''Aelus'' - IC

[Goryokaku]

Azrael chuckled as he heard Hurati fight, he was in to lecture mode Azrael on the other hand was still relaxed, A guard suddenly shot forward and Azrael recognised him as mad Andy, he swung wildly at where Azrael's head was a second of ago and was suprised when he suddenly found his sword was no longer in his hand, but what really got mad Andy was the realisation that a fist had just connected with his jaw, he dropped down to the floor out cold. Azrael dropped Mad Andy's sword to the ground, then suddenly leapt up as another sword tried to slash at his feet, Azrael's foot shot out instinctly connected with the side of the guards head sending him to the ground out cold as well.

It was then that Azrael heard the sound pounding of feet, the Sarge it seems had decided he was capable of taking down Azrael from behind, what the Sarge didn't realise was the man in front of him was already moving to intercept.

[Hurati]

The three remaining guards looked at each other, then the ones on the sides charged. Hurati stood still and sighed, both of the men had decided to sweep low according to their movements and postures. He jumped over their swords while saying, "Know your enemy, but know your ally better." He landed on top of the swords pinning them to the ground. The two guards looked up at him, eyes wide, as he grabbed a side of their heads and bashed them together, knocking them out cold. He watched them fall over and grinned at the last guard, "Herman?! When did they let you out of training?" Herman just shrugged, "After a good lecture on how not to lose to you." he replied with a smile, then dropped his halberd and drew his sword. "I forgot you were even harder to beat with a staff, won't happen again." He coughed, hacked up, then spat to the side, before lunging at Hurati.

[Goryokaku]

Azrael spun around and kicked low and hard, it wasn't often you saw a big man float in the air like that and Azrael's movements were almost like a dance as he drove his fist into the the Sargeants head and slammed him down hard into the ground, the sargents eyes rolled up and he was out cold. A sword slashed down over head at Azrael, but he grabbed the hand holding the sword.

"Take the hand and it becomes easy to disarm, have you not been paying attention to your training?" Azrael didn't give the guard a chance to reply a blow to the side of his head sent him to the ground in a heap. Azrael then turned and looked up at the last guard Azrael grinned, "Jimmy, jimmy, jimmy... did you ever quiet figure out what it was holding you back last time?"

"Yes, sir thank you sir... i didn't realise i advertised my fients so easily, please let me know if i have another issue i need to resolve sir, and it is an honor.." Jimmy was grinning he was a young lad just turned 17 though he was pretty poor he'd proven to be am able fighter and Azrael had taken his time to teach the lad a few times. Jimmy lunged forward, slashing up with his sword.

[Gorbaz]

Halina watched the combat progress, and was wide-eyed in astonishment as the two men started to take down the patrol of guards seemingly without any effort at all. Ducking back down behind the hedge, she reconsidered her earlier thaught - this was not her lucky day. Why'd she have to pick a group of patsies who could beat the snot out of a group of armed guards with nothing but their fists? Becasue she was stupid, that's why.

Hunkering down, she tried to make herself as hard to spot as possible. There wern't any trees to climb, nor walls to vault and rooves to climb on. Just the row of bushes each side of the road. She hoped that the three would just walk on and think that she had continued running down the road, but in the back of her mind she didn't think she would be that lucky

[Hurati]

Hurati spun and felt a slight breeze as the sword passed behind his back. He finished the spin and slapped Herman upside the back of his head, "Don't force yourself into doing one thing, always be prepared to adapt at any moment." Herman cursed silently and turned back to face Hurati. He rolled forward, picking up some dirt in his hand, and came up in a crouch. He threw the dirt towards Hurati's eyes and attempted to stab at his stomach. Hurati brought his hand down, positioning it on the back, flat part, and forced the blade to hit the floor.

Unfortunately this meant allowing the dirt to get into his eyes and he instinctively closed them before any dirt could get in. He was effectively blinded, but not out. "Good idea, if the objective is to win, never fight fair." He back-handed Herman across the face and then stood still. Herman fell backwards, stunned, then clambered to his feet and rushed Hurati with his sword held above his head.

Hurati listened, waiting, until Herman ran close enough and was about to slash downward with his sword. Hurati pivoted and forced his punch into Herman's stomach, snatched the falling blade from the air, and held it to his throat. Herman lay on the ground wheezing and stuttered incoherently. Hurati grinned and stood back up, "Checkmate, better luck next time Herman." He wiped the dirt from his eyes and dropped the sword. Hurati surveyed the area around him, three guards unconscious and two incapacitated. 'Three out, two down. Not bad , he thought. He turned towards Azreal and said, "Feel better?"

