by RyuKurai000 » Sun May 09, 2004 12:49 am
Ryu and Caija ran around the corner. "Whew, made it just in time." Ryu exclaimed. The limo pulled around the corner opposite them. "That was fast..." Ryu said to himself. The driver's side door opened. Out came a woman, dressed in what appeared to be a butler's uniform. She had very pale skin, and her hair was a chilling raven tone. She walked over to the passenger's door and opened it with ease. "Ah, thank you." Said the first one out of the vehicle. He was an Erian, but for some reason looked a tad off. He had white hair, and wore a suit of fine clothes. His hair had a single bang that went down the left side of his face. The rest of it was cut short. "Come now, Sigil." He said, turning his head back to the open door. "*sigh* Yes sir." Said the other voice heard before. Out stepped a figure completely covered in robes and cloth. They appeared to be chiefly in red and brown, with some dark green mixed in. On his face, he had a large steel mask with eyeholes. His head was covered with a brown hood.
"Hello, my good mercenaries, as you may have already guessed, I am the one who has hired you." Said the white-haired man with a slight bow. "If Ryu here has not already told you, I am going to ask you to seek out information on the Raigukai, an ancheint and mysterious race. My name is Fiogos. Anyone who is familliar with my series of books on archaeology will probably know who I am, but for those of you who don't read," He turned his gaze on all but Ryu at this point. "Let me tell you a bit why I have chosen to ask you to go find information on this particular race." At this point, the person in the robes shied away a bit and began to stare up at the moon. "A while ago I stumbled on a bit of information that only a few people know about at this point. At one time, there were five kingdoms in Erius. The first was the Erian kingdom, Rentec. Then there was Erif, the Ryuii city, Retaw, the Dseamon city, Htrae, The Solgeken city, and finally, Dniw, the Raigukai city. At one time some huge disaster befell the Raigukai, and they became dust before the eyes of the other races. For some reason, it is extremely difficult to find information regarding what happened after that for one hundred years. Only through tedious research did I find out that this period is known as the One Hundred Year War. As the name suggests this battle lasted one hundred years. Even I am not sure as to what happened then. I will ask you to report back to me when you find out some complete information. You may wonder why I picked mercenaries for this job. It seems like a couple of standard archaeologists would do, doesn't it?" He paused to glance at his employees, as though daring them to say something. "Well, If you think that then you're wrong. For some reason, an organization called the Red Door wants to keep this information from the rest of the world. They have already sent some drones after us. They are almost here. But please don't worry. Sigil!" He said to the cloaked figure. The figure turned his head in the direction of Fiogos. "Can you destroy thirty of them?" "Yes, I can sir." He responded without too much inflection. "I'll ask you to do so." Sigil walked over past Ryu without shifting his weight at all. One didn't hear the tap of a shoe or boot as he walked, but a sort of soft clack like when a dog trots. He raised a red gloved hand and began mumbling. As he did so, a wavy yellow aura surrounded his hand, crackling with electricity. The driver turned her head toward Ryu, noticing his crumpled wing. "You're... Injured?" She said to him as she walked over. "it's nothing, really..." He said, knowing that he could probably just get some medicine for it later. The woman closed her eyes, breathing deeply. "What do you mean, nothing? You've snapped a tendion and you call it nothing? You Ryuii and your pride, I swear..." She said as she closed her eyes again, this time muttering to herself. Ryu was a bit peeved at having just been insulted, but then he noticed a white aura, not fluctuating like Sigil's, appearing around her right hand. She reached up to Ryu's wing and touched it, and the tendion of the wing healed. Ryu was a bit taken aback by this, and he flexed his wing just to make sure she had actually healed it. You could never be sure with magic, that's what he always said. "I see you've discovered Maria's special skill." Said Fiogos. "She is a healer, and Sigil over there is an Elementalist." He said as he gestured over to Sigil. "Now, does anyone have any questions?"