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As the group slowly made their way through the forest, Shina felt less and less comfortable. A shiver continued to go through her whole body and the smell of trees gave way to an unusual musty smell. Suddenly, another root appeared from nowhere; but Shina had been watching the ground so saw this appear in front of her.

She went to side step it and before she knew it, another root had grabbed her other foot and tied itself around her. She was lifted high into the air with such force, the wind was knocked out of her. 'HELP! Someone chop this piece of fire wood off me!!' Shina tried to reach for her dagger but it had fallen out of her satchel and lay on the ground. 'Lapoo! Get my knife buddy, you can do it' But Lapoo had no time before another vine had grabbed its tail.

Vines started to appear all around the group...
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The rain was falling in drenching sheets, it beat against the trees above so hard that it broke the canopy and slashed at the group below. thunder cracked with a titan like ferocity as the very air seemed to electrify, the ground would shake against the inhuman storm raging above. With a flash of lightning so bright the entire area would light up below revealing a stand off. One one side sat Thaddeus with a young female elf in his possession, his arm was wrapped under her throat, her feet dangling a few feet above the ground. Purple eyes glowed against the lightning strike, in front of the Mesmer were four elfs, they were standing completely still, their eyes blank and open wide as if they were hypnotized. The opposite side a large pale Elf stood, a sword grasped in his hand tightly as he stared into the eyes of Thaddeus with hatred. ”Give me my sword Nemnon or I will kill Izzael, I won’t ask again.” Thaddeus’s voice was cold as he spoke, merciless almost, he would glare at Nemnon tightening his arm around the young Elfs throat. She would gag against the strong forearm in her throat, she struggled but to no real avail.

Go. . Le.. t . G.. o” Nemnon would speak but his english was broken and fragmented. It was obvious that he was at the mercy of Thaddeus, Nemnon would slowly lower himself to his knees slamming the sword into the ground. N..O. . .H.ur…t, T..ak . E. S..w..o..RD” Thaddeus would move his eyes off Nemnon and too one of his enthralled slaves, as soon as they made eye contact the elf would move forward and slowly touch the sword plunged into the wet dirt and ripped it free. Turning to face Thaddeus he would throw the blade into the air and across the small vance. The sword free from Nemnons grasp Thaddeus would release his grip on the young Elf woman and push her away from himself, she would slap the muddy ground as she attempted to get some air in her lungs. Thaddeus would raise his hand up as he glared at the young woman upon the ground: ”I’m sorry.” In the next couple seconds Thaddeus’s sword would impale itself through her chest and slam into the dirt below. Nemnons scream was deafening, almost ear drum breaking, before Thaddeus could react he felt a huge fist connect with his chest, there was a sickening crack as blood flew from his mouth just before he launched off his feet and slammed into the tree behind him leaving a feint imprint of himself as he fell forward to the ground.

Thaddeus would open his eyes slowly and raise his head, looking around silently he would see almost fifty warrior-like elves surrounding him. He would try to move his body but he would find that he was constrained entirely and whatever was doing it was almost impossible to break, even for him. His head was ringing, he was fairly certain that Nemnon had found a way to cut him off and knock him out but he was really straining to recall the memory of it. ”Two hundred years I have waited.” Thaddeus would look up at the sound of a familiar voice, above him towering was Nemnon himself and clutched in his hand was his sword. Thaddeus would narrow his eyes as his sword being in another's hand made him enraged, he struggled against the bindings but could not even stretch them. ”Don’t bother, they are special bind. Made just for Mesmer like you. Made from the tendons of a very rare creature here in the wood.” ”Take your hands off my sword Elf..” When the fist entered his stomach the tree he was tied too would creak against the pressure formed from just that single blow. Spit mixed with a little blood exploded from Thaddeus’s mouth and onto Nemnons lower chest.

”Two hundred years I wait for you, planning, hating, killing, an now you are under my control, much like you did me before you kill my daughter.” Nemnon was bending down now, his face was right in Thaddeus’s, close enough he could smell the rancid breath of the pale elf. Without any caution at all he would slam his head forward and crack Nemnon straight in the head forcing the huge elf to back away pulling a large hand to his hand. Slowly a darkened midnight blue blood was draining between his fingers. For that Nemon would punch Thaddeus clean in the center of his face, instantly breaking his nose and making an light head shaped imprint in the tree behind him. ”Mesmer are strong… learn first hand… now we see just how much… you take before die. It no more fitting that you die in the same place as my daughter.” Feeling Nemnons large beefy fingers wrap over his throat the Mesmer could do naught but take it, at least for the time being.

