Log horizon, a new update

[blueayes]

They walked around simply trying to past the time Jaune couldn't help but feel uneasy next to Scars towering figure, it was strange really. Jaune was nowhere near the man's skill when it came to combat yet for whatever reason Lord Naotsugu had made him team captain instead.

Just by walking next to the man Jaune could see the difference, Scar was confident when he moved every step was firmly placed like if the man didn't have a shred of doubt in him, not only that Jaune couldn't compare to Scar when it came to raw power.

The proof was in the way the fought Jaune needed his shield, armor, and sword, Scar, on the other hand, didn't need any of that, no the man used his bare hands, this spoke wonders about the man's skill and his ability to come out of a fight alive.

As he thought about this Jaune couldn't help getting distracted and as a direct result, he slowed down his pace, so as he looked at Scar's muscular back hat was currently covered with a thick yellow jacket. Slow the sounds of the town he had slowly become adjusted to began to vanish and Jaune realized they had wondered to one of the roads people were using to arrive at the broken city.

As Jaune looked around he noticed that wagons, vehicles or even animals that people rode on began to arrive. No that wasn't right the people hadn't stopped arriving, in fact, Jaune had never been in this part of the city, most of the training or people living in the city were in another part of the city.

Children an around chasing one another, as infants cried while their mother's desperately tried to keep them warm. Knights, soldiers and warriors Jaune had never seen before walked around keeping an eye on things making sure that no crimes were being committed.

Hot food was being given to those that had recently arrived, the line was long and it was only getting longer, no that wasn't right there were several lines and more food was arriving to feed the people.

Knights and what looked like their rulers kept the snow away by staying under a tent and keeping a fire burning in the center of the tent. Normally this wouldn't have been out of the ordinary, but the thing was, each tent had a different flag or emblem on it.

After them, several tents skilled with people laying in beds and had different doctors and healers walking between each of them.

"I heard that, the Adventurers had rounded up the nearest towns and cities from all over the place, considering what the Adventurers considered a short distance meant that several hundred miles were covered, but apparently it wasn't enough." Scar said as he walked in front of Jaune.

"What do you mean?" Jaune asked Scar.

"Last night when you two were having your fun, I heard stories from the people drinking around us, according to what I could understand there are entire cities lost out in the snow-covered mountains." Scar said as his footsteps crushed the snow while he walked.

"From what I've heard Captain, there are a couple of cities and even some kingdoms out in the snow that still have people living in them. They either are made of refugees from the nearby places that gathered because they were looking for a safe place to live or out of sheer desperation."

"Those cities or kingdoms are here only because the adventurers have a reputation of controlling power and resources no one else can." Scar said as he walked, however, he never bothered to look back.

"But the adventurers hardly ever leave the areas they've secured, there are too many people for them to really move out at the moment," Jaune said to Scar as he tried to understand the man's words.

"And yet when they do, they have brought down mountains, brought back rare metals no one could ever reach and if what some people say is true, they have killed Gods out of sheer spite."

"Imagine being given the locations of rare metals or the corps of an animal that can feed an entire city for days out of that one animal alone. Those people are here to secure trade deals and resources." Ecar said as his head turned to look towards his right.

Jaune turned and he saw a girl with long white hair, who wore a long white dress that slowly became a light blue as Jaune looked down, on her right hip was a white almost silver rapier. Yet as Jaune looked at her be couldn't help but feel like the girls light blue eyes seemed almost released to see him.

Yet as she walked closer she slowly took notice that unlike Jaune Scar had completely stopped walking and was now looking directly at her, Jaune finally closed the distance between himself and Scar as the girl reached the two of them.

"Am hi." She said to Jaune while she attempted to ignore Scar's piercing gaze.

"Sorry but it's a little awkward seeing you here." She said as she looked at Jaune, while using her left hand to hold onto her right arm.

It was strange the way the young woman acted as Jaune looked at her he noticed that for all the young woman's beauty she seemed to have a mask on her, not a real one, no it was more like an emotional one, something formed over years of simply living her life.

Yet her light blue eyes seemed almost worried as she looked at him.

"Excuse me but are you an old friend of the captain." Scar asked the girl in front of him, there was no real reason for him to do so, the simple fact was that Scar hated awkward moments like these.

So whenever he found himself in one, he simply ruined them.

"Captain waite Jaune where's Pyrrah or the rest of JNPR?" The woman asked Jaune, her face now showed a combination of fear and worry in full display.

"Sorry but I don't know anyone by JNPR, but if you're looking for Pyrrah she's gone off on her own today." Jaune answers the white-haired woman.

The moment the words left his mouth Jaune saw the woman's expression almost completely vanish, it was like seeing the color vanish from her face until one couldn't tell the difference between her and the snow around her.

"From your reaction and the fact that you know Jaunes name, I take it your probably from a world similar to the captains, only that in your world Jaune met you and this JNPR." Scar said as he tried to smooth things out.

"Let's try this my name is Scar and I'm apart of Log Horizons team C or the third group of the guild. However, I have yet to pass the exam to become an Adventurer." Scar said before turning to look at Jaune.

"Oh, I'm Jaune Arc and I'm the Captain of Log Horizons team C, but I'm waiting to become an adventurer. All I have to do is pass the exam." Jaune said as he introduced himself.

The woman lowered her head and gave a slight bow before she began to speak. "I'm Weiss Schnee, heir to the Schnee Dust Company, I am a Huntress in training but right now I'm trying to secure trade partners, workers and secure a none aggressions treaty." Weiss said as she looked at Jaune.

"Let's go get something warm to drink before we keep talking." Jaune said as he looked at Weiss, before walking towards a nearby tent that had several people drinking something.

Leading the way he found an empty table and pulled out a chair before sitting down, of course, he pulled out a chair for Weiss and Scar so they could sit down before he did so, but he didn't bother to wait for them to do so.

(Character change Shiroe)

Shiroe looked at the contents of the letter that the American's had sent him, its contents were troubling and in fact had Shiroe no known about what had been going on in the Lands of Shadow he would have thought that the American Adventurers were insane.

From what the letter said they had encountered a didn't centipede, the creature stole the faces of whoever looked at it and it had nearly escaped before they had managed to pin it down.

A lot of the Adventurers had lost their faces because of it and even when they managed to pull them off the creature, they would turn to dust before returning to the creature.

The letter somehow presented with the amount of hatred the person who wrote it had, as he wrote down how the creature laughed at this. But it made a mistake, so confident it was in its superiority, that it let slip, that it had somehow taken a peace o every person's soul, that's why he kept their faces.

Unfortunately for the monster number of weapons and spells blessed or cursed can hurt souls and as the writer wrote down it was only a matter of finding the correct mixture of spells and cursed/holy weapons needed to cut off the persons face.

The letter didn't go into full detail but apparently, they had chained up the centipede and had people now working on cutting off its many faces. Unfortunately for the creature, the Americans didn't know what would happen if they killed it, if it's stolen faces would return to their owners after its death or if they would be destroyed with the creature.

So they made sure it couldn't die, until every single face it had taken was cut off it.

Shiroe felt that their method was excitingly cruel, especially since they were using a combination of spells, acids and knives that cut the soul, the spirit and the physical body until a person was left as nothing more than what even remains after all of that was gone.

Now for the other matter, a type of pin had been made especially for the exam, it was made for the simple task of getting people out of a dangerous situation. Its uses were limited considering it only had one return spot, but with it if a person was about to die, he would be teleported to a safe area at the last microsecond.

This would mean that anyone teleported away would fail their exam and would have to wait for the next one.

The exam didn't really mean anything anyone could be an Adventurer, all the had to do was go on an Adventurer, but if they took this test they would be acknowledged by the kingdoms and the people around the nearby areas.

Not only that they could rely on the help of some of the guilds and by that extent have some authority to go along with their names.

He looked at the tyni things that could be held with two fingers and smiled it was time to introduce everyone, to the new members of their family.

 

[blueayes]

(Character change)

Snow began to slowly fall, at first one at a time then in groups of three until the snowflakes fell in groups of four, yet all of this was only for a moment, somehow she was able to see it all happen in slow motion. The world was silent, the only thing she felt was the cold wind on her face and the snowflakes break as they collided her with her face and hands.

She couldn't feel or hear anything at all the only thing she could smell was the cold air, as she breathed in. In front of her was the only tender to her past, a past that no longer mattered. She no longer mattered, the person that was had died that day and the last thing she had seen was the fool who constantly pursued her.

Yet when the world went dark she found herself standing inside her family home, all the power had gone off and there were explosions going off everywhere, she rushed out to see what was going on, only to see strange creatures running around, huntsmen fighting of fans and the defense bots, taking on bots that no one knew where they had come from.

Slowly after a lot of fighting, everyone began to realize they weren't in their old worlds anymore, slowly people began to gather seeking shelter as their cities were overwhelmed by monsters, animals or the cold climate alone.

Unfortunately, it fell to her family to deal with everything considering that everyone from their home city knee that they were the ones that usually felt with things that were problematic.

So she found herself here, trying to get trade deals, help securing roads and away of making employment for so many people, considering that a lot of people didn't speak the same language and a lot of customers some of the people had contradicted one another.

She looked at the wooden chair and saw it already had a little bit of snow on it, she dusted off and took her seat, she heard the large man doing the same thing before he too sat down, then the sound of snow being crushed as his chair sank into the snow as the man's weight was too much for the snow to hold him up.

"So Weiss why don't you tell us why you are here?" Scar said as Jaune signaled a waitress to come over, the woman noticed him and immediately brought over three large glasses of hot coffee.

"Your pin." The waitress said as she signaled to both Jaunes and Scars emblems. "Are you by any chance Adventurers or adventurers in training.?"

"Yeah, we're from a guild named Log Horizon." Jaune answered the woman with his usual cheerful voice, as he handed the woman three gold coins.

"Please your money is no good here, it's because of the Adventurers that we can even work safely here." The waitress said, before turning around and walking away.

It was a strange sight, the woman wore no more than a brazier and shorts, her long white hair and white fur covered body was completely exposed to the world, save for those two places of cloth, she didn't even ware shoes on her feet.

Yet for all of this her arms, hands and feet were human, as for the woman's face it was actually pretty cute.

"We had a lot of people show up and more kept coming in, but we can't feed them all, plus a even tho we were able to cloth a lot of them we won't be able to keep doing that. Not only that, but there are people that only live to cause trouble, so I'm here looking for help." Weiss said as she felt the weight of her words set in.

"Then it's a good thing you came here." Said a girls voice behind Weiss, a small girl stood behind Weiss, her long purple hair nearly touched the snow beneath her.

"Here." She said to Jaune and Scar before throwing at them two paper bags, as the two opened the bags they each pulled out a blue button.

"They're for your test, don't lose them because you won't be allowed to compete with ought hem, already game one to Pyrrah." The small woman said before banishing, yet as everyone turned to look at each other Weiss found a piece of paper in front of her.

All it had written on it was name, the reason why you are here and why is offered in exchange. There was something else written on it but it was too absurd for it to be real. The details of the deal will be settled in a later time, with more patients.

As Weiss looked at the paper in front of her, she suddenly realized she had somehow cut straight thru the waiting list. She immediately took out a pen and began to fill out the few questions the paper had, only for the paper to vanish the moment she was done.

"So can you tell me how the other me was." Jaune said as he saw the price of paper vanish.

There was a long pause and the realization that Weiss was really struggling to find something good to say. Finally, she emailed and began to talk.

