"speaking in riddles?" the man asked with a laugh, "just an observation on your attitude boy." he said and then added, "where are you originally from?"

Lance jumps from the top of the building onto the balcony of the restaurant staring at leo "I am a hired mercenary mostly for the rebellion" his tails wrapped around his waste neatly almost like a belt as he stepped of the balcony railing and onto the actual balcony. "I am called that because i have killed many people to survive.."

"Killing in order to survive is a good enough reason to kill. It is the way of life, kill or be killed. I respect that." Leo said to Kitsune.

"... My past is a complicated one. I haven't had a true home in quite some time. Forced to grow up faster than I had to.. I'm just looking for a purpose to fight for. Nothing more, nothing less.." Leo said to the mysterious man. By this time he'd begun looking around the restaurant and realized he hadn't eaten...

"sounds like you had some bad stuff happen in your past," the man said, "but atleast you have a past," he added.

"You do not know of your past?" Leo asked curiously. "My my, I envy you, I think not knowing anything is better than knowing the twisted reality.." Leo found a bowl of shrimp and began eating it quietly...

"Yes but that is the insanity of it," he started, "when you know of terrible things you wish to forget... and when you dont know you wish to know what it is you forgot or dont have any recollection of anymore," he said.

"That is something I understand more than anyone.. but I wish not to dwell and focus on the past. The better option would be to build a better future and live in the present. Don't you agree..?" Said Leo as he absently stared out the window.

"that is true that would be the best thing," the man said, "but in a way your rage that you let out is still attatched to the past," he added.

"Perhaps.. I just don't want to elaborate on that right now.." Leo said. Suddenly, as he was looking out the window, he saw a squadron of shock troopers surveying the area. "Umm... this location is discreet... right...?"

"i would assume that this place is perfectly fine," the man said, "If not then i guess we would have to fight but id say lets just lay low for now," he said with a laugh, "i think we have had a little too much excitement for tonight."

"Agreed. But everyone should be prepared just in case... this seems a bit off. Unless with your invisibility toy, you wanna strike a preemptive attack..?" Said Leo, prepared to fight.

(ooc: O___O Geez peoples.... I go away from lunch for work and you guys all go insane! >_<)

Hey, we gotta keep the RP going don't we? ^_^

(Yeah you do, but my gosh. It nearly doubled since I was last able to check. *gets to work on post*)

"Heh... First off this place is very discreet since I've been hiding out here and running a base for the rebels for nearly two years from this restaurant building." Smiling as she tilted her head, Charlie walked over to her table and sat down with a bowl of clean hot water, rags and a bottle of oil for her guns. Settling down in a chair she slowly started to disassemble her guns and meticulously clean them. "I don't know exactly what it is that Ted did to this place, but a lot of the troops get a bad feeling when they come near here. This is especially true of lycanthropes, it took time for me to convince Jason that it was safe for him." Smiling as she glanced over at her friend who was sitting with his back against the wall and sulking while he ate. "Oi... And if you're hungry there's plenty of premade meals divided up in the fridge. Warm it up and you're ready to go."

The man sat back and relaxed in his chair, "Like i said Leo just relax for the night i am sure there will be plenty of fighting sometime," he said.

"Hm.. all right then! Guess there's not much to do now but sleep and see what tomorrow brings.." Leo said as he got comfortable on the floor and prepared to sleep. Sword sheathed next to him in case of a surprise attack.

Charlie coughed slightly and stared at the boy sleeping on the floor. "Umm....." Sitting there cleaning her gun she frowned. "The back room has cots you can pull out here to sleep on. The carpet may be plush, but it's not THAT comfortable."

The man laughed, "sounds like a good idea," he said as he went and grabbed a cot and then lay down with his cloak still pulled around him tight.

She smiled slightly and nodded as she fell silent and went back to her cleaning. Humming slightly to herself, you could barely hear her from across the room. "Everyone is welcome to sleep here as long as there is no fighting or trouble making." Narrowing her eyes at the man with the fox tails. "That means you Slaughtering Kitsune!" Grumbling as she remembered some of the stories she'd heard.

The boy already fast asleep didn't hear a word they had said, unfortunately. For it had been a long and extremely odd day for him.

She watched them for a moment before shrugging and finishing with cleaning her weapons before reassembling them. "Alright... That's done." Sighing before she got up and headed towards the locked door at the back of the room. "Hmm...." Sighing as she glanced back at Ellis and smiling. "Remember the rules. Don't think about coming in my room... Because I will hurt you if you pick the locks or just enter my room." Shutting the door behind her, Charlie locked the door and settled in for the night. Having trust issues wasn't the problem, truthfully she did trust the other rebels, just not without some protection.

Leo stirred in the early hours of the morning, it was barely dawn as the sun slowly ascended in the sky. He went outside to the balcony, just staring at the sky. He suddenly grabbed his sword and held it up to the sun, amused how the sunlight glint off his blade. Then he remembered he had left his crossblade on the rooftop where Kitsune stood...

He made his way there to find it was gone. "Crap! Come on.. weapons just don't disappear.." He surveyed the area carefully upon finding a cat that was playing with it like a toy. "You've gotta be kidding me.." He made his descent into the alley were the cat was. "Here kitty kitty kitty... :3" In return the cat said "HISSS!!!!!!" and streaked away from Leo with the blade in it's mouth.