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"On it!" Rudolph then aimed his palm at the villainous vine and uttered a single word in the arcane tongue. "Fotiá." Instantaneously a ball of blue flame shot from his palm and struck the obtrusive vine that was causing Shina trouble. The disguised wizard's firebolt made short work of the vine as it carbonized in less than a second. He didn't even hit the blacksmith to boot! He had little time to celebrate as vines shot from the ground and bound one of the wizard's arms and both legs. "Uh-oh." With a sudden jolt of the vines the wizard was knocked flat on his ass and a vine seemed to level itself with Rudolph's neck before shooting forward. His unbound arm shot up and grasped the vine. Stopping it shy only a handful of centimeters to his throat. "Oh dear. Now I'm in a pinch." Rudolph said as he struggled to prevent the living plant from piercing his throat.
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"Don't worry you all I got this!" A young voice rang out over the group... alittle too loud just before there was a shattering of glass and a blaze went up on the vines almost instantly. "No evil trees shall hurt you while I am here!" Another shattering of glass, this time it had clearly come from the back of the wagon they had with them. Finally from inside the cart a young boy would appear holding a bottle of rum with an old sock stuffed inside of it, taking the flint and steel he quickly went about trying to light that third bottle. He never saw the attack coming as a vine whipped out and grabbed at his ankle and pulled him forward, he tumbling forward smacking into the soft dirt of the road the makeshift cocktail rolling away from his hand. "Owwww... that hurt you jerky vine..." Thomas rubbed his head as he sat up, the moment he did though a vine sprounted out between his legs and wrapped around his throat. He struggled against it as he felt his air supply choke off, he tried to remove it but the vine was just too strong for him. Grabbing at his belt he frantically searched around before his hand would hit the hilt of a large dagger that looked alot like the one Malvo had on his belt back in town. With a solid strike he cut through the vine like butter with the dagger. Gagging hard he turned over, his cheeks and face red while he tried to get some air into his lungs. The vines did not relent as four more popped out of the ground and raced forward to grab Thomas and completely restrain him this time.
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Shina turned to see a stranger appear from nowhere 'Wait...is that...Thomas?! Thaddeus' boy??!' Shina blinked hard as she could feel the vines tightening around her. What on earth was the boy thinking?! This was no place for him and she watched helplessly as he too got caught by the same vines that had by now, tangled the whole group.

She saw Lapoo fly around her, squeaking with fear, not being super helpful. Then as she felt her mind start to spin, she heard something, or was it someone? It was familiar but all at once strange and frightening. She could feel her heartbeat pulse quicker and quicker, her very soul felt like it was aflame, as though someone had thrown a fresh piece of wood on a fireplace. As she opened her eyes again, the world looked completely different. She saw her friends as, well as other beings! But what came to her was the dragon lady, Shina saw her as a dragon again! But not in its real scale this time, almost as though she could see the aura of the human (or in this case elf form) and within it, a small version of the very real dragon she was. She turned to Rudolph, again a faint outline of the wizard but within, a glowing blue magical being existed.

Shina shook her head again, this must be a hallucination, caused by a lack of air. But as she looked down, she saw the same with her, the outline of the elf form but within, a fiery flame red panda burned!

Her heart quickened...and kept quickening...and then.....she saw Guan. Or was it?

'Guan?...Is that you?....ple..ase...he..l..p...us' As she was losing consciousness again. Guan walked up to her and whispered...'You don't need me Shina, you know what to do.' And just like that, he disappeared.

Lapoo started squeaking louder and louder, becoming more primal. Suddenly, Shina felt a surge of power course though her and yelled 'ESTELIAR!!!!!' Her eyes burned red and she doubled round, grabbing her dagger from her satchel and sliced through the vine holding the wizard. The vine slithered back, giving her time to jump down and run towards the others. As quick as lighting, she started to cut through the vines, one after the other.

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Taraah for one was not particularly worried. She would just tear through the offending vines with her talons, and then go to an all elf you can eat restaurant. With a forest sized barbecue pit. She reached for the vine creeping up to her throat-

Right. Elf disguise. One she this time had no control over. A pit of panic appeared in her core and threatened to implode. She furiously grappled qith the vine and pried it off of her throat. Thank heavens her draconic strength remained at least. Still, the vines threatened to overwhelm her soon if she did not get rid of them quickly. "Wizard! They know, dispell the disguise!" she called over.

