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Crusade in the Woodlands
Topic Started: Sep 3 2012, 09:42 PM (1,398 Views)
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Unlike Aru, Legend wasn't quite as quick on his feet. The disarmed spearman grabbed the miner's pick and initiated a deadly tug of war as soon as he realized his dire situation. Legend swung his body weight around and pulled the tool from his enemy's grip, leaving the robed spearman to stumble further away from his grounded weapon. The leader of the robed trio took note of the ease with which Aru and Legend bested his fellow guards, and with little more than a disgusted grimace, he fled into the redwood forest carrying his decorative weapon.

Legend contemplated following him, but before he could decide, he sensed a presence behind his back. A gust of wind rushed past his body, taking hold of a spear aimed for the middle of his back and veering it off-course. Legend's body turned at once. The smooth top of his pickaxe slammed vertically into his attacker's jaw with a cracking sound. Of course, it was the same spearman; Legend pushed him aside and held his pick at the ready.

"Where are the keys to their shackles?" Legend demanded. One crusader lay unconscious and wounded. The other held both hands over his broken jaw, trembling between groans. Neither of them were fit to respond. Even so, the whimpering spearman pointed in the direction of the forest where their guard leader had just disappeared.

"That would make sense..." Legend admitted. He snatched the spear from his fallen opponent and chucked it with one hand into the trees. Their leader would surely lose them in the forest, and if reinforcements arrived in the meantime, all of this would be for naught. With a frown, he stepped over to the group of bound sheridan women and raised his arms.

"Everyone, please remain calm. We're here to help."
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Aru had only seen the brief end to Legend's fight, her eyes darting toward the forest as Legend took to the women. With both men on the ground, Aru decided it was the best chance they would have. Aru jogged toward Legend and put a hand on his shoulder when she caught up with him.

"You stay here. I'll go after the other male." Aru insisted with a nod, taking off without saying another word.

With all of the speed Aru could manage, she plowed through the forest. The trees here were much easier to move through and see between for her, since the Lariona woman had come from such a thick jungle environment. It didn't take her long at all to catch up to the leader of the group, his white robe fluttering in the distance.

"Halt!" Aru yelled, readying her spear in her hands. She frowned when the man didn't even respond to her command, his pace quickening when he realized Aru was catching up. It was of no use though, Aru still covering ground much faster. The guard looked over his shoulder, then stepped on his own robes and tripped.

After scraping his chin against the ground, the guard turned over. Without turning his eyes away from aru the guard tried to recover his weapon, a spear that had landed just a bit further than an arm's length away, but his fingers only met dirt each time he went to grasp it. He took his gaze off Aru for just a moment to make sure he wouldn't miss the spear this time.

Just as his hand was placed on the spear Aru jumped into action. She leapt through the air an impressive seventeen feet, Aru landing straight on her opponent's side. The man gagged and coughed when he felt the enormous amount of pressure falling down on him.

"I said halt!" Aru reprimanded the man, pointing her spear right between the guard's eyes.
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The guard's brow scrunched in a display of fear. No matter how rapidly Aru brought down his subordinates, this man never expected her to catch up.

"Spare my life!" he pleaded. "By His Holiness and all that is blessed, spare me!" He could only stare at the glint of light reflecting off the spear's tip as the tribal woman threatened his life. "Forget what I said about treason. I'll cut you a deal. Let me go, and I'll give you the key to their shackles. I won't say who freed them or why. Please, just don't hurt me..."
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"Give them to me." Aru demanded, taking one hand off the staff of her spear and holding it out impatiently. "Then I will let you go." she promised, smiling at the man beneath her feet. Once the keys were between her fingers Aru clenched them tightly in her fist, then she stepped off of the male that she had held captive.

"We have a deal. Remember that, because I will remember your face." Aru told him, giving a firm nod, then turned and dashed off back toward the camp. Aru jogged the whole way, a proud smile on her face and spear on her back. When she broke into the clearing where Legend was, she waved the keys in the air.

