Guard Duty!(Mercenaries!(Solo:Kihia)

Kihia stood in an empty corridor keeping a close eye on his surroundings; he had accepted a job to help protect one of Fiore’s politicians from being assassinated. He sighed, the main thing about this job though, was the fact he could not be detected by the one he was protecting, Pride is such an interesting… troubling subject… but one thing is certain.. it makes jobs harder to do… He adjusted his trench coat making sure not to make any noise. Kihia had Icarus firmly strapped to his back so it would not move around as much as it normally would. He then nodded and took a look around the corner, Markus Strauss was sitting in his study looking over various political documents.

Kihia nodded and looked back around to continue monitoring the hallway, the study was unique in the fact that there was no windows. Kihia was indeed happy for this, for this limited the points of entry for the assassins. Kihia nodded quietly to the Strauss family butler as he passed Kihia and into the Study, the wife of Markus Strauss had notified him why Kihia was there and not to say anything to her husband. I will protect this man and his family… I must keep my senses ever alert… and make sure Markus Strauss doesn’t notice me… Kihia opened his eyes and placed his left hand on the wall behind him, sending a miniscule amount of his magical power into the wall getting a feeling of the layout of this part of the mansion once again and where other people may be at.

Kihia sensed no one out of the ordinary, and nodded, he then turned to see the butler exiting the study, Kihia quietly said, “Anything out of sorts?” The butler continued walking for a moment and then stopped when he was out of Markus’s line of site. “Nothing so far Master Kihia, thank you for assisting in this matter.” Kihia quietly nodded in response and then asked, “Has your Master noticed my presence as of yet?” The Butler stood there for a moment, seeming to think about those words “As far as I know, he has not noticed your presence it seems.” Kihia nodded once again and the Butler then walked away to resume his duties.

Kihia breathed a sigh of relief, and relaxed against the wall a bit, there didn’t seem to be any sign of danger, however when this thought cross is mind he stood back up ever alert, I must not let myself lower my guard just because things seem to be going easy… Kihia closed his eyes for a second regaining his focus, a Knight Should always be vigil in his duties, if I want to live up the name Master Iarok had given me… I best due so… wait… what is that I sense? Kihia stopped thinking for a moment when he sensed something off… There were multiple magic signatures that were slowly moving towards Kihia’s Location, This cannot be good… the wife told me that there were no mages that would be in their residence today besides myself…

The member 'Kihia' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

'Monster Dice' :

Kihia sensed the presence of four mages who were slowly approaching Kihia’s location, Two groups… Two men each… One group is about to come onto this hallway… whereas the other group seems to be hiding out by the eastern wall… Kihia stood up and turned towards the direction where the first group, he reached into his trench coat and unsheathed the Geruks. He held them two feet apart and then quietly said, “Ice Make Ring…” A small ring formed and connected the two tanjos together, Lets see how this idea plays out… Kihia started to channel his magical power into the ring, Spell fusion… Ice Make… Trokyas! The blades from Ice Make Spiral Blade shot out of the ice ring and then a chain of ice shot out and then a small sixteen inch hilt of ice formed in Kihia’s left hand. Then two chains shot out and wrapped around Kihia’s left shoulder forming two partisan blades at the ends.

This weapon will give me the skills I need to protect my client… He saw two people come around the corner trying to sneak around the area, You shall not pass… Kihia started to spin the spiral blade around with the chain making sure that it didn’t go across the view of the study. Kihia saw that they had stopped when they saw him, he then shot out the spiral blade towards the first enemy slicing across the mans arm, he was taken aback when his friend took out a few cards and threw them at Kihia. He then countered this by ducking and pulling back on the spiral blade at an angle making it wrap around the man who threw the cards. “Now I have you…”

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OOC Report:
Mana: 85% (Started at 105%
Spells Active, Spell Fusion Trokyas: Ice Make Spiral Blade and Ice Make Chained partisan, Two more posts

Kihia watched as the Assassin tried to break out of the restraints of the ice chain that was connected to the spiral blade. He was being successful, the other one recovered and then charged at Kihia full speed drawing a dagger that began to glow, “You will not stop us from getting our target…” Kihia frowned after hear the man say this, “That is where you are wrong…” Kihia then quickly unwrapped the two partisan chains and threw them at the assassin and pulled them back to wrap them around the assassin. “I now have you both… time for you to be punished…” He pulled the ice hilt way back to pull both of the assassins to the ground, he then ran up at punched one of them in the back of the neck to knock him out, he then unwrapped the ice partisan chains off him.