Then she noticed Thaddeus' boy in jeopardy. Something that she didn't feel before set fire to her blood. She did not have time to speculate about the feeling, because she was seeing red. Reaching to the scabbard at her side, she drawn her battered silver blade and chopped at the offending vines, wishing she chose a blade with more mass. Still, after a few hews, the vines around her gave way and she leapt over to the youngling. "Young lord!" she shouted as she worked the vines around him, only catching Shiina going on a similar rampage in her peripheral vision.
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"Thomas!?" Rudolph said with a look of disbelief as the young man burst from the back of their carriage, makeshift firebomb in hand. Fire burned a number of the newer aggressive flora but soon even the young man was overwhelmed by an unseen vine. Things were looking pretty grim for the group of impromptu adventurers, but fate smiled on them. Shina was reinvigorated by a fiery passion and was a flurry of cuts and slashes. One being able to free his arm. Just in time to hear the dragoness call to dispel the magic. True enough, there was no reason to maintain the illusion now that they were in active combat for the denizens of the Thousand Year Old Forest to see. With a quick cutting motion with his free hand, he dispelled the polymorphic magic affecting them and once again they were in their old selves. "Polymorphic magic down! Go wild!" He said before incinerating the vine trying to stab his neck. Their jig was up and the only thing they could do now is fight through the forest and hope that Thaddeus was still keeping Nemnon and the rest of the wild elves' attention on him.
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The journey through the forest was already making Yoshina regret her decision to wear the maid outfit. Her standard getup would easily make her comfortable enough to trudge into the thick foliage. But the unnecessary frills and thick coating of the maid uniform was not making the journey for the Sangakuan Princess easy.

At all.

"Gods, I knew I should've went with the more practical outfit." She muttered in her native language, mentally beating herself for valuing the quick response from her to the journey rather than bothering to change outfits and make them wait a lil bit more.

She has seen the little bit of conversation between Thaddeus and the group, and him vanishing into the forest. There were some sounds coming from the forest the moment he vanished, but nonetheless. The group decided to go inside, and the Princess, while very nervous, still decided to continue.

"I have went through battles with tens of thousands of men, seen the horrors of war and uncountable atrocities, and yet I'm still afraid of a dark forest. Just what is-"

Her inner monologue was cut short when she noticed something grab into her ankle. She looked down, and saw a vine, a shiver ran down her spine, a part of her telling Yoshina that she's in great danger. Then she heard the Firetail's call for help.

'HELP! Someone chop this piece of fire wood off me!!'

Seemingly out of nowhere, vines shot out from the darkness, quickly gagging the Sangakuan Princess, grabbing both her arms, and dragged the Red Haired woman deep into the woods, the Princess screamed for help, her heart rate rapidly quickening and her eyes widening and scanning the treeline for anything she could put her hands to hold on to. Please please please find something Yoshina The Princess talked to herself as she tried moving her hand to grab a branch.

Much to her distress, even her well muscled arms are still no match for the grabbing power of the vines, eventually dragging her into a tree where they originated and slowly entombing her into it. Yoshina is not sure what this tree has planned for her, but she didn't stop her incessant struggling. She NEEDS to get out of here, best case scenario, she will be connected into the tree itself, becoming a dryad, worst case scenario though?

Either way, she has no desire to turn into a dryad when she's already a wood elf for the moment. Her muffled scream didn't reach the distance needed to alert the group, who were already occupied with their own issues among the hostile trees. At least the tree hasn't choked her... yet.

But then the vines seemed to recoil, Yoshina could barely see Shina doing something. But the sudden recoil was not enough for the Sangakuan Princess to do much of anything.

Including a sudden series of soft vines prodding her backside, it seems like the tree really wanted her to merge with it.

Oh gods no!

"HMMMM!!!! HMMMMM!!!" The Princess shouted as strong as she could, faintly hoping anyone in the group would notice the missing Princess.
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Shina almost felt as though she were a ghost, watching this different version of her below - slicing through vine after vine, like some crazy person! She didn't feel herself at all, but all she could remember was Guan's face, clear as day. Her soul was on fire, her ears and tail seemed to glow with a soft ember and her senses were keener than they had ever been.

