Rendezvous at the Blacksmith's Shop

The blacksmith shop is full of tools, and various items that had been started. A strange forge rests in the back corner near the door to the back. The forge has a hatch for the fire, and a small vent literally just a small thin line. It was designed to heat metal quickly allowing the blacksmith to work faster if he so chose. A hammering sound comes from the back, where the 'Spirit Forge' was. The room was brilliantly designed with countless spell circles within one another all with intricate and beautiful designs. In the center is the forge itself the bright orange flame coming from the large open base. Extending off of it was the anvil a long, table length, slab of beautiful silver-like metal. It had to be at least six inches thick, and four feet long. The room was circular, the tools sitting next to barrels of water. Across from the water were various things to be used to stoke the flames in the center.

At the anvil was the blacksmith, Jyabil, clad in loose fitting clothes. The grey haired blacksmith hammered away at a long strip of metal working it into a long flat blade slowly. Beside him was a beautiful woman with long red hair, her hands clasped together in prayer. Both the woman and the metal the Blacksmith was working on were glowing softly. Jyabil glanced up, quirking an eyebrow when he saw Psyre, but he shrugged and nodded at a door across the room that lead out back behind the building. His friends would most likely be out there testing out whatever it was they were there to see.

Adrian was out back, his body clad in black robes, a blood red sash tied around his waist. Set in his sash was the Devil's Teardrop, the blade sealed within the cherry wood sheath. His mask hid the majority of his face. The horned skull mask was something that could easily make people mistake him for a demon in certain lights. But then again he never asked for it. He just accepted it as his 'curse'. To forever wear that mask forsaking his past only for the future ahead of him.

(367/367)

"I'm not a recruit. I'm here to make sure none of you try to cause trouble." he said, not looking at them. "So just go about your business and leave."

"Don't be so rude." came a soft feminine voice from his feet.

Sitting on the ground beside the masked swordsman was a pink cat, with a bright yellow bow. The cat had a pair of wings sprouting from her upper back that were folded neatly against her body, but clearly visible. Then again Rubi was a creature that claimed to be a baby red dragon not just what she appeared to be.

Adrian didn't acknowledge the cat, his arms folded over his chest. His eyes closed behind the mask he wore, waiting patiently for the mercenaries to leave so he could go back to work. Jyabil might not have been bothered by the presence of strangers but Adrian didn't like it when groups of people that did nothing but fight, hung around. It was like having a powder keg next to a candle. Eventually something was going to break out and nothing could stop it by doing nothing.

(188/555)

Adrian didn't say anything to them, just stood there. He ignored most of their 'idle' threats as he stood there. Nothing surprised him, not even a new voice talking to him in the back of his head. He waited patiently, for them to move along. The cat by his feet lept up her wings flapping a few times before she came to rest on his shoulder. The cat began to sing a soft tune, her eyes closed as she waited patiently. The cat's voice was the only thing, it seemed, that could keep the Soul Eater at bay. The mark on his chest was burning, and the rune was indeed trying to force him to make a move. He sighed lightly as the pain went away the rune going back to its dormant state.

He opened his eyes when the male asked a question out loud and glanced toward them again as Rubi kept her song going by humming gently.

"My name is Ashram." he said, nodding at them before he looked away once more. "And the weapons here are much better than you'll find in other places. That bow may be hard but it can double as a striking weapon for Melee combat. In case your opponent gets in too close to shoot."

(214/869)

"I do whatever my master asks of me, as well as attending to my normal duties. Among them include insuring nobody steals anything and warding off trouble. Then again I don't go looking for trouble. Your little friends may balance out to be a decent fighter, but alone they each have flaws that any experienced fighter could spot." he said, shifting his head left and right, cracking his neck.

Turning to face them, he tilted his head lightly. Rubi sighed and lept from the swordsman's shoulder coming to rest on the edge of the roof. Adrian's hands came to rest at his sides before he vanished(Godspeed), moving much faster than even demon eyes could follow normally. He to the back of the group, before pressing the hilt of his sword against one's back. He just stood there the sapphire set in the pommel of his sword poking the mercenary in front of him. He waited patiently his eyes focused on them.

