Lost and Alone }{ Very Open!

[laraine]

Raine smiled kindly to him, and looked out at the forest, water droplets falling from the leaves. She could also see a faint glimmer of sunshine through the tree tops.

"Well, I'll help you then get out of this forest as soon as I can. So you can find your home." She brushed some excess water from her cloak and thought.

It might be bet not to get involved with him. If he enters my world he will never have that happy life. I'll help him out of the forest, and then vanish. It's better this way....

[renkhal]

Renkhal couldn't help but grin. He was glad he wouldn't have to be lost in this forest anymore, and that Raine would be his guide.

"Ah, thank you! That means a lot to me," he said. It didn't even occur to him that being so comfortable with a stranger might be a little odd. He barely knew Raine, but he felt confident that she was trustworthy. Already, he could feel a growing friendship. At least, he hoped so.

It had been a while since he'd last had a traveling companion, and right then he remembered his dwindling supplies. While his new companion was resting, it might be a good time to search the area for edibles and maybe set a trap or two unless they chose to start moving before evening.

"If you need anything, let me know. I think I'm going to set a couple traps for some small game. That is, unless you don't want to stay until morning?"

[Twichey]

[navy]Leaves brushing his cloak, and rain hitting his face. Twichey leaped from tree to tree in this thick wet forest. Twichey tried to stay close to the tree trunks as to avoid the wetness of the branches. "Nothing like a stroll through a mysterious forest" Twichey said wit ha chuckle.

As he continued through the trees he noticed something very odd. A tuft of pink hair stuck to a branch. "What in the?" As he said this he missed the next branch and fell to a lower branch, landing on his back with a hard thud. "Thats going to hurt in the morning" he groaned. Picking himself up he jumped down to a lower branch and inspected the hair.

He inspected the ground below the hair and found two sets of footprints. " one small set" He thought. "probably a girl." And one large set witch looked like it belonged to a webbed foot of some kind. "yikes!! definitely not human." As he began to follow the tracks he smiled and said "This should be fun".

After about 70 yards he found the source of one set of prints. "Well it wasn't human" He chuckled. He then saw what appeared to be a makeshift tent with a large overhanging rock. "well well well" he said under his breath. "What do we have hear?" He sat above in the tree tops for a while. " well ill just wait to see who slew that beastie there."[/navy]only two and on the second page? me thinks not :P -

[laraine]

Raine nodded. " I don't mind. Go ahead. I'll wait right here." She smiled gently once more before staring off into the forest. She felt uneasy deep within her heart.

Something evil was stirring.

If we stay here any longer then we will be a direct target to the Risk demons. But I am glad he didn't run away..

She shook her head to dispel the thoughts. No no no, he's just a good person. It really is better if he doesn't get involved with me....

She winced as the ache in her back intensified.

I hope I didn't break anything. I sure took a hard hit back there.

[wompy]

Wompy worked his way through the forest, listening to the soft drop of water on the trees. "ah now this is life, no cares, no stupid law enforcers, no dumb kids who like to make fun of how I look." he said this as he passed a large puddle that had been formed from the rain water, the reflection showed a huge half crocodile with scars on his face. As he walked he started wondering if there was any other people in the forest along with him, Wompy hoped so it had been a long time since he had talked with a person. Suddenly he heard a heavy sounding thump off in the distance. instinctively he grabbed for the twin mace at his sides, but when nothing attacked him he put the maces away and continued his trek through the gigantic forest.

After a few more steps Wompy began to pick up another sound, it was something breathing. Not just anything though it was something big, looking around Wompy saw nothing though. "who ever is out there had better come out now, cause if i find you you will end up with mace shaped dents in your head." The breathing continued and nothing stepped out to claim the sound. "Well fine then don't come out, I just hope you know a great healer." this threat did absolutely nothing, the breathing almost seemed to get louder (or possibly closer). Wompy began to look around wildly trying to find the source of the breathing, so busy in fact that he ran right into a mass of black fur. "what the hell." Wompy said as he inspected the lump of fur he had just ran into, stepping back he saw that the fur belonged to a gigantic bear. But not just any bear it was a ravager bear (sorry for the lack of creative name), It was at least twelve feet tall, had long arms and feet with claws that had to be six inches long, and to top off the fierceness of the thing it had two long tusks that protruded from its mouth.