As she cut through the vines, she saw that the wizard had lifted the spell they all had, so there was no hope of going through this forest without a fight now. She had also realised that Thaddeus' boy had somehow appeared, how very like his father, "Thomas, what are you doing here?!?!" She helped with the others until they had all been freed. It looked like the dragon had everything covered, it would have been good if she could turn and set this whole awful forest aflame!

Suddenly, she thought she could hear a muffled scream...the princess was almost completely covered in vines!! Lapoo had already made its way over and was started to try (not very successfully) to bite through... "Thank you my friend, i've got it from here" Shina sliced through until she could see the princesses face, looking so frightened.. "I'm so sorry Princess, you should never have got caught up in all this" Finally she got her free and it looked like they were all untangled.

They all gathered around and Shina grabbed Thomas by the arm "Thomas! What are you doing here, does your father know?! She felt that Thaddeus would never have let his son join, especially with the danger of the elves. As she thought this, she suddenly felt many eyes watching them. Lapoo confirmed her fears when it let out a squeak and hid behind her.

The canopy above them shifted as elves surrounded them, most aiming bows at them. Things were about to get complicated.

"You, come with us!!" One of the elves shouted in broken English.

Yep, thought Shina, thing's are definitely going to get complicated.

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The help from Shina came at a very opportune time. Yoshina felt like she was about to be completely subsumed by the tree in minutes, but the rapid slashes from the Firetail managed to get the vines completely out of her body, grabbing her Naginata, she quickly make short work from the tree that, just a couple minutes ago, tried smothering her inside of it.

"Die!"

The multiple slashes from her Sangakuan polearm managed to fully down the tree. Bursts of sap and splintering wood follow her wake as she finally regrouped with the party. "Sorry, I was taken by surprise back there, did anything happen?"

Sure enough, her questions was quickly answered. As one of the Elves shouted something Yoshina could barely decipher, she knew that following the Elves would probably mean incarceration for all of them, potentially execution if they're not careful. The Sangakuan has had enough time being incarcerated throughout her journeys. No more spending time in Oubliettes and Pillories, humiliated in public or potentially even worse. Screw that!

"I recommend that we move as fast as possible, if we don't want to get captured by the Elves, we have to move and move deliberately. Taarah, can you get a view from the sky of where we should go? I'd rather not stick around and potentially kill even more lives today."
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Just when the half-elf wizard took notice that the crimson haired warrior was strangely quiet during this encounter, the spirits of the Thousand Year Old Woods decided to pull one more trick on poor Rudolph. A vine silently crept behind him and when the wizard was about to look for the missing woman, the vine lashed out and swept the wizard off his feet and causing him to land flat on his back with a thud."Makers above I am sick of these oppressive plantlife!" The wizard said as he snatched a half a broken branch and channeled his mana into the mundane stick. A blade of pure magical energy appeared at the tip as the entirety of the branch carbonized in mere moments. But it was long enough for the wizard to perform a broad slash that severed the vine as if it were made of air. At the end of it all only ash remained in the wizard's hand.

Luckily enough for them, Shina had taken care of their missing warrior. But celebrations were ended abruptly when they took notice of the wild elves had surrounded them and were ready to turn them into pincushions for arrows. They seemed that they wanted to capture them, but Yoshina had a plan. Guess he had to make a distraction while they set their plan into motion. Rudolph began speaking in Elvish."<Lend me your ears, kin. I am Rudolph Admoss. Finder of Masf'kaymar, First Seat of the Arcane Academe, Realm Walker,...>" Rudolph would keep rambling on and on about his titles of genuine merit and ones he'd made up on the spot.
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Shina cursed under her breath - this was not what she wanted to happen. As it was, the encounter with the vines had slowed them down considerably and she was getting more and more anxious of the fate of her friend.

The wizard started doing what he did best, speaking very verbosely to the angry looking sets of eyes looking down at them. It was clear he was buying the group time but she couldn't see how they would get out of this.

As the wizard spoke, Shina, the princess, the dragon lady and young Thomas turned and started to walk further into the forest. Of course, they were quickly stopped by one of the elves. A woman, who was clad only in nature's leaves and with a face covered by a mask made from tree bark pointed to them. She shouted something, which didn't sound very friendly and proceeded to jump to the ground, a long spear pointed right at them.

You trespass here! You come with us! She snarled.

'Damn it, we don't have time for this' Shina thought. Lapoo kept close to her side, while the elves eyed it, as though it seemed strange for an animal to be close to a human.

'What do we do wizard? I would love nothing more than to fight my way through them, but I fear we are outnumbered.'