Kihia then pulled the other one towards him and delivered a powerful punch to the man’s jaw knocking him out… Kihia unwrapped the chain of the spiral blade and wrapped it around his right harm and grabbed the blade with his right hand, he wrapped the partisans around his left should again and nodded. Kihia then whistled to signal the butler to come pick these two up and detain them, he waited for a moment double checking the other two people he had sensed hadn’t made their move yet, the butler then appeared and noticed what was going on and nodded, “I will leave you to it then… there are two others I must take care of…”

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OOC Report:
Mana: 85%
Spells Active, Spell Fusion Trokyas: Ice Make Spiral Blade and Ice Make Chained partisan, One more post
Cooldowns: Ice Make Ring One post

Kihia then turned around and looked into the study to make sure Markus wasn’t alerted to what was going on nor was going to spot him running passed , Kihia nodded and then took off past the doorway managing to sneak pass, he then ran down the hall and went around the corner. He saw the two men kneeling down one with a portal infront of them, he was aiming with a blow dart shooter, Oh no you don’t! Kihia then threw the spiral blade out aiming at the blow dart shooter, the spiral blade sliced through it catching the two of them off guard, it seems they were part of backup plan in case the other two failed… Kihia then pulled back on the chain that was connected to the spiral blade make it whip back slicing across the two men who didn’t have time to react to the sudden onslaught. They both grunted from the pain but maintain their composure.

Kihia then unwrapped the two chains around his left shoulder and threw both partisan blades at them men, one blade pierced into one leg of the man who was aiming with the blow dart and into the shoulder of the other. Right after that the Trokyas Fusion faded and then they both fell to the ground from the hit squirming, the portal closed as he walked up to them. He swiftly knocked out one of them and turned to the other one, he shakily looked up at Kihia, “You are only delay the inevitable… The Emblazoning Winds… always obtains their goal.”

The member 'Kihia' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

'Monster Dice' :

Kihia stood their frozen, he then drew his right arm way back and punched the man in the head with all his strength knocking him out cold. The Emblazoning winds… they are actually still around… and still up to their evil ways… Kihia reached down and picked up the Geruks and held onto them extremely tightly. He whistled a bit to signal the butler once again and then continued to stand there, They… why did I have to come across them again… The Mercenary group that took my arm… killed my entire village… is still active after fifteen years… I got to get a hold of myself… I cannot afford to let this distract me now…

Kihia looked up at the butler who had arrived, “Take care of these two… I am sensing more entering the residence from a location not too far off from the study…” The Butler simply nodded and watched as Kihia walked down the hallway, “Are you ok Master Kihia?”, Kihia however didn’t respond, he was focusing entirely on making sure his emotions were in check, I will make them stop hurting people… The Emblazoning Winds Tyranny has gone on long enough… Kihia got infront of a closed door where he felt the two magical presences in, he quietly opened it and saw two men inside, they got caught off guard from being caught, “Before I teach you a lesson… tell me… where is The Emblazoning Winds headquarters currently located!” The two men looked at each other, and then chuckled a bit, “If you know that name, you ought to know no information is ever leaked out with both parties coming out alive!”

Kihia lowered his gaze and tightened his grip on his weapons even more… I shall not wield Icarus for this fight… it will tarnish what my Master tried to teach me… The two men drew swords and charged at Kihia, “Ice make… Dual Swordbreakers…” The two ice swords quickly formed and he then parried both of their attacks with the blunt side of his swords, “I know that may be true normally… but me knowing that should alert you of something… that I learned about them… and I survived…” He then quickly pulled both of his swords down and snapped their two swords in half, they staggered back in shock from what he said, and from what just happened to their swords.