"Frick, Frick, Frick." Wompy mumbled as he backed away from the monstrous beast, it was asleep and wompy hoped he could keep it that way. Well it wouldn't be much of an adventure if he succeeded so as he was backing away a drop of water fell onto the ravager Bear's head, the eyes opened and looked about lazily. they stopped when they saw wompy, the bear jumped up faster than Wompy believed and roared. Wompy scrambled off into the bushes, he heard the loud roaring of the Bear behind him and hoped that someone was in the forest

[renkhal]

<< OOC: My keyboard is being an ass, and won't let type "t" "c" "h" or "v" unless I get really creative. So, if those letters wind up missing, or there's random capital letters, I'm very sorry.>>

Renkhal stood and strapped his sword to his back, where he usually wore it when he wasn't wearing his cloak. He didn't particularly want to leave Raine alone, but it would be silly not to gather when there was opportunity.

"Whistle or something if you need me. I shouldn't be far," he assured her. "It shouldn't really take that long, either. I'll just set some small traps and see if there is any edible greens or something. I'll have to check the traps later this evening."

He was rambling a little, but he couldn't help it. He was voluntarily leaving an injured person alone, something that he wasn't exactly happy to do.

"I'll return shortly."

[laraine]

"Good Luck!" Raine smiled and watched as he left. As he did, Raine's smile vanished. The mask she wore removed for the time being.

Maybe if I stay in the forest forever..I can...

She shook her head, the negative thoughts then vanished.

Knock it off Raine, You know you can't hide here. The demons will arrive and kill everything that stands in their path. Especially people who get close...

She wrapped her arms around herself.

I just....have to get used to being alone. I'm alone...

"But I'm scared." She whispered to no one.

You are a monster...

Raine smiled bitterly. Then she remembered what Renkhal just said about her and her smile softened.

Putting her head in her hands she continued to think, but then eventually fell asleep.

[renkhal]

<<OOC: Ha! Apparently I just needed to refresh my computer to get the keys to work again. I feel like a dunce now... Sorry about that!>>

He heard the roar of one of the carnivorous animals, probably some type of bear, and turned to start in that direction. For some reason, that roar sounded a little dangerous, and Renkhal didn't want to take chances for someone else's life. And if the bear was going on a rampage of any kind, it could risk Raine's safety and she was still healing as it was.

One hand on his sword and his mind wholly focused on where he heard the noise, Renkhal didn't notice the other figure he passed along the way.

He saw the bear, and saw that it was chasing someone. Not hesitating in the least, he ran forward to intercept the bear, unsheathing his sword as he did.

[wompy]

crap, crap, crap." wompy said as he sprinted forward, he could feel the ground shaking beneath him from the bear's weight. Wompy was not made for distance running, being seven feet tall and muscled he was definatley more of a fighter. "I know this won't work but." he spun around bellowed out a roar and charged the beast swinging his twin maces. One made contact with the bear's tusk snapping part of it off while the other mace barley missed smashing the bear's head. The Bear still continued to charge at him, taking his remaining tusk the bear tried to gore wompy with it. Wompy managed to duck out of the way,except for the bear managed to trip him up. Wompy was thrown forward, he tried to stand but the bear was too quick it knocked him back with a giant paw. Wompy looked as the bear loomed over him snarling, "I should have kept running he thought."

[renkhal]

Running forward, Renkhal saw the bear attacking someone and frowned before pushing himself a little faster.

"Oi!" he yelled at the bear to get its attention, coming up on him and swinging his sword and lodging it into a shoulder of the beast. He kicked the bear to pull back his sword as the bear roared in pain and anger.

