Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Delilah lets Albert have his way and begins jogging along beside him, looking around a bit nervously at the environment as the trees rustle innocently.

You think that sorcerer is going to attack us again?

She tightens her fingers around his, moving a bit faster, her clothing streaming behind her as they make their way back towards the camp. They aren’t particularly stealthy in their approach, however, and Lady Lieselotte can easily hear and see them come back to camp, the leaves crackling under their feet. When they get back, she smiles quickly at the vampire, then looks around, a bit surprised to see Lord Makar, Dave, and Sean gone again.

Where did they go, Lady Lieselotte? *she inquires of the vampire, not realizing that she has no idea either*

She raises her brow at the dancer, standing to slowly approach her and Albert.

He’s not with you? I just woke up, I must have dozed off, I have no idea what has been going on.

She looks to Albert now.

Did he mention anything to you? I mean, was he here when you two left?

The scout start to walk backwards, trembling with fear while trying to reach his pocket knife.
Makar makes a sign to Sir Icarus knock him down and jumped besides Dave, handing him some ropes he got early to tie the foe up.

Try’s to think back but can only really remeber talking to Makar the night before while he and Lieselotte we’re having troubles, somewhat clouding his mind
I..
He hasn’t talked to me today.
He still seems kind of confused about everything lately so he probably just needed to think.

He begins feeling saddness for the supposedly ‘cold-hearted vampire’ and decides to help her. He walks up to her, though still holding Delilah’s hand with one of his own, and reaches to her with an open hand
Want us to help you find him?

Icarus proceeds to knock hom down as planned.

(Do I detect a Confrontation reference?)

(Rapecat, he’s everywhere….Nice touch.)

She looks down at his hand, then around the camp again. She still cannot see the good Lord. She looks back at the couple nervously.

I’d appreciate the help actually…

(Totally. ^^)
The scout stuns for a few seconds, letting his knife escape from his fingers and fell on his knees, slamming the face in the ground afterwards.
Well done guys. Dave! Help me to tie this bandit, so we can start to make questions.
The knight looked back at Sean.
You’re good to make people spill the beans?

Dave goes over to the knocked down scout and ties him up very tightly.

He looks like he’ll break real easy.

(Whoooa thing are getting kinky here)

Feels like Liesselotte may be less rejecting then she once was and decides to take advantage of this. He grabs her by the hand up pulls her up
Great then lets go look for him.
We wouldn’t want someone as special as him getting hurt now would we?

His hand glows and a ferocious smirk intended to terrify the scout appears. Then as a bluff.

He’ll be lucky if he can still breathe when I’m done with him.

Between this guy and the previous bandit, we should be able to find Reinhild’s hiding place.

The scout woke up, and tried to free himself, uselessly.
Let me go, scums!
Makar got closer to the scout, facing him in the eyes.
Tell us which direction is Reinhild’s lair!
The scout spitted and laughed.
What makes you think I gonna tell?!
The knight walked back a little and looked at Sean.
Can you help here?
After listening to Sean, the scout starts to freak out, but didn’t said anything.
I-I’m n-not going to say any-anything…

He starts to approach slowly. Let’s out a maniacal laugh.

We’ll see about that.

(Probably a good idea to change your name unless you want Makar getting tortured for information from now on )

Delilah smiles at the vampire, then smirks at her boyfriend.

Special huh? Sounds like someone…

She starts in a sing-song voice, leaning against Albert playfully, before noticing close-up the nervousness on the Lady’s face

I’m sorry. *she sobers up* There’s strength in numbers, right? I’m sure they just went off hunting deer or something.

(I dunno, after stringing poor Princess Sunday and Lady Lieselotte along for so long, maybe he deserves it~)

(Yeah, okay&hellip
He tried to free himself once more, almost crying.
Set me free right now, o-or my comrades are going to seek revenge!
He shouted with a disturbing foppish tone.
AAAARGH!!!

Dave laughs at his ignorance.

Do you really think they give a damn about you, you’re just a tool to them. Your death will just inconvenience them.

Let’s out another terrifying laugh. His hand is now being circled by intense and very visible electricity.

I doubt your friends are anywhere near as powerful as a dragon, and we made quick work of one already. I’ll make your death quick if you tell us now!

Can hear all the screaming and shouting from a distance. He looks at Lieselotte and starts to feel saddness for her fearing that Makar is in trouble. His face now shows a serious expression and he hurrys towards the noises
Come on lets hurry.
…
We uhhh…
We wouldn’t want Makar to start missing you Miss.

The bandit stops his actions for a second, looking down.
PLEASE DON’T KILL ME!!! You win… I’ll tell…
The scout sobbed, looking to the Barbarian.
This forest is a total maze of nature, so we marked a way from the boss’ hideout to the kingdom. The trees… they’re marked with the “Fake” kanji. We adopted this mark ‘cause it makes really much sense for our job…
He started to jump to free himself once more.
I Said, now take me outta these ropes!!
Out of nowhere, a knife flew in meet to the bandit’s neck, half-cutting it. The blood kept flowing from the young bandit’s neck untill he stoped reacting, dead.

He stared at the scout’s suffering, disgusted. He never saw someone die in such painful way… even more made by a comrade of the dead. He gritted teeth and held his weapons tightly.
We must hurry. If we stand anymore time here, we’re finished! Sean, Dave, Icarus! Go call the others! There’s no more time to waste…
The knight stared at the sunrise. Things may get troublesome during the noon, so the clock was ticking.

She begins to run ahead of Albert and Delilah after hearing the shouts.

