The two were getting close, friends. They laughed together, fought together, got angry when the other was hurt. They were having lots of fun as they amde their way towards the headquaters of Rooks.
That was bad.
Niina knew her mission. If she became friends with her target, then her feelings would get in the way of preforming her duty. She knew this, and told herself every hour to stop being friends with keru, only an aquiatnace, but she couldn't help it. She couldn't stop liking Keru. 'Not in the love like of course!' she told herself in her mind once when they were taking a break by a river. She was washing her toes in the stream, biting her lip. Keru was off farther upstream, taking a bath. 'I mean, why would anyone love him? Sure he's nice, but he's a theif! Theives are always not good on the inside, right? Of course it's not love. I just like him as a friend... But even that's bad...'
She closed her eyes, then opened them to find large, black shadows off in the distance. She cocked her head to one side, wondering what those could be, and subconciously thankfull for the thing to think about other than Keru. The shadows only grew closer, and by the time Keru had rejoined her(fully dressed, though a little wet) she could see they were large wings attached to some sort of black ball thing.
They set off, walking towards a mountain range that was between them and the next city. Niina figured they'd make the next city by noon tomorrow, if they walked fast and had about five to seven hours of sleep that night. But, as it is always in adventures, something happened to delay them.
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They swooped down all of a sudden. Niina didn't even know what happened until she couldn't feel the air under her. Large birds were carrying her away. They looked with giant ravens, though they were shaped more like a ball, and could speak in Common. They were called Osskill.
Niina started kicking and screaming, and would have cut off their legs if they were lcoking her arms in them. They hadn't kicked up Keru, for some strange reason, but niina was too worried about getting free from them than where Keru was. Keru was running behind the Osskill, takking out a dagger, and trying to aim properly while running, though it wasn't working well. Soon, Niina was flown out of sight, towards the mountains.
Keru growled, then jumped up as high as he could, landing on the back of an Osskill. He palced his dagger at it's throat and said, "Take me to where the others are carrying the girl." The Osskill, fearful of the dagger's rough edge, flew as fast as he could, though he got to the mountain three minutes after the other Osskill. It dumped Keru off, then flew as fast away as it could.
Keru looked around. He was on a small ledge on the mountain, which was pocketed with many caves. He was trying to think about where they had put Niina when a scream peirced his ears. He began running towards it, ignoring the rocks that tumbled down and the slipping he kept on doing.
The it was cut off. He ran even faster, thoughts of all the reasons that Niina could have had her scream cut off running through his head. He know knew the cavern where the scream came from, though he kept falling down a few feet, which kept annoying him and setting him back. He arrived in front of the cave ten minutes after he heard Niina scream.
He hesitated in the mouth of the cave; it was so dark. But he knew he wasn't scared of the dark, so he walked bravely inside, glaring all around him, head held high and noble, his dagger at the ready in his right hand. FOr a while, all he could hear was the echo of his footsteps, but then he heard other sounds. The rustle of feathers, the soft laughter of a person. 'Niina?' he thought hopefully, and quickened his step, but he was far from right.
Yes, Niina was there, but it wasn't her who had laughed. There was a man there, bare-chested, muscular, with a sort of fancy skirt type thing hanging around his waist. He had a regal look to him, but it wasn't his clothes, or his long black hair, or even his yellow eyes that Keru was staring at. It was his wings. He had large, multicolored wings that spread over the low chair he sat on. Then he acually looked at Niina, as he had been distracted by the winged man to acually look at her. Niina looked different, and he bit the inside of his cheek to stop from saying anything.
She was dressed comepletely different, a tropical sort of outfit that Keru was sure he'd never see Niina in again. It was like a bikini, with small, gliitery sequins attached along the hems, and at the top, it had delicate gol chains attaching the two purple peices of cloth that covered her breasts. From that top hung semi-transpartent pale purple cloth, stopping at her belly button. From the bikini's purple bottom also hung pale purple semi-transparent cloth, which was attached to bands of purple cloth that strapped just above her knees. She also had the same cloth hanging halfway down her calves, and she had many golden bracelets and anklets and neckalaces. She still had the purple jewel across her forehead.
He thought inside his mind that if he wasn't so angry, he would have had a huge nosebleed from seeing Niina. There were other girls around, and what was strange that some of them had a few feather pocking out of their backs. They were all dressed simalier to Niina, but one thing was exactly the same.
They all had the same, blank look in thier eyes, and the expressionless face. The first thought that came into his min was that they were a brainwashed harem, and he was soon to find out that he was right.
"Let Niina go." he said, surpressing anger in his tone, his eyebrows arching angrilly at the winged man. He fingered a grape, glanced up at Keru, and simple said, "No."
A low growl escaped his throat, and his orangish eyes flashed with a red color as Keru shouted again, "LET HER GO!" THe winged man ignored him, but was soon brought to attention by the broekn chair beside him. Keru stood over the remains, eyes pure red, fangs in his mouth instead of canine teeth, and a trace of foam in the corner of his mouth.
The Beserker blood that lay dormant inside him had awakened. Keru was going to destroy the entire cave now. Nothing can stop a Berserker.
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