"You wanna fight?" Renkhal mumbled. He watched the bear turn on him, and jumped away from the swinging paw from the uninjured arm. While the bear recovered from the swing, Renkhal took the opportunity to attack again, thrusting the blade toward the creature. This put him close to the bear and, though injured by the wounds, the bear was still able to lash out, knocking Renkhal aside and causing him to let go of the sword that was protruding from the bear's side.

"Well, that's nice," he mumbled, winded from the fall and wincing a little from some scratches on his side.

Luckily, the bear didn't have much of a fight left in him and soon fell over. Renkhal sighed, not quite sure how he was going to take care of the corpse. It was definitely too much to eat, that was for sure. But, now wasn't the time to think about that. He stood and slowly walked over to the other person who had been attacked.

"You gonna be okay?" he asked gently.

[Twichey]

[navy] A fairly built man walked from under the shelter. "Well hello" He said to himself. But who was he talking to? A giant roar from a fair distance away "Thats Gina be a big problem." He said with a shiver. He saw the fairly built man run from under him toward the sound. "Perhaps he killed that demon there." Twichey thought to himself. "But lets see who he was talking to."

He lept from the tree and walked slowly to the shelter. As he approached he saw a girl inside with a few scars on her face and the most amazingly beautifully pink hair he had ever seen in his life. She was curled close to herself shaking her head. "But I'm scared" she whispered to herself. She laid her Head in her hands and for all Twichey knew began to sob.

Something about this girl touched his heart. Normal he wouldn't do this he slowly crept up to the girl and put his arm around her back. "Don't be frightened" He whispered. She may react badly but if he was correct she was injured and he could easily get away.

"Tell me of your troubles Young one." He said lightly.[/navy]

[laraine]

As Raine felt a arm around her back and someone whisper something in her ear, she jumped slightly, turning her head to meet the one who was holding her. Purple eyes widened in surprise at this man next to her.

"Who are you?" She tried to pull away, but the pain in her back stopped her.

"What do you want?"

Then she thought about what he asked and turned her head down.

[Twichey]

[navy]"Names Twichey. My purpose is curiosity alone." Twichey whispered in her ear. "You look injured child. Do you need help? perhaps some food? I know it wasn't you who took down that thing outside. Not in this condition anyhow. You must be exhausted."

Twichey threw his shoulder bag onto the ground and rummaged through it. He removed a flask, slab of bread and a few bits of dry wood and tender. He tore a chunk of bread and placed it on her knee."Eat as you will iv plenty for now." He then arranged the wood and cloth in a small pile. He removed a small device from his bag and showed it to the girl. "A little invention of mine. I call it an auto spark." The device was very simple in structure. A small bit of flint attached to one end and a stone on the other. A small string ran up the end with the stone on it and protruded just a bit.

He squeezed the device a few times and the flint scraped the stone. Sparking and eventually igniting the string. He moved it slowly to the wood and began to light the fire. After a few moments a small fire came to life. He warmed his hands over the fire and looked to the girl. "Not much eh?" He chuckled. "Not much but it warms the flesh. And now something to warm the soul. He twisted off the cap of the flask and took a sip of the alcohol. He gulped and exhaled with satisfaction.

He extended the flask to the girl." Take a sip o' this, it'll warm ya up. But just a sip though or your insides may be hotter than that fire."[/navy]

[laraine]

Raine looked down at the bread on her knee and picked it up, biting into the bread slowly. Then the strange man called Twitchey began to light a fire, and offered her a drink. She took the flask and drank only a little, surprised by the taste of the alcohol.

So that's what he meant.

She finished eating the bread, looking over at the man by the fire. "Curiosity? What are you so curious about?"

He certainly shouldn't be curious about me. Although, no one sees a girl with pink hair everyday.

She brushed her hand through her pink hair, wondering when Renkhal would return and how surprise he would be with another person within the camp site.

"I'm fine, really you don't have to worry about me, especially since I'm almost a complete stranger." She smiled to him.

[wompy]

"i'll be fine." Wompy said to the stranger who had saved him from the bear. "I'm wompy by the way, whats your name."