[GenjutsuGaara]

"YES!" Seth-Raine jumped up excitedly. "Come on! Lets see if we can go find Noir! I bet shes kicking some ass too!" Seth-Raine said excitedly as he pushed through a bit of a crowd. "Were totally in this for the long run bro!" Seth-Raine said excitedly as he did earlier. He pushed through the crowd as he picked out Noir in a small crowd.

He quickly shoved his way through the crowd with Lightning Landen in front. He grinned. Landen was a human golem. Walking around and destroying stuff with out realizing it. He smiled. He was tackled by Noir and hugged her. "Aww. What a cute kid you are!" Seth-Raine said. "So what Barracks are you in?! That'll be the team your with for the war!" Seth-Raine said excitedly. "Me and uh...Lightning Landen here are in the same barracks. 46B!" He said excitedly. "What barracks are you in? Tell us!" Seth-rained excitedly.

[Exaltations]

Noir raised her eyebrow and tilted her head at the name "Lightning Landen" she figured they got their own nicknames like she did. She didn't like hers so much, it sounded so... weak. "White Melody" they called her, because before she met up with the two a mage heard of her, and had asked Noir to show him a demonstration of one of the spells she'd created. Most of the ones she created consisted of a piece of a short song, a line for each spell, so she'd sung in front of them to cast magic.

She couldn't believe it when Seth-Raine said what Barracks they were in, she was ready to faint, a few tears even slid down her cheek and she smiled widely. "I'm in the same Barracks!!!" She cheered excitedly. Not once in her life had she never found herself so excited. She didn't understand why she was, she'd just met them. "W-we can fight together... or... I can be your back up."
She'd make sure to use her magic so that neither Landen or Seth-Raine ever got hurt.

[ichijin]

~~Aer~~
Well, being hired into the army, he wasn't the least surprised. He only happened to be in the city when one of the officers recognized him, and well, from there he was taken to the commander, and then dragged into mercenary work. He planned on denying, until he checked the amount of money he had... Only enough for one or two more days, and mercenary work was scarce nowadays. So he joined. He expected it to be boring, but seeing all these recruit mages, it sort of reminded him of him back in the day. Though he was allowed to wander, as long as he was in the area and the unit. It was pretty much the same clothing everywhere, long robes, large armor, or weapons, books, all pretty much that steel gray color, along with leather straps. Then, he spotted a bit of blue among it, and a familiar face, it was Shen.

~~Shen~~
Shen was pretty much at the moment, occupied with watching people from his group fight, he was impressed, not many people their age could do so well in a fight. And then, before he knew it, he was waving back at an old friend,

"Shen, how have you been?", he asked, and as Shen got up the words,

"I've been quite fine thank you Aer",

"Heh, I wonder, did you get pulled into mercenary work for money or glory?",

"money",

"like always! neither of us have ever gone for the glory stuff", as they chatted away, the two took a seat and continued their conversation.

~~Aer~~
His old friend Shen, it's been around three years, since the two last met, the land was long and large, filled with hundreds of things, from complete beauty to utter horror. He admits, that the land they lived in was filled with thousands of interesting things, he didn't quite care if it was dangerous or beautiful, he just wanted to know.

"So what have you been doing these last three years?", he asked,

"Oh the usual, just traveling around, what about you?",

"You know me, studying new ways of magic and well, my travels", the two paused, for a moment, the cries of battle were ringing all over and around them.

"Shen, isn't this the berserkers section? You're usually watching the assassins",

"Oh no, his fight's finished",

"Who?", he inquired, looking in Shen's direction

"Seth-Raine, me, him, Noir, Landen and Kaguro came here from Harmon Village",

"Ah I see, tell me more",

"Well, Seth, Noir and Landen were all recruits for the army, Kaguro is an officer, who was meant to escort the group to this city. And now here they are", he said, watching as Landen fought.

"If you look down into the Berserker ring now, you see that thunder user?",

"yea", he replied, observing carefully,

"that's Landen", he said, as Landen floored his opponent.

"Ooohh... That's impressive I admit...",

"You were in the mages bout weren't you? Did you happen to see someone named Noir? She seems a little quite on the side",

"Oh her? They gave her the nickname White Melody, I admit, she has a lot of potential from how she fought", he said.

"Well, wanna go off to meet them? I'll introduce you",

"Ah, that's a good idea", he replied. And with that, the two got up from their seats, and walked off towards the rest area.

[Naomi]

Landen had kind forced a path through the crowd. It was easy with his size. Seth-raine behind him the whole way till they found noir. Landen grinned a bit at first then he saw noir was a bit upset. She obviously didnt want to be separated from them.

"Hey it will be ok...dont worry about not being right by us...we will still see eachother plenty...and what do you mean less creepy...I never thought you were creepy at all...who ever said that just doesnt know you." landen said trying to reassure her.

Then when noir found out that all three of them were actualy in the same barracks she seemed to brighten up quite a bit. Though she was still crying.

"Hey lets have some fun now! Celebrate the fact that we are all together!" he said as he saw shen walking up with another guy. "Yo shen what up!" he said waving to him "Guess what we all ended up in the sam barrack...weird huh?" then looking at the new guy he asked "Whos your buddy?"

[GenjutsuGaara]

OoC: Off to bed. Night, I'll edit this in the morning. And if you guys post more then 2 pages pm me at least? Night! =D


Seth-Raine smiled as Noir broke into tears. Not because it was funny. But because he was happy that they all ended up in the same Barracks. "Heya shen! Yeah. Whos this loser lookin mage?" Seth-Raine asked playfully with a smile.

