[h1] Sapphire Inn // ??? [/h1]

Jun awoke with her head spinning, sweat covering her body and her clothes damp as she registered the sweltering heat around her. [i]Where am I?[/i] She pondered as she got up, looking around to find an alien land. It looked like a mountainside inn, but something felt strange, [i]wrong.[/i] Shaking her head to clear her mind, she tried to see through the thick steam and see if there was any hint as to what happened.

The last thing she remembered was the sound of fighting between her guards, the rival yakuza and strange hooded people. Someone had managed to grab her in the chaos and pushed her into a mirror. She blacked out soon after, but a quick examination of her face with her hands revealed no bruises or cuts or anything that might indicate she was hit hard enough to knock her unconscious. Nothing that indicated she had crashed against glass.

[i]This must be where they bring the kidnapping victims.[/i] She realized, figuring the hooded people had to be the culprits. There was no other reason why they would intervene with an attempt on her life otherwise. They needed her alive. For now, at least.

Jun continued walking around, and soon found herself at the edge of a hotspring. No sooner had she bent down to try and get some water, did a hand spring out and grab her wrist, causing her to recoil back as a woman rose out of the water. No, not a woman. A... mermaid? She had a mask on but somehow Jun got the impression that she was pretty underneath the mask, despite the scales where skin should have covered her body and a fish tail where there should have been legs.

"Come join us, Jun." The mermaid spoke, and other figures began rising out of the water. Feminine looking, strange creatures that seemed to carry an unearthly charm about them. The blonde girl reacted quickly and ran, not knowing what was going on. Were her captors here? What were these strange creatures? Was this all some delirium induced dream?

She didn't get very far before running into samurai. They shouted something and ran towards here, drawing their blades. "Oh, [i]fuck[/i] me." She cursed as she turned and ran again, hoping to find anyone familiar.