Jalek walked thruogh the forest as quietly as he could, nearly making no noise, sticking to stepping on dirt and watching where he placed his feet. He had his sword in hand. He was hired to kill one of the bandit leaders. Except, no one hired him, this was on his own accord. He krept up under one of the lookout towers that bandits have in the forest, just before thier encampment, without being seen.

He climbed to the top and killed the two bandits at the top without being noticed by others. They went silently. He grabbed the oculars from the stand and looked, the bandits were organizing a raid on Kellen, he had to stop them before they began. He heard noise coming from the south, from where he had come from.

"How could these slobs have stolen something from the Academy of Magic of of all Places," Ace thought to himself as he passed by the watched towers causually. He wore his White cloak whick and black strips fanshioned look like strands of a large speider web. Braco and bruno were on either side of his shoulder. "Could it be the fact that you dn't have a good enough staff?" Draco sent to Ace's mind. "Shouldn't some guards have come out or something... This is pathetic" Ace thought as helooked around. "Prehaps they are having some important meeting, or maybe out for the time being, in any case I will have an easy job," Ace thought as he contued into the camp. He could have been sleathy with his entrance, but he had no intention of doing so even before he found out about the lack of security.

Jalek sensed that the man before him had no evil intentions, so he decided to get his attention in a way. Jalek looked at the bodies before him, the bandits that he had killed. He sheathed his sword and grabbed one, he looked through it's clothing to see if it had any sort of noise maker. It didn't and he conitnued onto the next. Jalek found a small firecracker on this one, but nothing to light it. He looked around for the somthing to light it, trying to make as little noise as he could.

Ahah! Alas, he had an idea. He slowly took a lense from the oculas, and held it into the sunlight. A small solar beem shoot into the wood, making the wood slowly burn and smoke. He took the fuse of the cracker and held it under the solar beam, it sparked and began to flare.

Jalek tossed the cracker down to the feet of the man and watched it explode.

Ace saw the fircracker fall in front of him and explode. "Is that the best these guys can do to defend themselves! Prehaps I have the wrong camp," Ace thought as he stared at the cracker. after Staring at in in disbelief for a few seconds he turned his head to see who or what had throw it. He looked up to see Jalek watching him. He was dressed as a bandit, but bandits never had much of a uniform. Ace looked at the man with a silent gaze. If he threw another cracker a him Ace would be sure that it would not be the only thing to explode. Draco was pleased at another chance to use his powers. Draco began to trail through Jalek's surface thoughts.

Jalek felt another presence in his mind, so he cleared his mind, and thought 'And you are? Are you the man I am looking at, are you who is in my mind?'

'Your petty mind reading is doing no good. I am no bandit, I am here to kill those who stole from me, and get back what is rightfully mine. What is your name?' Jalek proclaimed.

Draco was furious first at the fact that he was detected and even more so as Jalek called his work 'petty mind reading' "I'll show him petty," Draco thought to himself with a wide grin. he would have to wait for an oppurtune time, but Draco was now fixed on showing him the meaning of petty. Ace needed no telepathic bond to tell Draco's thoughts as he listened to Jalek's words. Ace gave smiled," You ask for my name yet, don't give your own, but I could varily careless so I'll introduce myself. I am Master Ace. Who are you?"

'Hell, that's what ther world is coming to once arrogance starts overwhelming people so much that they name themselve's such things as Master. My name Jalek, and don't try anything, I can sense your motives, I'm not stupid.' Those were the words that Jalek said to Master Ace. Jalek lept from the tower and onto the ground. He stood before Master Ace ready for his motives to kick in. He listened to the air. Perhaps the firecracker hadn't been such a good idea, not only did he now have to fight Master Ace, if he decided to persue his motives, but about one hundred bandits as well, but not for a few moments for the bandits.

"Is he trying to get to the bndit or just looking for a fight? First he insults Draco and now me. That is a well earned title, although I addmit having it before truly earning it. In any case he is a too be handled later. It appears as though this dump isn't vacant afterall," Master ace thought as he ried to maitain a smile. Jalek tell that Ace wasn't precisely pleased with his words even without the ablity to sense motive. Ace turned to where the bandits were coming from and drew his dagger out with his tail. Bruno lept off of Ace's shoulder and waited on the ground.