"I have retrieved the keys, Legend!" Aru called out, running until she was almost right up against Legend's side.
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Though he had attempted to organize the sheridan women, Legend didn't have much luck in Aru's absence. He could hardly keep them from adding to one another's fear with negative comments as to the nature of the so-called crusaders. With a weary smile, Legend took the keys from his companion.

"Thanks," he said with a grateful nod. The eyes of ten women fixed on the jingling keys. Legend approached the closest girl and held a key up to her shackles. The first one didn't quite fit the mold, nor did the second, and nor did the third. He held the key ring over his head and studied it as though he could solve the problem by shining light on them. Legend tried again - even flipping the keys another way - but to no avail.

"None of these match..." he concluded.
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Aru frowned and lowered her eyebrows when she was told that none of the keys fit. Her eyes locked on the shacked that they could not release now. Aru tried to come up with more ideas, but shackles like this were similar to those in Lariona and no one she knew had ever broken them with their bare hands.

"I don't have anymore. The male told me he would give me the keys if I let him go, and he wouldn't tell anyone about us." Aru looked at Legend, her eyelashes batting against one another as she blinked. "And, I let him go." Aru admitted.

The captive sheridan women were all in a frenzy now, stuck in chains while their so called heros had so easily failed. Some yelled words Aru couldn't understand, so she couldn't help but stare at them with a curious expression.

"What should we do, Legend?" Aru asked, her hair falling off her shoulder when she turned to face Legend.
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"Well you have two options. One you could melt them off of those girl's wrists, which would probably hurt a lot and would leave the shackles unusable. Or two, I could crack those tumblers for you, in which case you still wouldn't be able to use the shackles again anyway."

Oyster had watched most of the fighting, but failed to recognize either member of the pair from anywhere he could remember. Normally he avoids creating conversation with those he didn't know, but he figured with all of the trouble these two were getting themselves into, they probably wouldn't be accusing him of breaking any laws recently.
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Legend doubted they had anything to lose by letting the stranger try his hand at freeing the captives. By now, the man with the true key had surely escaped.

"Sure, see what you can do," he agreed. The man stepped aside, holding his pick steady. "Aru, let's check the other guys for keys. The real one might have been here all along." With a nod to their dark-haired accomplice, Legend strolled over to the fallen spearman with the broken jaw. The crusader glared up at him, seething.

"We can do this one of two ways..." Legend said on the last length of his patience. The man at his feet lifted his robes and emptied the pockets of his pants underneath. Unfortunately, the search didn't yield any keys.
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Aru stared at the new comer in shock for much longer than Legend. The man before them had long hair and was in need of a bath. It didn't look like someone Aru would trust, but then again she didn't know many males that she liked as much as Legend. Along with the fact that she didn't know very many males in the first place.

Aru followed after Legend, having to catch up and missing out on the guard emptying his pockets. "Did you find anything?" Aru asked, looking over her shoulder to watch the stranger that had offered to help them. "Do you think we can trust such a dirty looking man?"
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Oyster saw the two whispering and figured they were probably talking about him being a con or a thief, he didn't blame them. That's what most people think when he sees them, but as long as they are not rude with him he doesn't mind that they judge him for the way he lives.
He pulls a sewing needle from his hair and goes over to the girls with the shackles. He places the needle inside the tiny key hole and pushes for about five seconds, once he hears a small rubbing noise he tells the girl "Shake your wrists, the metal will loosen and fall off within the next minute." As he moves to the second girl, the first girl's shackles fall off. She jumps for joy and tries to hug Oyster. Then she gets too close to his hair and slowly backs away
"That's ok, sometimes it makes me a little sick too, but let me finish freeing the rest of these girls before you celebrate."
Once he finishes he takes the single needle and puts it back in his hair is possibly the exact same spot as it came from in the first place.
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