"Wha... HEY!! GET BACK HERE!!" He said as he sprinted after the cat.

Soon after Leo had left the man woke up. He stretched with a low groan as his body was just now waking up. He looked around and listened to the silence in the house. He then got up and went to the rooftop to lay on the roof and stare at the sky for awhile.

Lance didn't like to sleep especially around people he didn't know so instead he took a chair a propped it up against a wall leaning back in it "Theses people act so nice yet they can't be trusted no one can be trusted." his tails uncurled from his waist as he went to step out onto the balcony and leave "I need to find money so i can eat today"

The man watched as lance left, "Everyone must be up to something today," he said to himself as he went back to watching the sky.

// i haven't left im in the process of leaving

Winding down several blocks, Leo had finally pinned the cat down and gotten his crossblade back. "REOOWW!" The cat zoomed away out of sight. "Geeze... what a pain.." Leo said. "..... How do I get back to the restaurant now.....?" he said. Concealing his crossblade, he tried retracing his steps. Obliviously, he had no idea everyone in the plaza had his eyes on him...

Lance looked out onto the town frowning.. "Where to find work.. everyone is scared of me" his tails moving back and forth. he stepped away and sat down in the chair "I just wont eat again.." lance's stomach let out a large and loud monstrous growl "But its been four days.." he glance down at his stomach then looked at the wall staring at it intensively

The man walked back into the house and looked around, "Hey Lance have you seen Leo around at all?" he asked.

Seeing eyes on him, Leo decided if he made a run for it he'd look suspicious. He calmly walked back to the restaurant using maps located around the plaza. As he was nearing the same alley, 4 figures silently approached him. Two from the front, two from behind. They were the same shock troopers from yesterday...

Kid, you're coming with us, you look awfully familiar... said one shock trooper. "Like hell I am!" shouted Leo, instinctively reaching for his katana. Unfortunately dawning on him he'd left it on the balcony. "Damn...." The shock troopers moved in, prepared to subdue him.

The motion of a figure dropping down from above was merely a blonde and black blur. Sweeping a foot out to knock the feet out from underneath two of the troopers and turned to take on the other two. Ice cold blue eyes locked on to them as they were approaching. "Ah so you came back for some more? Might I call you a glutton for punishment then? Or just plain stupid?" A small smirk played on the new man's lips as he slowly slid up to his full height, moving his hands slightly the morning light glinted off his knuckle blades. "Aw how sad, somebody forgot to remind Ted that this was a gun fight." One of the troopers facing him swallowed and stepped back. "Damn it! You guys forgot the area we were in." Hissing o the other trooper still standing, unfortunately the other two were out cold from hitting the ground so hard.

OOC: Perfect timing Reaper! :( I'm going back to work from lunch now. :P Oh well. Two hours left and I'll be back online. -giggles-

A flash of red and black swoops down from behind the two remaining shock troopers From the flash lance stood behind them his sword drawn and out as if he already attacked. "Fools, don't attack the people who give me a place rest.. It pisses me off" As those cold heartless words escaped lances mouths the men fell forward dead.

Lance sheathed his sword and jumped back onto the balcony without another word jumped to the other roof top where Leo's cross blade had previously been. Lance started to roam around the city using par cor to jump across the buildings.

That had been too easy of a fight, a cold smile crosses Noelle's face as the person that had thought she was the one going down easy, slumped to the ground at her feet, the knife they had planning to use on her, buried in their chest instead, blood gushing out of the wound. Noelle was also splattered with blood, she was beginning to like this town, a lot.

Picking up her bag from the location where she had dropped it, she slung it over her shoulder. Pushing the sunglasses she had thrown on top of the bag before the start of the fight back up on her nose, Noelle slips into the crowd..

the man watched the fight from a distance.

Leo, dazed at how everything had happened so fast was in awe. Noticing that Lance had already wandered off again, he began to confront the unknown man that had saved him. "Thank you, I would've been captured had you not shown up when you did.. who are you..?" Leo asked, still awestruck.

While lance was jumping across an alley way he noticed a women slaying another person a chesire grin once again appeared on his face. "Oh la la.. Blood shed once more i see?" He liked the way this one had slain her foe the style the brutality it made his skin crawl with excitement

Lance decided he would follow the girl so with a keen eye he jumped across various buildings following her trail. He thought he could get lucky enough and actually see the women fight again.

The man made his way down to where the battle took place, "Next time you go out Leo you should have someone with you," he said with a soft smile.

Leo, slightly irked at the mans joking replied "I'm perfectly capable of handling myself in battle! Had I had my sword..." he sheepishly added. "And exactly who are you anyway?! No more of your words of wisdom crap either!" he said hastily.

After a few minutes of wandering, Noelle senses that she's being watched. With a frown, she stops and glances around before deciding to make her way into the nearest place to steal a bite to eat. Maybe whoever was following her would be stupid enough to enter the shop behind her, she was use to the police doing this when she was younger. Than again, that was before they had learned their lesson.

the man smiled, "I never said you couldnt handle yourself but you never know what you may run into or what may happen and having someone with you will help our odds better of not being captured." the man said, "And as for who I am my name is Darc Crusada," he added, "but i dont see how a name is going to help you understand anything about who i am." he said smiling.