[center][h3]Unknown Forest[/h3][/center]

[center]~ [@Hammerman], [@Restalaan] (SKA & GRI), [@FrogRFlowR], [@Rezod92] ~[/center]

[quote=Lunatea Vern Farnsworth]“Calm down. In fact, we’re the ones who saved your life. Hey, stop. Don’t hurt her. Or else you’ll have all of us to contend with.”[/quote]

[quote=Skarsneek][color=ed145b]"Yea, you're doing a real good job telling your saviors to stay back. The same ones that bailed you out. Thanks by the way."[/color][/quote]

[quote=Gringor][color=f7941d]"You lost, your Warband lost. Only you survive."[/color][/quote]

They all said the same thing, that they saved him. Takeshi had plenty of reason to doubt them but considering that he was here and not a corpse on the beach meant that they were likely telling the truth. Still, that didn't mean that they saved him for purely benevolent reasons. Takeshi wasn't going to heap gratitude on them for now.

What [u]Gringor[/u] said bothered Takeshi more. "Is the half-naked man correct? Am I really the only survivor from the beach?" He asked them. "What about my father, Lord Hideo Oja? Did any of you see him? What about Lord Shigesato Rekka? Or his wife, Sakura? What exactly happened at the beach?"

He feared the worst. If what they said was true, then... then those people, people he grew up with, were all dead. Even his father. Takeshi's heart grew heavy, just thinking about it was painful. It would have been better for him to die alongside them in the beach, like what was supposed to happen.

[quote=Tomi Gōrudo][color=fff200]"Yes. You wouldn't want to cause a commotion, right? We didn't even have time to properly rest, yet..."[/color][/quote]

Takeshi pointed his sword at the approaching [u]Tomi[/u], but the golden Dragon guessed correctly that he would not make a move against her. Takeshi knew that he was neither ready nor properly equipped to fight something like a Dragon. He allowed her to push his weapon away but recoiled slightly when her tail caressed his face. That was about the only resistance he could put up.

His face flushed red and his heart skipped a beat when [u]Tomi[/u] sat beside him. Her beautiful, pale-skinned face and alluring, gold eyes were close, letting Takeshi admire them fully. Not helping was the simple clothing that the Dragon wore.

[quote=Tomi Gōrudo][color=fff200]"You seemed all banged up when we saw you earlier. You really should rest. I can help you fall asleep if necessary."[/color][/quote]

[quote=Kerry Meros][color=fff79a]"Read the room, dragon. If anything, you're gonna scare him more."[/color][/quote]

The small exchange snapped Takeshi's thoughts back. He would not be seduced! Besides, there was already a girl he liked! The young Oja freed himself from [u]Tomi[/u] and stumbled away and to his feet, but no longer holding his sword up. "No! Stay away!"

Getting another good look at the entire taskforce, Takeshi slowly realized something. "...You're no ragtag group of monsters looking for victims. You're an organized force." He deduced correctly. "Who exactly are you? Who sent you here?"