"You were hopeless, you barely could defend yourself, you never went to combat school and for reasons, I will never know you were the leader of the team named JNPER."

"You were an idiot, but a fun idiot. I'm sorry, I know your not him, but Imsorry for being so cold to you back then. But to be honest I really wasn't interested in you and the nickname snow angel or snow queen really didn't help."

"But at he end you learned quickly and your team was one of the best." Weiss did as she unknowingly took Jaunes hand and held it with hers.

"Sounds like the you from her world, is no different from the you now, Captain." Sacar said.

Jaune for his part could only look at his hand that was being by both of Weiss's own.

"At the end I guess that you were always destined to be a Huntsman, look at you now your an Adventurer in training." Weiss said before letting go of Jaune.

"The Captain lacks training but he has the head needed to direct a fight and see a situation before it happens." Scar answers Weiss.

"So what made you want to try and become and Adventurer." Weiss asked Jaune.

Emidiatly Jaunes expression became strained before he began to talk. "I always wanted to be a hero. My father, my grandfather and his father were all warriors, they were all heroes."

"But I never went to combat school and even tho my grandfather trained me, he was old and couldn't show me anything more than just the basics. I wanted to join beacon but when I was headed there, I woke up here."

June said before Scar cut him off.

"So you decided that if you couldn't go to where you were headed then you would try to do if here." Scar said before the sound of a man drinking was heard near them.

"Sounds to me that you are really arrogant, look at you-you have no talent, you can barely fight and yet you are apart a guild, you are praised by one of your teammates and for whatever gods grace you are your team's leader." The blue-faced man said.

"I'll tell you a secret, take this from someone that's lived for more then three thousand years our heroes are someone else monsters. Just look at the giant monster those people are eating, now which was the monster, was it the creature that just wanted to protect its home or was it the group that entered its territory, took its home and is now eating it."

"But boy had they not killed it, then all of those people would have been starving." The blue man said as he sat down on the empty chair.

 

[blueayes]

(Character change)

The small council had been called in both the king and his new hand had finally arrived, parchments were stacked upon one another, strange things had been happening all over the lands and actions needed to be taken. Like it or not there was no such thing as a waiting for things to call down.

With each passing day, things were changing and not entirely for the best, one of the most urgent stories that had come in, was that of a kingdom that had emerged out of nowhere in-the old Valerian stronghold, some people said that the Dragons had returned others spoke of men with the heads of beasts and creatures that by all right should not be.

The Iron Islands had sent the dead corpses of several strange creatures somewhere men from the waist up, while from-the waist down they had the failed of fish, others were bloated their bodies covered in in fish scales, their hands and feet had sharp claws that could easily slice thru human flesh.

They had learned this when a servant had ended up cutting himself with the creatures class, when he attempted to move the foul creature.

Men with the heads of squids and strange beings that even now no one knew what they were.

Then came the stories, several missing people had returned from the land by the shadow, they spoke of a war between the children of the gods and the twisted things that dwell in hose hellish lands. Each person no matter who they were all pointed at several people that had taken them and sold them as slaves to other lands, something the king had made illegal long ago.

Yet for all of this, there was an in eas from both the king and his new hand, the council had heard about what had happend between the Starks daughter and the young prince, yet by all rights, it was both men that were in the wrong. The king should have killed both the girl and her wild for striking his son and as for his new hand, he should be grateful that his daughter wasn't executed or handed over to the men to enjoy, that would have been a fitting punishment.

Still the meeting had to continue and there was much to say, plan for and ready the men for the fight that would undoubtedly come.

A set of parchments told everything that the Nights Watch had seen, both the strange lands and the odd creatures that now roamed the north. They request reinforcements saying that with them being so few in number, that they could barely hope to hold-back a true attack.

Yet for all of this, the much-needed trust between the king and his hand no longer existed and if it was, it was highly strained. The unease and anger that could be felt from Ned Stark finally made the kings coun lose his temper and speak.

"Lord Stark, I under-stand that you feel be trade or whatever a father feels in times like this, but had it been your son and had that been someone else daughter and wild how would you have reacted." Little Finger said to the hand of the king.

"Now despite whatever resentments you may have, looked in front if you and realize that things are happening, things that are out of our control, things that can and will effect us all. I may not be a fan of how the King does things, pardon me my lord, but I'm the one that has to let go of all of the gold."

The king simply laughed at hearing his coins words.

"Now if you can't put your feelings aside then prepare yourself for a very short life... This is a stressful job." Little Finger sais as a deep silence took hold of the-room.

Both men locked eyes as if daring the other to backdown, Ned Starks nature grown from the years of living in the north and being the ruler of it all had made him stubborn and unwilling to bend after he made-up his mind and the Kings Coin whos very Narure made him see the possible outcomes of everything that would affect him.

Finally Ned Stark clesed his eyes took a deep breath and bowed his head, in the north he may have been king, here he was just another servant. He had to learn that, like it or not his old friend had shown him far more merci than he should have and he was paying him with suspension and resentment.

"Continuing," said the Kings Eye before he started to tell a story he had heard. "They say that in the poisoned lands were the twisted dead walk and the witch king lives, the sounds of fighting can be heard. None can really say weather this is true or not, the poison still covers the lands and chokes the air, but they say that strange lights can-be were seen, that strange creatures run."

"It seemed like we somehow returned to the age of heroes." Said the king as he listened to everything.

"Let's be honest about things we won't be able to figure out anything except for strengthening the defenses and finding those that sold those unfortunate people, but we need to know everything before we begin to move and prevent those danger from completely overcoming us." Said the king.

"The last peace of information we have my lord is what the sailors have said. We know this is true for they have paid off their debts and a lot of fortune hunters that are coming back with their tales between their legs."

"They all come back with gold and gems, one time an entire fleet was said to had returned with so much gold that the ships themselves were practically sinking with so much gold."

"The stories they tell are that knights and barbarians alongside beasts that wear armor and walk like men, they fight in a war above and below ground, some are said to ride giant eagles, but regardless of who anyone asked they all say the same thing."

"Those creatures that look and act like men, are not moral beings. They fight for the sheer thrill of it and all of the gold that has been retrieved was just given to the people that came back, for creatures such as them see no point in it."

Robert Baratheon simply listened and an image of the danger that surrounded the lands began to fully take shape, admittedly there was a lot of missing information, but none the less, he had enough to at least begin creating some sort of a defense.

"Start securing the border, inform the rest of the lords to do the same, tell them not to fight each other and to either capture or write down ant strange things they see." He said before stopping and allowing his mind to shift focus for a moment."

"The slavers, find their routes and either destroy them or secure them for our use. From what these stories say, everything is happening far from any place man has made home and whatever these things are, they are trying to be the ones in charge of wherever they are."

"That buys us time, send spies to learn their ways and get whatever special armors and weapons they can, send learned men to figure out ways of fighting these things and if possible using their own weapons against them. Lets hope that by the time the danger finally turns to look our way we can at least hurt whatever might be coming." Rover Baratheon said before rising from his seat and leaving the room, as he muttered something that sounded like, I need a drink.

 

[blueayes]

(Jaune Arc)

The blue-faced man took another drink allowing the wine to spill down as he drank. "Your sword and your shield they look older than you, I bet they are family heirlooms, how many people did your dad, your grandpa and his dad cut with it, how many families did they leave thought fathers and sons."

"Adventurer to be, you have to grow up, be a hero but like it or not your are going to have to do a lot of things you won't forgive yourself for doing." The dwarf said before taking another drink. "By the way, I hope you can really put up a fight just getting to that tower is going to be nearly impossible, we filled that place with things that can tear thru steel like if it was nothing." The dwarf said as he pointed at Jaune.

"What do you mean?" Jaune asked the man.

The blue-faced dwarf let out a loud laugh before whipping his mouth with his hand. "Right now those animals are tearing each other apart, so the animals you and the rest of the wannabes are going to be fighting only the toughest ones or the more intelligent ones."

"Half the food people are eating are the animals that have been killed in there, hell they would have all been killed anyway but no one expected them to just turn and look at each other and decide to kill each other for no reason." He said as he looked at Jaune.

Jaune took out his sword and looked at his reflection on the blade.

"Smells like foreign magic, that's a special sword you have there. I bet it was given to you at someone's deathbed, bit that's not just something you give away, what you have there is something you hold onto until you find someone that can use it, or you buried yourself with it, so no one gets it." The dwarf said to Jaune, his arrogant voice was now gone, there was a cold look in the dwarf's eyes, like if he was starting right thru the sword and into Jaunes very soul.

"Sounds like the lad has found himself in a crossroad in his life, if he goes straight he might fail, but if he goes back he will always ask what if." Someone says front one of the other tables.

"I have to go." Said Weiss, before getting up and walking away.

As Jaune saw her walking away he could almost swear that it was like seeing her somehow crumble into the distance, it was like she was being crushed underneath the weight of the world around her.

Slowly Jaune felt the hair on his headstand. "Jaune, Captain I need you to understand that I will follow your leadership, but I will only do so if you quite doubting yourself." Scar said as his hands ignited with electricity, showing his power flow.

"I don't know if I can do that, I mean I'm nowhere as skilled as either one of you." Jaune answers Scar.

"Skill, talent and training are all meaningless, what's the difference between a man and his dog, a man can lead, but so can a dog. A man can talk, but so can a dog and if we are talking about instinct don't dogs have those the moment they are born."

"So why does the man lead?"

"He leads because of his soul, his nature to see what can't be seen, anyone can tell the strength or speed if an opponent, but only leaders can see what isn't there. They have the skill, but from how this man acts you have the soul and the nature for it." The dwarf said before getting up and walking away.

Jaune didn't say anything he just sat there quietly.

"I'll leave you two to talk to each other." Scar said before he left, Pyrrha soon stood in front of Jaune looking at Scars quickly vanishing back.

Pyrrha rubbed the back of her head and for a brief moment, she hesitated before speaking. "Hey." She said awkwardly.

"Hey." Jaune said as he looked at her, his face turning a bright red.

Pyrrha tried to hide her own quickly reddening face before taking out the button she had received earlier and making up a to pick.

"Jaune I was thinking, you need training and its safe to say that you haven't had your aura unlocked so. Would you like me to train you." Pyrrha said trying to hid her awkwardness as the image of herself waking up to Jaunes sleeping face returned.

"Sure, but how are you going to unlock my ora." Jaune aske Pyrrha who just signals him to stand in front of her.

Jaune did so without saying a word and Pyrrha slowly placed her warm hand in front of Jaunes chest.

"Ora is the manifestation of one's soul, it can be used to heal, as a form of defense or attack or a bond between people. Jaune Ark do you accept me Pyrrha Nikos as your partner?" Pyrrha said as her voice became softer.

"I do." Jaune said before a light enveloped the two, yet when the light vanished the two found themselves under the cheering voices of everyone that was watching them.

"A soul bonding." A man said.

"So they got married." A woman asked.

"Better they are closer than anything regular people can ever had." Answers the man, before Jaune and Pyrrha ran away with their faces bright red.

 

[blueayes]

(One long day)

[Character change Scar]

The clay cup in his hand gave felt strange in his hand, the smell of the sweet chocolate mixed with the cold natural nature of the world around him, yet each time he took a drink the clay touch and flavor mixed in with the sweet flavor of the hot chocalet.

When he saw Pyrrha walking towards them, he had decided to leave those two alone, they had their own issues to deal with and he had one thing's to think about.

