Wandering alone and lost (open)

[Arael Hiroshi]

Arael had slumped over when she laughed at herself. Now she slams her head back into #6's face, hopefully getting his nose. Then she did it again for good measure. Arael felt his grip loosen just a tiny bit, but that was all she needed. She twisted like a fish in his grip until she had wiggled herself out of his grip, kicking, hitting, and biting him as she did so.
When she got out of his grip, she spun around to pin #1 down, and found a knife at the base of her throat. She noticed that the men she had knocked down earlier were getting back up, and that they were much angrier than before. I guess being beat down by a girl smaller than you will to that to a person. For the first time in this encounter she felt a little fear, but she immediately squashed it. This was no time to be scared. #6 gets back up as well with a hand on his nose and a look that could kill.
Arael looked #1 in the eye and asked, "What do you want? Money? I don't have anything left of that. Jewelry? All I have is my necklace." Arael really hoped someone would come this way soon. She had run out of ideas and couldn't see a way out of this situation.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

Rai had had enough he shot the blood bullet at the hand that was holding the knife, successfully shooting a hole through it and making him drop his knife, then he would jump off the building and land on the ground behind all the men and the girl.

"Now now, I don't think you're playing fair."

He would say to the men holding the girl, he really didn't care that the man who's hand he shot was now squirming on the ground bleeding and crying in pain, he could deal with it. After all he was 'strong' enough to gang up on a little girl with his friends.

[Arael Hiroshi]

Arael blinked in shock. One second she being held a knife point, the next guy #1 was rolling on the ground with a hole in his hand, and there was a new voice behind her berating the men. She turned her head and saw a tall white haired man standing very causally in the alleyway. Noticing a movement out of the corner of her eye, she twisted out of the way of the knife thrown by #1. It scratched her cheek as it passed, then kept going straight towards the new guy.
"Watch out!" She yelled as it passed.

[Kyrie Blaze]

The other men that were starting to stir got to see a rather particular sight. That was of one small blonde woman seeming to crawl up out of Arael's shadow, one hand after another, reminiscent of Gollum from Lord of the Rings. The ends of her curls dragged upon the street and her elbows jutted at awkward angles. She crouched, eying them with cool blue eyes beneath her blonde hair that she twitched out of the way. Her eyes gleamed. Kyrie twisted her head this way, and that way.

The girl could pull off eerie surprisingly well. The shadows dissipated after plucking at her form and she stood, keeping her head tipped to an awkward angle. She was an inch shorter than Arael, and much more slim.

A slow smile creaked her lips apart, becoming a smirk, showing the edge of her teeth.

"It suggests the men run for their life~"

She flexed her hands, and darkness formed over her gloves, into claws. Sharp and gleaming black. She lifted them, the motion of her arms slow and fluid with a slight jerk as she stopped. Her head remained pitched at that awkward angle. Kyrie was using skills Rai had seen and experienced first hand, but had laid off - seemingly - since she'd become a Dragon.

[Arael Hiroshi]

Arael heard another new voice behind her again! She turned her head just enough to see this new person, then nearly jumped our of her skin when she saw what (who) was behind her. It looked like some blonde headed demon for the underworld. Suddenly she recognized who it was! It was the woman she thought was following her a few hours ago. More importantly, how did she get there!?! No one was there a few seconds ago. How did she... Never-mind, worry about that later. Focus on the matter at hand. Beating #1 into a pulp.
No. She thought to herself. Calm down Ari! Don't let this gut rile you up. Keep calm. Don't let it out. A flashback of a burning house floated into her memory, but she shook it away.
She took a deep breath, then smiled and looked at #1 again to see what he was going to do next...

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

Rai would just catch the blade in between his fingers, and smile like a demon.

"Careful! I wouldn't want you to loose your knife!"

Rai would then throw it so that it would fly inches away from one of the mens face and it would embed itself into the shoulder of #1. Then he would nod to Kyir.

"So who else of you bad boys is next to see what happens?"

[Koshiro WarHazzard]

Koshiro walked up behind a building unnoticed. He climbed up to the top of a building, using his crow training in stealth he watched the group in silence.
"I wonder who they are? Is that Rai? Hmm.......Maybe I should go down there."

He sat on the building watching. He un-clipped his sword from his belt and set it across his legs while he sat.

[Kyrie Blaze]

"Is that them?"

"Indeed, Sir."

"Excellent. You know what to do."

"Sir. Okay, move out."




Koshiro would soon have company. He may have been unnoticed by those on the ground, but there was a slight sound behind and to his right.



