Camping? (Open)

[Hazzerous]

Terra thought it was strange that the two newest arrivals had left so very fast, but she had no problems with it. She was beginning to grow annoyed from all the distractions anyway. She turned to regard Asagi. "I am on a most important request from Master Etna." She decided not to actually devulge any more info than that, however ... they would probably make fun of her if she actually told them.

Her mood already returning for the better, she continued towards her destination. "Aha, that would seem to be the place ... I would hope." After only a short while within seeing distance was some short of strange building. If she had read the map right this should be it, then again ... she had led them astray on atleast 15 other occasions.

She glanced around the area, the forest was fairly clear all around te building. It was a two story building of some sort, looks almost like a fairly fancy place, but also old and not in great condition anymore. It's design was fairly unique, especially the awkward paint job, where the color seemed to vary here and there.

[Asagi]

Looking at the odd place, Asagi felt inclined to ask, "Are you sure this is the place? Why would anyone wanna live in there? It looks really run down on the outside, and I'm sure the inside can't be much better." Nevertheless, she wasn't exactly in a place to complain, since she was just following them, and it was entirely her choice to keep doing so or not. 'It's not like they forced me to come along, and for all I know, the person they're looking for is some kind of...dust demon..or something that would like an old, worn-out place like that...' she thought to herself, 'I guess I'll find out soon enough, I'll just be patient and see what happens.'

[Faust]

Roscoe might have had a few things to say about the ratty building, but after being in space and stranded away from civilization, any building was liable to look good. "Right. So this is the building that this Etna fellow told you to go. Strange how this building's here in the middle of the forest. You'd think I'd have happened across it at some point." He nodded. "Well, Miss Terra, you were so kind as to allow me to follow, so I'll help you with whatever this Master Etna wants you to do..." After giving it a bit of thought, he added a little, "...just so long as it's not too dangerous, you understand."

He cast a glance at Asagi. She was a human like him. A possible ally, perhaps, if he could just tell her that he was also human. But he couldn't risk it in front of Terra. Maybe he'd get his chance later, but first he had to get past this one little assignment. If there was fighting, he was ready for it. He was formulating escape plans even before they entered the building.

[Hazzerous]

Terra nodded. "Thank you Sir Roscoe, however, as I hope based on the briefing Master Etna gave it should not be dangerous. I am merely to acquire his Hyshian Pudding Deluxe Gold Plus Plus." Oddly enough to said the name with a straight face as though it were a completely reasonable name. She continued on her path towards the building leading the humans.

After walking past a few various unusual lawn ornaments which she couldn't help but stare at momentarily she knocked on the door of the place. Strangely enough the doors blasted open, though noone was actually behind them. "Lord Elios?" She called, having been told the name of the "Merchant" from Master Etna. The inside was as expected for a dusty old manner. The staircase leading to the second floor was infront of the door, towards the back wall, and everything on each side, while spacious, was covered in dust. All the furniture seemed fairly normal, though the setting could have been taken out of a horror movie easily.

Terra walked in, not seeming to mind the Horror Movie setting too much. She looked around as various Bats and whatnot were flying around near the ceiling, some sleeping but others seemingly disturbed by their presence. She looked back to make sure Roscoe and Asagi were alright, as her danger senses were suddenly (Read: finally) alert.

She glanced around curiously, and decided to call for the lord of the manor once more. "Lord Elios?"

"Hmhmhm..." A caped man was suddenly on the staircase, somehow having not been noticed up to this point. "I presume you're the ones Etna sent?" He asked, curiously a wide smile forming on his face.

"Uhmn ... yes?" Terra thought this place was a bit unusual for a merchants manor. "We're here for the-"

"Yes, yes ... You're here for the pudding." He snapped his fingers and suddenly several variously armed warriors walked out, somewhere around six or seven. "However, Etna won't steal my pudding this time! ... I've finally prepared ... for the past ten years, she's stolen my pudding everytime I've ordered it ... however, no longer!" The man pointed at the three within the room, and suddenly the door slammed shut, similarly to when it opened. "Etna's thievery ends here .. Hahaha...HAHAHAHAHA!" Suddenly the warriors began to approach the three.

"Oh, of course. This is Master Etna we're talking about." Terra said somewhat quietly hitting herself on the head before drawing out of her sword. Apparently this should have been expected.

(OoC Note: Feel free to have free reign over the warriors/stuff of course...)

[Asagi]

(OoC: I've never really done a real fight scene! I'll pass on the fighting for this turn, then I'll try to do what you two do once I've seen it, okay?)

"Hey, hey, can't we settle this without fighting?" Asagi said, already reaching for her guns, concealed under her coat on her lower back, "I'd hate for anyone to get hurt..." Having "apprenticed" under a very powerful Overlord, Asagi's power had reached a level higher than that of many demons, and she was confident she could win this fight, but she didn't want to unless she had to. She had yet to see the battle prowess of her companions, and this was the perfect opportunity to find out.

[Faust]

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..." Roscoe backed up slowly as warriors started to close in. "Hey, you guys. Let's be reasonable about this, okay? I don't even know this Etna dude..." He moved around a table so it was between himself and the approaching enemies. "Can't we... oh what's the point?"

With Operation Rabbit-Foot squarely out the window, he was forced to figure out a plan to actually fight things. Looking around, he searched for something to use, before looking down at the dust-covered table. "Ha!" Leaning over, he blew forcefully, sending a cloud of dust flying at his opponents, causing them to burst into a fit of sneezing. Leaping up and over the table, he threw a punch at the nearest warrior and grabbed his arm. Here, his short membership in the Wrestling Club at school paid off as he pulled, led the warrior in a circle, and threw him at the others.