With that, she saw in the corner of her eye, more and more of them started to descend from the trees to surround them. It definitely wouldn't end well to fight. Follow them they would have to do...
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As the half elf's spell went down, the dragoness in disguise was surrounded by an ominous black and red glow. As her shape expanded, her shadow loomed over the elves. "Enough!" her voice resonated through the air, the volume making her words being felt rather than heard. A slam of her tail into the ground caused it to shake beneath everyone's feet as well.

With a wave of her front paw, a wall of black flames surrounded the group, separating them from the elves and their arrows. The plants that were grasping at the group found themselves seared in half, now limply slacking off on their bodies. She walked out from behind the cart, towards the wall of flame and looked the elven leader in the eyes. "I am doing my very best not to resort to violence, child of the forest. We are merely travellers passing through these parts. Beforehand, I might have even purchased some of your wares on my way out. Now however, I am thoroughly nettled."

She blown some smoke out of her nostrils into the elf's face: "Now, we are going that way," she pointed, and the flames formed a corridor in the direction, "If you value your lives, be somewhere else. Oh, and if you find a pirate looking guy... For every drop of his blood, I will drop one of you. So run along little elf, and tell your king to behave." she threatened, before turning to the group, "We are leaving!"
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Yoshina quickly nodded her head and departed along with the rest of the group. The wood elves seemingly threatened enough that they don't want to mess with the party. Soon enough, the group quickly exited the forest. Yoshina herself feeling rather exhausted after the seemingly short, but felt like a lifetime endeavor. "Whew. I'm glad that we got out of there safely." The Princess commented. "Perhaps, it would be better for all of us that we stick towards the edges of this forest later. Those wood elves seem to have murderous intent on their eyes. I can see that even from afar."

"Well, it can't be helped." The Princess finished in Sangakuan. "Now uhh, where's Thaddeus? That Privateer? I'm getting really concerned that he might not make this one out alive."

In truth, Yoshina feels a bit of dread pinging throughout her body right now. The fact that Thaddeus isn't here might indicate the worst outcome. But nonetheless. Yoshina calms herself, the horrors of the past does not have the conditions to resurface again, hopefully. "Ashwing, do you know where Thaddeus is currently located?" She asked. "I kinda don't wanna continue our small quest unless that guy's back with us."

"Also, Rudolph. Do you know of any tracking spells that might be useful right now? Just curious."
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"What? I thought you and the rest were planning something!" Rudolph said, eyes wide and mouth agape in shock. Oh no. There was no plan. As much as a prodigy he was in the arcane arts, his brain was devoid of good plans. Lucky for them, the dragoness had just about enough of the Wild Elves' antics against them.

The half-elf wizard was rather shocked to suddenly see the dragoness' black flames but also rather relieved as he was scraping the proverbial barrel of real and fake titles. "Well said, Ms. Taraah." Rudolph said as he briskly walked through the path created by the black flames of Taraah. Soon enough they'd leave the Thousand Year Old Woods and into relative safety. Well...from the Wild Elves' arrows and throwing spears at least. "Maker above that was the most excitement that I've experienced in the past fifty years." Rudolph said as he wiped away the sweat from his brow. Only to smear some across his face, much to his embarrassment and chagrin. But if they were safe, what of their Mesmer companion and the Lord of the Thousand Year Old Woods?

Yoshina had similar concerns and asked him if he knew of any spell that could assist in locating Thaddeus. "I do. Though those kinds of spells would require a catalyst of very high quality, and..." Rudolph picks up a stray branch and by simply imbuing the branch with the magics he used earlier. As expected the branch carbonizes and turns into ash after a brief six seconds. "...we are severely lacking in those. But I suppose we can try regardless. We'd need a lot of branches though."
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Shina couldn't help but feel fear rise in her as she saw the dragon lady turn into her 'true' form. How could someone not feel dwarfed and vulnerable when a human form becomes so many times bigger, fiercer, deadlier?! However, she couldn't argue with the results as she watched the same fear on the faces of the elves that had surrounded them - no more as they had been separated by a literal fire wall.

'Well, can't argue with that huh Lapoo? ' The little squirrel shaking behind her, tail firmly tucked under itself.

She watched as the group started to follow the dragon and Shina promptly followed. She looked back at the still stunned looks of her would-be captors - the one that had spoken to her had now shifted her gaze to the group - in particular to look directly at Shina. She had seen that look before. The look of a predator watching its prey escape. It wasn't a look she appreciated, but she held off making a witty comment.

