They walked for hours through forestland, past streams, seeing all the wildlife, undisturbed. Gemini took in the beauty as they walked and made small talk, bringing up old fights and tales of travels, without getting into anything too deep. They were getting closer to the Ogres Cross bridge and Gemini slowed her pace.
"Let's rest for a few moments before we get to the bridge. We don't know what is awaiting us there, if we are caught off guard it could be the death of us." Gemini walked around looking for any berries or fallen nuts for them to munch on while they rested. Once she had found and eaten enough to keep her going for a bit longer she urged them on.
"OK, this bridge could be very dangerous, so be careful. Abandi, if you get angry.... try not to destroy the bridge." She said it with a smile, knowing from the last time that the girl didn't have much, if any, control over her magical bursts. Gemini walked toward the bridge, and when they came out of the woods and into the clearing before the bridge she saw the men standing guard.
"Shit..." She said under her breath. 'This is not going to end well.' She thought as she continued her pace, not slowing. Making the guards see she was in control and would not be told what to do, nor would she pay any toll they "required".
"Hello there beautiful." The first man said to Abandi. He was about six feet tall with a broadsword on his back. "Your toll might be different from the others." He said it with a smirk that Gemini knew well enough.
"I don't think that will be necessary." Gemini said to the man, stepping in front of Abandi effictivly blocking his view of the girl. "In fact, I don't think any toll will be necessary."
"Haha, sure thing sweetheart. What you going to do? Cut me with your little daggers." He said to Gemini, motioning to her scimitars with his hand, while pulling the broadsword from his back. There were two other men, all a little bit shorter than the first man, but both of them equipped with weapons of some sort. Gemini scoffed at him.
"If you're so big and manly, lets do this." She said to him, keeping her hands on her hilts but not yet advancing, waiting for him to come to her. They were roughly 15 feet away from each other, with Ryogen coming up next to Gemini and Abandi behind him, hiding. The biggest man with the broadsword leaped at Ryogen, probably because he saw no weapon. Faster than she believes she's ever done before, Gemini whips out her scimitars and slams the mans broadsword down easily, not letting him reach Ryogen. Gemini glares at the man.
"You will not take any toll and you will not attack my friends." She says through clenched teeth, slashing her scimitars at him faster and faster, making cuts all along his body. The other two men were too busy staring in awe at how fast she was moving to do anything but look at their leader get slashed by her. She made a big scene, spinning around, keeping them all distracted by her dance of swords. When she came to a stop and slashed the man accross his wrists, cutting off his hands, he didnt even seem to notice at first. He kept going like he had the sword in his hand, then realized the sword was on the ground, with his hands still gripping the hilt. He screamed in agony, falling to the ground and rolling around like he was trying to put out a fire on his body. She didn't think the rolling was going to grow his hands back. She smirked at his pain, then motioned to Ryogen to pick up the broadsword, even though he only had one arm she knew it was strong enough to wield that giant sword. They stood facing the two men left, with the screams of the biggest man in the backround, bolstering Gemini and Ryogens confidence, and lessening the two theives'. Gemini laughed at them.
"So, think you can take us?" She asked them with a smile and a lunge.