[h1][i][b]Emperor Kuzco[/b][/i][/h1]
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Now, see, if I'd known we were gonna get hunted down by... uhhh... if I'd known about that, I'd have gone into the city with the other people I met.

As it was, well, plus side: Kronk showed up again, yaaay, he found us. Downside: shadow monsters. Loooots of shadow monsters. We got kind of, uh, chased into the city, right? I was [i]gonna[/i] fight them, with my kung fu, but one of the guards kind of just... picked me up. Yes. They picked me up, definitely didn't have me clinging to their head and shoulders, that would be undignified.

...the point is, guards kept staying behind to "hold them off", and now it's just me and that one guard. Not even Kronk, he got lost at some point. Not even [i]Calo![/i] So now [i]both[/i] the chefs have been eaten by shadow demons. That suuuucks! Sure, they managed to keep an alpaca, because one of them followed us and eventually started being carried, and that meant [i]I[/i] had to start running, which in these trousers- am I stalling? I might be stalling.

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With a very manly and totally understandable under the circumstances shriek, Kuzco rounded the next corner at full sprint, charging headlong toward what looked like a very bright, shiny, and not shadow demon infested building. Was that a tavern? Hey, it was a tavern! Great, they could totally hole up there until this stopped being a problem!

And then he tripped over a rock, and in a very déjà vu moment, he managed to keep himself from tripping just long enough to spiral into a sort of... cartwheel fall. Right into the alley next to the building, naturally, on to his face. And right in front of a bunch of people, the two more directly associated with him he had to blink to try and recognise.

'...oh hey, I think I know you,' he mumbled after a moment, righting himself and brushing off the stuff on his nice robe. And also righting his crown. 'You were that soldier person, right? With the dragon who got turned into a dragon by Yzma, you probably know who I mean. I... I don't recognise you,' he admitted to the other man. He looked pretty... mm... scruffy? Well, he had a bag of coins. He wasn't stealing things, was he? Oh jeez, that'd suck if he was. Who needed to do that, anyway?

'Sire! Are you alright?' the guard exclaimed, poking his head into the alley, complete with alpaca. He didn't know why the alpaca was necessary, but it didn't seem to mind not being eaten by shadow monsters, so- oh wait, right.

'Yeah, I'm fine, thanks,' Kuzco replied, whacking himself a couple of times on the side of the head and shaking it vigorously to get himself back in gear. 'Hey, so, no biggie, you guys, but do you know how to fight shadow monsters? Because we're being attacked by shadow monsters, and I'm pretty sure most of my cohort is dead.' Which, which sucked. He hated that. But he was a bit preoccupied to think over it more deeply right now.