From what people said he Adventurers were supposed to be like the strongest of the army or some sort if secret weapon everyone knew about and so didn't want to have it pointed at them.

Yet for whatever reason the guilds had essentially left their new recruits simply walk around doing nothing with no real training, how were they supposed to learn to adapt to each other's movements and coordinate with one another.

Yet he could see why they did this, they wanted for the teams to learn to get along with one another outside of combat. Their handler had shown them just that, he had watched the man as he covered them with blankets when they slept.

He took another drink and let warm flavor of the chocolate spread, this brought an unintentional smile to his face.

The free guard walked around keeping things in check, they numbered the Adventurers by eleven to one, some even matched some of he people he had seen in the guilds, in both power and skill. Yet for all of their power, the free guard seemed to be missing something the Adventurers had.

Scar allowed himself to think about his for a moment and he realized why, it was the same reason why people had begun to gather for the Exam and why people seemed to a no leg the people that wore the emblems of the guilds.

Regardless of who or what they are everyone didn't really know what to do, so people did the only thing they could they fell back on the positions of power that they knew. If it was a king, a knight, a priminister or whatever people turned to look at them for direction.

The whole game thing was only a distraction those few people in power were using to try and get somethings under control before people realized somethings were just plain out of hand for now on.

A large lizard pulling a wagon stood next to a horse who had a knight riding on it, who was speaking to a woman that had rabbit ears on her head. He allowed his mind to shift a bit and with the spark of power the clay cup crumbled into dust, his drink was gone and there was no point in keeping the clay cup.

As Scar walked he noticed that people began to change, no that wasn't right they had their own camps. Animal people gathered around more animal people, some kingdoms people gathered around their banners and so on.

This was going to cause trouble in the near future, yet there was another cam that was rowing in number, there was a group that had formed and had been taking request in order to go in adventures and do mental tasks.

It was no different from the workshop, but there as something about it that for all intended purposes Scar didn't like, he didn't know why but for some reason his instincts told him danger.

"Let's say lad look at these three beauties each one is in prime age for childbearing and if you want someone to clean and cook for you they are fully trained in it." A man announced to Scar as he waved at him to come over.

For a brief moment, Scar looked at the man, there was no reason for him to do so, nor was he interested in buying the women but he approached nonetheless.

"Ah, I see you see something you like." Said the man but to be honest Scar neither cared for anything that he said or did.

"Dear customer, there are certain rules one has to follow when they buy a slave from us. One you must hurt them, two even if they are slaves you are not allowed to mentally torture them and if you try to use magic on them or use them for some sort of an experiment. Then an alert will be given to the free guard and the adventurers." The man said as Scar looked at the three women.

"If they are slaves then why are there so many rules?" Scar asked the man.

"Hey man gave a slight smile. " Dear customer, do you take me for a fool? Slaves are people and people have or make those that grow to love them."

"If a person is sold and in the future should someone they care about both track and find the person they are looking for dead or broken, then whoever it might be will seek revenge and it won't just be against the people that did that."

The man let the words linger in the air before be simply said. "Leave there is nothing for you here. The fact that you even so much as ask such a thing proves that your intent was nothing more than something beyond cruel."

Scar heard the man say yet the only thing he could do was look at the three women in front of him.

"How much? and what can they do?" Scar said to the man while at the same time pointing at he emblem pinned to his jacket.

The wind blew as the man looked yet he did not back down regardless it was only after a minute that he closed his eyes and lowered his head.

"They are from several villages and town that were in ruins. The rules are simple no free rides, so if you can't pay either you become a slave or you leave."

"... That alone should tell you how bad the situation was. I already sold the ones that could only cook and clean, these can barely do that. So they do know how but they aren't very good at it." The man said either trying to get Scar to leave or simply show some sympathy towards the women. "

"They each are capable of doing unique but not so helpful work such as researching through documents in hundreds of books, simple healing techneeks and taking messages from one place to another."

"How much?" Scar repeated.

"Five silvers, slave that is left, is a slave that can't be sold..., ." the man said as he let his words longer, the implications of this went in more than one way.

Scar reached into his pocket and took out a bag filled with several silvers and handed five to the man, slowly a golden light shone around him and Scar found that a mark was now placed on his right hand.

"That mark will force the slaves to follow orders and not try to kill you." The man said before he signaled the women to walk up to scar.

"No refunds." The man said before walking away

 

[blueayes]

This is for Scar only. He has his own thing going on


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Scar looked at the three women, even as the man walked away, he never bothered to pay attention to the not because he wasn't a threat, but because he was of no real importance. People would say slavery was something horrible and should not be allowed.

Maybe they were right, maybe they were wrong, but that didn't change the fact that it was occurring and unless the higher-ups ordered him to do something about it, he would never have a hand to the ones doing it.

People may argue about the slave's treatment, but one simply had to look at the state some low-level workers worked in, Scar himself had at one point seen a friend of his, enter work at five in the morning and get out at one in the morning and he was supposed to be a free man.

Still as he looked at the three women he noticed that they each held some sort of training but none of them were skilled enough to survive on their own.

"I'll be clear with each of you, the only thing I want if for a clean house, clean clothes and a warm meal. If you can do all of that, then we won't have any problems" Scar said to the three women.

"Then shouldn't you just get yourself a white." A man said behind Scar.

As Scar turned to see who it was when noticed that the man who spoke to him was a cat dressed as a noble, he wore a bright smile as he looked at Scar and with a white give covered hand he pointed at a blue pin on his gold color coat. It was the same kind of pin Scar now wore, which made him someone who was going to take the test.

Yet as Scar looked at the man the cat simply looked at him and made an I with his mouth. "Oh where are my manners, my name is Nyanta. Forgive me for interrupting your get-together but I was curious." Nyanta said, to scar.

Scar closed his eyes and emailed, there was no point in keeping it a secret.

"Unlike my team, I'm not as young as they are so there is no guaranty I'll pass the exam. Plus my age makes my employment as an Adventurer shorter than theirs. As they have to do is cook and clean for me, other than that they can do whatever they want with their lives." Scar answered Nyanta.

"So you're making a backup plan, the fact that you are even doing that makes me think that you aren't even considering leaving the city." Nyanta said to Scar.

"Even if I wanted to leave and I did, its always good to know that there are people waiting for you." Scar said as the image of his now dead brother, mother and father came to mind.

"I see." Nyanta said before his eyes that had maintained a childlike expression changed to a far more calculating one.

"Thank you for satisfying my curiosity." Nyanta said before simply giving Scar his hand and asking Scars hand when the man gave him his.

Scar only watched Nyanta walk away before he turned and looked at the the three women in front of him. "Tell me what are your names and do you have any skills." Scar said to the three.

"My name is Irisviel von Einzbern and I am an alchemist. Meaning that I specialize in alchemic magecraft. Unfortunately, I know little of anything else." The first woman who spoke, wore a long white dress, her eyes were a bright red and her hair was nearly so white that it almost completely blended with the snow.

Her white dress provided little protection from the cold, considering she was shivering as she spoke. Her thin figure and shy attitude would have made anyone drop their guard, except as scar looked at her, he noticed the slight hints of her looking at him with a cold nature, it was a look Scar had become too accustomed to.

She was looking for any signs of weakness she could capitalize on.

The cold wind blew as Scar took his eyes off the woman and moved on to the next, again the girl had a soft face which meant she was young a pair of light long brown fox ears hung from her head, in a way that they seemed as if they were little more than a hat.

Her arrange almost red eyes liked with his and for the briefest of Scar swore that the woman looked at him with a slight glimmer of hope.

"My name is Tia and I can sow, count to twenty and I can sing...I can also do other things." Tia said as she looked at Scar.

It was a strange sight looking at the girl, her long brown dress was heavy and soaked with the snow that had melted on it and yet despite not wearing any shoes, she didn't seem to mind the cold at all.

"My name is Jasmin and I know how to make simple medicine. I have studied in many schools and was a teacher. I lived in a big city one that only had Humans living on it. " Said the last woman, as tears fell down her eyes, her white hands had lost their color from the cold and the short right black skirt she wore certainly didn't help.

Her short black hair only covered her ears and didn't go much further than that. Yet even as the woman spoke, she couldn't help but cry, the reality of her situation had finally set in and she couldn't handle it.

For a brief moment, Scar just looked at all three and didn't say a word. Then he simply turned around and walked into the area where the most people were gathered. His thoughts were simple.

"A lot of people = Warm clothes or hot food/warm drinks." He bought a bright red trenchcoat- a brown duster and a white coat, before walking back to the place he had left the three women.

"Follow me." Scar said as he headed towards an area where people were buying hot food and warm drinks.

The only thing that was on the menu was pork and hot coffee. A woman took their food and guided them to an unused table and three women began to eat.

As he watched them eat Scar finally let himself relax and think a little bit more clearly.

"The only thing he had was the guild and heavens only knows if they would even pass. Was it healthy for him, to try and have something? Someone waiting for him, a reason to continue, even if it was against their will."

"His people were avenged and everyone he had to kill was killed. He had Jaune the kid would need to be fully trained and then what?... No he had nothing left other than to try and make whatever he had just done work and if it didn't. Well, they could all go their separate ways."

 

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(Character change Shiroe)

The report had just come in, the tower was complete all that was really needed was the decorations and the exam could begin. Shire looked at the sheet of paper, but he didn't smile, how could he.

He was about to send those people into a war, like it or not they had to thin out the herd. All of them were already guild members but by doing this they would know the skills and fighting powers of the new blood in their ranks. His friends had been following team C and altho their interaction with each other was limited and by that he meant how much them C actually talked to each other, they had begun to see each other as acquaintances, or lovers.

Shire took a sip of his tea and noticed it was now cold, it was hot when had come back into his office, after carefully putting down his cup, he picked up five sheets of paper and noticed how heavy they were.

"The weight of the future" Shiroe thought to himself.

The first sheet came from the Americans, they had found and made peace with a large gathering of undead that lived peacefully with living Humans and animal people, they had marked down this part like suggesting that these were in fact animals.

The problem was that they had run into more problems, the dead or better said undead had seen them come back to life and had begun to worship these stars made men, not only that whenever an adventurer died he carried the souls of the undead with him or her and allowed the dead to move on.

They had finally started to rebuild and from what shiroe could understand it seemed like if the creatures around the Americans are had learned not to anger them, as anything that did so, either ended up dead or imprisoned somewhere. Trade had begun with the animal people, but there were words here and there about something happening deep beneath the waves of the sea.

Shiroe didn't know about any of that he was too busy taking care of the more emidiat problems that had been going on.

The next sheet of paper was something he had become so used to having to respond, it was a mother wedding offer. If it wasn't nobles, it was some important member of some company that wanted to retain or secure power, like usual Shiroe was about to write down the detection letter only yo realize that the letter was dedicated for Jaune.

This was new, he had become used to having to respond to people wanting to secure an allegiance with a his guild, but it was the first someone had wanted to marry one of their daughters to a recruit, the reason was simple. There was no guarantee that the recruit would even be able to pass the exam and as such would be forced to leave the guild and get he held in his hand that very thing.

The letter was from a man that owned a dust company, he detailed what dust was and who he was, he stated that his daughter was in fact acquainted with Jaune and that the two even had a history together.

Shiroe showed his small companion the letter and she agreed that there was a girl that matched the letter's description when she gave both Scar and Jaune their pins.