He better not have gotten himself in trouble now…

Right.

Runs back to the camp.

We’ll get them as quickly as possible.

Dave runs off in the direction of the camp in hopes of bumping into the others

The rising sun seems unusually bright to the knight’s eyes. Its heat beats on his ears and nose, making them feel rather too warm for comfort, like standing near an open oven or forge.

No one else notices anything unusual about it, though.

The dancer looks increasingly nervous as the trio head towards the shouting and fighting, not eager to go near the fighting, but also worried about her friends. When Lady Lieselotte streaks away from the pair with unnatural speed, she shakes her head.

Lady! Wait for us!

Alright.

He too heads off toward the camp. Being quicker than the others, he arrives first.

Everybody! Big news! We have a trail!

Remembering the scout’s death.

That, and it looks like we’re about to be ambushed…We’ve stuck around far too long, grab whatever gear you can. It’s time to move out.

Starts worring if something has happened to the group and picks up pace, but is also distracted by making sure Delilah is by his side. Not looking where he’s going he rams into Dave’s chest and falls to the ground
Okay owww.
…
So I gues you’re alright then.
What were you all doing?

Delilah’s arm is jerked as the pair collide with David, the dancer, being a bit more agile on her feet, letting go of Albert’s hand and whirling around the big dog, barely keeping her feet as she skids to a stop on the loose soil behind him.

What’s going on? Why are you running? *she looks around frantically, feeling exposed*

She slows down as she nears the clearing, seeing Lord Makar in good health, she relaxes. As she nears him, she wipes some sweat from her brow.

Are you okay Makar? Who is that, another bandit?

We need you all to get your stuff, we’re going on the move again. Reinhild sent some more bandits after us.We ended up interrogating a scout and we’ve found out Reinhilds hideout.

He glances behind him and notions his head.

Makar is this way.

Wait what!?
We could of had some warning beforehand.
Is there some secrete path, are we just going to keep following the same trail, are we headed to a town?
Seriously what happened back there?

(By the way, I asked Hebs. It’s straight forest untill Reinhild’s lair. There’s no town or anything related. Just forest.)
Makar looked back at Lieselotte, frowning for their current state of danger.
Worse… this time we’re fighting the elite.
He looked back to the sunrise, cleaning the sweat out of his forehead with the back of his hand that was holding his sword.
We must find their hideout before they find us, altought it seems they already know where we are and which way we’re going.

Delilah looks from the big canine to Albert and back again.

So they found us again? Is it the same bandits? Did they ambush you? Is Lord Makar alright?

She whirls around, looking at the trees and bushes, making no motion of heading either towards the knight nor back towards camp, paralyzed by a feeling of danger.

Yes there is a secret path, there are specially marked trees with the “Fake” kanji. It will lead us to the lair. We ambushed a scout and interrogated him for the whereabouts of the lair and we were told to come and get you guys so we could get going, and yes Lord Makar is just fine.

(Are we asking to many questions? Are you confused? Are we annoying?)

I knew we should have moved after I caught that scout yesterday.

She looks at him, claws at the ready.

We need to get back to camp now. All our best fighters are out here, anyone at the camp doesn’t stand a chance unless we get back.

She signals him to follow her and she begins to run back to the camp at a slower pace he can keep up with.

The sun continues to beat on the knight’s face, looking in its direction like staring at the sun up high in the sky even as only the top of the sphere pokes between the trees over the horizon, the heat from it continuing to warm the knight’s exposed flesh, while the vampire near him feels nothing unusual, seeing nothing but a normal sunrise, of the sort she has seen thousands of times.

Fake? Why fake? That sounds like a trap to me.

The dancer’s ears droop a little as she squeezes the sides of her skirts in her hands, apparently not responding to the dog’s urging to return to camp as she continues to peer around while standing in place, trying to catch sight of Lord Makar and Lady Lieselotte.

(( Hebs. If you’re going to kill Makar on the grounds that he turned into a vampire because he wasn’t even bitten yet I will lose faith in this RP. We get some story drama and you kill of one of the characters involved? For shame…

Besides, Lieselotte is a royal vampire who is immune to sun so by extension anyone bitten should technically inherit her traits, correct? ))

(I said I got there first, nimrods! In other news, my connection is on and off, due to desert driving.)

I don’t know if it’s fake or not Delilah, but right now we need to get our supplies and go to Makar so we can decide what to do.

Dave is beginning to look more anxious.

(@ Sir Icarus: From what I can tell as an observer, you made it to the camp, and Makar & Lisolette met in the forest, so did Delilah, Albert & Dave)

Lifts himself up from the ground and dusts himself of. He then holds onto Delilahs hand
We should just listen to them dear.
Better to be safe then sorry.

(Nevermind.)

Delilah looks a bit confused, swaying nervously, but the worry on her friend’s face breaks her paralysis. She bends over to help up Albert, then helps him dust off, giving him a couple light swats on the back, then one on the butt, coloring a little.

I guess we’d better get back to camp then… I was hoping we’d be safe for the today, at least.

Her ears droop unhappily.

((He’s not meant to be infected yet. If he does get infected, it’s meant to be before the final fight. Should he, Sunday and Lieselotte survive to then, she’ll make him make the choice as an ultimatum. If her really wants her, he’ll have to let her infect him. If he decides against it, well it will not be pretty. But if he did get infected, I really guess there isn’t much I can do about it :/))

He looked back to Lieselotte once more.
I’m looking for the trail! Go call the others quickly!
He finally stoped distracting himself with the sunlight and kept gaze to the marked trees.