Nice Seeing You Again

[Kade Lazarus]

It was a good afternoon. Kade was still looking for work, but on top of that he was looking to help people. It was unfortunate that this made him spent less and less time in Lamia Scale, but he still went home periodically. Many people were struggling to gain power in light of the attacks. They wanted to be strong to protect their homes and defend their friends. It was noble, but it was concerning. If good people were rushing to gains strength to protect their homes… were the dark guilds running around to increase strength to attack said homes? Would it ever be enough? Would it stop cycling?

Those were the sort of thoughts that plagued Kade’s mind. He had to stop, looking at the bright and sunny day, and remind himself it would be alright. He couldn’t control what anyone else did. He could only control his own actions. If he saw something wrong going on, he would stop it. There was more to strength than being the person with the fastest fists, or the most powerful blows. He had a good head on his shoulders and he needed to keep it that way.

Kade arrived in Kunugi Village. He intended to get to know some of the people here. He arrived on the train the day before, and would leave in a few days. He wasn’t a dragon slayer who got motion sickness. He had heard their acute senses caused problems, but Kade was blessed to not have that worry. He was camping out in the area. He had a backpack of the necessary equipment and he’d even found a pretty cool walking stick. He shaved every day, able to heat up his knife and do good work. However his pony tail was still there. He had gotten used to it. He did need a few things for his travels though, and he stopped into Dane’s Warehouse.

Once inside Kade noticed a familiar green haired girl. He hadn’t run into her since they talked about Tatsu. He had barely had his head on straight back then. He sighed, pushing his fingers through his hair, ruffing it up a bit as he walked over. “Hey… Hannah. Its Kade. We met a while ago. How are you doing?” He asked, happy to see a familiar face. Even if they weren’t friends, they hadn’t really gotten off to any sort of wrong foot.

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[Hannah Jaymes]

Hannah was a bit hung over from last night. She got herself a bottle of alcohol and had a little too much. She shouldn’t have, but things happened. She had a bottle of water and was drinking it quite fast, trying to rehydrate. She shouldn’t do things like this to herself. She was in town for a couple days and was looking around to see what she could do, and if anything would make her money.

Even thought it was afternoon, she hadn’t been awake for too long. Hannah needed to get out though, so she went out to walk off her hangover and get some supplies she needed. Hannah dressed like she usually did, wearing jeans, boots, and a tank top. It was nice out so she didn’t bring her jacket. She was browsing around to see what this place had when she heard a familiar voice.

Hannah turned around and smiled, it was the cute long haired guy, Kade, from before. He was pleasant enough, and Hannah’s hangover was quickly going away. ”Hey, nice to see you again. I’m doing pretty good, drank a bit too much last night.” She took another large swig of water. ”How are you? What brings you to this little town?” There was nothing wrong with a small town, but this was smaller than Magnolia. She was glad her headache was almost gone as she leaned against a shelf. That would have been a bad time to get dizzy.

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[Kade Lazarus]

When Kade greeted Hannah he was surprised to hear she was hung over. Of course, he knew people drank. He had some friends who drank at Lamia Scale. He didn’t though. It wasn’t that he couldn’t handle alcohol. He could probably drink a lot more than most people who pretty much never drank. He just had a strong stomach, but it had never been something he prioritized. Kade was more likely to enjoy a bit of old wine, but actually sitting around drinking just for the sake of it didn’t really happen.

In any case, Kade didn’t know much about Hannah to really judge if it was normal or not that she was hung over. “Well… I hope you get to feeling better,” he told her. “I was just here seeing if I could get anything done. After the attacks I’ve been travelling around seeing what I can help out with. Plus I need to earn money for repairs to the building.” It was a serious subject, and not one he spent a lot of time talking about. He thought about it privately, and he handled it, but he didn’t discuss it. He knew his guildmates were stressed enough without the reminder.

Elsewhere in the building the front door opened. A group of men in black outfits walked in, wandering around to get a view of the building. Soon they put on their full face masks. Kade knew something was off, but he hadn’t seen them yet.

