced at Art, then looked at Pseok and nodded. He ignored the crack about sight - Dave thought he had pretty good vision for a human (had Art heard this thought, he might have snapped at Dave again).
He climbed onto Pseok's back so they could fly off.
Art, meanwhile, was answering Kaira. "All we know is that there were gunshots. Hopefully Charger isn't in any real danger ... but I doubt it. He's good at taking care of himself."
Blaze cast a glance at Art. "Kaira, Pseok and Dave were attacked last night. Pseok is confused about whether it's human or not. He said it looked human, but it was trying to bite and claw at him and stuff."
Art suddenly knew what it was. Back when he was still working for Macrina, his area of expertise had been hunting the paranormal and the bizzare.
"Has the idea of werewolf been given?"
Streak nodded. "We couldn't convince Pseok that it might have been. It looked far too human."
Art bowed his head. "Guys, chances are it's a Ware." {He went on to provide an explanation of what a Ware is, which we've already read when Splat posted it} "We don't have to go out and kill it, but if it comes after us, we should be ready."

P.S. Dammit! I'm a clakker miner! Wasn't I, like, a Mudokon Big Kahonee or something?

ooc: I miss the old titles, I'm too much of a fan of the classic OW games to appreciate these new ones. :(


Pseok had already taken off so missed most of Art's declaration. He turned towards the town and followed the road to the edge.
Where he suddenly wheeled round and stopped, looking at something below. "Hey, that's Fisher down there. And there's a cat with him, does it look like one of Charger's friends? His... people haven't ever seemed cautious about taking prisoners." If he hadn't had Dave on his back he might have had another attempt at attacking him.
Remembering why they were there he looked around. The mob had all but dissolved now so their wasn't anything to guide Pseok to his quarry. "i don't see Charger down there. Where abouts did he run to?"

Art: "Guys, chances are it's a Ware." {He went on to provide an explanation of what a Ware is, which we've already read when Splat posted it} "We don't have to go out and kill it, but if it comes after us, we should be ready"

Olivia's voice piped up, "You are correct; it was indeed a Ware."
She had appeared on a nearby rock while they had been busy discussing among themselves and was now sitting casually on the edge of it as if she'd always been there.
"But it won't be coming after you any time soon. It was caught and tranquilised, I understand, as was your tigery friend."

'Hey,' Kaira reacted fiercly when she saw Olivia. 'Who are you, how did you get here?'
But as she listnened to what she had to say, her attitude changed.
'Captured? Charger? No way! That can't be, can it?' she looked up to Art and Blaze a bit unsure. 'He's Charger... he can't be caught... he's almost invincible... he can't be caught, right?'
Her unsure tone slowly dripped away into sillent mumbles as she kept looking up to Blaze.