[IC] A Twist Of A Knife, The Birth Of A Legend.

[RomanAria]

Aery gritted her teeth, but did as she was asked. Once the adrenaline had left her every bone in her body hurt twice as bad as it did before. She also got a sweetroll for herself and one for Ame and Silly, though she'd hide those until morning, less the girls be up all night on a sugar high. The idea of Ame getting a magic teacher was a welcome one; maybe then she wouldn't kill people with her stare when she was angry, and maybe she could protect herself better than Aery could.
Aery hauled herself back up the stairs to Rowan's room, pushed the door open. By this time Ame was wide awake and quite lucid, though still very weak from the poison's effect on her body. The sight was so welcome that Aery started crying again. She handed the sweetroll to Rowan, put the other ones on the table, and then sat on the bed beside Ame and put her arms tightly around the girl, crying into her hair. Ame weakly pushed her away, signing TOO HEAVY, STAY-AWAY ME! But she was laughing even as she said it, and quickly hugged Aery back.

[The Slenderman]

Celaena was disgusted at Rowans comment and began to walk out of the Inn and seated her self on the wet and muddy ground, dirtying her Fabrics that she wore, but that had no difference to her revenge fantasy she wanted to play out against the people that interfered with Aery, She was fighting the urge to leave them in Melisande and ride off to Xandria as a Death Dealer to them, She would take off every inch of skin that was attached to them and force them to watch as she did it, maybe deafen the guy that made Aery deaf, But they would notice she was gone and immediately know where she was, and to that idea, She heard a large group maybe fourty-fifty people on horses, maybe even more she contemplated that or Melisande Gamekeepers, But instincts got the better of her and she shouted "Every out and help " She shouted very loudly to the group inside the Inn. Would that wake them or would they ignore her commands only time would tell as she unsheathed her sword and got in a strategic position that would defend the Inn the best.

[RomanAria]

Aery didn't hear it, obviously, but Ame and Silly did, and their reaction was instantaneous.
"Crossbow, Ame!" Silly shouted, practically flying around the room, stuffing knives, throwing stars, sling pellets, crossbow bolts in every pouch, pocket, and sheath on her belt. She went for some of Rowan's daggers and Aery grabbed her by the back of the tunic. "No, Silly, those aren't yours!" she said. Then, looking at Ame, quivering in fear, she froze.
"What's going on?!" Aery asked, terror making her voice shrill.
Ame signed to her, hands a blur. PEOPLE-MANY OUTSIDE. A-E-L-I-N CALLING US. THINK ENEMIES.
Aery sighed, feeling a wave of pain at just the thought of trying to run in her condition. But she stood up, putting on an armored tunic, though her hands were shaking too much to do up the laces. "Rowan, help me with this?"
She put on her armguards, took one of Rowan's spare longbows, only to realize that she couldn't draw it in this condition. So then she put that back. Didn't have the coordination to use a sling. That left knives, needles--No, she didn't have any, they were all in her pack in Xandria!--and a sword. She picked up one of Rowan's lighter swords, only to realize that she couldn't even get the tip off of the floor, much less swing it. Knives it was, then.
She took as many as she dared, six daggers and two longer knives. She winced as she stumbled down the stairs, but sprinted as fast as she could over about a sword's-length from Celaena. The attackers were still half a mile out, but she could clearly see on their faces...Either fresh blood or blood-colored masks. She exchanged a look with Celaena to find her terror mirrored there.

[The Slenderman]

Rowan grasped his swords and seen Silly was trying to take one of his Dagger's and nodded to Aery to let Silly to take them, He ran out to the front of the Inn and smiled as he seen groups of Mounted Sentries, He looked at Aelin and the girls " This is going to be easy, wouldn't you say so Aery" He looked at Aery with contempt and began running to the Mounted Sentries, being swift he reached them in 3 minutes. He would eventually beat all these guards himself but a little help wouldn't go amiss "Hurry up Girls" He shouted to the girls as he turned back to them and seen them trailing behind far behind.

Suddenly a fire erupted from the ground causing Rowan to be caught on the outskirts of the Blast causing Rowan to be thrown back several meters and rendering him unconscious " Tell Celaena, I'm coming to see her soon... and I expect her to at least be friendly.. Future Queen Arienne Of Adarlan, Don't let that man be foolish, He'll kill himself. Ansel sent to Aery as a Telepathic message and added a little poison Enchantment on Aery's dagger that would last sixty kills 'Have Fun' She added and then closed the communication between her and Aery

[RomanAria]