"They lack the ability to fight an enemy they cannot hit. Don't get me wrong, I don't think I could take them all easily. But Among them there are those that could be killed with great ease. I was a demon hunter before I was here. So do not underestimate my skill for that of a common thug. In battle, speed often decides the victor. But that isn't my only skill."

He didn't wait there, though. As he spoke he constantly shifted, appearing in front of the leader of the group, then back to back with another, to the roof beside his cat. Dropping from the roof he moved back to his spot patiently, his hand never leaving the hilt of his sword. He wasn't bothered by the strain of using the advanced speed but it was still taking it's toll. As he came to a stop back where he was the cat just yawned and waited, watching like a schoolgirl watching tv.

(324/1,193)

"I only insulted the weaklings." he said as he stood there, bound in place. "And how I act is my own problem, nobody else is responsible but me. Do something about it if you believe that you are in your rights to do so. But if anyone were to be insulted it would only be those that are too weak to protect themselves from an enemy they cannot see."

"Enough." Rubi said, before spitting up a bolt of lightning at Psyre's feet. "Enough of this. If you want a fight you'll have one but you'll have to find out for yourself how it goes. And you! Quit prodding people into fights! You go on about how you don't go looking for fights but here you are pushing them. Cut it out before it gets you killed."

'Too late' Adrian thought but let it go. He wasn't going to stop them from doing something but then again he wasn't afraid of death. He'd seen worse things, and faced foes greater than this. He just waited, patiently. There was literally nothing they could do to him that was worse than was already happening with the Soul Eater, and he knew it. He didn't like being unable to move or fight back but it was something he could cope with.

"Just get it over with. Kill me, stab me, cut me, castrate me, I don't care. Do anything you want, and the instant you're done you better kill me. Because if you don't I'll find you and I will bring hell to your door." he said.

(263/1,456)

"You're not the only one that can appear frightening." he said, his body suddenly surrounded by a dark aura.

His skin rotted away, falling from his bones in clumps that soon vaporized. His eyes vanished, becoming blood red dots surrounded by shadows. After a moment the blood red skeleton vanished, hidden by the long robes of the Grim Reaper. He stood there watching the oni before him. He wasn't afraid of him any more than he was of his own shadow. It wasn't the first time he'd seen Onitoshi, Hild had taken him through there once before. Just the thought of the dark 'goddess' made his blood boil.

"BAKA!" the cat shouted.

Immediately she began to sing once more, the transformation wavering but this time her song failed to quell the spirit of the Soul Eater. The transformation had been at will so try as she might Rubi alone could not put the rune to sleep. He stood there, his body projecting an aura of death itself as he waited patiently for the male to make his move.

"They may choose to serve you or not. But death will come for them eventually." he said

(195/1,651)

"You're no more a god than I am the true Grim Reaper." he said, the transformation ending as he smirked.

He wasn't fighting the binding, nor was he going to give them an apology. Never once had he actually threatened anyone, nor had he thrown out insults until after they had started to 'tease' him first. But if they couldn't take it then why bother dishing out what they had.

"I'm not afraid of you. The worst you can do is kill me, because there is nothing left to take from me but my life. Take my power then, so be it. It will only return and when it does I will hunt you down and cleave your head from your shoulders. I am not your average mortal, nor am I going to apologize to your weakling friends."

(138/1,789)

"Do whatever the hell to me you think you can. Even the strength of a God only goes so far. Especially one that can be pestered by me, a mere mortal. If you were truly all powerful as you say you are you wouldn't care what anyone says about you or your friends. And if your little friends there were confident in their abilities, then the insults you say offend them would have just passed by them like the wind. You've only managed to prove that a mortal can get to you and your friends. This only proves that they're all weak since they wont stand up for themselves without you doing something first. And anything they do after you finish your little exorcism will not change that." he said, staying perfectly calm. "But you did open my eyes to one thing. There are people far dumber than the idiot's I've encountered before. When I've finished the Leviathan off, I'm coming for you."

(163/1,952)

OOC: 50+ Hours have passed so I'll finish this for us.

