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Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

The second man gives Allura a glare for her cockey comment, wiping his nose with his hand as he snorts in stepping towards the pair. "Stand aside boy." The man speaks to Akira wiping his and on his clothes as he does so. "With pleasure." Akira steps back somewhat disgusted by the mans bad habits, he didn't seem to be as heavily under the influence as his companion, for one he didn't wobble when standing in one spot. "heh, this should be good." Akira whispers to Allura as he watches his opponent stretch his arms in some kind of minor exercise before making the throw. "We want to beat these guys sure, but they've got to have the impression that they stand a chance at winning otherwise they won't put much money down on the table." As Akira speaks to Allura he completely misses the mans throw. Doing significantly better then his companion, well it'd be impossible to do worse and remain on the board. He'd made it to the third ring between his friend and Allura's knife, Akira claps in congratulations to the man. "Nice throw, maybe wannabe adventurer was a bit harsh after all."
"Heh, what you scared now, having second thoughts on whether you can beat me."
"Oh yes, definitely, why I certainly feel sorry for any creatures you've hunted with a throwing knife." There was a hint of sarcasm in Akira's voice although it would of been hard to pick up on by these people that had never met him before today.
"You see this is how you lure them in." Akira whispers to Allura. "You butter them up and make them think they're better then they are for the first round.... then you go for the kill." His voice quietened down the closer he got the end of his sentence having move closer with each word.
"Hey! Quit your flirting and get throwing, Hunter." The first man slurred to Akira.

Akira smiles nervously in response to the mans comment as he move to the standing point. "Hey.. you know pretty girl like her I can't help myself from time to time."
"Heh maybe she should be more worried about you then any of these demons you hunt." The second man comments as the two of them laugh together.
Akira keeps himself separated from their joking, or at least tries to in order to avoid further embarrassment to Allura. "Oh trust me, she's certainly worried enough when it comes to me."
"Yeah I bet!" The first man says and their opponents laugh once again.
"Ok! Lets... just play the game shall we?" Akira asks snapping the two of them back to reality. He stands sideways on holding the knife in his left hand as he brings it level to his chest. He tilts his head slightly as he stares at the board, before moving it back to its normal position. He shifts his feet getting in a comfortable, secure standing position. He brings his arm from his side folding it towards his chest until the blade of his knife rested against his armour. Blocking out the noise that was going on in the background he concentrates solely on the target in front of him. Then with a slow soft exhale there is a sharp flinging movement as his arm moves back to his side in line with his chest with some speed, realising the blade at the right moment had it cutting through the air, straight as an arrow. There's a thud as the blade embeds itself in the board, resting neatly atop his most recent opponents knife also in the third ring.

"Hey now, it looks like the apprentice is better then the master on this occasion." One of their opponents comments as the pair laugh to each other.
"Yep, it would appear so." Akira comments back to them. "So that's the warm up round over..." Akira states as he unties his coin pouch from his belt. "What say you we start playing for real. Not just for a reputation under this roof, but the sweet feeling of gold in ones hand?"
The pair look at each other as they turn away from Allura and Akira having another one of their 'private conversations'. "Don't worry." Akira whispers to Allura, "There's no way they'll turn this opportunity down. They probably think you're the only one that poses a threat to them winning. How long you want to drag it out for? Could make some real money on this if we play it right."

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

nah that's alright I already got an idea on when he's going to clarify what he meant :P

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

Akira looks over toward the direction of the noise. A typical game played within taverns, although its players were usually drunk out of their minds and would come close to hurting someone, most of the times themselves every time they played it. He returns Allura's smile before explaining. "In a tavern pretty much anything is normal, order isn't exactly held up in these places as it's more likely to scare away potential patrons." He smiles once more before continuing. "If you want to join in, I won't stop you... just know you won't have to beat them, that won't be a challenge, you'll need to beat me." With that Akira reaches down to his left boot and pulls the hidden blade from its sheath as he brings it up and softly jabs it into the table so that it stands on its own. It was a very common defensive weapon for any hunter or adventurer a dagger hidden within their boots in a sheath that was purposely shaped in when the boots were originally made to keep its identity hidden. "So how about it? Think you can take me down?" Akira asks, though instead of waiting for an answer he stands up resting his hand on the grip of the dagger pulling it from its resting place as he walked over towards the other partakers.