Aery gasped at the sound, dropped to her knees, clutching at her ears. Just for a second, she'd heard a woman's voice. HEARD a voice. Telling her she was to be a queen; No, she'd probably just gone insane. The only group she'd ever been queen of was the urchins, and that was only because she'd done her best to protect them. And look at where that had gotten her--No, no, don't think about it.
Trembling, she raced over to the dazed Rowan, hefting most of his weight over her shoulders, trying to coax him to walk. "Freaking hell, Rowan, don't do that. You're scaring the living daylights out of me." She staggered under his weight but half-carried him inside the inn, where she set him in front of the fire on a soft couch. Hoping he'd be alright, she brought a flask of water from the kitchen and set it beside him.
Then she raced out, drew her dagger (which was faintly sparkling) and set to work. She raced up next to one of the soldiers. He was confused by this little girl so badly hurt, and he paused, and Aery drove her dagger through his side. He fell down dead, of course, but, as Aery pulled her knife out, she saw the gush of blood, and the darkness took her mind.
Blood. Blood from a knife, blood from a cut. Pain. Dark. Pressing suffocating dark agony can't breath dark celaena where's celaena. Sobbing. Fear. No breath to scream with. Must...not...scream.
The darkness ate at her even as the pain did. Her hold on her mind was slipping, slipping, falling darkness no can't breathe mustn't tell mustn't cry for celaena, for celaena.
But then there was light, light and warm and celaena was missing and where was celaena and she couldn't hear and couldn't see and she must have been dying. Dying. And without Celaena.
She clawed herself out of the flashback with a scream, to find herself kneeling just outside the door of the in, sobbing, trembling, blood all over her hands and arms, blood that wasn't even mostly her own.

[The Slenderman]

Celaena was picking off targets as they got close to the Inn, she had seen Rowan get blown back and Aery's momentary distraction from the battle, she tapped into her mind and shielded Aery with a fire circle in front of her (which won't hurt Aery) "Aery, what's wrong dear" She asked and then went back to taking out guards with her bow, eventually she ran out of arrows and switched to her sword as the guards got closer to The Inn. There was not that many guards left about twenty-one guards left "Rowan get off your butt and help" She screamed but she wasn't hurt she just wanted help. They were too close now and The Group would feel pain once they got close. She began crying at this and dropped her weapons and held up her hands and put them on her head and knelt down.

[RomanAria]

Aery forced herself to her feet, agony filling her body twice as badly as whatever magic the soldiers had pounded over her, in addition to her built-up hurts from the past three days. She staggered. Seeing Celaena fall she gasped, stumbled over beside her, and seized her hand. The pain was blistering, building up to a nearly unbearable level. But Aery forced herself to stay on her feet, gripping Celaena's hand as tightly as she could. "Together, Celaena. We stay... together. Always." And yet there was no vigor in it, and the pain was too great, and she fell down and into darkness.

[The Slenderman]

~~~ Ansel ~~~So I have to do every thing around here... Future Queen The Guards around the Inn suddenly went up in flames as Ansel was in Briarcliff doing hand motions to eliminate the Guards I'll be there soon Your Majesty, Wouldn't Want you to die alone huh? She chuckled and then started motioning her hands to eliminate the other guards and horses, While maintaining the fire surrounding the guards.

~~~ Rowan ~~~
"Heh, That was fun.. Can I try that again" Rowan wheezed out barely, That explosion must have been strong to take out a Fae "Infact who was that." He asked Aery, while trying to get up from the near the fire. He grabbed his sword and ran out of the Inn only to see there was no more guards on the battlefield "Where have they went" He looked confused and utterly speechless.

[RomanAria]

Aery heard Ansel's voice, deafening (haha, bad joke, right?) in her mind. A flash of light took out the guards and with them the immobilizing pain. Aery groaned, stumbled to her feet, drawing a dagger. She saw Rowan trying to get up, grumbled, and went over there. "No, Rowan, you stay here. You're not going to get back into this fight, not when you're concussed and bruised and burned as bad as you are." But she still tucked herself under his arm to support some of his weight and get him to his feet. "If you get yourself killed, this crazy mage-lady in my head is never going to forgive me." she muttered.
Ame, shocked at seeing the guards go up in fire, and furious that anyone would dare hurt Aery again, sprinted out onto the battlefield, looking around. She couldn't see any mage, but surely there had to be one nearby to kill the guards. Still, no sense not helping. She raised her hands instinctively to channel the magic more than her eyes could, and was rewarded by seeing a faint dark purple glow surround one of the soldiers who wasn't burning. He fell, writhing in agony, though besides that tiny purple glow there was nothing else that could have been hurting him.

