[IC] To stop a Plague

[Cuccoruler]

Feon looked up a Pholus and gave him a small smile as he spoke about sticking togeather. "If this assassin is in town it would be best if we stuck togeather, far less of a chance to get separated and taken down one by one." Feon stated thinking of strategies to take down a silent assassin like what was being described. They had absolutely no idea on who this was. For all they knew this assassin could be a super smart penguin or a monkey that wears a business suit and is called 'hit monkey'.

Either way they had to be on their guard. However what they would be keeping an eye out on, was in no way anything like they were imagining. In fact this assassin was the complete opposite of what they would be expecting.

Feon smiled again when her food arrived. However a rather large man and muscular man ran in at that moment knocking into Feon and knocking off her crown of branches. The man continued on as if nothing happened and seemed to jump and chest bump into a group of other man. They cheered and then started drinking.

Feon looked up from being knocked into. The blacks of her eyes seemed to turn green at this point, then she looked down at the steak and a wicked smile came upon her face. "Oh, what a lovely steak she chose this time." Feon said with a slightly echoy voice. She then without even taking a fork or knife picked up the steak and started to eat into it. This change in Feon's behavior would be rather noticable. This was the will of the forest talking. At least that was what it called it's self.

[cloudystar]

"...this...is interesting. You okay there Feon? You seem different...that was rather rude of that man as well, oh well. I'll get your crown for you, you seem rather attached to it."

Swiftly finishing his soup, the inventor heads over to Feon's side to pick up her crown. Holding it up to her, he sighs and gives her a friendly smile as he holds it up. He does study its unique design and is half tempted to put it on his head to see what would happen or just to fool around. Pholus would rather wait for her to accept the crown first, wanting to test a very strange hypothesis or idea he had when he noticed her change in demeanor all of a sudden. It was rather strange that one like Feon...would act all of a sudden so differently before a meal. She doesn't seem like one to have a multiple personality individual...could she?

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[Cuccoruler]

Feon gave a toothy grin before taking a large bite out of her steak without using her utensils. "Hmm? Oh right the Pholus fellow. Feon never introduced me did she? The girl just never figured she would let me out. Atleast not on purpose. I am called the Will of the Forest. You can call me Will." Feon said with a toothy grin, her teeth looked sharp, far sharper than they had been before. She took another bite of the steak. "I don't know what they marinated this steak with but it is done to perfection!" Will said with a continued smile on her face.

Some of the patrons in the inn seemed to be rather uncomfortable with Feon, the way she was eating her meat and her teeth too. Her demeanor was also something to be combfortable.

In the corner of the inn a few could be seen whispering. "You think those two are here for the weapon?" One said while looking at the other. "I mean they could be, I just hope that the red haired one doesn't get it. Something about her just spells destruction." The other said.

[cloudystar]

"Ahhh...that makes sense. Name fits I guess, but I guess I better deal with the crowds. You're kind of attracting unwanted attention but oh well. I'll try to take care of this situation. Give me one moment..."

Pholus kept a careful eye on the crowd when Will/Feon started to attract more and more eyes...and one of his suspicions was correct, that they would be suspected of even taking the weapon. However, his idea for losing this attention was to practically draw more attention...and vice versa of sorts. The inventor gets up and stretches his arms to the sky as he drops a few bombs that fall out of his small satchel pack.

"Us, taking weapons!? As if, we're here to put on a show of sorts! Watch the great magical inventions of mine create colors and hazes that can captivate your mind!

The bombs on the ground are suddenly lit and explode to let out a variety of gasses that were quite pleasing to the nose. Hoping that the mini explosions would catch their attention, he notions to Feon to follow him as he tries to find a bartender to rent two rooms. Using a variety of equipment such as vials of potions and other mini explosions to cause everyone in the room to be somewhat drowsy and lose most of their focus, he keeps trying to lead Feon to a room that the bartender instructs them to go to.

"Mind finishing your meal inside your room? We'll talk more once you're done eating so we can plan things out...hopefully we get out of this sooner than expected before people do something more crazy from the herbs I just let everyone breathe in."

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Feon sighed and finished the last of her meal before following Pholus into the room which they had gotten. "You are a rather strange one aren't you? Dropping such bombs without a second thought. Putting on a show. I wouldn't be surprised if the Inn keeper decided to make us pay extra because of that little act." Will said as she picked up her crown of branches on the way out.

Although in truth that little act of his had brought more attention than he had wished. A man with a long thing mustache had been talking to someone outside and gave a rather scary snear as he looked towards the smoke within the Inn. "Well that isn't usual. Outsiders too huh? Guess I'm close." He said. This was Flak, the assassin, and he had just gotten lucky.

