Even warriors need to feel loved (Spot taken)

Erexia smiled slightly, "Ahhh, my kind has barely ever been seen in this form, but we have our other form which is a tiger sized creature..." She said, tail wagging happily. She looked around at the forestry around them before ears twitched slightly.

Sebastrian couldn't help but smile at Erexia, it had been the happiest she had ever been for quite a while. He wondered about Rhelic, but didn't want to intrude.
 
Feathers frilled out yet again, pure fascination bubbling in his gaze as he listened keenly on every word from Exeria. "That is entirely incredible Lady Erexia," lips curled upwards in a slow grin, "I must say, I am very intrigued to learn more about your species if you would care to spare some time to indulge my scholar curiosities."

Extending an arm outwards gesturing to the world around them, Locke seemed to be in his element. "In this vast world we dwell in, I have yet to come across another breed of humanoids that have more than a singular form; other than demons but they hardly count. I admit, having the great fortune of running into you has been a pure splendor."

Brushing aside a low hanging branch, Rhelic was listening to Locke and Exeria seeming to be lost in conversation. Well at least Locke was, he had found something or in this cause someone who managed to be utterly interesting to him. But that overly didn't surprise her, she had learnt in the time spent with him; if he could learn something about anything he didn't already know he would.

It didn't take overly long before they were brushing against the outskirts and sparse canopies of the forest, sun becoming brighter from the inner reaches of the knitted leaves; as she could at least get more of her bearings when they weren't entirely covered by foliage.

"Ah perfect, it appears we are reaching the edge of the forest, Lady Rhelic-"

"Not much longer to Eathkar, we were closer than I estimated." she responded flatly, tossing a vivid pink iris over her shoulder to them all, as she lifted a hand to shield her eyes from the brightening light around them. She still could deal without the sun but it at least allowed her more of a gauge to figure out what they're next steps were towards the outlandish city.
 
Erexia smiled up at Locke with a small nod, "I'd love to tell you what I know about my species~ I don't know much Humaniod typed people either, I only thought it was me and Sebastrian against most of the world of humans."
Seb smiled slightly, looking around the forest slightly, his coloured rings glowing faintly. "I didn't think we'd be getting this far this easily..." He said before glancing down at Erexia with a small chuckle. He wondered about if anyone would ask him about his breed, he wasn't as rare as Erexia, but his breed was not that well known by the normal civilian.
 
Catching the rings glowing ever so faintly, Locke blinked corrected the brim of his hat and took on an embarrassed plight. "My pardon's Master Sebastrian, I have been meaning to ask your own breeding, I do ask for a bit of forgiveness for my bland behaviour to overlook you briefly." he tipped his hat forward in a gesture to state he was actually sorry for being before his own ears lifted to turn his attention to Rhelic.

"If you two aren't careful you are going to become part of his scholar displays like his plants." she was teasing, from what he could tell but what a great way to startle someone.

Waving her off and her comment, Locke rubbed the back of his head feverishly. "Lady Rhelic you make me sound so cruel and malicious."

She narrowed her gaze, daring to say that she wasn't kidding now.
 
Sebastrian chuckled slightly, then looking down at Erexia and back to Locke, "Well... I'm a Shifter. An ancient breed. We can shapeshift at will, but also 'clone' ourselves so to say, I prefer not to, due to the fact that when I clone an emotion splits from my body." He said with a small frown, before continuing, "But my kind aren't as rare as Erexias' and normally we're called things like 'Demons', when we're one of the kindest races around..."

Erexia nodded slightly, "The only bad thing about Seb is that he has multipule personality syndrome~ Except, he has a necklace to stop his other persona taking control..~"
 
"A shifter," Locke seemed to ponder over the word itself taking the time to consider it before he jerked his attention back over to the pair when Exeria made the comment about him having more than one personality. Blinking rapidly to this, Locke laughed a bit nervously, "I can only imagine what a priceless help your necklace has been Master Sebastrian."

Rhelic on the other hand whipped right around, stopped in mid step and was giving him a firm look over. Her mouth opened to say something but promptly close in conjunction to a swift almost unseen glare that came from Locke. Rolling her eyes, waved a single hand at him she returned to guiding stepping over a groundhog hole.

"I have heard some things about shifters, not remotely positive mind you." Locke continued, "Demons is a nice way of putting a false name to your breed." he tapped his fingers together, "Is it common for shifters to have multiple personalities?" he was curious, worried and a bit nervous all at once, "Please don't answer me if it is something that is a bother Master Sebastrian." he wasn't about to go digging through peoples likes and dislikes of conversation.

"The bridge is in sight, " Rhelic mentioned, her gaze seeming to turn to the right and left as if she was searching for something before she tucked her hands behind her back, becoming visibly calmer than moments before. Something to do with getting out of the forest element or was it something else? Perhaps the fact that they were rather close to the destination, or even more so that she might be shortly freed from acting as a guide to all theses odd creatures.
 