“That is not possible! The High General makes sure everyone is killed that learns of us, we never leave any survivors!” Kihia tightened his grip on his swords and shook his head, “Is there no limit to the evil you all have committed?... I will personally make sure you all disband… for the sake of my village… and my family…” The two men stepped back further and exchanged nervous glances with one another. They then nodded and extended both of their hands out, and both said at the same time, “Requip! Sword of Flames!” They had called forth two handed swords that had flames arcing out of the back of it, “You are now in a predictament! We are known as the two Burning Swordsmen! Come at us with all you have got Ice Mage!”

Kihia frowned as they came at him, I need to take this outside… or else I will alert Markus… Kihia ducked out of the way and then ran passed them grabbing each of their feet then throwing them out of the window they entered from, he then jumped out after them. Kihia watched as they got up from the unexpected throw and glared at Kihia, “You will not succeed in killing Markus Straus… pawns of the Emblazoned Wind…” They both growled and then charged at Kihia, “We will show you!” Kihia expertly sidestepped each of their attacks , he then jumped back and threw both of his ice swords in to the air, and extended out his right hand towards one of them as the sword came towards him… Drawing the powers he has from his ancestry he focused on the magical sword, suddenly the sword frozen in a solid chunk of ice.

The two men were taken aback from one of their fire swords being frozen solid, “What in the! Who the hec are you??” Kihia then caught his two ice swords and did a cross strike hitting both sides of the frozen sword shattering it, “I am Kihia Avoa… Frozen Knight of Lamia Scale… and Survivor of Deroka Village…” Kihia then rushed forward hitting the disarmed man with the Geruks themselves, knocking him out.

The other man was taken aback and slowly stepped back, “But… the High General personally made sure that all of the villagers were killed fifteen years ago! How did you possibly survive our attack??”

Kihia gritted his teeth remembering the day his life was changed like it was yesterday, “My father… had hidden me away after you all had made an example of me… cutting my arm off in front of the entire village…” The man lowered his sword and his jaw began to drop, “You mean… you lived? From your arm being cut off by the High General himself!! We had accepted you had died from that wound!” Kihia raised both of his ice swords up looking at them, “My village… my friends and family treated me and helped me survive from that wound… I owed them so much… and you all came and killed them…” The man tightened his grip, “This is bad… if the High General found out about this he’d have our heads! Requip! Twin Flame Scimitars! I have to kill you here and now!”

Kihia looked at the man before him wielding two Scimitars made completely out of fire, “If you are that determined to fight me… and not answer my questions… I will make sure you cannot harm anyone else!” The man then charged forward executed a X shape swing in an attempt to wound Kihia. Kihia barely managed to jump out of the way with the swords barely cutting across Kihia’s lower legs. He winced in pain and delivered a powerful kick to the man’s back sending him rolling forward. Kihia then landed, the pain from his leg wounds made him stumble a bit, he then dispelled his ice swords and swiftly turned around and threw both of the Geruks straight at the man’s head as he tried to get up.

Kihia watched as the man fell back on the ground and wasn’t able to get back up, he walked over to him and glared at him. The man was barely hanging on to his conscious state, Kihia knelt down and picked up the Geruks and said, “Now Answer me… Where is your headquarters?” The man laid there a bit, and then spat at Kihia, “I will never tell you… you may have gotten lucky this time… but the Emblazoned Winds… will always reach their Goals… even the ones that have been postponed for fifteen years…” Kihia’s gaze darkened and he drew back his right arm and punched the man in the head knocking him out.

Kihia stood up and, stood there for a long moment recollecting himself and reeling in his emotions. The wife of Markus Strauss came out with the Butler and said, “Do you think that will be all of them?” Kihia didn’t answer her for a moment and then glanced at her and said, “For these people… this will be all for now… I recommend that you request the Rune Knights to come and arrest these men… any information they get out of them I want to be sent to me… please ask them to do that…” She looked at her butler and nodded who then ran off to acquire a communication Lacrima, she then reached out and handed Kihia a small bag of Jewels, “Here is your reward Sir Kihia, my husband was unaware of your presence the entire time, and I personally thank you for not damaging our property.” Kihia simply nodded and put his reward into his pockets, “Anytime… feel free to contact Lamia Scale in case you ever need help again…” Kihia then turned around and started to walk of, managing a convincingly casual wave as he went.