[The Slenderman]

~~~ Ansel ~~~ Ansel ran down from her castle which was one mile away from where the group where and ran onto her horse and began to ride for the group I'm on my horse, Queen, Just hold out a little longer for me. She waved her hands infront of her and took out some walking skeletons which were trying to get to her castle, She rode for a mile and seen a group of people near a Inn, She sensed another witch and smiled Another witch, Amusing She sent to the witch and then jumped of her horse to help the group that was in danger.

[RomanAria]

Ame yelped at the mental contact, whirling around to look for whoever must have sent it. A woman was riding in hard on her horse.
She frowned. Who are you? She threw the thought out with her mind, only to "see" it disintegrate. She tried again, and that time she thought it went through.
Aery, as exhausted as she was, nodded weakly in response to the mental message. Rowan probably thought that she was insane, but... Oh well.

[The Slenderman]

Hehe, I see you need a little bit of help, but you need to help me get rogue witches out of the way. She looked at the Group and swirled her hand a little and summoned up a big fireball and let it go towards the guards. "Hey." She said to Aery and smiled at the rest of the group and then gave every one a little bit of Courage

[kalinsovrin]

after a few hours of waiting Shadow shook his head and then walked away to find a place to treat his wounds. he sits down in an ally and starts to wash the wounds out with his water. as he looked over his medicine he felt something in the back of his mind push him towards certain ones. he started to mix them together and soon found that he had a new potion. with one sip he felt his wounds quickly start to heal and the infection in his shoulder quickly burned away. he sat up and then looked around to see if he had more of that medicine. he found he had enough to make 20 doses of this potion. he set on that task and when he was done he put it all into his water flask and chained it around his neck. he fell asleep in the ally after packing up all of his stuff.

when he woke the next day he stood up and started to look over his armor. he again felt his mind clear and saw that he could improve the armor to around 20 time as effective as it currently is. he finds some new metal and melts it down to help fix up his armor and make it stronger.

he spent the rest of the week learning more about the things that he used all the time and he learned a lot more about poisons and things like that. he started to make 4 new swords each one infused with a poison. at the start of his second week alone he started to train himself in hiding and hunting. he then started to hunt down all the info that he would need in his hunt for Kalin. when he had all he would need he set out to find the group that he had been left behind by. he would need them to help him kill Kalin.

Kalin sat down and then looked around. he had been running ever since he found out that Shadow was still alive and was now hunting him. he drew his poison dagger and applied a new coat to it. he then stood up. he had thought about going to try and turn the assassins against Shadow but figure that he would fail and be forced to kill them. so he walked out of the house he had broken into and move off into the city where he could stay hidden for a few weeks.

Shadow sat down in a market store. he had tracked the assassins down and was now just waiting for them to get the message that he had sent them. he had sent a messenger to tell them to meet him in the market to talk about a contract that he needed help with.

[The Slenderman]

Rowan laughed and looked confused to why Aery was nodding randomly "Why are you nodding and What crazy-mage-lady" He looked around and winced as his face was burnt a little bit, It was a moment to be remembered for sure.

[kalinsovrin]

Shadow's messenger located the group and walked up to Rowan and said " I'm here on behalf of the assassin Shadow. he says you know him and that he is looking to meet back up with you. where should i tell him to meet up with you?"

[The Slenderman]

Rowan seen the messenger suddenly approach the group and tensed up, "Tell him to get his ass here" Rowan commanded to the courier and then walked back to the Inn even though it hurt a lot

[kalinsovrin]

the messenger shook his head and then ran back to find shadow and tell him what Rowan had said.

Kalin was on the roof a distance from the inn. he had been watching the group and when someone knew came and talked with the man and took his chance. he tied the note that told the strange woman that was new to the group where to meet him to one of his daggers. the dagger he used was made of solid gold that he had taken from a royal a long time ago. he was careful when he threw the dagger. it would hit the ground away from the whole group but only in the line of sight of this strange woman. if she came to meet him on this roof he would do his best to get her to help him kill Shadow and anyone else in the group that wanted to help the little pest.

[The Slenderman]

Ansel heard a thump somewhere and went to find whatever landed there, She grasped the thing and then read it to herself and thought about betraying Celaena and the group, and then slipped away climbing the roof to see a strange person on the roof.

[kalinsovrin]

"i see that i caught your interest. My name is Kalin and i'm a master assassin. my old apprentice Shadow will soon be arriving here to join those other assassins. He has gone crazy and wants to kill me because he thinks that i had his parents killed. I plan to kill him and any of the assassins that try to help him. I will need help and i know that if i ask them they would just kill me. thats why i asked you since you look to be new to the group. i want to crush them before they can get any stronger and i will do anything to get the help that i need to do this." Kalin said with a smile. he would even become the personal assassin of someone if he could get help from them.

When the messenger told him where to go Shadow gave him 20 gold and then walked away. he arrived at the in soon after and looked at Rowan and the others and said "I'm hunting the assassin Kalin. he had my parents killed and i have evidence. i ask for help in anyway in hunting and killing him. I can give you some of the items that i currently have if you need any of them. i have healing potions and powders if anyone wants them. just don't try to get to me or i will kill you with out hesitation. " Shadow then walked closer and waited for a response form them.

[The Slenderman]

"I'll help, on one condition, I get my place as Queen Of The Western Wastes" She smiled as she turned to the group and waved her hand and they dropped to floor, unconscious, she made it look like they were dead "Ok Done, I will help you from now on.. not them, and i want more gold" She smiled as she said that