Dante stopped mid step to observe the bridge to determine whether or not it would be safe to walk, Either way, he ignored if it were to be dangerous or not. However the most added an eerie aura surround anyone who comes close to it. Dante ignoring his anxiety of the mist he began to walk across the bridge. The Mist seemed to grow thicker as he start walking deeper and deeper. He wasn't afraid he was more so on edge it anything were to come.

He stopped at the center of the bridge as it was beginning to get harder to see, he could barely see his feet at the current length he had traveled. Luckily his determination wasn't inaccurate otherwise he would have fallen through the bridge already. It could only support one persons weight it would seem. But he could see why, You're practically blinded and it gets harder to breathe.

"Peculiar, I've never experienced something quite like this before, The mist here seems to go with your body movements and even exactly flow trough the open areas if your arms and legs." he speculated silently to himself.

Tye yawned, Like the child he was it was a soft yawn, He stretched his arms and legs to wake up, and felt re energized for the day. He jumped up out of the bed and was relatively playful, he started to run towards Tye and jumped onto him, slightly launching him back. He was finally more comfortable with everyone and he would begin to stutter less.

"Are we going where that big spooky messenger ghost told us too?"

Tyrcestus recovered and stood up, grinning, Tye firmly lodged on his back.
"Yep. Sounds fun, right?"
He looked at Trinity, a little concerned.
"You ok?"

A shape loomed out of the mist ahead of Dante, an armed warrior of some kind, a long blade scraping the wooden planks of the bridge. Without a word, the figure raised it's arm and slashed the air - a clear challenge. The mist made it impossible to see the face of his adversary.

As celestine spoke, sean remembered that she was still there with him.
" you know, you guys sure do pick the right times for this kind of things, and to answer your question celestine, he's another lightning ninja just like be but only he's been exiled."

the assassin launched his attack strait at sean, and with quick reflexes caught the lightning in his palm and redirected it towards his opponent. in one swift move sean had defeated the lone assassin that was arrogant as well.

" I was taught the basics before the more advanced stuff, unlike you who seems like have only payed attention to your strength."
He started to walk away from the assassin towards the trade outpost, putting his throwing knife and sheathing his dagger as he looked back at his opponet.
" I have more importaint matters to attend to so tell your master to train his men better if they want to fight me."
And with that he motioned for celstene to come with him to the Ashforth trading company's trading post.  

the assassin just lied there and stared up at the sky, which was growing darker as the sun came down, shocked to see how far he's become.

wh-why that little...
he got up and faced Sean and Celstine, readying another attack.
"I am not letting you off that easily!"

The ninja assassin sent one last lighting bolt at sean in a last attempt to take him down.

Sean sensed the bolt coming and quickly turned around, catching it and redirecting it towards the exiled ninja.
"what pat of 'I have no time' and 'I've been taught how to control myself more' don't you understand?"
the bolt hit the ninja and sent him flying down the street, right into the harbor.

" Okay, now that he's taken care of, shall we talk about what we should do next over a meal at the trading company? I forgot to mention that there is a small inn there. I think I might owe you an explanation for what just happened..."

Dante felt the velocity of the wind from the sword,he almost immediately jumped back, as lightly as he possibly could. He tried to catch a glimpse of the mysterious fighter, but to no avail, he couldn't see through the mist. However, Dante didn't want to spawn a weapon just yet. He wanted to see how he would have to fight.

He gazed into the mist, and waited for its next move.

"YEAH!!"

Tye screamed with great enthusiasm into tys ear, he was a child and had no concept of what he was doing.

"We're going to kick everythings butt and save the world!"

"Ow. Sounds. Like. A plan."

Tyrcestus swayed a little, but nodded smiling.
"Yep. Saving the world. Should be fun."
He led Trinity and Tye downstairs to where Hexy was waiting impatiently, and the three set out towards the beacon of light.

They had not passed far into the forest when Hexy started complaining that her feet were sore, so Tyrcestus patiently responded she had a broomstick.

After Hexy had ridden on the broomstick for some way, she started complaining her lady parts were sore.