Jalek drew his sword and held it in two hands. He ran off into the brush, around the other side of the encampment and waited. He saw that all the bandits where on the north side, where Ace was. So Jalek ran into the encampment. He took a torch into his hand and threw it into the main tent, the tent of the leader, he took another and set the towers on fire.

He set almost every tent on fire before the bandits noticed. A few ran towards Jalek, striking at him, he dodged to the side, and countered, through thier necks. He sliced at them, and ran in behind the crown that was attacking Ace. He bagan striking them down, killing them.

"Please tell me we're at the wrong place. this is just plainly too easy and they are just plainly too dumb and..... The Fool is now BURNING the tents. When I get my hands on him I'm ging to ring his neck. The book is most likely IN one of those tents," Ace thought as he looked around at the charging force and then at Jalek burning the tents. Ace flew up in to the air and casted summon rain. coulds began to appear overhead. They grew darker and larger, before finally releasing a downpour of rain. "Water damage is much easier to fix than burn pages," Ace thought as he turned his attentio back to the bandits. Draco was using telekinesis to cuase the arrows shot at them to veer off course. Bruno had polymorhed into a 10 foot tall green biped dragon and was now swiping at the retreating force thatonce to eager to charge into battle.

Jalek had found something in one of the tents that he had kept hidden in his pack. He didn't want it seen, he didn't want Ace to know what was written in it's pages, so he whiped it from his thought, well, he tried, he constantly thought about it, checking his pack to make sure it was still there. He continued fighting, he felt water on his head. Not water, he needed everything else other than the item burnt. If the items in the tents were saved, they could be teleported from the site. he quickly began to throw bodies over the fires. The bodies kept the flame under them burning, burning artifacts and items, and the rain above them from getting in.

'Like I said, petty...' he thought to himself.

(you said there were a lot of Bandit's If your dooing all of that do you think that you would get a few good cuts or sratches. When you relentlessly slaughter large groups of creatures or in this case bandits, while doing several other actions and you come out unharmed , we call that godmoding. If you want to be one of an of the god's chosen then start small act as if your character is level one on some rpg game. She appreciates people who show that their character is not a god and rarely preforms epic feats such as single handedly handling the Bandits that came your way. Given that you are throwing dead bodies i'm guessing they are all dead.)

After Bruno finished with the few brave bandits who accually had the nerve to fight him, He looked over to Jalek. he saw Ace making his way over there and did like wise. After summoning the rain, Ace had casted cause fear to make even more of the bandits run fro Bruno. He then casted stun on the few who had resisted the urge to run. Ace turned his head to see Jalek throwing bodies over the tents. "Now would be a good time to Handle him," Ace Thought to himself. Draco was pleased that Ace would for once alllow him to use Jalek's mind as a fun new toy. Ace flew over to Jalek and hovered just out of the Range of Jalek's blade. "WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING?" Ace yelled at Jalek.

(OOC: I killed only like seven or eight, not large groups, and I threw them on the tents after I killed the seven or eight, sorry if I was misleading...)

'I've got what I've come for, and now I must burn what is left, I got these orders from the goddess of night herself. Don't fight me, you are half Urulóki. I am a dragon mage, also half Urulóki, if I must, I can control the Urulóki kinds. Don't test me dragon!' he said to Ace. He was speaking as loudly as he could, over the crackling fire.

(very misleading)

"It seems as though a You can either wait till I am done with I came here for or I will have to deal with you myself," Ace yelled over the rain and fire. "Another half-dragon who doesn't look it at all. If only my mother could see. Dragon mage or not I don't think he can control me, sometimes even I can't control myself. All this over a stupid book. Why does he insist on making this difficult," Ace thougth to him self as he stared at Jalek. Ace's hair, scales, and eyes slowly changed from green to purple. Draco quickly began running through Jalek's thoughts. Wondering how true his words were and what his task was. Bruno stared at Jalek and waited for a command from Draco or Ace.

He walked around, picked up the several bodies off of the tent and let the rain smother the flames, he kept one torch lit though, under a tree, he needed it for when Ace had finished.
He looked at the other Urulóki and said, 'Then commense... What are you looking for? I've already got what I need here... I am sorry, Laoura did not want me to tell anyone about it's existence.'