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[Hannah Jaymes]

Hannah was all kinds of angry at the attacks. That’s why she drank last night. She was gone when the attacks happened, and it made her angry. She thought she could do something to fix it if she had been there, but she wasn’t. But after a night of anger and drinking, she was better. Now she was ready to actually do something. She just had no idea what to do now. Money always helped. She was trying not to go after revenge. Revenge blinded you, made you do dumb things.

Kade was polite at least, and didn’t seem judgmental. She hadn’t expected anyone to be judgmental, and she wouldn’t have really cared anyway. Screw people who were like that. ”Thanks, I’m sure I’ll feel fine soon.” Oh, the attacks… wonderful topic. ”Yeah, I want to do something about the attacks, but… I have no idea what to do. I hate that feeling that way.” She sighed and looked frustrated. Not knowing what to do was really bugging her.

She didn’t see the people come in, but she smelled something. She sniffed the air subtly and looked around. She saw a man put on the face mask. At first she was confused, but it only took her a second to realize what was going on. ”Oh ****, I think this place is about to get robbed.” She said quiet to Kade.

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[Kade Lazarus]

Something Kade did not need, judgments over nothing. He was all for the judging of something legitimately wrong. Murder. Harassment. Cheating. Lying. Those things are very bad and Kade was going to judge them because if not he was accepting them. If a grown woman wanted to drink, fine by Kade. Hannah was old enough to make her own decisions. Wizards were notorious for making their own decisions. A lot of them left home as children to pursue their own adventures and independence. Even if they made immature decisions, they were their own people. Besides, Hannah’s reason for being upset made sense to him. He had been at Lamia Scale during the attacks. It hadn’t changed anything. He didn’t have the delusion that things could have gone better with his presence. His presence had not been lacking, which only meant he should be stronger for the next thing. Daedalus could not be the only one defending Lamia Scale against enemies. And Kade had his own demons to deal with. Or at least he had one.

“Maybe if you knew a good healer they could fix you right up,” Kade told her with a smirk. He could keep his mood light. He’d been doing a lot since the attacks. Jobs, travelling, come and gone back and forth from his guild several times. He wasn’t in a horrible mood or anything, even if it still wasn’t a happy memory. It would never be that. “Best you can probably do is keep your head up, keep your wits about you… and see what people need. Your guild… or the rest of the people around. Also you… keep yourself taken care of, because otherwise you’re no good to anyone,” Kade told her. It made sense to him.

Kade could tune into everything Hannah was sensing, but he was always careful not to show it on his face. When she said they were about to get robbed Kade immediately tensed up and looked around. He saw enough to notice the people were going around the area with their masks on. He frowned, “We should probably subdue them then… that’s my thought.”

A moment later people started realizing what was happening. A few scared customer’s reacted, and the owner walked out in front of his counter as a masked man walked up to him. They argued briefly about money, before the masked man punched Dane in the gut, knocking him back into a glass case and shattering it.

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[Hannah Jaymes]

Yeah, Hannah was upset at the attacks. Just in general it was a terrible thing. Innocent people were hurt, homes were destroyed and damaged. It was a bad thing all around. Hannah had never been very close to a lot of the people at her guild, but she still felt hurt when her home was attacked. That was close to home, and she hated that.

”Yeah, a good healer… he could hang out at bars and cure the hung over. He could make a killing.” That was an interesting idea. Maybe Hannah should try and learn some healing magic and cute her own hang overs. That would probably be bad since it would be more encouragement to drink without worrying about consequences. She should avoid that then. Even if she could make a lot of money and help people with it.

Kade thought they should go for subdual. That was a good idea. ”Alright, I am game for that.” Hannah was not going to kill people, but should would hurt that guy that punched the owner. ”Hey dude! Pick on someone your own size.” She shot her wrecking ball at him. He didn’t know the attack was coming and it knocked the guy off his feet and into the wall nearby. Hopefully it would keep him down, but there were other robbers here.