In the end, Tyrcestus now was not only piggy-backing Tye, but also carrying Hexy in his arms - who complained every time he nearly fell over because she would wriggle, trying to get more comfortable.

"Don't you have any cushions or anything?"
"Uhh... no... not really..."

Hexy stroked Tyrcestus's muscles.
"You're actually pretty ripped... me-ow..." she smirked, and shot Trinity a mean look. Tyrcestus was too busy stepping over a tree root to notice.
"How is everyone holding up?"

The figure raised it's blade and stepped forwards suddenly, the blade making several lashing motions towards Dante's head, a scything assault that would decapitate him if he did not react.

"Ty, Why does that lady complain so much and force you to do things? Is she your girlfriend or something, because if so, I think she is pretty dumb, and annoying, plus she is ruining my piggy back ride."

Tye stuck his tongue out down towards Hexy and made a funny face. As he nuzzled into Ty to have some sort of protection from her if she were to lash out while he was carrying her.

Dante ducked when the barrage of cuts were coming towards him. While he was low, he spawned a ram and drove it into the stomach of the figure that was in front of him. While the figure was low he walked in a bit more and grabbed a hold of what felt like a helmet, he ripped it off and threw it off the bridge. Giving him no facial defense.

After doing so he evaded backwards again in case an attack was coming back at him.

Tyrcestus blushed and looked down at Hexy.
"She is not..."

Hexy instantly looked furious and Tyrcestus cringed hard.
"WHY NOT?! What's wrong with me? I'm pretty!"
Then she glared up at Tye and flailed at him, accidentally punching Tyrcestus in the chin.
"Ow..."

"You little brat! I oughta... I oughta... hmmmph!"
She folded her arms and wriggled again.

A bead of sweat, from the stress of taking care of Hexy and Tye simultaneously, rolled down Tyrcestus's forehead, and his muscles were starting to shake from the strain.
"If you could stop wriggling I'd really appreciate it," he said with a forced politeness.
"And I'll be fine, according to a map I once read there should be a stream up ahead a while, we'll rest there."
He almost fell again, earning another uncomfortable wriggle.
"If - ow - that's ok with you, of course..."

The figure staggered back.
Then, using it's momentum to unleash a powerful forward stab, it swayed back and lunged about ten feet forward, driving Dante back towards the bridge's center, the width of the bridge leaving Dante no room to avoid the attack.
The blade was aimed expertly right between Dante's eyes...

By the time Dante had noticed the blade coming towards him it was too late. It was embedded right between his eyes, almost puncturing the skull, Dante was dizzy, and everything was blurring around him. He fell to his knees in defeat or so it seemed. He puked, he hadnt much choice, The world was spinning to him. However he would wait for his opponents next move so he thought that he would finish bim off. He only had one shot at his attempt, if he were to fail, he would die.

Once he fell, the blade was already in his advesaries hand, and blood began to trickle down dantes face and the blade at a rapid rate. He could heal himself, just not at the moment. With the little bit of clear vision Dante did have, he placed his hands on the bridges planks, he would rely heavily on hearing for his counterattack. Though already questioning how he survived the cracking of his skull was beyond him.

"Not here, Not now. I cannot die, I cannot lose to a soul so weak as he is." Dante thought to himself. And realized, "The fog!" he thought. "If I could use it to my advantage!"


Tye was sticking his tongue out at hexy, as she hit Ty. He wasn't scared instead he continued to antagonize.

"If her lady bits hurt so much, maybe she should stop sitting on the broom handle."

Tye was already ducking in case Hexy would try to hit her again. It's not that he didn't like Hexy, she was just ruining his time with his new friend. And well, his only friend. He never had any relationship with anyone up until this point. Which bothered him, he just always wanted a family.

Before Hexy could utter the scathing retort she had planned, they reached the river.
"Finally! Eyaaaaah..."

She promptly moved herself out of Tyrcestus's grip and relaxed in the river, steadily undressing.
"Ahh..."

Tyrcestus gently placed Tye down and almost cricked out his spine standing up.
"Aaaaagh... I would advise you have a rest too, Trinity. I'm just going to take a quick look around before I settle down... ow... make sure we're not disturbed... eesh..."