But the smile quickly faded. He remembered something. He remembered someone who looked exactly like him he was supposed to kill. "Aer." He said quietly. He remembered.

It was an abnormally cold winter evening. He was out hunting Aer. Supposed to bring him to the man dead. Seth-Raine had been practicing poisons with his grandfather for just over 3 years at this point. He could see him in the distance. Seth-Raine pulled down the front of his mask that was upto his nose and drew in a deep breath. Through the winter night he crept silently. Seeming as though he himself was the wind. He sighed. Knowing he was the pride of the Invisible Fox clans. He crept upto the mage slowly. Tip toeing through the falling snow. He came up behind the mage and drew his blade to his neck. But everything after that was a blank.

He shook his head. "Uh...Its nice to meet you!" Seth-Raine quickly smiled. Trying to brush it off like nothing just happened.

[Naomi]

ooc: im about to go to bed too...i have school tomorrow...that was probobly my last post for the night on this thread.

[DarkShadowLurker]

Kagaro walked around the city looking at shops nearby, he needed a new sword because the one he had was about to break. He had used it unrepaired for 10 years. "Hm, this one looks good" He said as he picked up a long steel sword that was as thick as a broadsword.

"ah yes that one is a nice piece made by Baren" The shop keeper said to Kagaro with a smile. He had heard of the famous blacksmith Baren from the Desert region but had never seen one of his pieces before. He handed over his broken Iron sword and the money to pay for the sword. He sheathed it on his back a long with his Bow. Kagaro would have to set out at some point.

[Exaltations]

Noir noticed it when Seth-Raine stopped smiling. She he'd pretty much been smiling and grinning the whole time, it was something pretty hard not to notice. She wondered what was wrong, she figured it had something to do with the mage that came along with Shen, but she didn't want to question it, she didn't have the right to question business that wasn't her own.

She squeaked suddenly when she felt a strong hand grope her rear, she jumped and turned, clinging to Landen's arm because of the surprise. Some Assassin had decided he wanted to violate her. Typical occurrence, it seemed the most hormonal type of people in the world were people in jail, or people in the army. The unknown Assassin only snickered and walked away, he probably didn't want to say anything with her clinging to Landen.

"Great, now I have to put up with fighting and perverts." She muttered. She wondered for a moment if Landen or Seth-Raine had their moments, but that thought passed. Not possible, they were way too nice.

[Naomi]

Landed noticed the smile temporarily disappear from seth-raine's face. Landed wasn't an idiot, he knew it probably meant he had a connection with the guy shen had brought along. Landen wasn't sure what kind of connection but he figured there was one. Like it mattered though. They were all part of the same army now.

Landen frowned when noir jumped and clung to his arm. Not because of her but because of the guy. "Sick bastard..." he mumbled as the guy walked off snickering. Landen would have said something but the last thing they needed was a bar fight right now since they had just been enlisted.

Landen never understood why guys had to be sure perverts. All it did was give them all a bad name. Sure landen had his moments when he would be a little perverted but he would never openly touch a girl like that without permission, or if they didn't want to be touched. He had been raised better and had better manners.

Noir was still at his arm. Landen adjusted it a little so that he had his hand on her shoulder and his arm behind her. "Dont worry about those sick little freaks...I doubt they will mess with you for long." landen said grinning again.

Looking around for a second he saw a waitress with a bunch of mugs walking by. He could smell the strong ale in the mugs. Reaching back he grabbed one and nodded a thanks. In the army there really wasn't a drinking age of sorts. If you were man enough to be there you were man enough to drink. Landen hadn't had any alcohol in forever either so one or two drinks sounded good. Landen was also a big enough guy that it would take alot to waste him anyhow.

Taking a good drink landen smiled at shen again. "So what are you and your..uh...friends plans?" he asked realizing he had never caught the new mage's name.

[ichijin]

IN:
~~Shen~~
"Oh so you two know each other?", Shen was trying to keep the mood up, it was clear that Seth didn't have a good connection of Aer. Well, Aer showed no signs of remembering, and simply replied,

"It's nice to meet you too, I hear from Shen that you're very cheerful and whatnot". Shen looked around for a moment, and the first thing he was was Noir clinging to Landen, well, she was one of the only girls here, so it was natural for such a thing to happen. After a few moments, Landen came up to the two of them with a few drinks.

~~Aer~~
He recognized Seth... He never got the name, but he definitely remembered, this boy tried to kill him once. For whatever reason, he doesn't know, but it was probably his human look-alike, he looked more human than his friend Shen, but was less human than him. He didn't really know why, but he definitely remember him.

"It's nice to meet you too, I hear from Shen that you're very cheerful and whatnot", he said, smiling. After a few moments, the large man named Landen and the mage with a lot of potential, Noir came around. It looked like Noir was very attached to Landen, he could kind of imagine the two being married sometime in their life. And there Landen was, offering he and Shen a drink each, and our plans?

"Well, we're only hired because we were low on money, otherwise we'd have refused the mercenary work", said Shen,

"You probably haven't caught his name yet, but it's Aer", he finished.

"Well, I was very close to declining the offer, until I checked the amount of money I had left, Shen here is probably better at finance, since he makes sure he's prepared for such problems", he chatted. Aer was more talkative than Shen was, though Shen was better prepared at... Things like money,

"So you must be Landen, you look like a fine young man, and this girl here must be Noir", he said, after looking from Landen, and then to Noir who was glued to Landen's arm.

"You know I'll be honest, I see a lot of potential from you, now Landen, tell us why you and co are here?", asked Aer. He was definitely more talkative.