Shina ran a little quicker to catch up to the front, where the dragon lady led the way. Catching her breath she said 'We...I owe you my thanks dragon. Without your intervention, we would have been dragged off by the elves, and we just don't have that time. You have my gratitude....and my thanks'

The princess was right too, we did need to track Thaddeus, before they progressed too far without him. Shina wished she could track, but her teachings had only ever helped her in battle. And whatever that light show was earlier, it hadn't come back.

The wizard seemed to have an idea though - she was so glad he had come with them!

'So wizard, what do you need us to do to help with a tracking spell?' Shina was conscious she didn't want to take too much of a detour finding Thaddeus, ever minute they spent dawdling was more time Guan could be in mortal danger.
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"A whole bunch of branches would be a start. Without a proper magical catalyst like my wand, my magic will be eating through those branches faster than a skulk of hungry foxes in a chicken coop." Rudolph said as he started collecting his share of branches. They didn't know how far the Mesmer was and the half-elf wizard believed that it was better to have a surplus of materials than a shortage of it. Any magic user worth their weight in gold knew how to use mundane items as temporary catalysts for their casting. It could never compare to the efficiency and ease of using an actual catalyst but it was always better to have a catalyst than to cast without one. "I don't want to sound negative, but...what do we do if we can't find Thaddeus or, Maker forbid, discover that the worst had happened to him?"
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"Alright, if a bunch of branches is what you want, a bunch of branches you shall get." Yoshina responded, quickly putting her hands to work gathering any remaining branches scattered around her. They are in the edges of the forest after all, and thank goodness that the trees in this forbidden forest tend to shave a lot of branches off. It almost feels like the expansion of this forest is being hampered by something rather... magical.

But that is a mystery for a later time. Yoshina brought Rudolph a bunch of branches, and then quickly parted off again, the Princess highly intent on continuing her temporary mission of... gathering branches...

She knew that this is not necessarily the most exciting thing to do right now, but in a way she is glad that she's doing this. All that action for today, the time with the bandits and then the time with the branches, are slowly winding down for the day. And Yoshina feels like the group needed some respite from all the nonsense pouring their way.

"I got more branches." Yoshina replied, bringing another huge stack of branches and dropping it in a growing woodpile in front of Rudolph. "Do you need more? That seems like a lot of branches to do an advanced spell."
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"As I mentioned a little earlier, without a proper magical catalyst, my magic will be eating through these makeshift catalysts very quickly. Approximately each would last six seconds give or take." Rudolph explained to the warrior as he began counting the collected branches. There were roughly fifty branches in the pile they collected. That would mean five minutes of the scrying spell taking effect. He would have hoped that 5 minutes would be enough for him to pinpoint or, at least, generalize the direction where Thaddeus was. "If everyone is ready, I'll begin the divination." Grasping a branch, the wizard begins to channel his mana into the catalyst and focus on the Mesmer's mental image.

As predicted, the amount of magic flowing into the mundane object was too much and soon turned into ash; but before he could lose concentration on the spell he grabs another branch to continue the channeling. The process repeated itself over and over again as the pile of branches was gradually reduced for the five minutes he was able to keep the spell going. Not a branch was left and not a centimeter of the wizard's clothes were free from ash. Dusting himself off as best as he could he turns to report to his companions. "It wasn't much to work with but I can say with 78% certainty that Thaddeus is North East of our position and is still in combat with Nemnon." He wasn't sure the next step considering that they just narrowly escaped capture and now know that Thaddeus was still alive and, more importantly, inside the Thousand Year Old Woods fighting against a monster of an elf.
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Status: Alive / Injured
Location: Nemnons Fighting grounds
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Thaddeus found himself spitting some blood out of the side of his mouth as the air that flowed through his nose came in raspy sheers through the broken passages that would slowly begin to heal and mend themselves. Mesmers were notorious for healing almost immediately no matter the damage but Nemnons ability to cause great damage with little effort was troublesome, even to him. Nemnon if he realized it or not had mysterious powers that none of the other elfs had. Once upon a time Thaddeus had been curious to know what made the pale elf so different from his peers. But much like anything from back than, he had lost interest in knowing, getting old and living long years could do that and no one who lives beyond one hundred years could escape that fact. "You can torture me all you like, but you will never get the satisfaction you seek. I told you before that I did not kill your daughter Nemnon, I loved your daughter." "You lie!" Nemnon would backhand Thaddeus across the face splitting his cheek open like a banana peel. Thaddeus looked back, dark blood making its way down his chin. "I watched Mesmer.. watched as you drove your sword through her chest and pierced her heart! This very sword..." Nemnon raised the blade in his hand, to the pale elf it was almost like a short sword in compared to his size. He looked at the blade than back at Thaddeus with, a devilish smirk crossed the lips of the pale elf. "It is almost irony that the one weakness you possess can be caused by the very blade you wield." Thaddeus found himself screaming in pain as his own sword plunged deep into his shoulder and cindered his flesh with the dragons breath magic that enchanted the blade.