This was a problem, from what shiroe understood Jaune had performed a soul bind with his partner and had already slept with her, this was common knowledge and yet the man had sent in a marriage request. Jaune was already married...but what did that mean in his world.

No, it would be up to Jaune and his wife to decide, so Shiroe put the sheet of paper of to the side.

The next was a report from the Black Dragons a combat guild, they had found hundreds of thousands of dead bodies frozen on the spot, it was like the ice had come in and left leaving the petrified forms of those people behind. The Black Dragons had followed the trial of something straight to a city where they found... The number of people was reticular but they had somehow managed to live thru whatever it was that happened.

Shiroe signed the approval food and warm clothes would be sent, but the Black Dragons would have to stay there for the time being.

The next sheet of paper was from the Free Guard, they wanted to begin patrolling between towns and cities, they weren't requesting permission they were just informing. Shiroe looked at the paper and understood that the Free Guard would be a problem in the future but for now they were needed.

The last sheet of paper was from one of the spies beyond the wall that divided the lands where the other kingdoms are located. He read about the story of Roberts Rebellion and the events that led up to it, Shiroe for his part read between the lines and understood, that the ones that were to blame, were the son of the Dragon King, the Stark girl.

The prince was already married and had period another woman and despite already engaged the girl had left her fiance for a married man. How many had died because of it, of course, the girls family had liked up arms, her father and brother were tortured and killed for questioning the main crown and the man that seemed to have actually loved her had fought for her freedom.

It was believed that the girl had been kidnapped, when in reality she had eloped.

The final and last sheet of paper for the day was something that made no sense it was a list of names of people that would be arriving to see the exam.

(Character change Weiss Schnee)

Embers cracked in front of her, the fire was now gone, now only embers remained, her father's words repeated themselves inside her head, she had foolishly told her father about the application and how she had acquired it and the man had returned a few minutes later informing her, that he had sent a marriage proposal.

"It's either him or a complete stranger," Her father said as he pointed at everything around them

"Or are you going to let so many die, because of you're selfishness. He said as he, turned her head to several noble girls that were meeting their own arranged sooters.

It was cruel but the man was right, it would take years for everyone to fully recover from what had brought them here and that was only the outside, things like customer and speech would take longer.

The embers were dying now, soon they would be completely gone, for a brief moment she remembered that he would most likely be off in adventures and Pyrrha would be with him.

A small flame began to burn on its own, as Weiss wondered if she would go as well or be all by herself. No, she would not burn out, even if this was an arranged marriage, even if she would one day give birth to his babie, it didn't have to be something bad.

Even if things did go bad, she could always say screw it, fake her own death and leave. A small smile crossed her face, it was better Jaune Arc than a complete stranger.

 

[blueayes]

I'm having an issue with how far I should go in detail uncertain areas.
The Westeros side is way-way darker the problem is details.

Any suggestions on how graphics the violence and so on should be put.

 

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The sound of a hammer hitting ice echoed through the tower, the final piece of the puzzle had just been put in its place. Instantly the tower resonated with power, gears of bone- metal- ice- lifted levers of wood- ice and gold, flamethrowers, spike walls and holes on the floors momentarily activated themselves as their sensitivity and effectiveness was tested.

While outside the tower, the walls rose and fell, became stairs and slides that no man could climb, while at the very top an arena was put in place, the final surprise, for the new blood.

With a smile beast men/Fanus- Humans- Dwarfs- Elves and a few others that had gathered to lend their help. Now came the hard part each man regardless of his position, let a single drop of his blood fall and so from the highest floor, their blood fell giving the tower its baptism by blood.

Crack, crack their blood drops shattered on the floors of the tower, instantly the lands outside resonated with the rower and every beast and creature knew that a fight would soon come.

A loud trumpet began to echo and letters were instantly sent, messengers carrying letters ran with all their strength, their destination clear, each high-ranking person was to come and see the show, the new recruits will be tested, their skills will be sharpened by the chaos of war.

Their bravery, loyalty and intelligence would be pressed to their limits, in reality this was all to see how long they lasted, the first to die will be the weakest and it will go on until all that was left were the stronger and more capable of them all.

Mothers and Fathers held their sons and daughters, giving them the warmth of their affection, reminding them that they loved them.

Knights, sharpened their sword, polished their shield and inspected their armors, while barbarians drank and spoke about the wars they had been in their past, as they attempted to calm their worried minds.

Treaties were signed and marriages proposed, securing food- workers- animals and clean water for their people.

Maidens- Saints- Holy Men of all sort prayed for the safety of the people and that their troubles would be alleviated, before their eyes warriors of lighting- fire- light- water- crops and all that was holy in the forms of men came forth.

Witnesses for the trials ahead, each worrier's wings heald the people's souls as they walked passed them, where they stepped the world sang, their destination clear, a stone table that had a miniature river flowing thru it.

Each of them took a seat, never acknowledging any of the many people that gathered to see them, their armors made of gold- silver- adamantium and other metals not found in the worlds of men, each holier than the last.

Girls and boys ran as they held hands, their smiles bright for the future to come, as the sounds of infants could be heard behind them.

Benjen Stark had finally returned to the wall behind him were the many prisoners he had picked up along the way, they marched alongside desperate men and one or two small boys that had nowhere else to turn.

Yet he found no rest as one of his men emidiatly handed him a letter inviting him to watch an exam that those beyond the walls were about to hold.

 

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"Let me tell you the truth. The truth behind fighting. Fighting continues forever. After you've defeated one person, someone stronger appears. If you manage to defeat him, then an even stronger person comes along. If you don't have the resolve to endure that eternal struggle, then eventually your confidence will erode. But it doesn't end there! The battle will continue elsewhere, fought by others. It's an endless cycle! And it doesn't end with a person's death. The cycle will continue! As long as people and their souls exist, there will be disputes and those disputes will lead to fights. And those fights will continue without limit, for all eternity." – Jin Kariya
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No man's life is worth more than another! If you're gonna put your life on the line, you do it as equals! I don't care if you're brothers, or master and apprentice, or whatever! You should only die for a guy who'd die for you! There's nothing honorable about throwing your life away as though it's nothing! That's just showing off like a kid." – Madarame Ikkaku

 

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A wooden table was set inside the guild, once again all sorts of food was placed Jaune- Pyrrha and Scar alongside his new slaves all arrived, the darkroom was nowl dimly light, before the three couldn't see their surroundings now a small speck of their surroundings could be seen.

However now Naotsugu was not present, the three ate in silence eagerly devouring the food in front of them. Scar drank wine as he ate fish and stake, Pyrrha carefully picked at several fish crabs, while Jaune drank cold water along with hard sweet bread.

As they ate they each took a brief glance of the empty chair that remained unused, yet Naotsugu's chair was not present, none of them had had any real training with each other, nor did they have any form of understanding of each other's way of thinking.

Yet they were expected to pass a test that would determine the rest of their lives.

As they ate the weight of what was to come began to set in, yet none dared to say a word, never did they realize that several sets of eyes were watching them from above. The Adventurers were now looking at the new additions to their family.

The three women ate eagerly yet they didn't try to say a word, they each took from everything and drank what was familiar to them, quietly they all cried, none of them ever beloved they could, would be able to do this again.

A warm meal and surrounded by people.

Tomorrow their fates would be decided but today they were all the same, people that had simply gone with the flow of what had happened, people that were so rounded by strangers and had nowhere else to go.

Tomorrow they will be sent into an unknown field, that had monsters, surrounded by people in the same situation they were in and yet they couldn't help but feel excited about it all. None of them had a past now, the people they were didn't matter, the bonds they had, now only they remembered them, it was a start from zero for all of them.

Scar remembered his brother as he looked at his right arm and allowed his power to flow, before his eyes met Jaune who was seated in front of him.

Pyrrha looked at her shield and short sword as she ate, long gone were the crowds of cheering people, no one knew who she was here, yet despite her mother and father not being there she wasn't completely alone.

Jaune looked at his sword and at his shield, each one had a number of scratches on it, a cruel reminder of the past that his weapons had, yet for some reason Jaune briefly wondered how many more would be added in the feature.

Far from the guild house in a tent guarded by defense bots, soldiers and some fanus Weiss sat next to a maid the woman graved her head in pure frustration, the fire inside the tent threatened to burn the tent itself, so the wood needed to keep it going was denied to it.

Slowly the wind outside began to grow in power, forcing those outside to rely on their clothes and keep moving in order to not freeze to death.

"What are you so against learning what I have to teach?" The maid asked Weiss.

"I'm not good at any of this." Weiss answered the woman.

"Everyone can do this." The Maid said before pausing a moment. "But the only one available at the moment is you." The maid said as she took another handkerchief and began to fold it.

"I wonder are you against learning this because it will put you under your father's thumb because you're prideful or because you're scared you'll actually like the results of this?" The maid said as he finished folding the handkerchief.

"I'm supposed to make someone I barely know." Weiss began only to be cut off.

"And because of that certain people have already signed trade deals with your city, your people are receiving medic in and the technology that is being brought in, is helping replace our own that can no longer function." The maid said as she took a dress shirt and began to fold it, before handing another to Weiss, who imitated her movements.

"We're two different people." Weiss protested.

"Who now have to rebuild from scratch, the only difference is that you're a noble lady born into your family and he's a married man that earned his position within his house." The maid quickly cut Weiss of.

"Better him than a complete stranger." Weiss said, remembering her father's words as well own.

"A marriage that benefits all is better a marriage that benefits no one." The maid said before pausing to look at Weiss the white-haired woman had perfectly folded the man's shirt.

"If I were to say no or just run away later." Weiss said, as she looked at the peace of cloth in front of her.

"Then you would seal the fates of many, in the short run, but in the long run you would seal your own. People won't just forgive and forget the one responsible for abandoning them in their time of need." The maid said, as she took a large pot and placed it above the fire and quickly throwing several dry pieces of wood, to burn.

"I'm the ruler not him, I may be forced to show face but it doesn't have to the same behind closed doors." Weiss said as she took a knife and began to cut some vegetables that were handed to her on top of a cutting board.

The maid smiled, before closing her eyes and whispering to herself. " The question is that when its all said and done, will you want to leave and run away or will you desire to be with him at the end.

 

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Despite having many wise men a king will be wise to listen to a fool, for if a fool can see reason, then those with reason are fools.

 

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The wind began to blow stronger as it began to rain as the water fell it became frozen balls of ice, or froze the people it came in contact with. The phoenix flapped their wings warming the freezing waters, each firebird carefully moved as to keep the natural and unnatural nature of the world away.

Mothers covered their children with warm blankets as they laid them for the night, while their husbands and fathers began to take up guard, to keep dangers of both beast and people away.

Wagons moved through the night, as and men began to exit them while the free guard watched them work through the night, slowly the sounds of hammers hitting spikes echoed through the night. Tents were set up, as merchants prepared themselves for the days to come.

Stalls were placed, food was taken into count, stuffed animals, dry meats and pickled fruits placed under guard, finally, as the rain fell the final posts were picked up and tied with ropes. Hot drinks were passed around alongside dry coats to protect the men from the cold winds, unfortunately, all of them refused the dry clothes for they would have to work through the night.

Slowly horses marched one by one and side by side with many beasts, nobles- businessmen and people that were highly respected began to arrive, yet none dared to exit their wagons because of the storm. The storm lasted through the night until the sun began to rise and the people that were waiting in the city awoke to a transformed land.