On his way over however Akira comes to abrupt stop as he notices something out of the corner of his eye, he turns to face a board which had paper pinned to it by all different forms of tools and broken weapons, it was a bounty board. His eyes quickly skip across the bounties 1 by 1 and he lets out a sigh of relief when he notices his own was not among them. "They haven't been here then." He mutters to himself as he continues to make his way other. When he makes it to the side of the tavern where the board was the laughing and joking of the other players soon die down upon his arrival.
"What.*hic* whada you want *hic*?" one of the onlookers is the first to speak, fortunately for him, and all the other players it would seem he wasn't take part.
"Me and my... apprentice" Akira speaks as he turns his head to look to Allura who was making her way over. "We'd like to join you all in your game here?"
"Why would we want to play with you?" One of the more sober players asked.
"Because, we're hunters if you want to make some real gold you want to play against us." Akira looks the other players up and down. "Not these... farmhands and... well I don't know what he does for a living, a wannabe adventurer mayhaps?"
"You'd dare insult us in our own town?!" one of the other partakes responds angrily to Akira's minor insult.
"But of course, I have to provide you with some sort of drive to win. Afterall I wouldn't win anything if you walked away after the first game due to a lack of determination."
"Well excuse me mr hunter." One of the players remarks as he prods the corroding studs of Akria's armour. "But you don't look very rich to me in that attire."
"Looks can be deceiving my friend." Akira notices Allura had arrived and puts an arm over her shoulder hugging her towards him. "If I didn't have gold how was I to convince this beautiful young lady to become an apprentice hunter."

The other players turn to look to one another and huddle around as they whisper and exchange words quietly. As they turn away Akira moves his arm away from Allura, as much as it gave him a comforting warmth he didn't want to make her un-comfortable. "Don't worry." Akira whispers to Allura "We've got this one in the bag easily, there's no way they'll back down from this challenge." He passes Allura a cocky smile as he awaits the players to cast their verdict. It was certainly going to prove a most interesting game when it would be down to just the two of them.

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

>.< My bad by family I meant angels, and the shadow slayers. But I can work around it I'm sure Volkran won't mind reminding you at some point :P

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

"I'm sorry to hear that, and to have brought it up." Akira says apologetically upon hearing Allura's story. "It seems we have both have to experience great pain in our past which has put us here in our present." Akira held a strong belief in fate, although that belief wasn't so much his as it had been forced upon him by Volkran, the demons very presence had, overtime, manipulated and warped his personality with regards to certain aspects.
'So now do you understand?' The demon asks the thought swimming in Akira's mind. 'Tragedy merely acts as a magnet for more tragedy, you mortals, well what's left of your mortalities are drawn to one another by your similar pasts.' Akira's lips move as Volkran speaks in his mind though no words are spoken, it was merely a mimicry that sometimes occurred as the body tried to match the mind. Akira snap himself back before looking to Allura. "I'm sorry that we had to be drawn to one another by such horrible circumstances. Although our current predicament welcomes those circumstances back into both our lives." There was a slight pause followed by a small twist in Akira's voice when he follows up with "But without a creature such as me in existence you would both remained oblivious to one another." Volkran spoke quietly so as to not draw attention from the other patrons within the tavern. "Your family draws near... as does his, consider this your lucky day. Due to you... healing his wounds I'll get to have my fun soon enough and therefore I owe you this much."

The demon relinquishes control but Akira was completely oblivious to the fact it just happened as he looks at Allura and just simply asks "What?" It felt as though he was on the receiving end of a cold stare, though what he'd done to deserve it was beyond him. He tries to ignore it as he smiles to Allura changing the subject from the more morbid one they were recently in "We should probably sort you out with some new camping gear after we re-visit the smithy... then I don't know, maybe return to that old woman's house? She'll probably want us staying there, and I'm not surprised, if I stayed here I'd be up all night making sure no one was trying to slit our throats." He looks down before mumbling "What good that'll do 'em." He stretches his arms before picking up the tankard and knocking against Allura's once again "I guess from now we should avoid the past and think only of the now and the future, it'll probably prove more enjoyable." Although a terrible one, he was attempting to liven up the mood between them, to potentially get it to the type of mood that should be experienced. After all, maybe that would bring an end to the staring if people believed for even a moment that they were normal. They'd only believe Akira's story for so long.