With a sigh of releif Ace landed to the ground. Part of him wanted to fight Jalek and teach him to watch his mouth, but Ace put it aside for now. He had a job to do and would not be pleased with his own failure. "A bok that was stolen from the Academy, " Ace replied as he began to search the tent that Jalek had taken the bodies off of. Draco and Bruno helped Ace search. Not to long after they had begun they were disturbed by a loud deep voice. the owner of the voice was a darkly dressed Human riding a horse- sized black dragon. The Dragon had a black helmet which gave him an additonal pair of horns. "So that's it! I was hoping you guys would tear each other apart or something. You aren't going to find what you are looking for here, Ace. And Jalek, Do you think you would accuire your items so easily? I have both. If you want them, you have to prove to me you can put up a good fight. This whole thing was a set up so I could test your strengths. Are you guys ready? Or are the to Half-dragons going two prove your other half is chicken?"

Ace quickly stood up and asked, "Who are you and how do you know our names?" Draco was trying his best to enter the mind of the dragon or the human but could access neither. Bruno simply stared blankly at the human riding the black dragon.

He looked at the man on the small dragon. He decided to have a little fun. His eyes went white and he pointed at the dragon that the man was riding. 'I will not have infadels such as yourself riding my kind! He had the dragon turn on it's rider. 'That and I already have what I'm looking for, right here at my side'

Jalek then told the dragon that was attacking it's rider, not to hurt him, Jalek didn't feel like fighting through arrest, this man looked like a city guard.

"That would be very immpressive if he weren't told to do that. It is I hat am playing with you. I know of your strengths. How sure are you that what you have at your side is what you are looking for and not a false copy. My name shall be none and feared by both of you in due time, but for now I shall do you no harm. In any case calling me an infedel and all I suposse you must be ready," The human laughed as he resumed his postion on the dragon. An Iron golem teloported in front of the human. The golem had it's back facing Ace and Jalek. The dragon walked up to the golem and the Human placed a purple orb inside a slot in the chest of the golem. "@#&#@, Peice of @#@&*@... oh wait it's working," the human said as he stared at the Golem oddly. Orb slid down a tube and then the opening was closed off. the Golem twirled around, and Stared at Ace and Jalek with purple glowing eyes.

Ace looked to Draco and Bruno only to see that they seemed paralyzed. Ace couldn't even sense his telepathic bond with Draco. He quickly turned back to the human and opened his mouth to speak, but his question was answered before he could ask. "I Didn't want you to have too much outside help," The human laughed as the black dragon began to walk backwards. The Golem held up both hands and two demon appeared on either side of him. The Golem and The demon's began to move towards Ace and Jalek.

Jalek began to sing loudly, a Dragon Song, he was calling all the dragons in the area. About eight or so. They were large and ready to charge. They landed on the ground and waited for thier signal from Jalek to attack. Jalek formed into his dragon self, just a bit smaller than the rest. He spoke to ace...

'Ace! Make yourself a dragon if you can! We'll need the help now that Draco and Bruno are down for the count. Urulóki attack now.' jalek flew into the air, being a white dragon, he had the ability to throw snow and ice, with a little bit of water from his lungs into his enemies. He blasted ice bolts at the demons, and froze the golem.

'Break a hole in the golem and remove the disc, then destroy it, the disc is purple.' he said to the other Urulóki. The other dragons were attacking the demons, while the golem was left to Jalek and Ace.

(Eight you'd be lucky to have one, but oh well.) "I thought you might try something stupid. But if you wish to complicated the fight then so be it. Garlet do your work," the human same almost laughing. The black dragon began to sing with a lovely femanine voice. The Dragons had to tear one of the demons to shreads before hearing The other dragons Jalek had called, stopped and turned heads to looked at him with menacing eyes. They attacked him one by one. The others eagerly circled him and waited for their turn to strike. "You think you are the only being the world that such powers as you. You're lucky Garlet isn't good enough to take over the minds of half dragons or we may have not have seen all of this as worth our time. Have fun fighting off your own kind, Jalek. Why do you think all of these dragons were out here? They were placed out here so you could call them and then fight them off. It's a shame you've left Ace in a two on one fight," the human laughed hardily.