The figure cocked it's head.
It lightly cut into Dante's shoulder, as if to provoke a reaction. Then, it stepped back to try and avoid any potential surprise moves, then struck with a stab aimed at the head yet again...

The shoulder cut barely did anything. It didn't even provoke him, he realized his chance once he backed up, knowing that he would run forward, he simply focused his energy into taking out 8 planks, It was enough to escape but it is what he wanted.

Focusing his energy again, he spawned a 4 foot blade, and weilded it anticipating the figure to move toward, Dante stood up and lunged forward, the cut was at the neck area, if landed it would behead the opposing force. Dante landed on a destroyed area, with barely any energy left, he created a small invisible field for him to land on, he fell to his knees again rendered defenseless.


tye sat down in a pile of dirt waiting for something to happen.

"I'll survive, Trinity. You get some rest yourself, you must be tired from all that walking," Tyrcestus smiled kindly.
"I'm going to just make sure no-one's perving on you two whilst you bathe...wouldn't be appropriate and
He started ambling around to check their surroundings. "Go on, bathe. Your rest is more important than mine, end of discussion."

The figure let out a "Gaahk" noise and a light spray of blood flew onto the bridge, staining the old wood.
Then it just back-flipped over and over until it was completely out of sight, leaving Dante completely alone on the bridge, the only evidence of their duel the blood staining the bridge...

As they arrived at the outpost, a huge man met with Sean.
"hey, we've been waiting for you. have you literally been away long enough to have forgotten how to do buisness properly?"

"I ran into sone trouble while leaving the port, but I took care of it. so do you like what I brought back?"

"why of course, who knew you could have found such fine of quality goods. just like your father...."

after some time both sean and Celestine where sitting down at a table finishing up a meal.

"So, why did you smuggle yourself onto that ship anyways? did you want to go on an adventure or just wanted to get away from somewhere?

Tyrcestus sighed, rolling his eyes.
"Don't be afraid of the water, Trinity. It won't hurt you." He saw her trying to play with Tye and laughed. "Someone's looking for attention..."

It won't hurt her? I will, thought Hexy to herself and couldn't stifle a giggle.

There was a rustling in the leaves, and Tyrcestus whipped round.
"Who's there? Show yourself."

The leaves rustled again and... something stepped out.

It was squat, maybe about four and a half feet tall. It was compact though, with a torso that resembled an egg from what looked like fat. It's arms were nothing but muscle though, as it carried what looked like the mossy stump of a tree, complete with roots at the tip, as a club. It was alarmingly blue, but as you looked down the body it turned yellow starting in a sort of stubble around the waist. It had large quirking ears, little black eyes and it wore a surprisingly well kept loincloth.
What Tyrcestus was most concerned about, was the fact it was a troll.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!" it suddenly yelled, running at them and shaking it's club...

Tyrcestus promptly hurled his coat at the oncoming troll in an attempt to distract it.

The troll promptly laughed.
"Sweet! Thanks, nice coat!"
It then took the coat and started to wander off.

"Wha-? HEY, DON'T TAKE MY COAT!"
Tyrcestus instantly ran after him, more indignant than anything.
The troll turned.
"Oh bugger-"

Then Fweep started furiously smacking the troll around the head, led by a furious Hexy who was covering her chest as best she could.
"PERVERT PERVERT PERVERT!!" she screeched, Fweep whacking for all it was worth.

"Ow- hey - cut it out would you!?"

While the troll was distracted, Tyrcestus nicked his coat back and tripped it up.

The troll glared up at him.
Then it's eyes glowed, and Tyrcestus stepped back.
"Oh crap-"

The troll got up with glowing eyes, dusting itself down.
"Right. Riddle time."

Tyrcestus, Trinity, Tye and Hexy suddenly found themselves all unable to move. The troll spoke.

"I'm as big as an elephant, but weigh less than a feather."
He grinned.
"What am I?"

Tyrcestus forced himself to turn to Trinity, struggling against the magic binding him.
"Trinity... Tye... any ideas...?"