Sebastrian shook his head, "No, it's not common... I'm the only known Shifter to have this problem.. They say it was from something foolish I did when I first found my shifting powers."
Sebastrian smiled slightly, the questioning didn't bother him. Erexia flinched once Seb mentioned this other self. She watched Rhelic with a small smile.
 
"You mean you're not naturally born with your abilities that you are taught them?" Locke was becoming intensely curious again, his eyes seeming to devouring all the information he was given.

Tossing a look back as she sprinted towards the bridge jumping up on the smooth stones that had been built with mortar, Rhelic shook out the long tendrils of silver hair amazed and dumbfounded by how into all this Locke was.
 
"We are born with them, but we have to unlock them in order to use them. It's a weird thing our Species has, it's like a rule nearly..." Sebastrian said, smiling at the fact he was getting questioned. He felt it was better for Seb to be answering questions rather than Erexia.

Erexia was watching Rhelic happily, she was interested in this figure, She was powerful, and menatlly strong. Her tail swayed slightly, she wanted to talk to Rhelic, but couldn't find the words.
 
Locke grinned as he tapped his hands together, "Mind if I jot some of this down for later detailing?" he would ask at least before making a mental note to do so when they reached his rented place in the city. "I must ask cause it isn't often someone gets to learn a thing about a shifter from its honest source, are all shifters the same in their abilities or is it vary a lot? I don't mean to overwhelm you in the least, just let me know when you have had enough questions Master Sebastrian."

Walking across the railing, Rhelic glances skywards knowing that this Q and A session could possibly go on until the wee hours of the night. Though her ears perked causing her to turn right around to look back at the trio eyes trailing before landing on the ones that were looking at her and the tail swaying back and forth.

Watching it moving for a moment, her brow perked before she turned a little away from her only to look over herself. Did she have something on her to receive such a look?
 
Sebastrian paused, thinking, "Well... I know a shifter Spirit form change from person to person... It's rare for two Shifters to have the same form.." He said, looking over at Locke with a small smile, "I don't mind at all. These questions are helping my memories."

Erexias ears drooped slightly and she looked down at the ground after watching Rhelic. She looked off to the side before walking up to Rhelic and looked up at her, "You're really strong you know. Not many people nowadays will walk through the forests on their own. Let along bring along someone who would annoy the hell out of anyone."
 
"Damnit I wish I had brought my other note book to write in," he snapped his fingers but was all ears nonetheless, hanging on it all before smirking and rubbing the back of his head a little. "As long as you aren't offend, though what do you mean memories?" Locke paused to think it over before raising a brow, "How old are you, you don't look all that old but looks can be deceiving."

Whipping her attention right around to look down at the woman standing close to her, Rhelic couldn't help but raise her brow before lowering down to balance on the balls of her heels upon the stone wall of the bridge. Folding her hands between her knees, Rhelic narrowed an eye. "You are making assumptions about my abilities," she let her facial features soften a bit before humming. "It's not the forest that is something to fear, its the creatures within or as today, the guards. And Locke... just annoys me. It looks you and your friend there are having the time of your lives being asked every question under the sun."

Rhelic straightened herself out again, taking a sliding step backwards to bound down from the railing to the flat surface of the bridge. "What about yourselves? Was it wise to hide in the forest from those guards especially if the forest is something that is not easily transverse by every mortal."
 
Erexia paused, thinking about her questions, "Well. Sebastrian knows the forest Guardian... So we know we'll be realitively safe in the city." She said with a giggle.

Sebastrian froze from the final question, "Well you're right, looks are deceiving... I'm around... 20ish. But I've been in cryosleep for around 500 or so years... I was in the old war..." Seb said, shaking his head as memories tricked into his brain. "Horrible war that was... So many peoples loves were lost..."
 
She blinked at first at this woman, "You mean..." she pointed towards the male before holding her hands up, "That is extremely rare honor I mean how?" now she was flabbergasted! The Forest guardian was an elemental being that was of the higher tree of a shaman, how was it possible unless? She leaned over to look at Seb with a look that was close to wonder. "Is he... a shaman?"

Locke was nodding to him before he stopped and stared at him. "You ... you were part of the..." his hand pressed to his forehead under his hat. "My great gods, how? I mean... how were you? How far back does your loyalty to the crown go?"
 
Sebastrian sighed, "I'm loyal to King Petreis, the current, evil, kings son. It's a very very long story... Hard to tell when your memories are frozen slightly." He said, trying to hide a slight smile, "Which is why Xavier is after me. Because I was one of the warriors to seal him away in the first war. Me and a small band of friends, including the Forest Guardian."

Erexia shook her head with a chuckle. "No, Sebastrian knew Zazen from the old war, 500 years ago. Ever since then when ever we've been in a forest, he always hears a voice in his head... It's weird now you think about it, but I guess Sebastrian just knows... Some weird people~"
 
Just because he heard everything that had just come out from Sebastrian didn't mean he wasn't any less awestruck by it all. He had never heard of someone being frozen in time let alone standing with one conversing about long ago events. It was then he realized how truly peculiar and rare these two beings truly were.