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MP:195/205:

[Kade Lazarus]

An attack plan was always good. They didn’t have time to dwell on their personal problems or the recent events. They just needed to take care of this robbery in progress and defend the people here. Kade could find about six… er, five assailants. Hannah made quick work of one of them. Well, that worked for Kade. Two men noticed Hannah and Kade quickly after that, and ran over to handle the problem.

Kade let Hannah have one of the guys. He put up his arms for a quick blinding block(10). The man was immediately knocked backwards, and blind. However he came back faster than expected. The man fighting Hannah had a buff to speed as well. Kade sidestepped the blind man charging him. He put out a foot, tripping the robber and then slammed an elbow into his back to get him down. His face made hard contact to the floor, and Kade was satisfied to see that he was out cold.

Satisfied that Hannah could have her own fight, Kade ran over to the man who had been knocked into the glass. He was injured, clearly, but conscious. “Please, take care of them,” he asked.

“Right. Just sit tight. We will handle it,” Kade told him with a nod. Apparently now was a good time to sucker punch Kade, but Kade could hear the attack approaching, so he dodged, grabbing the man’s arm as it went past him. He jerked him forward and kicked him to keep him going, wanting to take the fight away from bystanders.
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[Hannah Jaymes]

Hannah liked fighting, but she didn’t like killing. So taking them down, but not dead was fine. She was glad the first one of them hadn’t dodged, she hated it when people dodged. Stupid speedy people… She wasn’t dwelling on that at all. One of the other robbers had a speedy buff, Hannah did not like that. He came at her fast but luckily she managed to put up her Iron Hide. It was just in time to block a blow and make him regret slamming into iron. Hannah turned her arm into a spiked chain and whipped it in a wide arch around her to snare the speedy man. It worked and she had him. He tripped and fell and she flung him into the wall, knocking him out cold as well.

She heard him talking to the man that had been hurt before. ”Stay down, we can handle this.” She shouldn’t have stopped paying attention. Another of the robbers came at her with a ball bat. Luckily she had her armor on, and the impact was minimal. ”Don’t hit ladies!” She yelled before elbowing him in the gut. He took several steps back as he got the air back in him. ”You okay over there Kade?” She wanted to make sure no one was hurting the guy’s cute face.
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MP: 170/205:

[Kade Lazarus]

Hannah looked perfectly capable of handling herself in this situation. That was good, because managing her, himself, and fighting, wouldn’t have been good for Kade. He trusted his fighting partners to be able to hold their own. He hadn’t exactly been trusting back on the island during the tournament, but things were different then. This was a woman who was already fighting, and could clearly handle that.

He kept moving and dodging, but soon he heard a door open amidst the chaos. “I’m fine. Someone is running!” he said. He didn’t want anyone getting away with robbing the place.

The owner said, “Catch them!” Kade turned and saw that two of the men were running, and at quite high speeds. They had a lot of loot with them, and he heard the sound of a train whistle.

“I think they might be trying to catch a ride on the train. We should go after them. I think these guys are pretty well out for now,” Kade said. With that he ran out of the building. He hoped Hannah was following. Up ahead, running in the direction of the train, were the two men. Kade focused a speed boost on himself, his eyes began to glow white and he started running faster after them. He didn’t want them getting away from this.

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[Hannah Jaymes]

Why do people always have to run… Hannah was a lot of things, but fast and a runner were not among them. She let out a long sigh and figured that the running was some robbers. She turned and saw that her guess was true. She looked over at Kade and then heard the shopkeeper say to get them. Dang it… running it was. Hannah took off after them as Kade said they were probably trying to catch the train. Well, wasn’t this a wonderful day so far. ”Probably… great I hate running.” She was running at full sprint now, but that probably wouldn’t be good enough.

Kade was fast. He passed Hannah and was gaining on the robbers unlike her. She would not be able to catch them on her own, and she had to think fast. She saw a pile of crates up ahead, and she figured if she took out one of the bottom ones, they would topple into the path of the crooks. She took aim and fired her wrecking ball. The wooden crate splintered and the rest toppled over just like she wanted. ”Catch them dude!” She yelled at Kade as the robbers has to come to a speedy halt to avoid running into the crates at full speed.
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[Kade Lazarus]

Hannah wasn’t fast, there was that, but she was clever. As they chased after the robbers Hannah shot down some crates. The robbers did have to come to a stop. One of them was slower than the other, so Kade ran up and shoved him right into the crates. He figured that guy would wait for Hannah to come and beat some submission into him. He needed to catch the last guy. Kade chased after, firing a blast of light at the man and hitting him in the back. He fell with a yell and Kade managed to close the distance.