One by one, each noble and person of interest began to walk towards their destination dressed in fine silks and kept warm with many rare furs they took their seats on a large wooden table that had several crystal balls on it. Close yet distant their guards watched unwanted movement.

Jaune- Pyrrha and Scar took a deep breath as they checked their armors and weapons making sure that nothing was damaged- too lose or too right. They had awoken to three simple bags filled with food- different kinds of first aid medicine and several bottles of water, alongside ways to purify any freshwater they found.

With their new bags, they found a letter that explained that their meal would be nothing more than hard bread and water, it also said that by the end of the that they would be thanking their handler for doing this for them.

One by one they began to exit the guild house and took a brief moment to look at it before turning around and heading to the area everyone was gathering in, their eyes widened at what they saw thousands of men- woman- boys and girls were all gathered at starting line their destination clear the top of the single building in a massive cage whose walls were made of ice.

Men shared dry meats with one another, while knights in perfectly trained positions drew their swords, barbarians beat their own chest in an attempt to get their blood flowing before the battle began.

It was all a disorganized mob one that would soon have everyone attacking each other, rather than attempting to reach their destination. Perhaps that was the case Jaune noticed that several elven archers eyed a group of soldiers that checked their guns one last time.

Pyrrha realized that more than one woman looked at her with eyes filled with anger, while she noticed that more than one of them glanced at ther two teammates.

Scar smelled the nature of the land and the people they had both stepped into and found themselves surrounded with. There was a sense of blood- fear- hate and regret in the air, this was no place for children that wanted to be heroes if the people around them didn't die to each other then many would fall to the animals here.

Slowly drones both magical and technological in nature began to fly allowing the people in the city to see what was going on in the testing grounds, it was dangerous to let the animals and creatures that lived here to be so close to the people on the outside.

One by one several Adventurers began to arrive and the three noticed Lord Naotsugu amongst them. "Listen up, anything goes, your pins will teleport you away before you die!"

"All that you and your teams have to do is reach that tower and get to the top!" The all screamed, before walking over to the edge in order to get away from the students to be.

Jaune felt his bravery begin to leave him as no one dared to make sound, he failed as he drew his sword and noticed that the air began to heat itself up. It was the convinced wills of everyone around him.

Pyrrha looked at Jaune as she let a smile cross her face he had already drawn his sword.

"Scar, Pyrrha stick close to one another everyone is about to run so we might get separated if we aren't careful." Jaune said to them.

For a moment Pyrrha was taken back yet she chose to follow his instructions.

"There's something watching us in the forest, my guess is it was drawn to us because of how tens everyone here is." Scar said before the Adventurers voices screamed

"Begin!"

Instantly everyone ran into the field below like a waterfall that had found itself in new ground they tore through the snow- ground and stone below their feet and were met by the roaring screams of defiance as a green wave of Orks charged from the forest within the greater cage.

"WAAAA!" They screamed as they waved clubs made of wood and animal bones, stone axes and swords made of rare minerals.

The two waves crashed into one another as they both fought for dominance, the Orks came for the thrill of battle and killing the fools that dared enter their territory and the recruits fought to eran their place.

Those with skill ran on top of the wall of bodies and used the nearby trees to gain distance from all the fighting, all they had to do was reach the top, no one had said anything about helping each other out.

Those with arrows and guns attacked from a distance taking advantage of the fact that so many of the recruits needed to attack from close range, but they could not relax as people bodies vanished, teleported away, signing that they had nearly died in combat.

Jaune blocked a stone ax from hitting Scar, as Pyrrha turned her sword into a rifle and began to open fire, only for a bone sword to comedian upon her, the sword dissolved long before it met its target, destroyed alongside its owner as Scar destroyed them both.

Knights worked alongside barbarians opening a path and when the wall of orks broke the recruits spilled thru overwhelming the orks with sheer numbers alone.

"Head to the forest!" Jaune screamed, as he hoped that the trees would give him and his team the much-needed cover they needed to matchup their wounds.

The three did so as a lion made of fire made its presence known, drawn in by the smell of ork blood, it charged at the recruits that brought it down with a combination of arrows and gunfire.

Jaune gasped for air as he cookout a bottle of water and took a deep drink, he handed it to Pyrrha who after drinking gave it to Scar who gave it back to Jaune now that the bottle was empty.

"Are either of you hurt?" Scar asked his team.

"No" Pyrrha said

"Just some scratches" Jaune answered, his voice winded from the fight.

"Good, Captain it looks like everyone has started to move on their own. That first fight took out the people that weren't supposed to be here, I suggest we move carefully, no one said anything against recruits killing each other. All we have to do is reach the top." Scar told Jaune, but his eyes were directed at Pyrrha.

No more words needed to be said and the three began to walk carefully their only landmark was the giant tower in the distance. The forest that was once quite now shook with the battles being fought within it, the screams of beasts and men were carried by the winds, reaching the ears of those that remained.

Back in the balconies set up for those of high birth Weiss covered her mouth in shock at what she had just seen, her mother held her shoulder trying to bring some comfort to her daughter.

"The man thinks well on his feet, not only had he instructed his team before but also assessed the safest way to his destination." A man said as he placed forty pounds of gold on the table, as the image of Jaune was shown to them.

"I'll tell you what, I heard that you hold a great amount of coal under your control. So how about four hundred pounds of dust worth forty pounds of gold, for forty pounds of coal worth forty pounds of gold." He father answered the man.

The man just smiled and said deal, immediately the two sighed a contract and continued to watch.

Laughter erupted as both men and woman handed over contracts and sacks filled with gold or silver, while the images of men- woman- boys and girls were shown recovering from their wounds. The test was over for them, yet they all received a mark of approval, they had been accepted by their respective guilds.

 

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For those of you wondering why I haven't shown more of everything else.

It would be to confusing to do that and I'm not skilled enough to pull that off, so I have to concentrate on one group or person at a time.

Anyway, think of the cities and few towns as their own kingdoms. Like it or not that is a must for them.

None of them has the capacity to keep them safe or even maintain them, so they are forced to rely on each other.

 

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Weiss looked at the many battles taking place and she noticed hat no one was making any real progress, those that had avoided combat moved slowly taking in their surroundings, carefully avoiding unnecessary fighting and stopping for a wild animal to leave the area.

Those that had ran in the open ground had now completely stopped relating on one another to stay safe, their injuries and the blood of their opponents attracting more and more predators to them. They used the snow to wash away the blood exposing them more to the climate, their first aid kits were now empty.

As they all rested they began to rely on each other's help their bags of food were now empty and with their rations gone they would have to hunt for their food.

(Character cange)

Jaune took a deep breath as he hid behind a tree, he could see Pyrrha across from him ready to open fire, in front of them was a bear the size of a house. Unfortunately, the sound of growling behind made them turn and meet face to face with several large lizards.

Pyrrha opened fire there was no point in hiding from the bear if they were killed by the lizards, however, each shot only bounced off the lizard's hard skin.

Scar charged only to stop when the bear roared and charged at both the lizards and themselves, Jaune and Pyrrha roled out of the way as the bear massive form shattered the trees that had just been using as cover, like if they were nothing.

The lizards shot poison at the bear somehow missing such a massive target, it immediately dissolved the snow and broke apart the shattered remnants of the trees.

There was no point in fighting wordlessly they all agreed in this so they turned around and ran, unfortunately, they were the smaller targets. The bear fought off several lizards, however, more began to arrive from different directions.

Yet they did so three at a time or one by one, Jaune noticed this as he ran and a single thought passed his mind. "This was an ambush and from the very beginning the lizards were targeting the bear."

"Up the trees now!" Scar screamed as the bottom half of a lizard was thrown in their direction.

Pyrrha graved onto the back of Jaunes armor pulling him up the tree brakes with her. Pyrrhas eyes widened the realization hit her, these weren't ordinary animals that attacked out of instinct, they planned and attacked in waves.

They couldn't stay put they had to put as much distance between themselves and the lizards as possible.

The tree branches began to move on their own as the tree connected with another, none of them questioned it, this giant cage had a lot of things that didn't make any sense, as they ran they found a group of barbarians eating the bloody tenants of several wolves.

The sun was beginning to go down and thankfully the tower was now almost completely in front of them, then the ground began to shake it was Scar who grave the two of them before they could move any further.

The ground around the tower had collapsed only leaving several wires leading towards the tower, there was a single bridge that people could use enter the tower.

Several people that could only be called ninjas ran on top of the wires and began to climb the tower walls, only for the tower to begin to spin on their own, the walls opened and fell attempting to make the people fall.

Several people fell mediator vanishing from sight, the test was over for them.

"The only thing that didn't change was the door." Jaune said as his stomach began to make a sound, it was a good thing they hadn't eaten like they normally would have, if they had it would have slowed them down.

A hissing sound below them shows several giant snakes slithering by, they needed to take a break and it seemed that this was the last somewhat safe place that they would find themselves in, so I thought a word they began to take out their food rations and began to eat.

It was nothing more than sweet fruit, dry meat and water but it did its job, now came the hard part, their rations were now gone and the sun was about to set, like it or not they would have to wait until morning before they tried to even reach the tower.

The moment the sun completely set, several specs of light showed where the remaining recruits were. There weren't many fires light, either people had decided to try and last thru the night or nearly every recruit had already been eliminated.

Inside the tower, several people began to take their place, soon the first few surprises of the tower would be known.

Far from here, Weiss rose from her seat and began to walk the streets, at her side several knights and trained huntsmen followed closeby, making sure no one marked her as a target. Her long blue dress that made her figure show along with her black shoes and natural light skin and white hair made her look almost like a fairy.

It was easy to tell the natives to the city apart from those that had recently arrived, those that were native to the city actually had houses- shops or apartments. Those that had settled in either had tents filled with whatever they needed and partially built houses, this group had decided that they wouldn't leave, this was now their home and if they had to build their own homes, so be it.

Then were the recently arrived, this group had little to nothing at all. Remnants of whatever lost city were out there or unfortunate souls that were the only people from their worlds or time.

Oddly enough medical care was actually getting to the recently arrived unfortunately it was starting to run out, as for food Weiss could already see several of the animals killed in the test being served to the people.

Weiss had heard stories about children being left behind by their parents at the doors of one of the guild houses, the few churches or one an orphanage. There was even a story about women abandoning newborn nearby hospitals.

Light poles both electrical and not light up the streets, Weiss looked around as many of the festival lights drew children to the many games and food stalls, near them were their parents or an armed guard.

The free guard walked around and in occasion beast, men and mechanical guards passed keeping an eye on things so that troublemakers didn't get out of hand, a flash of light in the distance alerted her that someone had been attacked and she heard a radio an ounce.

"Target is dead."

This city wasn't as safe as everyone thought, but compared to her own it was infinitely better, even now the entire robotic guard was out patrolling back home and what medicine they had was rationed to keep the most useful people alive.

Yet despite knowing or hearing about this people were still arriving there and the few resources they had were starting to run out.

Because her family controlled the dust mines they were now considered nobility by a lot of people, of course, the fact that they had a lot of money and a lot of trained soldiers under their control helped.

Yet they could barely stay afloat, she had gone to speak to her father earlier that day and found several wedding proposals on his table, none of them belonged to anyone she knew and yet they were all asking for her hand in marriage.

"If you walk alone, make sure your guards are close by." Said a small girl dressed like a shrine maiden.

Her light brown hair white dress and bright smile made Weiss slightly lower her guard, she had only done that because the girl was so small, but Weiss had begun to draw a small blade she had hidden underneath her sleeve.