"It appears our ablities differ. I imaginge changing oneself into a dragon is more dificult than you make it seem," Ace replied to Jalek. He was never able to chage into a full dragon even with his powerful spells. The remaining Demon Charged at Ace. Ace had less time to react than he had planned. He attempd to slash the demon with his dagger held tighly by his tail and dodge the Demons sharp claw. He gave the demon a large slash but the Demon had also managed to his hit in. The claw tore into the cloak and Ace's shoulder. The Golem broke out of the ice and seemed to now be casting a spell.

(Might use some weapons I'm buying...As they will be mine when Loth or Laoura comes online so, meh.)

At that time, a new fighter appeared on the hill. She eyed the battle thoughtfully, trying to identify the apparent enemies that her fellow guards was...Well she couldn't say he was fighting them, now could she?

"..." She blinked as she noticed that one of the apparent 'bandits' was one of the Magisters, Master Ace. "...Maybe that's not a guard...Hells." She tugged the dagger from her boot, and headed down the slope.

"Hail!" She calmly walked around the edge of the fight, to speak with her apparent fellow guard. "Comrade, what has this magister done to anger the Guards?"

She clasped her hands behind her back as she spoke, and her mind wrapped around the words of a spell, and she smiled sweetly, and continued. "If you decide to give me an answer that oversteps your obligations as a guard, then I may have to report you to the Head Guard."

"She will you know. I'll make her Tell. You don't seem that much like a guard to me..." Zin's eyes took on a sinister gleam, and glittered red. "I assure you, I will."

Zin's smile nearly crumpled into a scowl. 'Go away demon...'

'No. This might be entertaining.'

Seele walked into the camp, sighing softly. The tents had all been burnt to the ground. One of the bandits here had been a link in his growing web of informants. He started to turn over the bodys, finding his agent quickly. "Great." He walked through the camp, brooding. He didn't even notice the battle until he was almost in it. It appeared that eight dragons were attacking one smaller white one. An iron golem and smaller demon were also attacking a winged man, another man on a black dragon watching.

"Interesting..." Seele grinned, twirling his sickle in one hand. "This fight seeme unfair..." he pointed the sickle at the demon, muttering the incantation to an Enervation spell. The negative energy shot out towards the fiend, crackling.

"Garlet, how could let me forget to close off the area?" the human angerly said to his dragon as he saw zin in the distance. "What foolishness do you speak of? I am no guard. I suppose While you're here the least I can do is give you a good show," The Human Laughed as one of the Dragons broke off the circle around Jalek and rushed towards Zin. Just as the bright white celestial fire exploded into life along the demon's wound, Seele bolt of eneveration found it's mark. The demon crumbled to dust. The Iron golem turned to Seele's direction. It held out an open hand and casted poison cloud, creating a toxic suffacting cloud around Ace, Seele and the Golem.

Ace was relieved to see he was getting some help, but things were still very out of hand. Ace had little difficult breathing the Toxic air, but was sure this would propably not be the case for any one else. He casted haste on himself and hoped the the darkly dressed mage would find his way out the cloud.

Seele grinned and lety the poison wash over him. He could hold his breath for a time. Long enough to get out of the poisonous air. Seel ran quickly up to the iron golem, the dark cloud of poison hiding hsi movement. He jumped up on in a flash, black cloak fluttering around him. He cackled manically and raised his scythe high. He was high enough when on top of the golem that the poisonous cloud was beneath him. "Let's see how tough a nut to crack you are!" He brought the scythe down, blade first, on the golem's head. Right before it hit he murmured an enervation spell, the blade glwoing black as it hit the golem's head.

"Really? Thought you looked familiar..." She dove to the side, as the dragon barreled towards her, hissing the words of the spell. She cursed the dragon, and started running, hoping the spell would work well. "I've got to get a sword..." She hissed unhappily, grabbing her bow from off her shoulder, and quickly nocking an arrow.

She skittered to the smoking remains of a tent, and looked over it carefully, aiming at the dragon's right eye. "Take aim..." Zin bit her lip. 'Oh god...I'm dead...'

'Just shoot you idiot.' The arrow was loosed, and flew through the air.