[cloudystar]

"Well...guess we're even then hehe since I wasn't the only one causing many eyes to be focused on us. While you were enjoying your meal, everyone seemed all of a sudden interested in us. Might as well make them think we're performers of such instead of people searching for the weapon. Worse case scenario is that the assassin will be right on top of us if he or she hears about new performers being in town all of a sudden..."

Pholus lets out a long sigh as he pays for the room with the little gold he has...kinda forgetting to get his own. Despite that, he does give her a thumbs up and another small smile, hoping that he's in some way comforting his partner that he knows what he's doing. While in his mind, he was still trying to think of a bunch of ideas as once...overthinking the situation way too much. The inventor soon leads her into the room rented, trying to cheer her up a bit as he hands her the crown of branches.

"Could have gone much worse...would have had to repair every table and chair and maybe apply first aid to a few people if I dropped the wrong bombs...good thing I stocked smokes and flashers in my gauntlets today."

[Cuccoruler]

Will sat on the bed for a second, then found it not to his liking got up and chose the chair nearby instead. "I honestly wouldn't have minded if you had hurt those people. Humans of this town seem to want nothing more than to destroy everything around them." Will then looked at the branch crown and sighed. It would be time to head back soon apparently.

"I guess I should be putting this back on huh? Seems you need the more rational side of us from what I can tell of the situation." Will stated before putting the crown on her head. Soon enough her breathing seemed to calm a bit and it was Feon again.

Feon gave a sigh before looking over to Pholus again. "Sorry about that. I-I guess I should have warned you of her huh?" Feon said with a sad look on her face. After another sigh she looked up again remembering all that had happened. Though she wasn't herself she still knew what had happened while Will was in control.

"So from what I could tell of that commotion, the weapon is indeed in this town. As for the where we don't know. But I do think I may have found a slight lead. This is a black smithing town. Meaning that there should be an armory somewhere right? I imagine it would be well guarded too. Chances are that would be where we find it."

Feon had been able to do alot of thinking of her own while Will was in charge, and she had deducted quite a few things. However what she hadn't figured out was how to get to said weapon and destroy it. Being that this place was now Gilf territory however meant that just showing a seal of the kingdom of Gilf may just get the in.

[cloudystar]

"Hehe don't worry there Feon, we're partners and pals I hope. Whenever you feel ready, just let me know. Hmmm the armory idea...that'd be fun checking out the place. You want to check it out tonight quickly or would you rather head out tomorrow? I'm fine with either time period, heck I can probably make up some documents of sorts up if I can get a brief look at what is exactly needed for getting a visit to the armory. Though I doubt I'd find anything in there that'd be able to match my inventions in there hehe."

Pholus snickers a bit at the thought of the people in the town making a sort of extravagant invention that can surpass his master's or his own inventions. He does give Feon a friendly smile when saying the beginning of his little conversation, hoping to comfort her in some way. The inventor was getting more and more interested in the woman, which was quite apparent on his face...though not really in the romantic way. More so on what makes her "tick" and such.

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Feon looked at Pholus with slightly uninterested eyes. "Right, I suggest we wait till morning. It is late anyways. And don't forget about the message was received by bird earlier." Feon stated as she held up the letter from earlier. It had the royal seal on it, so that may get them somewhere if properly placed on another form or letter. "Hopefully you can make something from this." Feon added as she handed the paper to Pholus.

[cloudystar]

"Alright, night Feon. You rest up, I'll get to work."

After Feon heads to bed in the room, Pholus moves only a few candles...the rest being blown out, so that he wouldn't bug her. He starts taking out a fancy roll of parchment from his larger traveling bag. Beginning to work on copying the symbol down flat, and leaving his journal open to write in occasionally side-notes/journal entries on today's events. The inventor chuckles to himself a bit as he looks at Feon on the bed resting who somehow managed to push off the blanket off of her. He heads over quickly to put it back on her...then goes over to get a small bundle of blue and red herbs to put by her bedside to keep her company...kinda thinking that would probably make her feel better. After doing so, he goes back to working on a 'legal' documentation to allow Feon and himself to look into the Armory and take out any top-grade equipment out of the building...for certain 'use' which would be described by themselves. Pholus continues working on two copies of this documentation, making sure Feon would have a spare too just in case. Eventually, he sleeps in the corner of the room, the two documents rolled up and readied inside his traveling pack...sticking out of the side of the bag.

"...set...project finished."