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

Sorry that one's a bit short >.< So hard to write lots on a post when it's mainly conversation. lol

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

Akira watches with an almost shocked expression as Allura tries to down the tankard of ale. "Hey, hey, take it easy will you?" Akira asks slightly concerned with how quickly Allura was trying to chug down the drink. As he watches her slowly accept that she wasn't going to drink it all in one go he says. "It's not a race you know? Don't want to be putting yourself in a drunken state the blacksmith won't let you retrieve your staff if you do." Akira shakes his head as he reaches over and rubs Allura's arm after she had finished coughing over her extreme goal. "and... try not let those idiots get to you." Akira states as he looks over at the taverns many patrons "they're just trying to anger you cause they've got no other way of entertaining themselves in their said little worlds of existence."

He passes Allura a warm smile before lifting his tankard from the tankard and taking a long swig of its contents. The drink barely phased him as he lowers the cup back down to its resting spot. The taste was as empty as most things he'd drink now. Just like Allura it wasn't really essential for anything other then keeping the mortal part of him content, Volkran could go weeks without any type of substance to provide energy. As Allura questioned about Akira's past he replies with. "From what I can remember, sort of yes. Up until the days the hunters took me in I used to live with my family in a small house on the outskirts of a town like this. So full of people, they were always rushing around too busy to give anyone else the slightest bit of notice. Had any of them done so, they may have noticed the corruption that ran down its streets darkening its very core." Akira looks down to the table before making eye contact with Allura once more. "Most of my time growing up was spent in the study and training halls of the Hunters guild, I occasionally went out into the town to collect supplies, but outside of that the guild was my world. What about yourself? Surely the part of you that is mortal wasn't a vessel from the day you were born?" Akira asks somewhat as a 'returning the favour' he'd given his answer to the question it now seemed only fair that he knew of Allura's past, if she could remember it that is.

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

Well Akira's is :P you can decide for yourself on Allura's, for Akira it doesn't really matter as Volkran acts as an active block that stops him from getting drunk, unless of course he drinks lots.

Cool I look forward to reading it when I get up tomorrow lol

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

Grr,,, sorry about the time it did to do that, I wanted to do it last night but I was on the road and didn't get in to 10pm :( things are all sorted now, and I mean it this time. ^_^

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

Akira observes the people of the tavern though keeps his head lowered as possible so as not to attract attention to himself. He was essentially scoping the place out. Routes for exits both quick and otherwise, and a general feel for who could be potentially dangerous or threatening. Although after a short inspection it appeared for a change their was no threat to be found. As the woman rushed away Akira returns his attention to Allura. "It's all part of the experience." He says with a smile. "You'll soon be used to this type of atmosphere if you stick it out with me. In fact you'll probably learn to handle hostile situation better then I do. I usually answer any problems I have with other men in places like this with the tip of a sword." He shakes his head at the seriousness of his own comment. "It'll not be a nice time if you have to experience that side of me at any time. I suppose the only time you've known me to be violent is when I'm not in control." He soon quietens down after he'd finished what he was saying, right up until Allura spoke again.

"What we do here? Well..." Akira says with a smile. "These places are the best places to gather information... usually, when they're not just filled with drunkards that is. My gold is betting this merchant paying people to go into the catacombs will be in one of these taverns and seeing as neither of us have any real legal way of making money for our travels, it's probably our best bet. On this occasion though it would seem we're just here to drink ale." Akira quickly gazes round before continuing. "Of course there are... other activities people get up to in places like this, gambling for example. Playing with lady luck is always a chosen form of entertainment for the drunk."

Akira finally concludes "Though on this occasion it's probably best that we just sit here together, so that you can get a feel for the place." Upon finishing the woman was returning with their drinks as she slides Allura's drink over first before handing Akira's his. She stands by the table as Akira fumbles with his coin pouch for the required gold before handing it her "and not one piece more, as promised." He states as the woman cups her hand over the gold pieces passes the pair a forced smile and walks away. Akira lifts his tankard holding over towards Allura's side of the table. "Well... cheers" he says spiritedly with a wink.