Blood splashes into the air when my tail cuts open his armor first then his flesh. As the blood starts to rush from his torso, the Tailmayze slides into his existing wounds and causes major internal damage resulting in his death. It would seem as if the pink cat is in shock or awe as it doesn't move. "Whatever he has is yours. I guess we see who the true idiot is after all." I shake my head at the sight of such an unnecessary loss. I look at the cat as the handful of mercs who were not afraid of my true nature loot the swordsman of all of his Scrolls of Protection, 2500 Shinny, his Seal Tags, one grabs the Solirealm Pendant and the Archer grabs an item and brings it to me. "My Lord, it seems to be some sort of charm or token." I look at the token with some interest and nod to the archer. I take the Angelic Token and continue to look at it. One of the swordsman reaches for Adrian's black hilted sword on his waist and before he takes it, I tell him that no warrior should be left to wander the underworld without a weapon, not even a foolish one. They nod to me and the mercenary lays his blade on Adrian's chest and covers his hands with it before taking the Devil's Teardrop. I look over at the sword when he starts to unsheathe it. I take two coins from the swordsman and place them over Adrian's eyes. "Sāgara yātrā." With those words, a column of light would surround his body and in a flash of said light, his body would be laid to rest in the middle of the Great Sea (W5 to be exact). If the pink cat tried to interfere, she would be shot at by the archer and attacked by me with either a tail swipe or a claw slash.

With that done, it was time for us to take our leave. I think to invite the cat to come along with me, but after watching me kill its master, now might not be the best time. "We are leaving now. See you around sometime, boys." The leader gives me a parting gift since they would be leaving without paying for their weapons. I never said my allies were the most upstanding lot all the time. Provided that there are no interruptions or problems, I would chant once more, "Timatimana, Mandira!" A column of light surrounds myself and the other mercenaries joining me as we would travel from this place that had led my day is a very weird and unexpected direction back home to my island, Mandira.

475/1908
Mercenary Job 6-10 (1908)
Master: Spiritual Arts - Seal (2000)

PWC (Lord) = 3908
EXP = 1908
+1 Win
+1 Kill
+1225 Shinny from Merc Captain to Muhkya

Spoils of Victory
+1 Angelic Token to Mukhya
+2500 Shinny to Mandira Funds
+ Devil's Teardrop to Storage
+ Scrolls of Protection x30 to Storage
+ Seal Tags x10 to Storage
+ Solirealm Pendant to Storage

The member 'Psi Prince' has done the following action : Roll!

'One Hundred Roll' : 35

"They're gone, you can get up now." Rubi said, bored out of her mind.

His wounds sealed with a light glow before he sat up, growling before her rubbed at his chest and throat. He cleared his throat before he rose with a groan of annoyance. He glared up at the winged cat, before he shook his head and stretched. His body was tighter than it was a moment ago but then again rigor could have been the cause of that. But the magic that the old man had used before would take care of that. Yawning he stretched before he shook his head. He held his hand out, smirking as his sword appeared in his hand with nothing more than a swirl of black mist.

Snatching the Devil's teardrop out of the air he ran forward, frowning when he didn't feel the burst of energy. He came to a stop and brought the weapon up and then down, his eyes narrowing. He was more than curious at this point. He could feel the rune poking at the back of his mind and he sheathed his weapon before he chanted.

"Aguiem maha maveil.." he called, but nothing happened. "Oh now I'm really pissed..."

The cat landed on his shoulder and grinned as she shook her head.

"That's what you get for being rude. Maybe next time if you ask him nicely he wont kill you." she taunted.

"You're not helping." he said to the pink cat.

(48/2,000)-Toughness(Mastered)
(198/198)

Kontinyu used- Revived
Devil's Teardrop retrieved via Demonic Weapon Bond
-2500 Shiney
-30x Scroll of Protection
-10x Seal Tag
-Solirealm Pendant

OOC: You should really read someone's post before posting. Your body was teleported to the middle of the ocean BEFORE I left. So if you want to revive yourself, here are your options:

A) Go ahead and I'm standing in front of you.
B) Go ahead and you're stranded in the middle of the ocean as a normal human where you'll drown.

So currently, Teardrop is still in my soldier's possession. The cat is accurate though. You can try reviving in front of me after drinking some ackrite or take ur chances with the sharks. ^_^ Please correct your post, so I can either post in response or post my update. Thank you.

This has been more than enough time to make an adjustment to acknowledge what actually occurred, so since you still haven't posted, your body was teleported to W5, so feel free to use your Kontinyu in the middle of the Great Sea with sealed magic.

Sending in for update.

Updated