[Cuccoruler]

The next morning Feon woke up with rather frazzled hair. Once she tied it up though it looked like it always did. Messy in the back, just the way that she always looked. "We should get going." Feon said as she got ready to head out by putting on her long white coat.

However once outside everything was not going to go as planned. It appeared that the Assassin known as Flak, had found not been able to stumble upon his targets. But he had stumpled upon or rather ran into 'The Sword of Rulers'. This part could be clearly seen by the still red mark on his face from running into the weapon as the imprint matched that of the sword.

He was certainly a strange sight to be seen. Though people in the vicinity could be seen running away from him. "I know this weapon was made for the ruler of Vallen and all, but the name is just stupid." He said holding up the weapon and looking on it. "But honestly I think calling it the quake sword would have been better." Flak said before grinning as he rose it and then slammed the sword to the ground causing the ground to shake.

"Why don't you come out task force?!" Flak taunted as he rose the sword once again cracks could be seen on the ground from where he had slammed it into the ground.

Feon at the sight of this reached into one of her many pockets to pull out some seeds ready to fight. But she would need to know the position of Pholus before she had the chance to use any of the seeds, as she didn't want to trip him from the roots she would be about to release.

[cloudystar]

Pholus was busy stowing his main travel pack in the tavern as he kept looking at the man's main weapon. He whispered to Feon before he left the scene, "I'll see if I have any equipment to deal with this guy...just let me take a quick look." Grabbing a few standard issue crossbow bolts, then two poisonous ones...then a nonlethal dart tipped bolt. Quickly requipping his explosive gasses to be explosive flashbangers and actual lethal explosives...with a few smoke bombs inside his emergency pouch. He regroups with Feon and taps her shoulder, giving her an "okay" signal.

"Ready whenever you are...distract him with plants, and I can try to cripple his knees with a few crossbow shots. Then maybe weaken him with poisoned bolts or even a few bombs to mess with his sight...any other ideas?"

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As Pholus was gathering his equipment Flak had noticed Feon and was swiftly walking towards her with grin on his face. Feon was able to bring few tree roots from nearby up to trip him. Though he that only slowed him down. Feon turned to look at Pholus as he came back out with a look of distress in her eyes. "You need to be ready faster." Feon said while taking a step back again from a smiling Flak.

Flak had the sword resting on his shoulder and each time he had fallen and the sword touched the ground the ground shook again. Feon had fallen twice from these trembles and was having a hard time keeping her balance after each one. "I'll do what I can, but try to get that sword out of his hands if you can." Feon stated before taking some seeds from a pocket in her coat and slamming them into the ground. Within seconds several vines and roots shout out of the ground in an attempt to stop flak.

"You kids aren't much fun you know that? I mean plants? Really, those are easy enough to stop. Now you better show me something fun kid. Cause the grounds a rumbling!" The last sentence sounded better in Flaks head but he didn't care much. He slammed the sword into the ground, much harder this time and spires of earth about the size of a man came from the ground to attempt to impale Pholus. Another one went at Feon who ended up getting hit in the knee and falling backwards. She got up again though and her crown of branches looked like it might fall off.

[cloudystar]

"Hey, hey perfect plans take time...well close to perfect plans at least."

Pholus was barely able to get the statement out before the rock spike came out of the ground to nearly impale him. Moving back and throwing two out of the five actual explosives at the ground to disrupt the spike before it can impale him...he wastes them quickly as he escapes. Next thing you know, he chucks another explosive at the man hoping that it'd blind him...while in reality, it was one of his three smoke bombs that he brought. He runs around the man with a good 10 meters away, dropping one bomb then moving around to drop another...both with rather long fuses. Hoping that the smoke screen was still up, he begins climbing up one of the buildings nearby...his right shoulder scarred up and being one of the few places on him that was lightly armored, it was already torn up from the explosives he used earlier to protect himself from the spike.

"...traps set."

[Cuccoruler]

Flak was about to run at Feon again when one of the bombs went flying at his face. Flak was able to duck and dodge it before the smoke went up around it. "Right when I thought I was clever. Oh well, it's not what they pay me for." Flak said before stumbling forward. This was where his odd amount of luck came into play. He couldn't see sure, but he never seemed to step into anything. In fact everything seemed to dodge him.

Feon in the meantime could see him coming towards her, she held up her arms as the plants started to flow out of the ground, this time thicken than before as they all had time to become thicker during the smoke screen. The plants started to billow out of the ground like watching a tree grown in fast motion. Feon's eyes at this point seemed to change again, and her crown of branches fell off. "This ends now." Feon stated in Wills voice and a far angrier tone.

