Reim Empire

Fudo was no longer concerned with why this boy was with Bakura and Nasira. In fact, his only concern was their whereabouts and well being at this point. As they drew closer to the palace, Fudo set his eyes upon it, and the red-haired boy gave a warning that he would be lost to their sight after entering the palace. "That's funny," he said in response while continuing past the eastern wall, truly taking a path to the front gates. "I lost sight of you a long time ago." True enough, Fudo had developed a one-track mind over the course of their journey to the palace. In approaching the gates, he was held up by the front guards, who were now disallowing the entry of anyone bar the previously discussed 'representative' after receiving word of an intrusion. "Spirit of Politeness and Austerity, come forth. Amon!" In drawing his sword, Fudo called forth Amon's flames, as well as his Djinn Weapon Equip. The fires produced by this act were enough to clear a path between the guards, and give him room to cut his way through the entrance with Amon's sword. This, of course, alerted other guards from within the palace of another intrusion, prompting many to swarm the front gate.

It seemed that straight through the front door had been literal, as Fudo headed around front and cleared the entrance with the awaking of Amon and his own Weapon Equip. Yasmin followed suit, though she hadn't gotten an answer to her question, she could accept that assassin's weren't meant to be seen, and take the young man at his word that no harm would come to them from him. After Fudo cleared the first wave with fire Yasmin's own weapon equip was produced in the form of a long pole arm with a spiked feathered tip. As she approached a swift swing of her weapon produced a myriad of minor tornados which moved through flames and spread them about the front court yard much to the dismay of the guards in the area. All of this chaos was caused as Yasmin continued on her way forward intending simply to enter the palace without much thought of what she would do within.

While this happened... the red haired young man moved through the guards, unnoticed due to the grand entrance created at the front by the two dungeon capturers. The few he came across who were in reach but not interested in him, were killed swiftly with the rope darts attached to his hands. As he slipped into the castle he seemed content to follow the path Yasmin was creating. 'I intended to use these two as a distraction. But it seems they are capable enough on their own... I'll just figure out where the other two are.' he thought as he moved about. Inside the palace a dark haired woman with red eyes and draped in a large cloak stirred in the room she was in. She looked towards the door at things normally unseen by people. "Oh?"

The encroaching guards were no concern of Fudo's. At this point, they were nothing more than a nuisance. He continued producing flames in large quantities to fend them off, with said flames spreading in all directions from his person. "You have two people captive here!" he called out to the inhabitants of the palace. "Bring them to us now!"

Meanwhile, in one of the palace's dungeon quarters, Bakura was chained to a wall. An interrogation took place where his inquirer sought information about some place called Artemyra, refusing to believe that these two had not come from such a location. "Dick... I keep tellin' ya, I don't know what that place is!" Bakura said while blood dripped from his mouth. This prompted the interrogator to move on to the next torture item: A wooden bat with barbed wire wrapped around it. The man performed a few test swings with this item, before ultimately approaching Bakura to repeat his question one final time.

Yasmin stopped at the front waiting in fact. Since Fudo had called out she wanted to see if his demands would be met. Instead of guards or someone else coming out to negotiate the trade of their friends. She was still simply brushing aside any unnecessary people on her way in.

Meanwhile the woman dressed in black headed towards the outside speaking to a man as she did. "Sorio, it seems you haven't done your job properly... I hate to get involved with such things, but I can't let someone like this slip away~" the woman mentioned her voice chiming as she began to move towards the entrance of the palace. She'd walk down the hall towards the commotion and as she did a little redhead boy slipped past her. He was completely outside of her line of vision as he headed towards what he assumed to be a dungeon which is where he figured the pair of youngsters was being kept and he arrived inside of the torture chamber in time to see Bakura and Nasira both chained to a wall and the boy looking particularly beat up. Nasira had blank eyes as she moved against the wall. The small boy walked behind the torturer his footsteps light as he waited for what would be the proper moment to kill this individual. And he'd be unnoticed by most present, though if one looked around the man swinging the baseball bat, they'd see this unassuming young man, with a blank fierceness in his eyes as he decided the proper moment to kill the man and free the pair.

"Haven't I? This is exactly what we need, my dear Magi," said the man atop the throne. He chose to simply stay behind as this woman went to meet this new set of intruders. Fudo was receiving no responses to his demand, yet the guards were all backing away from the pair of Dungeon Capturers.

Meanwhile, the interrogator reached Bakura, bat in hand. "Last chance, kid. No... I don't expect you to tell me shit. But you," he said, looking toward Nasira. "I heard you jumped in to save this brat. Tell me who sent you, and I won't bash your face in like this." With that said, he thought to use the white-haired lad as a threat. Looking the boy's way again, he pulled back the bat. 'I've got that weird feeling again...' Bakura thought. Remembering what happened the last time he had this feeling, a grin crossed his face. Before the man could swing his bat, Bakura spat blood in his face, making the man take pause. "Do it."

A laugh escaped this woman as she began to descend the steps. Each step brought black Rukh from the woman as she finally made her way outside. The guards had already backed away, it was after all very obvious that they couldn't handle what was before them. "Oh what's this? Two Dungeon Capturers with fates entwined and convictions so strong~" she said her red eyes darting across them and their Rukh as she pulled from her side. "Why don't you be a good little pair and come to me. If you join us, I'll give you back your friends." she said but everything about this gave Yasmin a ominous feeling. The pink haired girl stood to the right of this woman a great distance off but equally far away from Fudo which was a bit perplexing.