The girl was far too skilled to be a normal child, luckily she didn't need to use the knife as the girl walked away when she saw a group of children calling out to her.

The festival lasted through the night and people did the best they could, men made bets on who would be eliminated next, now that they knew that no one really died, while others sold the food they had prepared earlier that day.

"You seemed troubled lass, care to tell an old man what troubles you." A man asked her, yet when she turned around she only saw ahead.

"Sorry if my appearance troubles you, but my time has passed but I'm too stubborn to die." The head said before smiling at her.

"I'm supposed to make for the good of the people, people that don't care about me, but if I dont both the city and everyone will starve and be thought the much-needed help." Weiss said to the head.

"I've lived a thousand years and still find myself encountering people with this problem I bet you sought a life of adventure, to be free to see the world and meet new people, while seeing interesting lands."

"And for a time you did, you made friends from enemies and friends from people you would normally never give the time and yet you find yourself where you had begun."

"Girl, we all have duties, as yourself will he be a good husband? Will I be a good wife? Will he accept me? Both when I'm most annoying and I'll tempered?"

"If the answer is yes, then marry the man and don't let him go, but if the answer is no. Will your people be able to rely on each other to rebuild?"

"If the answer is no, then marry him, but if the answer is yes, ask yourself one last thing can we fend off an invasion?."

"If the answer is yes, don't marry, it will be tough but eventually your people will prosper, but if it's no then remembering that as someone in a high position, you have to do things ordinary people never even have to consider." The man's head said before his right eye began to glow yellow and floated away.

 

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Jasmin sat comfortably at the wooden table she and the other three women had eaten on the night before, her master and his friends were now resting, they used thin blankets on top of one another, as they huddled together attempting to stay warm.

This test was pushing them to their limits, it had begun to rain inside the cage they were in, which was interesting because the rain didn't so much as touch the outside of the massive cage. The blond teen that was not yet a man let out a dim glow as he tried to keep the rain from touching them, yet even now she could tell it was far too weak to really be of any real help.

Still, they held even as more and more people vanished the cold climate was too much for them, yet none dared to retreat, they had been given a mission and failure was not an option. Perhaps some had died, but the mission had to be completed even if it fell onto a single person.

Lord Scar as the people referred to him had begun to erase the winds that were blowing he somehow created a double around them, unfortunately, it didn't stop the rain, as he stopped using his power for some reason.

Each time the double collapsed the combination of wind and water struck the three like needles that pierced the skin, slowly both shields floated into the air taking the blunt of the frozen rain.

As Jasmin watched she realized that the three were forced to rely on each other's unique skills for them to even have a chance of surviving the night, finally the rain stopped and the full moon showed itself.

Jasmin looked to the two other slaves and noticed that both of them had fallen asleep, only she remained to watch their masters progress. The guild house had several servants that did everything the guild house itself needed doing,

Someone that had so many servants didn't need slaves so what would be their purpose she wondered.

(Character change)

Jaune shook as he tried to stay awake, he could see Pyrrha's now blue closed lips, ice now covered parts of her hair, eyes and hands the storm had passed but it had almost been the death of them, everything was frozen now, anything that was dry was now gone, so it was impossible to start a fire now.

Scar stretched out his hand and touched Jaunes forehead, it was but an instant but Jaune swore he felt every part of his body scream in pain. Pyrrha gave a small scream, the moment Scar's hand touched her, as lightning passed thru her body and finally Scar did it to himself.

They had to survive the night now, if they moved they risked falling and attracting any unwanted attention, if they fell asleep they risked never waking up again. Like it or not they had to wait out the night and hope they could finish this.

None of them dared to say a word, their throats hurt just by swallowing their own spit, Jaune searched thru the last contents of his supply bags and took out an aluminum tray, before breaking off several branches off the tree they were on.

Instantly Scar destroyed whatever moister the branches had and Pyrrha struck both shields causing sparks to hit the dry wood, starting a small fire.

Slowly hey began to break more and more branches desperately trying to stay warm, but the fire was too small, so Pyrrha and Scar had to take out their own aluminum plates and put it together with the one Jaune was using.

None of them slept the entire night, the tension in the air was now increasing, like if something had noticed what was going on and had begun to move against them.

Slowly the night passed and one by one people began to gather at the edge of the pit that divided the tower from the rest of the cage, none dared to cross one of the two bridges that existed and the many wires that connected the land to the tower.

Out of the thousands of people that had started only a few hundred remained, Jaune began to notice that the trees around them had begun to shake as more and more people began to arrive.

No one moved, not because they were afraid, but for the reason that no one wanted to be the ones to trigger whatever defenses the tower truly had, then it happened.

"Waaaa!" Something roared before the ground shook, as a massive cloud of snow rose to the sky.

"Run now!" Someone screamed as a stampede of animals headed in their direction was seen by them and a wave of animals could now be seen.

The trees that were once used by the recruits to stay safe, were now being brought down, under the weight of the many bodies, that crashed into them.

Greate elks thru animals away from them, as lions pulled raptors to the ground, griffins swooped down from the sky taking their pick of the animals they referred. Ninjas ran on top of the wires, as several knights and soldiers ran across the bridges.

People soon began to hang from the wires as they make the skill to simply run on top of them, unfortunately, many of them fell vanishing from the cage.

"Now!" June screamed as he caught sight of a wall of green running towards them, a whole lot I orks were running towards them.

 

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(Character change Rober Baratheon)

He could feel the blood flowing thru his veins, the day before he had left the small council behind, for the first time in years he had taken a seat on a throne with made of a thousand swords. The look in his eyes alerted the servant to not even try to bother him.

"Close the doors and leave me alone" he said to the guards, they did as he ordered and only his personal guard remained at his side.

"Can any of you feel it?" Robert Baratheon asked his guard.

"Someone's fighting. " One of his guard said, however, Robert would not care who it was during this conversation.

"..." Robert began drew his sword and began to hit the tip onto the stone floor, each time the metal touched stone it echoed through the throne room.

Tin-tin-tin-tinnn

"My lord we need to train better soldiers" one of the guard said as he looked north.

"We're going to need a better fleet." Said another of his guard as he looked east.

"We will need to guard the people, less they are used against us or turned against us." Said another as he looked west.

"My king we can all feel it there are fights the likes none of us could ever comprehend and hey seem to be happening in every direction, but shouldn't your hand be here." Said the one of the last guards as he looked at Robert himself.

"...No..." Robert answered, the weight of his words injured inside the throne room, something had been lost between the king and his hand.

Tin-tin-tin-tinnnn the sound of metal hiring stone echoed until the sword was casted aside and Rober Baratheon walked up to a Warhammer hung on display in front of him.

"We wanted for the information the spies bring back, start to grow and train the guard, make them better than the ones that we already have." Robert Baratheon said as he looked at the war hammer.

"My lord?" One of his guard asked.

"Look for the guard that can be improved and train them personally, we are going to need them." Robert Baratheon answers his guard.

(Eddard Stark )

Edward Stark found himself looking thru several parchments, like it or not he was now the Kings Hand and as such the defense and protection of the kingdom fell upon him. Unfortunately, this meant that he wouldn't get any rest, even if the council had dismissed itself when the king left.

There were no meetings scheduled so Eddard found himself looking thru the arguments of information, trying to get a feel of how things were done within the kingdom.

Unfortunately, the only thing he gained from his troubles was an incredible headake, festivals- furs- silks and other luxuries brought in had all but rendered the kingdom broke and yet there was a feeling in the air of something not being right.

Several pages were missing, but the previous hand had known that whatever secret was being kept would be kept under whatever circumstance needed, so he began to write series of numbers that led to a letter of the alphabet and when every letter was found it simply read.

All Baratheons have been born with Black Hair.

Edward, however, wouldn't be able to investigate such a thing as parchments began to arrive detailing the costs of whatever was needed be to bought or sold. None of it needs his approval, no this was something the Master of Coin took care of, but these were just the copies, Eddard was given for safekeeping, so that the information was never lost.

This wasn't the problem, however, as Eddard soon found himself looking thru the immediate defenses of Kings Landing, the main kingdom.

Homeless littered the streets that were once clean, Eddard looked at this two major problems were here, those that shouldn't be here and what they made now litter the streets. Edward looked down at this, not because of how bad the living conditions of these people were, but because home of them had even tried to leave Kings Landing and try hunting something.

The truth was that despite how good the guard or spies were, they couldn't be everywhere. So Eddard wrote down a paper detailing the basics, men woman and children living on the streets were to be taken to the farthest loneliest location and left there to live.

It was cruel yes, but starving inside the city and causing trouble for everyone was not well liked by him, in the north people like this would have just been executed or left to die for being useless.

However, Eddard couldn't do that, this would have made people target him out of vengeance, so he gave them a choice, no a chance to farm- hunt or starve outside in that lonely are of the seven kingdoms.

Eddard felt eyes upon him, yet he failed to see anyone, this meant that there were was a spy or several spues watching him. For a moment Eddard didn't know what to do, was it the king who was keeping an eye on him or was it someone else.

A knock on the door made him turn to look at it and as it opened a servant boy bringing in parchments walked in, he left them on the nearby table and bowed before leaving.

Eddard's eyes met the writing on the parchments a d he did not like what he saw the city guard was going to be increased, not only that he was instructed to look for the best within the current city guard and separate them from the group.

The king was moving, that wasn't what Eddard didn't like, it was the fact that he had moved without seeking his advice.

 

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(Pyrrha Nikos )

Her muscles burned as she struggled to move, the ice had done more damage to her muscles than she even cared to give a thought to, whatever Scar had done cause more harm than good, everywhere the electricity had passed burned making it hard for her to even move.

The moment she rose to her feet was the same moment she regretted it, pain urged from her feet and spread all over her body, but she couldn't slow down, Jaune was grinning his death in pain and Pyrrha could even see him spending tears in pain.

Scar was already on the move, he began to slam his hands on the trees cutting off the top parts of them, as the tips of the trees fell they began to fall on top of one another or in front of each other, he was trying to slow down or divert the stampede.

She couldn't stop and so as she gave one step after another her body burned, one branch led to another until the rest of the forest was gone, from here on out they had to pass thru the opened snow-covered field, it was a small distance and in an ordinary circumstance, anyone could have made it but her muscles were already being pushed beyond what they should have been able to do.

The moment she jumped off the tree and touched the ground the pain became unbearable and Pyrrha found herself completely unable to move, Pyrrha felt a muscular arm take ahold of her and picke her up. For a moment Pyrrha turned and saw it was Scar who was carrying her.

Jaune was using his sword to hold himself up while he tried to run.

A loud snap made Pyrrha look up and she saw that one of the bridges leading up to the tower snap under the weight of so many bodies running on it. People that were hanging from the wires were falling off them as several people simply stepped over them, one by one each bridge broke until only one remained.

Slowly the sound of thunder came closer and closer until it was right behind them, Pyrrha could feel her body slowly healing itself and repairing the burned or frozen nerves, for a brief moment Pyrrha turned as she heard bodies crashing into trees.

Animals were crashing into the top parts of the trees Scar had brought down. Still, it wasn't enough as deer began to run past them only diverting as they needed the massive hole in front of them, massive bears ran near them and Pyrrha watched as a massive tentacle grave onto one of the bears and pull it into the forest, as the bear screamed in agony.

It was getting dangerous now as the great elk reached them and unfortunately they weren't able to turn like the deer were, as the snow-covered land made the massive bodies of the great elk slip and crash into the recruits making them fall into the hole.