Grabbing the weapon that his victim dropped, he picked it up and looked at it despondently. "A sword?" Oh, man, he thought, My kingdom for a weapon from this century.

The group of warriors recovered from Roscoe's gambit and rose to their feet. Roscoe waved the weapon around menacingly. "Hey! Stay back now. I-I don't know how to use this thing, but that don't mean I ain't afraid to!"

[Hazzerous]

Terra looked around at the warriors as she held up her own sword. It was nothing truly special, though to her it meant the world. It was a sword given to her by the former Overlord. She saw Asagi seemingly not prepared for any sort of real battle yet ... or atleast it seemed that way. Meanwhile Roscoe seemed atleast capable of holding his own.

Terra was nothing special in battle ... a talentless skilless amatuer. However, she did was quite tough even by a demon's standards, if that meant anything. She was a prodigy at taking a beating. Terra ran head on towards a couple of the warriors, a spear was jabbed her way, and it even hit her, she wasn't capable enough to deflect the blow. Wincing with pain momentarily she swept her sword up in an arc slashing the first warrior across his chest.

"Lord Elios ... you're making a mistake. No, rather Master Etna is making the mistake, but ... she is merely acting as a demon should. However, standing against her is not wise! Hand over the pudding and desist in such useless action!" She shouted, though the second warrior whipped an axe through the air at Terra. Terra actually managed to block the hit before she shoved him back seemingly overpowering him quite easily in strength.

Elios had seemingly ignored all three as they asked not to battle, it seemed he hadn't heard much of what they said actually, including the part that Roscoe wasn't even involved. "Foolish vassals of Etna ... you can't hope to win this fight..."

Terra sighed as she held her sword back up again. She had no choice but to battle them for the sake of Master Etna's incredibly selfish desires. "I'm sorry Sir Roscoe, Miss Small Child. I didn't intend to involve you two in such ordeals." She said, as she twirled around, slashing her sword in a wide arc, cutting the two warriors she was currently engaging.

[Asagi]

"I'm not a small child!" Asagi exclaimed, "Don't call me that!" Dashing forward, Asagi decided to ignore the warriors, nimbly dodging around them while making her way towards this "Lord Elios" person. 'I bet that if I take him out of the picture, the others might just stop...' she thought to herself, hoping to avoid farther injuries on her side. As she ran, she drew her pistols, waiting to fire until she was closer to her target. If all this was about pudding, and this guy was who they were supposed to get it from, then she figured that it wouldn't be a good idea to kill him. But she did have to wonder why this man kept buying pudding for ten years if it got stolen every time. She decided to ask him once this was over.

[Faust]

Roscoe spent a lot of time in school shuttling back and forth between athletic clubs, but he never figured that his life might depend on what he'd learned in any of them. Right now, all the skills he picked up from Fencing Club were coming into play just to keep his vital organs from being skewered. This is insane! he complained mentally as he unsuccessfully parried a very persistent swordsmen's blows. I wasn't any good at Fencing. Soccer, maybe, but not fenc... "Whoa!"

Tripping over a table leg, he fell over. Flailing for something to break his fall, he grabbed the table cloth, but only sent it, himself, and all the table's contents crashing to the floor. The swordsman, seeing his chance, stepped forward and lunged. Roscoe lashed out with his heavy boot, connecting with the swordsman's hand and knocking it and the weapon harmlessly wide. With a scoot forward, Roscoe followed up with a solid boot to the gut.

While his opponent backpedaled, Roscoe scrambled to his feet, looking at all the objects he'd scattered on the floor. One of them was a crystal ball; a solid one too, considering it hadn't broken in the fall. "Gotcha!" Roscoe took a running step for the ball, "Haaaaaa......Blam!" and kicked it with all of his might.

The swordsman, nursing a throbbing hand and a bruised gut, didn't see the ballistic fortune-telling device until it was too late.

Roscoe hopped in the air, whooping. "It's a goal! Oh yeah! Whoo!" Then the realization came to him that he kicked something extremely hard with his foot. "....Oooowwwww!"

[Hazzerous]

Elios narrowed his eyes as Asagi began to approach him. "You'd fight me? ... Elios? Ha...Hahahahah ... You're brave girl, but you can't hope to battle with me!" He smiled widely, and it was fairly obvious at that point he seemed to be a vampire. "Child, I hope for your sake that you've lived your life to the fullest ... Noone will ever steal my pudding again ..."

Terra realized suddenly that with Asagi gone the remaining warriors who had originally been waiting for her to make a move were now beginning to disperse among herself and Roscoe. She grinned, confident that they'd be fine. Roscoe in anycase ... she had a strong habit of making sure nothing happened to those around her.

One warrior threw his spear towards Terra, nervously she ducked, and it flew by her into the heart of another, actually killing the demon warrior. Terra thought it was unfortunate for them to die over Etna's pudding craving, but ... this was a demon's life ... unfortunately. The warrior with an axe swung it at Terra again, and once more she clashed with him in a test of strength ... this time however, a now unarmed spear fighter was going to force the battle in his ally's favor. He reached from behind her grabbing her arms and forcing her to lose her proper stance. the axe hit her right on, piercing through her armor a tad on her shoulder, though the pain wasn't enough to hold her back.

Terra slammed her head backwards into the warrior's face, and dropped her own sword as she grabbed him and flipped her over her shoulder into the axe fighter, before he could make another move.

Terra glanced towards her injury, though only briefly ... she didn't have too much time to waste as the two stood back up.

(Asagi, feel free to have full reign with Elios in your posts)