Meanwhile Nasira's eyes darted across this torturer as he mentioned a threat which included Bakura. Nasira was a lot of things, but she wasn't a coward, and she had no such odd feelings. "You'd have better luck trying to beat it out of me... and it wouldn't change the answer." she mentioned with a lack of emotion. Of course right after she said this, Bakura spit blood in the face of their captor for some unknown reason. And when this happened the man who was standing suddenly in their face, would rather oddly have a rope dart pierce through his eye and then disappear. Assuming he could do nothing to dodge the speedy attack he would be dead instantaneously and the small red haired boy they'd found in their tunnel would be right behind him. "Hm, I didn't know you could see me. That's odd." the boy said of Bakura. Casually stepping over the body to retrieve the keys which would free the pair from the wall. "Your friends are making a lot of commotion up front. We should be wanting to exit this place as quickly as possible." he said as he unlocked both of their shackles.

Though Fudo cared not for the guards that were backing away. However, he was quite wary of this woman who approached, and he looked unto her with narrowed eyes. The offer this woman made was one that Fudo could only consider ridiculous. "Join you to get our friends back? Surely you jest. It's good to know they're still alive, though. Good for you." With that said, Fudo began walking forward, intending to pass this woman just as he'd passed the initial guards, keeping up his torrent of flames. "Out of the way. I'll get them myself."

Bakura's hunch was correct. Before the interrogator was able to hit him, he stopped in his tracks and fell to the floor, forming a puddle of his own blood where he landed. This brought the red-haired boy into view, and resulted in a mighty sigh of relief from Bakura. "Whew! I'm glad I was right about you being around somewhere. I thought I was a goner!" When he was finally released from the chains, Bakura rubbed his wrists to ward away the remaining feeling from the cuffs. Knowing that his group of companions was around brought another grin to the lad's face. "They're here, but you wanna get out? We could go wild, y'know. Deal with all our problems right now."

"Oh, stop it now. You can't do anything I don't allow." said the woman. As she pointed towards the young man and his pink haired female companion. She made use of Gravity Magic which would cause the pair of them to be pulled towards each other and stop their movements a distance off from herself, it would also extinguish the flames through the force of her will, or rather simply by her giving the Rukh a command which would make them stop. If successful in this she'd create a ball of Light Magic in her hand, causing multiples of herself to appear around them. "Temper, temper. Future Kings are supposed to be more reserved than that." mentioned the woman who seemed nothing but amused by this entire situation. Still, it was going to be a bit of a pain to deal with her and Yasmin didn't like what was going on here.

"Oh, so you can't see me then. Hm... still." the boy said seemingly fine with this but finding the boy to be strange all together. "You'd make an interesting assassin." he said finally moving right along, with Nasira freed and now on the ground the girl was hopping in place and rotating her shoulders getting read to move right along. She also agreed with Bakura and this made the red haired boy sigh. "All of you are way too brash. There is a Magi here, and not one of the ones who travels with you. If you all don't escape here... you will likely just be recaptured. And I really don't want that." said the boy who for some unknown reason was rather invested in this group's well being. Nasira thought about it and began moving towards the front. "We should at least check on Fudo and Yasmin. Magi shouldn't be fought against."

"Beg pardon?" Fudo said in response to the woman's claim. Immediately thereafter, he felt himself being pulled toward the rear. As he worked to resist this, he looked behind him to see where he would be headed. It seemed this spell was aimed to pull Yasmin and himself together. Realizing this, he disabled his Djinn Weapon Equip and allowed himself to move freely by the Gravity Magic's will, turning toward Yasmin as he did. His own weapon was sheathed in the process, but Fudo had a plan in mind. "Reserved Kings are fools. A true King should put everything he has on the table. The good... the bad... chaos." It was Fudo's intention in this moment to crash into Yasmin, but with a hand open to grab hold of her Metal Vessel without necessarily taking it from her. Once his hand was upon it, he began speaking directly into Yasmin's face, keeping as silent as possible as to avoid the ear of the enemy. "Spirit of Maniacal Love and Chaos, we order thine ancestors..."

Bakura had taken to inspecting the other young man closely, poking at his torso. He found this lad strange due to the fact that he could avoid sight and sense while being in the same room as someone. 'Assassin?' he thought. Standing upright, he looked the redhead in the eye, his own eyes blinking in constant confusion. "Who are you?"

"Oh?" this woman seemed confused by what this young man said, but obviously Yasmin wasn't. Smart enough that she caught up to the apparent idea that Fudo had without any hesitation once they were occupying the same space with his hand on her weapon she finished the invocation of the power of her chosen Djinn. "To use our Magoi and give us power. Come out, Paimon." this was said outside the earshot of the woman who was now cloned around them. Of course, what would happen next would be very odd. The combination of Yasmin and Fudo's Magoi would cause a great disruption across the country of Reim the likes of which hadn't been sensed before. Doing what they had would cause both individuals to wear the Djinn Equip of Paimon the white robes and armor and slightly feathered bodies. "What on earth is this?"

Meanwhile within the castle, the red haired boy found himself being inspected by Bakura. "I'm Tetsuya." he said with no further explanation necessary. He knew this was a girl who couldn't really figure out what this boy was doing here. "So... an Assassin has been trailing us, and the only question you have is who he is..." this was Nasira as she poked her head out of the door to see if there was anything she should be worried about.

In a completely different space, Shula was with Shadiya and Malik and became immediately distracted by the change in the Magoi. In fact her eyes widened completely as she stared off into the distance and tried to figure out what it could have been. Samiya who was also in Reim somewhere with Ali also looked in the direction this shifted Magoi was coming from her brows drawn together in confusion.