Trying to keep himself from showing how amazing and in turn worried he was with all this tumbling out, Locke offered a extremely feeble laugh, his mind just trying to engulf what Sebastrian was. "I..." he stopped utterly lost for words, he crossed his arms over his chest just trying to think of something to say not to seem like he was dumbfounded entirely. How could one seriously talk about all this so easily. It left a sour taste in his mouth as his thoughts began to ramble. There was something seriously wrong with this picture and it was only going to get worse. What sort of evil was Sebastrain and Erexia trying to defeat and what was really coming out now to strike against the earth themselves. He along so many other citizens knew so little about the old war, other than it happened so long ago. It made him nervous in turn. "My pardons, I am just a little... awestruck by all this. It does not bode well if one dwells on it too long. If you were one of the original beings that sealed Xavier away once, then I fear what sort of repercussions are about to strike the earth that the rest of the citizens do not know."

Locke looked forward to the looming city coming into view, "Master Sebastrain... what is going on in the castle really, is there about to be a cataclysm that the world is not aware of?"

Rhelic took a sliding step back from Erexia listening to all that she was saying not sure if she should just smirk and walk away or just be in sheer state of confusion. Looking over the man again she couldn't fathom five hundred years ago. He was not an elf and she wasn't sure what other races other than dragons lived for thousands of years. He didn't appear so old but now she was conflicted.

Her gaze narrowed, she turned right around and began walking suddenly more concerned with the company that Locke wanted to escort. There was something off about this entire thing and it was making her itchy. Pausing a step, she turned right about again as Rhelic took off like a gun to run up to Locke causing the feathered man to become alert. Sidling up close to him as she grabbed a hold of his shoulder to pull him down to her height level, he crowed in response as she began to whisper into his ear.

Feathers frilled and fanned around his ears before he grunted low with a slow nod. Patting her hand to release him, Locke turned his green eyes to consider her. "Shall I send an escort for you?" he asked gently as she shook her head.

Turning a uncertain eye to Sebastrian, Rhelic shook her head. "I'll find you." she took a step back before she sprang back hard up into the air as the wind around her solely picked up into a visible white swirl. Looking like a dusty whirlwind that had only consumed her, it disbanded quickly revealing that she had vanished from sight.

Locke watched with a stern gaze before he turned a slower eye to that of Sebastrain and then Erexia. "Pardon Lady Rhelic but she has some pressing matters to deal with, she'll return when she feels she has enough information to sedate her curiosity." Knowing how Rhelic behaved with others that she wasn't sure about, it did him well to know that she was suddenly as concerned as he was about the pair they were with. But she had more connections in Eathkar than he did and in turn he was hoping that any assumptions he had about something dark about to tip the scales of balance on the world was wrong.
 
Sebastrian frowned at Locke after Rhelic disappeared, "To answer your question would bring you into this hell..." He said darkly, "But, I guess you could say Xavier is starting up another Army in oder to try to take the world again..."

Erexia froze when Seb said Xaviers' name, She shook her body in fear, tail puffing up slightly. She hated hearing the Dark Guardians name, she could remember the first time she had met the man, and it wasn't good. He had nearly killed her if it wasn't for Seb suddenly appearing and saving her life, with another friend of his. She was surprised that Seb was killed that day by Xavier himself, which is where she found out that Seb was a Shifter and technacly couldn't die while he had a clone out.
 
It was his turn to frown now, "I think we have already been brought into this chaos already Master Sebastrain just by the means of simply walking with another. If Xavier is truly as potent and vile as you are thinking or claiming, then I doubt any association to the pair of you by word or other means, would mean anything to him." Locke pointed out, he had heard rumours of the legendary temperament of the man and that lead him to believe, nothing would be considered if he was looking for the pair in his midst.
 
"Ahh. But," Sebastrian said smiling, looking down at Erexia, "Xavier is actually hunting Erexia. He wants her breed, because if they are tamed, or forced to, they can make great dark warriors. And he's also after me, because of my bloodline. He wants to stamp all shifters out.It's a horrible thing to think of... He doesn't fear us though, which is why we are looking for an army."
 
"That is troubling, wholly troubling." Locke pressed a hand to his chin seeming to dwell on a thought before he lifted his brow when the shadow of the first archway to the city overlapped them. "Still you two cannot accomplish taking down an possibly army or even Xavier himself at this rate. Sorry to say so, but it is clear that you both have just been put on the defense with him."

He frowned, "We can go to my study to rest for now, Rhelic should rejoin shortly especially since I still have to pay her for her services alone for today." A hand opened in a gesture, "The study is a safe place to recuperate, it is the least I can offer and I won't take no so easily." the easy grin finally returned to his face. "I still have many questions for yourself and Lady Erexia, especially now with the knowledge that this corrupted man is after the pair of rare beings."