Many of the plants she had thrown down started to change their make up form what they were originally intended to grow as. Will had powers a bit beyond Feon and they were far more violent as well. Soon Flak found himself with his face to the ground as he had tripped over a root. He was starting to be held down by the roots now.

But something was wrong. Will was starting to laugh manically as few plants could be seen hanging overtop of Flak with a spear of vines pointed at Flaks back.

The sword at this point was pulled away from Flak who was starting to panic.

[cloudystar]

"Hey, hey, Feon...or Will, calm down will you?! We should take this man alive and interrogate him, don't try to kill him just yet if anything! Otherwise it'll be problematic if we flat out kill him ourselves. We could just let the villagers take him in too so that he can deal with all the damages caused by his idiotic use of the weapon. He isn't even worth the kill..."

Pholus was still on the rooftop to stay safe away from the swarm of roots on the ground level...but he was trying to prevent his acquaintance from murdering someone and soiling those hands of hers. After all, he had a strange suspicion that Feon hasn't really killed anyone before and the Willow side of hers will be sure to take the first kill from her. The two minds should both agree on it and he wasn't willing to let Will do whatever she wanted with Feon's consent.

"Does Feon agree to this?! Otherwise, don't do it!"

[Cuccoruler]

Will looked up with a toothy grin, she had the look of a beast and steam could be seen comeing from her nostrils. "Trust me, this wouldn't be our first kill, we were in the war remember? The forest is not a kind place. Sure it gives life, but it also takes away the life of the foolish." Will said with the ferocity of a beast before looking back Flak. "And the people here would show too much mercy. They aren't blood thirsty, they only made the weapons for the war, not use them." Will stated but then the spear of vines seemed to recede and disappear. "W-What are you doing?" Will asked as he felt Feon pull back and change how the vines were working.

Flaks restraints were slowly being tightened, and small thorns in the were starting dig into his wrists and ankles. "Someone get me away from this crazy bitch!" Flak yelled in panic.

"Don't you dare call us that!" Will screamed out as the vines tightened again. "We don't kill those who haven't harmed the forest. As far as I can tell the people of this town are far more stained than this man." Rang out Feon's voice.

Will stopped and then loosened the vines. Feon was right, it would make one question which of the two were more brutal from that remark.

"We need to destroy that thing." Feon stated pointing at the sword now in control again as handed Flak over to the townspeople who were now frightened of her.

[cloudystar]

"Right, but you're still forgetting, killing the man would be a pain. Plus who knows what information he could have on another weapon or even other potential threats...but great job. Your magic is definitely more beneficial in battle than my inventions, better get working tonight on making better tools. That and see if I can mess around with that sword too...but another thing is that I need to deal with more important matters."

Pholus starts taking out a few medical herbs laughing a bit from seeing the faces of the townspeople...wondering why the hell they were acting fearful toward the woman who practically saved the town. Shaking his head still grinning, he heads over to Feon and was about to pour a sort of concoction from the herbs on her wound.

"I'll wrap your open wounds up after I pour this on if you don't mind. Just has a few minor herbs and such...if you don't mind. And hey, you town folk who keep staring! Bugger off if you're not going to offer any help or information on this sword. Kinda rude to stare at people!"

He may have a smile on his face but his other free hand shows a bomb suddenly sliding out of his gauntlet and into his palm.

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"That weapon is supposed to be destroyed. We are not to use it." Feon said as her wounds were treated by Pholus. She winced a bit at her wounds as alcohol esque herbs were applied to it. "Our mission was to find and destroy those weapons before they fall into the wrong hands." Feon said reiterating their mission from the queen.

"So how are we going to destroy it?" Feon asked with judgemental eyes and in a rather matter of fact tone.

[cloudystar]

"Well...I do have a bunch of explosives in my backpack back at the inn. Don't know if that'll be able to completely break it but if that doesn't even make a dent in it...going to need to ask the blacksmith for the chance to get access to their tools. Oh and try not to touch the weapon, who knows what can happen if we do?"

Pholus finishes wrapping up Feon/Will's scar with a bandage as he starts heading back into the inn to retrieve his large travel bag. The huge bag was brought back outside as he starts to make pile after pile of bombs to organize them...each varying in side and shapes mostly.

"Hopefully we don't mix up the gas ones with the explosive charges...may end up making a large explosion that is deadly in fire than in actual damage. Feon, know any places nearby besides the middle of town to blow these up? Might end up...setting a house on fire or worse if we don't contain the explosion. I believe the amount of actual explosive bombs I brought is enough to destroy a tavern."