The Invasion of Arias: Ninth S.O.

[Mintaro]

Aquila Walks with the general back towards the meeting place. "I've been meaning to ask you. What do we know about these enemies? Even insane rablings would be helpful. Those can at least give you a feel for what the enemy looks like. Its hard to kill things you know nothing about."

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

"Oh don't let me prevent you from further rock throwing, dragonkin," Tantalum exclaimed as light-heartedly as possibly, a cheerful smile fixed on her face. Her dark eyes glittered with gold flecks and amusement, "besides, it was entirely my fault for getting in the way. I won't fly overhead of you next time, but you certainly have good aim, and a very strong arm," she said admiringly.

Secretly, she hoped she did not offend Karven. She did not want a creature of so much power write her into his bad books, and she certainly hoped she didn't insult him by calling him 'dragonkin'

[wilysword]

Juras woke up immediately, the way he always did. It seemed he'd fallen asleep waiting, but he knew he had the meeting at "2000", as the general called it, about an hour before the second watch. As a sailor, Juras could not only sleep anytime, but wake up whenever he wanted to as well.

When he got to the clearing under the tree, he noted that just about everyone was already there. There was quite a bit of tension in the air, but it seemed...friendlier, somehow, as though maybe the roughest spots were out of the way. Hmm, he thought, Maybe there's some hope for us after all.

[OmniShadow]

Rei came back to the base just as the general came out. 'Seems like im just in time' he thought. He could see one of the were-beast females talk to one of the dragonkins and as he came closer he could also hear the were-beast Aquila asking the general about the enemy.

[Ryu Kurai]

The general began walking as he talked. "Well, to tell the truth, the survivors have very limited information themselves, as they typically got out of the cities without looking back. We have been getting reports of people being suddenly stopped in their tracks and captured, however. We've also heard that they can move at extraordinary speeds, and are capable of dodging crossbow bolts. We're not sure if it's just an illusion or if this really may be some kind of magic we haven't seen before." He walked out of the tree's entrance, walking in front of the group of volunteers that were gathered. He looked around expectantly. "Hmm, he isn't here yet and it's almost 2000. Where-" He began as he heard a great commotion from the west road of the city. People were clamoring out of the way, dodgin a huge caravan at least three times the size of a normal one. controlling the horses was a lanky man, with long black hair and a nose that was pointed almost like a beak. He drove the horses into the group of people, nearly running over about half of them. He lept down from the horse, his long white robes fluttering up to reveal his baggy red shirt and black pants. He brushed back his hair quickly, showing that the sides were cut short, and moved over to the general.

"Dude, I'm sorry I'm late but there was, like, all this traffic and people and stuff and the guy over down back that way had some really nice looking fruit for sale and dude." He stopped talking for a second, his dark brown eyes going wide. "It was crazy." General Tahoe cleared his throat and then made a gesture towards the erratic youth.

"This is your driver, Shirin Okama. His family was from Yujiro but they moved here. His duty is to make sure you get proper nutrition also, and his family has some healing abilities tied to ths town. He's currently studying to become a doctor, and he volunteered into the service for experience."

Shirin raised an eyebrow and made sort of a harsh chuckle as he began talking. "Dude, my parents just wanted me out. The whole 'doctor experience' thing is a bonus. Besides, If they're out there, gettin' the crap chopped out of them by this unknown enemy, and the fate of our city rests on their shoulders, do you think I'm just gonna let them get messily dismemebered and bleed to death? Hell no!" He said, punching his fist up into the air. "I'm gonna stop the bleeding. I mean, geez, these white cloaks are hard to come by, and if I get blood stains all over it, it's gonna get all nasty, and then these guys'll be all infected and it's gonna suck. So yeah. But dude, I am not a melee fighter so don't let them get close to me because my arms," He said, rolling up one of his sleeves in mid-sentance and flexing his arm to reveal very little muscle "Are like twigs. So, yeah, just hop on in the back and we'll get going." He said, vaulting onto the driver's seat of the wagon.

Karvan internally wondered how he could say so much so quickly with only a few breaths of air. He hopped into the back of the wagon, which was empty except for a huge pile of supplies close to the driver's seat.

[Mintaro]

Aquila looks around at the group. "Five of us can fly, and were taking a caravan." He thinks to himself. Aquila motions for his brother to board the Caravan and then moves over to Tantalum. Speaking quietly "I'm going to rely on you to do any scouting we need." He puts a hand gently on her shoulder "I know I can trust you with our saftey." Aquila walks off and boards the Caravan with his brother. The two of them moving as deep into the shade as they can. Aquila pulls out a set of very small linked rings and begins tossing them a little into the air and spinning his hand around to catch them in a rythum. Closing his eyes and catching them by there soft tinkling.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Great, our driver is a spaced out healer, possibly on a non-health-threatening drug, Tantalum thought as she rolled her eyes. When Aquila came up and asked her to scout.
"Well, jeeze," she muttered under her breath, "I guess I'll take the first scouting shift."
She lowered the collar of her dress until it fell past her shoulders, and changed. The wings, mottled with brown, white and specks of black, erupted out, giving reason for the reason of her loosening of the dress. Her feet became clawed, and two toes moved slightly to the back. Her ankle elongated, and her legs shortened, though she grew a few inches upward. Her face took on the distinct, flat white shape of an owl's, and her mouth hooked and beaked.
With a whisper in the wind, she unfurled her wings and leapt into the sky, laboring into the air with silent strokes. Then, she caught an updraught and settled into a lazy spiral.
The caravan became a small dot to her vision as she soared. Her vision stretched a long distance, and she hoped they would get a move on soon.

[TheBlindMime]

Hale leaned his head back in the shade of the caravan, sitting comfortably he closed his eyes and relaxed. I wonder if Aiera will sit next to me. Hale thought as he fell into unconciousness.

[pendejochy]

{I wonder what that werebird is off to. Probably looking out for the invaders. I haven't been so successful on making allies. The werebeasts seem to like to keep to themselves, with the possible exception of dragonkin. And the other humans don't seem like the social types. I think I'd like a shady spot as well.}
I put Girito (OOC: I decided to give the doll a name) in my hood and climed into the caravan (OOC: I don't really know what a caravan looks like, but I imagine a wagon simmiler to the ones on the Oregon Trail.) Seeing the a nice shady part, I walked on over and sat a few feet from the male werebirds. I had Girito retract his needle teeth and pulled him out. I reached inside Girito and pulled out the chicken-with-a-wing-eatten. Putting Girito back into my hood, I pulled off a chunck of chicken brest and began eatting it. {I wonder if this disturbs the werebirds.}

[Gemz]

Charles nods too the general and loads some materials into the back of the waggon. They were explosives... Although most of the people here has never seen explosives before charles made them the following night. Nothing too big sadly, they could make a 10ft crator deep, and about 20 across. They were for specail times where we needed too get out, or in. Charles hopped into the waggon with simple armor and weapon. A double bladed sword, and light armor. Next too the dragon skin he sat down, he gave plenty of room between them though. Last thing he needed was for the dragon too eat him. Charles was quite because this was maybe his second time entering warfare. He had to come along because he was the only one that knew how too work the explsives.

OOC: I can grade down the explosives if you want. The double bladded sword if fire and ice. the armor is like heavy armor, which looks and feels like light armor.