When this robber put up a magical shield around himself Kade glared. Fine… I’ll just break this down. He swung at the shield, driving his elbow down into it. The robber got wide eyed. Another swing. He clasped his fists and swung down, finally shattering the shield and making it down to the robber. He was out cold quickly.

When he was out Kade grabbed him up by his shirt, throwing him over his shoulder. He grabbed the bag of loot in his other hand and went to check on Hannah’s progress with the slower robber. “For putting up that much of a fight, he’d pretty light,” Kade said when he got back to her.

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[Hannah Jaymes]

Hannah was glad Kade was quick, she wouldn’t have been able to catch them without him, even with her being clever. The guy Kade left for Hannah was just getting back up when the girl ran up to him, put up iron hide and gave the robber a metal head-butt that knocked him out cold. Hannah slung that man over her shoulder and walked toward Kade who also had a guy over his shoulder. ”He is kind of scrawny to put up too much of a fight. Glad you’re quick though, I never would have caught up to them.” She adjusted her weight a bit as she held the man. ”What do you think that shop keeper will want done with these goons?”

Hannah headed back to the shop. She figured he would turn them into the law, maybe after kicking and yelling at them for breaking into his shop. They did hurt him, and didn’t deserve a lot of mercy. That wasn’t to say they deserved to be harmed beyond capturing them. They weren’t exactly on a murderous rampage, they had just broke into a place, and they would be licking the wounds they had for some time. The one Hannah hit on the head was developing quite the knot on his head. ”I might have hit him a bit too hard…”

[Kade Lazarus]

Kade figured Hannah would handle things just fine, but of course he didn’t foresee anyone giving anyone else an iron head-butt. It was a bit beyond his normal guesswork. All he knew was she had a guy over her shoulder, and that displayed a fair amount of competency. Good enough for him. He smiled when she praised his speed, “Well it comes in handy some. It was good you were back here to handle that one so I had the chance to head up. And I wouldn’t say being scrawny counts for much. I know a girl who I could lift with one arm, but she’s surprisingly competent,” he admitted.

She asked what he thought the shop keeper wanted done with the goons, “Probably turn them in and get them sent to jail or something. And I plan to make sure he has help getting his shop back in order. Petty theft is a big risk while he is recovering,” he added. They were carrying the men back and she commented that she might have hit the man too hard. Yeah, he really was getting a bump, “Eh, all the more reason for him to think twice next time,” he said with a smirk. He opened the door for her when they got back to the shop, heading over to talk to the owner.

[Hannah Jaymes]

Hannah shrugged when he said size didn’t matter. ”Yeah, I guess size doesn’t matter…” She wasn’t exactly big herself but she was quite strong. Turning in the goons was the plan, at least as far as Hannah was concerned. She wouldn’t let someone take petty revenge on them, they would pay in jail. They walked into the shop and the police were already there. Hannah was surprised that they responded that fast. Maybe the police were good for something after all. That would be a first to Hannah.

The shop keeper thanked them both profusely for saving him and his store. She wouldn’t say they saved him. She doubted the robbers were homicidal, but she would accept the praise where it was. She seemed confident, and quite happy to help, and she happily helped load the arrested thugs up for the police. ”Rethink your lives…” she said as the cops took them away. Kade said he would help clean up the store and watch out. ”Well, looks like you’re the good-Samaritan this time hmm?” She asked as she started helping pick up the pieces of the shop. Hannah helped clean up more with Kade and the shop keeper never stopped thanking them until they were done. After a while, Hannah called it quits. ”Well, I think he has it under control. Good seeing you again Kade, take care. I’ve got to run.” With that she left and went back to what she was doing before this.

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