Massive snakes moved slithered around the running animals graving at any of the animals they could, until a larger animal struck slowing the snake's attacks before they were crushed underneath the many animals hoves.

They finally reached the bridge and they found themselves being the last ones to arrive onto it. Unfortunately, the bridge broke and they fell, as the world around them became black.

They had failed.

Pyrrha felt the warm blankets on her being, they were heavy and excessively hot, then she noticed it the weight on her was uneven like if someone had placed several pillows on on-site of her body. As she opened her eyes she was met with a pair of light blue eyes greeting her.

"Weiss " Pyrrha said

"Hey, I came to talk to you." Weiss said as she looked at Pyrrha.

One long day end

 

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For those of you that don't like the outcome.

It doesn't make any sense for them to pass, no training whatsoever and all they have been doing is walking around, getting to know each other.

 

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I need to concentrate on finishing one part before I start the other so the Game of Thrones part won't be shown until I settle things with this group. []{}{}{}{}{}}}{}{}{}

(Character change Weiss Scheen )

One by one green lights began to shine, the Adventurers, the true Adventurers had marked everyone with a passing grade, even if they had failed their mission, already the bodies of the recruits were teleporting into the makeshift hospital and yet even as she stared, Weiss couldn't see anyone she knew.

None of her old friends were present inside the medical tents and as much as she hated to admit it neither were Pyrrah, the fool and that man that accompanied them now.

As she looked at the tent, she noticed that the broken, sic bodies of the recruits had stopped coming in, meaning that for whatever reason the three were still fighting. She turned to look at the images showing what was happening inside the cage and noticed that several small sparks of light could be seen moving inside the pit that so rounded the tower.

As the image clears she began to notice that, small sparks of lightning flew and the image of the white-haired man began to make itself known, he was using his power to make holes into the ground and used them to climb, while behind him Jaune and Pyrrha slammed their swords into the walls of the pit.

They were still fighting, even with half frozen bodies, as Weiss watched she noticed that their lips were pale and that all of them looked like they had lost most of their color, if they kept going, they would due, yet they pressed on nonetheless.

The three finally reached the top of the pit and already the tower turns, twisted and moved up, down, side to side attempting to first the recruits of it.

From the very top, lightning and fire danced, while from the inside of the tower the sounds of battles could be heard.

"They have spirit, but they will not survive this siege." A man sitting beside her said, as he picked up a glass filled with tequila.

He noticed that she had turned to look at him, before smiling and pointing. "See there girl." He said as pointed at the veins the three had and how they all seemed to glow blue and move on their own.

"I've been in plenty of battles and when those things show up, they mean certain death, unless a person is put in a hot place to worm up. Their veins are being filled with ice crystals, like it or not, the three have spirit but it's over." He said as he finally took a drink.

As Weiss turned to look she noticed that the first to fall was Jaune and the white-haired man caught him, Pyrrha gave two steps and then she too fell, at the end it was only that man left, until he could no longer hold their convinced weight and he finally fell into the pit once more.

Three green lights shined announcing their passing, one by one healers and doctors began to give drinks to each one of the fallen and their bodies began to give off a faint glow and immediately their bodies began to reclaim their color.

One by one they were carried off, placed on a bed, wrapped in warm blankets and left there to rest.

The siege went on and a slight movement beside her made her turn and Weiss noticed that her father had risen from his seat.

"Once I do this there is no turning back, they no doubt will ask you, make your choice now." He said, but try as she might, she couldn't find the strength to answer.

"I'll take your silence as a yes. Go greet the other woman, she is his first wife, so many will be watching how you two will be getting along." Her father said before walking away, he was going to speak to the leader of the guild that her future husband now belonged to.

As he walked away, she sat there in silence, only the sound of the ongoing siege lingering in the background.

She only sat there, watching the battles rage on, she didn't move, even as the tower broke under the onslaught of all the fighting. She didn't move, even as the green skins swarmed the tower and began to fight the recruits.

She just sat there, as the tower's defenses cut down entire waves of green-skinned Orks, she just sat there as the recruits vanished and she did not move when a team finally reached the top of the tower, ending the siege.

It was over, she couldn't move, as the blond woman wearing the blue battle dress lifted her sword in victory and as her team waved at the crowd, Weiss finally left her seat and walked away.

She finally moved

So she now found herself sitting beside Pyrrha, looking at her sleeping form, she trembled as she rested, her aura was already repairing her body, the many blankets keeping her warm and at each side, several pillows were placed acting as a way of keeping her warm, as well as being comfortable for her.

It was like if Pyrrha was inside a coffin and as she sat there looking at her, it felt almost as if she was now morning her loss.

The faint sounds of swords, spears, axes and shovels being sharpened by hand mixed in with the sounds of the sic and the sound of armors and shields being polished injured as she sat there.

She just sat there and could not move.

Three women walked passed her and surrounded the sleeping form of the white-haired man, one of them placed a clean set of clothes next to the mans sleeping form, another began to give off a faint glow from her hands, while another began to inspect the bed he was laid on.

"Weiss." Pyrrha said weakly.

She smiled. "Hey, long time no see." She answered.

"We lost." Pyrrha said, it wasn't a question, it was a statement that she wished Weiss would say was wrong.

"Yeah." She confirmed. "But you three passed, congratulations all three of you are adventurers now." She told Pyrrha.

There was no way of sugarcoating this and even as she tried to do so, she found herself unable to do so.

"I heard you married Jaune, everyone was talking about the night you had and how you announced it to everyone... Pyrrha, my father has handed in a marriage petition for me to make Jaune and there is a chance the guild will accept it." She told Pyrrha and the woman's face became from one of a pained smile to one filled with rage.

In a blink of an eye, the same injured bedridden girl, became a wall of rage-filled flames.

"You didn't want him, when he tried to speak to you, you rejected him and now that he has made himself into someone with some kind of power, now you want him." Pyrrha said, as her eyes gave off a bright red light that was nearly blinding, this was not a raging infernal, no this was a volcano compressed into a single point, threatening to explode.

She felt her heart rase, for whatever reason Weiss felt her heart sink with unease and for a brief moment Weiss understood she would die, if she didn't give a right answer to cam the enraged woman in front of her.

"It wasn't my choice, its an arranged marriage, one for the kingdom to be able to have a stronger tie with this one, because not all of our technology works here and we need easier access to food and materials to keep warm." Weiss said expecting to be hit, yet the attack never came.

Pyrrha simply sat there looking at her, like if she was trying to digest the words Weiss had just spoken.

"Tell me, does Jaune know about this." Pyrrha asked her.

"No, the marriage petition was handed to the guide itself." Weiss answered her.

"I get it, it's like if he's a noble now and he needs concubines and will eventually have to marry because stronger ties to another kingdom or group will have to be done... I guess we're sister now." Pyrrha said as she looked at Weiss, slowly her eyes lost their red glow.

Yet as Weiss looked at Pyrrha she noticed that her eyes weren't directed at her, no she was looking at the three women protecting the bedridden form of her teammate.

"Tell me, from when are you?" Pyrrha asked her.

 

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A small cloud of black smoke lifted itself into the air, before them stood a pale woman dressed in a long single piece black dress, the near completely black eyes she had only had color because of the yellow or red colored irises she had, time and time again, they had been forced to kill her, it didn't help that like them she just kept coming back to life, everytime she died.

Finally, after seven hours of none stop fighting, she finally relented and surrendered.

"I must say, the Americans are sure keeping busy." Nyanta said as he red the letter the Americans had sent in.

"Indeed, the fact that they live in such a dark area of the world forces them to deploy electric, gas and magical lamps to light up the surrounding areas. Unfortunately the fact that an ancient city used to be next to the place their main city is located only hinders any expansions they try to keep." Shiroe answered his old friend.

"And because of that building on top of old places never works out. We've all been there, old forgotten cities ruins underneath the cities are ideally filled with monsters or tend to have some kind of portal to hell, so it's better that they avoid building on those ruins." Nyanta said, as he tried to hint of something unspoken to his guild leader.

"We need to begin to actually explore our region of the world and not just rely on everyone else, as bad as rhey have it over there, they are moving and dealing with the dangers, they only thing we have done is secure our small section while leaving the borders open."

"While true the free guard and each cities and kingdoms own defense forces have been able to fight off whatever is out there, it isn't enough and we do have to organize, now that our new recruits have been gathered and tested, so once they are rested. Deploy them." Shiroe ordered his old friend.

Nyanta for his part simply rose an eyebrow.

"Mind saying that again with a little more detail." He said, as attempted to restrain the use of hitting Shiroe on the back of the head for even suggesting such a thing.

"One of the nearest cities, is the one that has made the rather troublesome petition if he says yes, it would be better for him to begin to understand his new duties as both a husband and an Adventurer."

"Normally the wife would move in with her husband if he us already settled in with a home big enough for the two of them and more, things like children and so one, but when that isn't the case, then he will move in with her and her family."

Whichever the case may be, Jaune and his team will have to learn to deal with the situation as it develops, like it or not we're involved as well, considering they do belong to our guild. Our house." Shire explained himself.

"So its a simple matter of dealing with the issue now, before it becomes something troublesome later." Nyanta said as he tried to understand his friends reasoning.

"Speaking of troublesome issues are you sure about sending those five to the other side of the wall?" Nyanta asked Shiroe, as he didn't want to place the youngest members of the guild in any unnecessary danger.

"Yes, people tend to lower their guards around children and they won't be alone, the black sword knights will have several of their merchants with them and if anything really dangerous does happen well they can always teleport back or call to us for help." Shire answered Nyanta, while trying to calm his friend's fears.

(Character change Jaune Arc)

Slowly he opened his eyes and he was found himself being stared at by an older man and a woman, they wore expensive looking clothes and looked at him with eyes that seemed to be judging him at every point.

"I see you're awake." Said the older man.

"Please forgive my sudden intrusion, especially after you have just completed this section of your training, but I am here to speak to you about your marriage to my daughter." The man said as he looked at Jaune, who in turn looked at him with a startled and confused expression.

"I, can see from your expression you don't recall that you two used to have a relationship or perhaps you aren't the you of that time. I'm afraid that if that is the case, it is irrelevant now, I am aware that you are a married man, but from what I have heard about your house, a man can have up to, two or three wives."

"Your instructor and your teammate are proof of this." The man said as he handed Jaune a folder showing the picture of Weiss, dressed in an elegant single piece white dress.

"I'm sorry but what do you mean marriage to your daughter?" June asked the man in front of him.

"Please forgive my husband, Mr. Arc, he tends to have a rather bland personality, but you may be aware that the guilds function like noble houses. As you can see, several women are now attending to the newly appointed Adventurers." The elder woman said as she waved her hand back and forth.

This caused Jaune to look around and he realized that, indeed there were a lot of people either sitting at a recruits side or taking care of them. Few of the people had any markings that showed that any of them were doctors.

"We have already handed our marriage offer to your elders and our daughter is speaking to your wife, hoping to gain her blessing." The woman said as she pointed at Pyrra speaking to Weiss on the other side of the room.

"We leave our information with you, we do hope that you will reed and accept our offer, but please keep in mind that, you and our daughter do know each other and more people will come hoping to trick you into it." The elder man said before he rose from the metal chair and walking away, his wife following closely behind him.

Before the woman walked away, she handed him a picture of a person that looked like himself smiling happily along side Weiss, besides them was Pyrrha, smiling with him at her side.