Kiyr, for her part, didn't even twitch to look at Rai, instead, keeping her eyes upon the group of men with a slow half-circle, the claws ticking together.

[Arael Hiroshi]

With #1 pinned to the ground by his shoulder, he wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. She turned again to the semicircle of men and the new woman. She figured if the woman was going to fight the men (and it definitely looked like she was about to spring onto them) then she would help. The enemy of my enemy sort of thing. If she attacked later, well, that would be later.
Arael got into a ready stance when one of the men started barreling in her direction. He was probably hoping to go too fast for Arael to dodge, and he was quick, but not quite as fast as Arael. She danced out of the way and gave him a kick on his side to make him lose his balance as he passed. When she did this she accidentally put her back to the blonde woman and the other four men...

[Koshiro WarHazzard]

Seeing the other four men Koshiro stood, and drew his sword.
"Enough of this." He said aloud.
He jumped, clipping the sheath back to his belt loop while in the air. When he landed he was in front of one of the men. He ran around behind him, kicked and ran back to Arael. To her it would seem as though he had hit the ground blurred around and then back. He stood on her right side, sword drawn. His sword, as it always had been, was a satin black blade, the blade seemed like almost a shadow when it moved. The hilt was a master crafted piece, a purple dragon that almost seemed to fly out of the blade. Though he had used it, even more since coming to California, it still seemed almost new. (Yes, I'm playing "Number One" in my head when describing the sword.)

"Hi there. I'm Koshiro. That's Rai......" He said nodding toward Rai
"I don't know the rest.......but would be glad to meet them after this. Are you ready?" He said to Arael.

[Arael Hiroshi]

"W- wha-a.". She stuttered. "R-ready for what?" She was stunned by his speed and by his (admittedly) awesome looking sword.

[Raikotsu Sudeki]

Rai moved forward punching the guy to Kyir's left following the punch through to make the man collide with the one behind him sending them both into the wall off building. Picking them up by their throats he slammed their heads together knocking them unconscious, hopefully. Then turning to Koshiro disapprovingly he would speak.

"Now is not the time to ask someone out on a date. Clear the area of hostiles first, I thought the Crows were teaching you something? Maybe I should talk to Delilah when we're done here and tell her that you need more intense training?"

Rai would be looking around as he spoke see if there was anyone that would be getting back up, he knew Kyir would be able to handle her situation so would leave her be.

[Koshiro WarHazzard]

Koshiro laughed.

"Awww! Come on Rai! Now's a great time."

He crouched down and twisted pushing up and slicing one guy in the chest.

"Ready to finish this." He said to Arael as he kicked the man he just sliced in the stomach.

He stepped backwards. Backed right up to Arael and stopped. He looked but with all of him the man he kicked before was about to stand. He jumped and backflipped to behind the guy (yet again) and picked him up, then set him down.

"I allow you one pass. Take your men and leave. Now. I ask once. You get one chance. Spoil that and I will kill you. And let me be clear. You get this chance because someone once told me to kill without reason. You have given me more than reason, but I gave that person a chance. And I afford you the same. Now leave!" He looked the man deep in the eyes then sheathed his sword leaving one hand on it. If the man tried anything, Koshiro would draw the sword slicing him in the throat, if the man decided to leave he would do nothing.

[Kyrie Blaze]

Kiyr just blinked as the man that Arael dealt with suddenly spun in front of her. She raised an eyebrow, lifted her leg, and simply kicked out in a straight line from her center to catch his knee. He stumbled, she lifted her knee and cracked it against the side of his head with a small frown.

These ones were nothing but ordinary thugs. For the Neutral Territory, it figured.

She spun, however, and jumped from his back to the person Arael was headed for, and a shadow extended from her hand as she leaped, the claws shifting to a blunt object she used to smack his head to knock him out, push off the wall into a diagonal roll, and come back to her feet. Kyrie looked between Rai, the girl, and the newcomer, blue eyes quiet and calm.

Observant and watchful.

She said nothing.

[Arael Hiroshi]

The man took Koshiro's advice, and ran.
Arael looked with wide eyes at the three people who came out of nowhere to help her. "Thank you. All of you. Thank you so much for helping me!" She said. "I was starting to think that I might acually die tonight before y'all showed up. Thank you again!"
She paused for a second, then asked, "You wouldn't happen to know how to get to the northern part of Long Beach would you? I need to get back, She paused for just a millisecond. "Home." She said firmly.
She hadn't realized it, but she had been keeping herself from thinking about her aunt and uncles's place as home because she thought that she was going to leave soon. Now? Now she might stay for awhile. Who knows? She thought to herself. In a place were people stand up to help total strangers? She might be able to make a life here.