[Goryokaku]

Azrael side stepped the slash and watch it sail pass the front of his helmet, he laughed Jimmy had gotten faster it seems, but it was a shame it wasn't enough, "Jimmy, your to far forward, your legs are too wide apart by half a milliemeter and you've left your side open, which means i can do this."

Azrael leg kicked out Jimmy's leg whilst his right hand grabbed jimmy's sword hand and his left hand connected hard into the Jimmy's open side, Jimmy gasped in pain it he held on for a long as he could but in the end he collapsed like the others, it had been a quick fight and not really much of a warm up.

He turned around as Hurati spoke to him, "Yeah, but i think they could have done with at least another 10 men if their falling that quickly their getting sloppy again... perhaps i should inform farther and get him to up the trainnig."

[Lady Foxy]

Carter stood shocked while the seven thieves charged at Claire, one of them landing on top of her. He didn't need nobody to tell him, so he withdraw his small sword, lunging it into the head of the thief. ''Get out of here, I'll handle them.'' He said, as the rest of the thieves charged at him, instead of Claire.

Three thieves were already downed by Balthazar, as the other seven lunged their knifes at her, one managing to land a slash on her arm. The thieves laughed in victory, as she had never been hurt before.

Carter jumped and landed a kick on another thief, before sending a quick 'swish on another one. He didn't look back, as he needed to kill the other six left.

[TheDaughterOfHades14]

Claire was in shock that Carter would still help her. "Carter..." she said quietly. She saw Balthazar get hurt and stared and was in a "what's going on state". She quickly snapped out of it and jumped up, grabbed her halberd and charged in to help Balthazar. "Your hurt, I can handle them" Claire said as she swung her halberd at the nearest thief. "Get out of here!" she yelled. "Carter, you too, they'll kill you for your treason! I can handle them!" Claire shouted as she continued to fight.

[berserkerhorn]

Balthazar was used to the pain and the gash wasn't so deep. That slice woke her up though. being more cautious she cowered with her injured arm behind her shield. ready to block all incoming attacks.

[TheDaughterOfHades14]

(OOC: berserker, don't automatically assume you killed them, I mean Claire's standing right there, she most likely got hit with the dagger or the shield... Please edit =P)

[berserkerhorn]

(OOC: i didn't see your post sorry re-edited it

[Lady Foxy]

Carter ignored Claire, making the thief who he recently kicked stab himself with his knife. ''I never liked you guys anyways.'' He took the knife and threw it into the chest of another one, before lunging his sword into another thief's head and sighing, ''Four left.''

The six remaining thieves saw Balthazar hide with her shield, so they decided to split up. ''Hey! You three get that girl! The rest kill Balthazar!'' The leader shouted from the rooftops, his rapier hanging steadily from his hand. So the three ordered to attack Balthazar jumped on her, slamming her shield with their knifes. The other three charged at Claire, badly failing at any attacks on her.

[TheDaughterOfHades14]

Claire lunged at one of the thieves and attempted to stab him.
(OOC: if she hits win, if she misses, she's back on the ground >_<)

[Lady Foxy]

Claire succeeded, her stab wounding the thief's chest, forcing him to fall, giving him a quick death.

[TheDaughterOfHades14]

"Who's next?" Claire asked the thieves while panting. "I promise it will only hurt for a second..." She said smiling.

[berserkerhorn]

Balthazar strained from all the force put upon her shield.

[TheDaughterOfHades14]

Claire lowered her guard and looked back at Balthazar "You okay?"
(OOC: Oh shit, bad mistake Claire, your gonna get on the ground again XD.)

[Lady Foxy]

The other two thieves stood there gasping, lifting their knifes in anger. ''She's mine!'' The one on the left said, while the right one tripped.

Carter slashed a thief's head off, while throwing his knife into the next thief. ''You guys are pathetic, no wonder I'm the best.'' He mocked them, while doing a Z-formed slash on the knife-thrown thief. Carter raised his small sword, smashing and yanking his sword on the remaining two thieves. With a quick sigh, he turned to Claire, watching her lovely hair.

[TheDaughterOfHades14]

(OOC:

watching her lovely hair.

Aw...)

Claire turned back around and jumped back a bit then charging forward with her halberd. She stabbed the thief in his stomach (hopefully) and panted like she just ran in a marathon.

[Lady Foxy]

The thief who tripped looked up, just to see his friend get killed by the girl with the halberd. ''Timmy! Damn you!'' He tried to get up, but he was stabbed in the back by Carter's small sword. ''I thought you needed help.'' He said gently, while noticing Balthazar's shield was getting hammered by thieves.