 

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( Character change Benjen Stak )

Small specs of done began to fall, the rangers had finally returned and what they said wasn't anything good, a hellish training ground had been made and dozens of people were thrown into to it and for two days and two nights they were made to fight both each other and the creatures inside that place.

Not only that but they were forced to experience unnatural weather that only occurred inside that place, strong winds blew inside the massive cage while it never affected the area outside of it.

The Nights Watch was made to keep those on the other side, away from the seven kingdoms. Benjen Stark exhaled as he listened to the wind blowing outside, there was movement on both sides of the wall, the men of the mountains were behaving strangely and had divided into two groups.

One was headed towards an area that was near the wall and the other towards Winterfell the home of the Starks, soon winter would come and things such as food, water and anything resembling any form of warmth would become.

It made sense for the many families to head towards the Stark castle for protection, yet they hadn't done this, no instead some had separated and would surely die.

The wall shook again another massive creature passed by the border, how many were they now, entire herds of animals that he would have at one point in time beloved to be nothing more than fairy tales and yet he had laid eyes upon them himself.

Letters were being written and sent away hoping that the various lords and supposed kings would send in new recruits soon.

His heart felt heavy with unease, the stories of the white walkers seemed all too real now and whispers of the children now felt as a greater threat than before.

Whatever ungodly powers had been unleashed had affected the wall as well, the men speak amongst themselves about the glowing eyes of the dragon skulls and more than one had gone to look upon them themselves, only to return with words that made nonsense.

That the light did not exist, for every time they looked into the dragons bones the light could not be seen at all.

There are times that he truly felt like an old man, sadly those times seemed to only be growing, the walls have begun to whisper with the voices of the dead, some vengeful for being executed, others cursing the order they never wanted to be a part of and were forced into.

Some went as far as to scream vengeance against the seven kingdoms swearing to tear down the walls and let the evils on the other side pass and then there were those that spoke of just wanting to finally live away from the creatures on the other side and how the Nights Watch had killed them unnecessarily.

Executing deserters and those that just plain didn't want to follow orders was something that could be forgotten with time, but now that had denied to him and once again Benjen felt the weight of his past upon his shoulders.

The few men capable of reading and writing were now searching through the library, searching for anything that might hint out as to why everything was happening, yet even their discoveries only led to more confusion.

A man made God named Sigmar, the God killer Kratos, the Four Maidens of the Seasons and more, all of this suggested a history long forgotten by man, perhaps it was best it had stayed forgotten.

Still, if the fire maiden was the was the same as the maiden of summer or fall, then there was the possibility that the other three had returned as well and if that was true, then it was possible that history would repeat itself, but which history would it be.

The sounds of large wings moving echoed through the walls interior, again the griffins were moving, they helped keep any creature that could fly on the northern part of the wall, perhaps this was an ancient duty for them.

A servant brought in a warm drink and served him a cup filled with something that had been mixed with honey, the hot liquid made the cup heat up instantly a d he let himself enjoy his drink, and for a moment, just a moment Benjen could not hear the whispers of the dead.

(Character change Esos )

The cool wind was blowing and the large groups of freed slaves and recently gathered people prepared themselves for the night, those that could fight had already begun to stand guard, while those that could had started fires and begun to kook the much-needed food.

En a few weeks they would drive at their destination and from there it would be a long trip by boat to the frozen north.

"So why is it so important that we go north, I mean from what you've told us, its nothing but ice, snow and monsters over there." Asked Crow one of their most recent additions.

"Well, everywhere else is worse, Sothoryos is just one big playground for everyone that wants to fight, we can't head back because that area is covered in monsters, demons and a lot of ancient ruins." Kanami said as she remembered what she had heard about the land by the shadow.

"We, can't just start our own place, because of the sheer number of people we have. Under normal circumstances that would be fine, but you've noticed it haven't you, there are people following us, waiting for a moment of weakness." Leonardo said as he looked at the distant shadows of people moving.

"To tell you the truth, the only reason we are even walking now, is to gather people that aren't native from this place. Some people were fortunate enough to arrive with their own cities or kingdoms, but a whole lot more weren't.

Not only that, you could see it in peoples eyes, the new and old kingdoms and cities aren't getting along and soon a war is going to break out. So it's better we aren't around when that happens." Coppelia added.

The fire in front of them was soon the only source of light, so your gathering everyone you can before things go bad." Glynda Goodwitch said, as she tried to understand the reasoning of the people in front of her.

"Well, that and you've noticed it haven't you, there are people that shouldn't be alive in this group, people that were evil or never liked up a weapon. Not everyone in this group is from the same world or better yet they are from the same world but from a different dimension of it." Leonardo said, as he reached for his sword and began to walk away.

"I wonder if those kids need help?" Crow asked.

"No, that guy is just a worry wart, they handled themselves pretty well when we attacked the city." Answered Kanami.

"Oh yeah before I forget, do you know the Scheen Dust Company, because one of my friends newest recruits is marrying their youngest daughter soon." Kanami said shocking both Glynda and Crow.

"That telepathy all of you share is scary sometimes you know, but yeah we've both dealt with them in the past." Scar said, as he quickly recovered from the shock of news.

A bright flash of light in the distance and the roar of an unknown animal was the only thing that could be heard after that, no one really had anything to say, as they were handed their warm meal and ate, none of them could help but wonder what awaited them when their journey reached its end.

 

[blueayes]

The sounds of crates falling began to wake up the sleeping people, another shipment of supplies from the Americans, they were getting fewer now, granted the crates were bigger and the wood they were made of was used by the people for whatever they could use it for, but the fact that they were beginning to slow, just showed how bad they had it back there.

Leonardo looked at each crate as it was dropped, somehow those guys had managed to get themselves a cargo plane, the fuel needed to fly that thing, not to mention get it of the ground meant that something was up, to just deliver supplies, a map was sent in.

Leonardo couldn't help but smile, the city needed food and the crazy ones were so rounded by it, the Americans were making weapons by the boatloads considering that they were working in a war setting, so weapons for food, was Leonardo's immediate thought.

Immediately the support members took hold of the crates and the people began to gather around them, but with such a large group of people, things tended to go wrong quickly, fortunately nearly everyone knew that the people in charge could tear them apart with a finger.

The problem was the people that could match them in power, a simple pair of shoes could do a lot and some medicine was the difference between someone getting sick and dying or an annoying runny nose.

Gold coins, went a long way when they passed by the cities, either by paying whatever toll the cities had or for the representatives of the group buying good, water and clothing, as well as some insurance that came in one form or another.

If that insurance was some kind of army making sure no one attacked them, or a slave force keeping less desirable people away, depended on the city.

"They're back," Lie Ren said as he looked into the distance.

The shadows of mounted men moving alongside their horses could be seen in the distance, they had been following the group's progress closely, but they all had pretty much stopped after a while, a lot of those cities had really good defense systems.

"It seems to be only three of them." Leonardo answered his you recruit.

Unlike the Adventures up north where snow covers everything or the Guard down south where everything is dark, their group had decided to take up the teachings of the Huntsmen, namely for two reasons.

One was that the majority of the skilled fighters were from there and the second was that they had few people that could fight in what normal Human beings would call superhuman levels.

Sure they had small armies capable of using guns and so on, but when you're up against someone or something that you need several any tank guns just to slow down, yeah you need those special forces.

So the huntsmen were the best choice for the job, thankfully Crow and Glynda were used to having students. However, that only fixed half the problem, just training people was hard enough as it is, but the fact remained special forces couldn't do all of the work, the guys with guns began to train their own groups.

The system worked, there are things that go bump in the night and the combination of guns and people with powers made those things either hid or run away. Let it be said that their groups either ate and used what they killed or buried it so a plague didn't start.

The sound of a bell ringing meant it was time to eat, the first group would eat and then exchange with another group, they would arrive at the area they were to replace the other guy before that person left, that way no part was ever left blind.

After half an hour a marine alongside a sniper arrived to shift roles with them it was time to get something to eat.

Leonardo and Ren said their greeting to the two before leaving and showing where they had seen movement, immediately the sniper looked quickly noticing that it was a man dressed as a knight and a man and a woman with gray or perhaps silver hair.

The walk back home was a slow one, home that one word meant a lot now, people either didn't want to leave the caravan or simply didn't have somewhere else to go, thus making the large gathering of people their new home, rather than a location.

The place was covered in tents and already the tents were separated into groups, marines, their families and their recruits were all gathered in one tent, the huntsmen, their families, recruits in another, the freed slaves were acting like slaves and served everyone, even after they had their own tent.

Yet they too had separated into groups, considering that they were all from different towns, villages and fallen cities, so some people had started putting on tribal tattoos, piercing and so on. Still, it helped that the ex-slaves were used to moving from place to place and had learned how to do things that way.

A plastic and metal chairs were the only things awaiting them, but even as Leonardo looked at them he couldn't help but smile, as a plate of hot ribs, mashed potatoes and a cold glass of water awaited him and his young partner.

A flash of light or what seemed like light, was the only warning they had before Nora had taken the chair in front of them and begun to devour her plate, it didn't help that Coppelia seemed to have been having a rase with the girl and had started eating as fast as possible when she managed to get to her seat.

Still, the two of them took their seats and began to eat, today was a day for rest, they would soon start walking again, but the large group needed to stop and rest from time to time, one or two days just to sit down and relax.

The sounds of coins falling started reaching his ears, people had started gambling, be didn't like it. It wasn't the gambling part, but what was being gambled, men and woman either gambled away what little money they had or put themselves up, sometimes more disturbingly they either put up their husband or wives as the prize.

"It seemed like the next town is about five days away, but that's only the information this map has, from what we've seen there could be other settlements that were brought in, after that there's just one more city and we can get to the ships." Ten said as he tried to keep the sounds of the coins from reaching his ears.

The boy still hasn't forgotten the time he had won every game and ended up having several half-naked women waiting for him that night. If he did do the act only he, the various women and their husbands knew.

Nora just kept her eyes on everyone, the last time the girl had been apart of one of the games, she had forced everyone to cook for her and no one wanted to go thru that again, considering she had gone out of her way to find the biggest animal kill it and make everyone else, skin it, gut it, cook it and watch her eat it.

Sure she gave them whatever was left, but that was after she had gotten her fill, and no one could say anything against her do ing this, why play if you know you have to pay up.

"From what the map tell us its a city filled with gladiators and slave merchants, so we might run into some trouble." Leonardo answered his recruit.

"It's possible we might have to fight our way past it, even is we go around the city." Coppelia said as she tried to get her breath, she had lost, Nora was still eating and Coppelia bad finally stopped.

"So why don't we just fight our way thru or just lay them like we usually do?" Nora asked somehow managing to talk clearly, even though her mouth was filled with food.

"Because we don't want to make more enemies, we could just pay them, but the chances of them leaving us alone is slim." Coppelia answered her young friend.

Soon everyone was done eating and had begun to sharpen or polish their armors and weapons.

Slowly the day passed until an alert was sent to Coppelia and Leonardo a cave that led directly to the ocean had been found, the good news was that their ride could meet them there, the bad news was, that they had to get everyone past the labyrinth-like tunnel system.

Nothing several ropes tied to each other, that people held onto couldn't fix, the problem was all of the horse's cows and animals that they were using. Just getting some of them to enter the place, so getting them past the tunnels would be a huge problem.

 

[Draconomial]

Definitely needs another read through, this chap has so many issues I'm not sure what the intended phrases are.