Dragon magic... the one weakness all Mesmer possess, the only true way to wound you... to kill you.." Nemnon ripped the blade free from Thaddeus's arm, the wound in his shoulder was cauterized already from the heat of the blade leaving a slit that went from front to back of his shoulder. Thaddeus could feel the tree behind him still cindering from being touched by his blade. "Do what you will, I am not afraid to die here. I go with regret but I am not afraid." Thaddeus was defiant towards Nemnon, the reality though was he could not imagine how the pale elf had found out about dragons magic being the bane of a Mesmer's existence. That didn't matter right now, what mattered was that he was in more danger than when he was first brought to this field. Nemnon lost his grin as Thaddeus would show him no fear, in one quick decisive blow the blade slashed down the Mesmers chest, his clothing cindered almost instantly as long shallow draw line was cindered through his skin from the base of his throat to his waistline. Thaddeus gritted his teeth from the pain as the pale elf than slashed him across the chest from side to side. "I will make you beg for death Mesmer, I will make you cry out for mercy, the same way she cried for mercy. You... you will not die easy like her, your very last breath will be of pain."

Nemnon spat the words out viciously at the Mesmer, it was almost like pure venom for the ears. Out of nowhere a low chuckle would come from Thaddeus as his chest heaved in and out heavily from the damage he was sustaining. "You can kill me pale elf, but if you do than you will never find true justice for your daughter. I know who really took her life that night, if you believe it or not, it makes no difference because I am not dyeing here today, I will not die before I've had my revenge against that person. So do your worse you half breed shite." Thaddeus felt the fist smash into his face as his sunglasses were shattered almost instantly, his head slamming back against the tree again. Nemnon was already pulling his fist back to give another decisive blow but he was interrupted suddenly by the arrival of a large group of elves. The eldest one in front would step forward and place a fist on his chest and bowed before Nemnon. [color=gray][/color]"আমাদের একটা সমস্যা আছে, ভ্রমণকারীরা একটি ড্রাগনের অধিকারী। এটা শক্তিশালী। আমরা এর সাথে কোনও মিল নেই, তাদের সাথে একটি ছোট ছেলে রয়েছে, সম্ভবত আমরা তাকে অপহরণ করতে পারি এবং অন্যদের বশীভূত করতে তাকে ব্যবহার করতে পারি। (We have a problem, the travelers possess a dragon. It is strong. We are no match for it, there is a young boy with them, perhaps we can kidnap him and use him to subdue the others.") Thaddeus looked up slowly, his usual non challan look was gone. Boy? There was no way it was Thomas, it couldn't be, he had mesmerized the boy before leaving.

Unfortunately the Mesmer's emotion gave away to Nemnon who noticed the perking up when the boy was mentioned. He cocked his head idly as a thought occurred to him that had not before. He was so blinded by his need for revenge he never truly considered why the Mesmer had come back here so willingly and had been so easy to capture. "Kill the boy." Nemnons words were direct and sudden, Thaddeus felt his ire rise as his face became a vicious snarl, "You touch the boy and I will rip your throat out you half breed!"Nemnon would smile as the outburst from Thaddeus was all he needed to confirm that he indeed did care for the boy, maybe even the whole group itself. Damn it, Thaddeus would chide himself silently, his outburst had been so sudden that even he couldn't stop it from happening. Raw acts of emotion were not usually things the Mesmer was prone too but the mere mention of Thomas being killed had driven him to do just that. There was no doubt that Thomas meant everything to him, the boy had grown on him, to the point where he did the dumbest thing he could have done. "Its seem that the mesmer has developed relationships, you were a distraction weren't you, so that group could make it through here more safely? Clever. ছেলেটিকে আমার কাছে নিয়ে এসো। বাকিগুলোকে মেরে ফেলো, এটা নাও, এটা সেই ড্রাগনকে পাঠাতে তোমাকে অনেক সাহায্য করবে। (Bring me the boy. Kill the rest, take this, it will help you greatly in dispatching that dragon.)"

