Niji's front hooves clomp against the ground happily when Xing addresses her. Well basically when someone gave her the attention she deserves! Yuzuki smiles softly as she watches… once more realizing that Niji isn't like the domesticated horses she has ever encountered. Even her own Yukana didn't have this much… well all out personality. Yukana did have personality, of course. But Niji seems almost… well more attentive. Intelligent, perhaps is the right word.
Out of the corner of her eyes Yuzuki looks towards Horse when he starts to speak. She knows where he's going with his line of thought, and she would agree with him. If she had the chance. Her eyes widen and she looks around herself as she hears the calls of the gryphons. She can't see them yet…but Niji immediately lets out a shrill frightened whinny when Xing clings to her. With Horse's exclamation, Yuzuki's gaze follows his. She feels her breath catch in her throat when she sees the giant… bird… cat… things… but there's something else that frightens her. The people yell… 'Tora tora tora'… those are the words she hears, but the word 'tora' means 'tiger' in her native tongue. She hopes it's a coincidence.
Yuzuki's hand whips over her waist to grab her sword. With the same a speed that matches Xing's she has shown in battle, she leans in the direction of the oncoming gryphons. With the flash of steel, she unsheathes her katana and swings it downwards at the same time. When she does, 3 arrows are deflected away… one of them halved. She looks in the direction of the camp… it's being attack. She looks in the direction she left Albert, Anne and the new Stranger… she lets out an aggravated "Kih!"… and she starts to run back in the direction she left her group. Niji lets out a loud neigh as she looks in the direction her mother and Horse goes… but she gallops after Yuzuki… doing her best to catch up to the woman.
And as she gets closer to them… she cringes as she hears Albert's 'voice', causing her to stumble a few steps. She just wasn't ready for that. And she's also not ready for the sight she comes upon. Albert killing men with the other future man's weapon. Anne on the ground in pain. The sudden explosion from the grenade causes her to actually fall back on her ass, dropping her sword. Such weapons… ghost weapons… but unimaginably powerful.
Frighteningly powerful.
She had no idea. While to Albert and Benjie it might seem… well like nothing special… Yuzuki finds herself genuinely frightened. Niji comes up behind her and nudges her with her muzzle to urge her up. And Yuzuki obliges, jumping to her feet as she scoops up her sword. She takes a deep breath and sheathes her sword as she kneels next to Anne, scowling as she looks her over. "Anne just relax… I'm not going to pull that out. It's keeping you from bleeding out for now, I know it hurts. But…" she looks towards the casket of rum. She speaks as she looks back to Anne. "Albert, give her some of her rum, and quickly!" Poor Albert, being bossed around after such a brilliant showing of ability! She looks in the direction of Benjie then as she scowls to him…and she speaks once more in a stern tone.
"You! Your experienced with these weapons." Since he brought them and all.
"Use them to defend Anne and Albert. Stay out here… kill anyone with this emblem on their clothes." She leans down and quickly draws a swastika in the dirt next to her sandaled foot.
"Don't hesitate, end their lives. Give them death." She now pushes herself to her feet, and she once more unsheathes her sword.
"I have to go back to the camp, they are being overrun." Or so she assumes. Her true fear… the attackers have weapons like Benjie's….
Speaking of the Jim's encampment…
One of the gryphons veers down into the heart of the camp. Jim's people do their best to fight off the foot-soldiers that have entered the camp. And much thanks to Xing and Horse's training, they are easily holding their own.
But that's about to change.
A woman leaps from the back of one of the gryphons, landing in a crouch at first. She draws a sword from her side, a shield off of her back. Her features are concealed under her hood, her form bound with leather and straps. One of the defenders of camp runs right towards her… he's feeling confident that he just killed one of the attackers. But as he approaches the woman, she moves towards him unexpectedly and smacks him with the front of her shield. He stumbles back as she stabs her sword through his heart, killing him immediately. Some of his pals yell out, and a group of 3 men and 2 women notice the dark clad woman. As one they run towards her, intending to kill her. But as they do… a smell fills the immediate area around her.
The smell of flesh being burned.
Under the leather straps, her exposed skin starts to redden and bubble. It chars as she leans towards the oncoming defenders. She grits her teeth with the pain, and her eyes flash. When this happens… the area just in front of the 5 defenders explodes like a bomb. 3 of them are disintegrated instantly, the other 2 are blown into small chunks. Horrified, another of the defenders charges towards her. A second aims his bow at the woman. The air around her starts to heat up as the charging man gets closer… and the air explodes directly in front of his face. His head explodes and he just topples. The archer, she fires an arrow at the attacker… but just before the arrow would strike her in the chest, it seems to disintegrate in the air. She looks towards the archer, and her bow explodes… and then the area beneath her feet explodes, killing her instantly.
The other defenders… they start to retreat. They don't know what this woman is, but they know they are no match for her. Not for her and the rest of the soldiers now entering camp. The exposed and charred flesh of her body heals itself almost instantly as she now strides in the direction of Jim's tent.
"Morrison!" She calls out, her voice having a heavy French accent.
"Come out… surrender peacefully… or I will kill every man, woman and child associated with you." As if to show she means it, the top of Jim's tent suddenly explodes with just a flash of her eyes.