Nemnon would toss Thaddeus's sword to the elf whelp who caught it and nodded his head in understanding. But before that elf could even turn to leave another elf would leap foreword and drive a crude blade straight into the chest of the elf holding Thaddeus's sword. The look of shock on the elfs face was great as he fell forward, the sword would free from his grip as it caught by the one who had stabbed him. Without hesitation the elf threw the sword blade first. It would slap the tree where Thaddeus was, it would cut through at an angle as the blade would slit through the bindings that held the Mesmer to the tree. Falling to his feel Thaddeus would grab his sword and rip it away just in time to see Nemnon grab the elf Thaddeus has mesmerized and crush his throat with little to no problem killing him instantly. "Clever." Nemnon spoke almost matter of fact as he wiped the blue blood from his hand. Reaching his hand back, one of his lieutenants would emerge carrying a great two bladed sword that was as long as Thaddeus was tall and as thick.

"I will admit I did not believe you could do that to one of my warriors, but it is of no consequence. I would rather slice you apart piece by piece anyways. However... a dragon is troublesome, even for me, so I will make you an offer. I will let them make it out of the woods unharmed but they must watch me kill you first, especially the boy. I do not know what he means to you but obviously he means much to you. The only thing better than killing you is making sure the pain of your death is forced on those who love you. My warriors will escort them here unharmed and than we will fight to the death. That or I will order them to attack that group until even the dragon is overwhelmed." Thaddeus glared at Nemnon, if he liked it or not that deal that had just been offered was the best alternative. These woods were filled with elves ready to die for Nemnon, enough to overwhelm them all, "Fine... but if I win you let all of us walk out of these woods unharmed. Nemnon would nod his head in agreement, he was confident that he would not lose and it was easy to see in his demeanor. With a flick of his wrist he sent his top lieutenants to approach the group.

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Thomas rubbed his butt quietly as the situation around them seemed to worsen with every second, maybe it was his naivety or his being so young but the very prospect of what was transpiring was exciting to him, he felt like he was on a real adventure for the first time in his life. He had never elves like this before, he had heard about them from his father but to see them now up close.. it was exciting and the vines too, they were so life like almost like they had a mind of their own, or did they? These questions and many more ran through his head even when Shina was asking him if his father had known he was there. Of course his father didn't know he was here, he would never allow Thomas to put himself in such a situation, he knew it was going to be dangerous the moment his father mesmerized him or at least he let him think he did. Truth be told he had done it so much to Thomas that he had found a way to dull the affects and avoid them all together if he did it right without his father knowing. It was simple really, you just had to divert your gaze away from the center of his eyes, only, this was hard to do because it only took a second to snare you so you had to guess when he was going to do it so you could take that second to divert. Technical was the word for it not that Thomas was looking for such a word either way. He did sort of feel bad for Malvo though, his father would put him through the ringer for letting Thomas escape and with his dagger at that.

Slowly it did dawn on him through, the reality of the situation, where was his father. For the first time he looked around and his became almost sullen. His excitement started to dissipate as he listened to the conversations now and realized his father was not here at all. Rudolph however with his question of finding Thaddeus dead was what made it very real for Thomas, made him realize that his father was in danger and none of them really knew where he was. He swallowed pretty hard as a few tears caught in his eyes, when he heard his father was alive he was almost filled with joy, he had to go rescue him, which was his mistake when he turned from the group taking out his compass and finding northeast, he tried to run in that direction while everyone was discussing things when he suddenly felt a strong pair of arms wrap around him and pick him up off the ground. He felt a sharpened metal blade go to the side of his throat.


"Enough, you will come with us or this boy will die. Nemnon invites you to a fight to the death between him and Thaddeus. If you come willingly none of you will be harmed, if you resist than we will take you by force, dragon or not." Feinor spoke very directly, to the dragon in particular as it seemed to be fixated on the boy and Thaddeus for that matter. He tightened his grip on Thomas and made it clear that if any of them tried anything he would slice his throat from side to side. "You will follow me now, to the battle grounds, once your friend falls to Nemnon your safety has been assured, you will watch." With that the musclar elf backed away with Thomas in hand, the other elves in the trees advanced once more and started to form a tight circle around the group.
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