The return to Mek

[Kyle]

Here he was. Back in a town where he was practically chased out, along with Ingrid, for failing to take out a group of bandits. It was one of his first actual jobs as a mercenary, and it was ruined. It was all thanks to that dumb ass Orcleous and that other one named Stark for flaking. Stark had disappeared before they even got to the first guy, but they had been able to kill that man anyway with just three people. They might have been able to kill all of the bandits with three people if they got to verse them 1 at a time, but when Orcleous left, giving him the head of the bandit they killed? They Ruined everything. Not only could they not kill the bandits, but the bandits would be out for their blood as well as the village being mad because they'd have to face the bandit's wrath. There was nothing he could have done about it then. He was so weak and inexperienced at the time; He could barely shoot a bow. Now it was different. He was much stronger and limber and he actually knew how to fight decently. But the rest of the bandits against him? He might still lose. He doubted they'd be there though.

Kyle sat atop his horse as It cantered through the town, people moving out of the way, going towards a particular destination, the archery range. The archery range here was a nice large one and they didn't charge any price to use it. It was much easier than setting up a range on his own, and they had only set up the ranges a short while before they were moving again at the tribe. HIS tribe. It felt so weird saying that it was his tribe, he hadn't really known anything until a little bit ago about them.

As he got to the range he rode his horse into the spacious area. It seemed that no one else was there. That was good, then he'd be able to easily practice shooting from atop his horse and with his new sacaen robes. The robes were so new to him. But they were robes of his tribe and he wouldn't turn them down. It also didn't help that most of his old clothes were destroyed. At least these robes were comfy, would they effect his shooting though? He beckoned his horse forward, and after a couple of tries he got it galloping forward and at that point Kyle began flinging arrows towards the targets, getting decent hits on them, although nearly falling off once or twice. This horse was sure jolty. . .

[Jya]

Jya had wandered her way into the Sacae plains with no destination in mind. For most of her concern, she knows full well to stay away from Bern from now on. All she needed now was to clear her head a bit and not be afraid of what's lurking on the next hunter. To think, she was trying to avoid trouble for most of her life, but she ends getting stuck in the middle of it. Unfortunately for the world, she wasn't the type to lay down quietly, if surviving meant unwanted attention, than she'd take it.

It would be lie though if she didn't admit her exhaustion. This was a sort of vacation for the young girl. Anybody who had bothered to attack her were bandits and nobody cared what happened to them. She never looked for trouble though, she had learned to hide herself, avoiding any form of combat. For what others considered an assassin by trade, she had killed very few people. A part of her felt that the hate was misplaced. It was a job, not even that, she justified her kills as a necessity or a threat. Shaking her head, she took in the sights around her.

The town was nice, the food was cheap, and overall it wasn't something she worried too much about. Out of habit, she walked at the same pace and posture as the people around her, always keeping her senses out. She withdrew into her cloak a bit, turning and making her way to somewhere with less people. All she wanted to do was sit down. After arriving to what looked like an archery field, she couldn't help but grin at her good fortune. There only appeared to be one person here and he seemed to be busy practicing. She gave the young man a casual wave of her arm, checking if he was paying attention. Either way, it looked like a good place to rest.

[Bones]

A raid, that was the plan for the day. The Boss feared that the Skull bandits were getting fat and lazy up in their hideout in the mountains of Bern. In order for them to keep their edge they needed to fight, to feast upon the spoils of victory. Paleface was not one to go after a little village located on the far side of nowhere. Sure they were easy targets, but bandits who always feasted upon the weak would soon become weak themselves. No Paleface wanted a target that would fight back. He wanted a target that would give him and his boys a challenge. Rather than pick one of the easy pickings of Bern Paleface took his raid party north to Sacae. Their men and woman had fangs of their own and defeating them would bring a much greater reward.

In preparation for the raid Paleface had sent out several scouting bands to check out the area and cause a bit of mayhem. He did not want the bulk of his forces to fall prey to an ambush. That is what happen to Old Willy less than a year ago. His entire gang of bandits were whipped out by a tribe of sacean horse riders. The fool marched out into the open plains and was surrounded and arrowed down by a horde of horse archers. Paleface understood that their was a need for tactics. He was not going to simply walk into a trap.

At his order some of his best men and women marched out into the fields. Their goal was to survey the land and report back if they saw trouble. If they did not report in Paleface would consider them to be dead and if they were to return alive then he would make sure that they were. It was harsh orders, but Paleface wanted Order with his men. Order kept them alive, while other fools died.

"Alright lets scout out the area", spoke Bones as she lead a group of female bandits. They were a rare breed, Bones and her feminine brigands. Most bandit were male, and that was a stone hard fact. However their were a few women who would pick up the axe and take what they wanted. Bones had gathered them up and placed them into a single unit under her command. Their job in this raid was to investigate Mek. If the target was too strong they were to signal back, but if it was'nt their orders were to give them trouble.

From the distance they almost looked like a female mercenary band. The only true way to figure out who they were would be to come close and see the symbol on their armor, or have a six sense for these things.

[Kyle]

Kyle kept spurring his steed faster, trying to Get its speed up so that he could practice shooting at higher speeds. Shooting like that would be a necessity in some situations, and if he couldn't do that then he might even die. And dying was not on his list of things that he wanted to do. Not now, not ever. He'd come close a couple of times. On the island, when fighting the giant spiders, fighting the undead with the weak willed mercenaries. And he even had a chance not to long ago. But he had proven superior in all of those circumstances. Would his luck hold? No, it wasn't luck. He didn't believe in stuff like that. It is all about the skills of both parties. So the others must have been lacking it.

As he practiced he had bits of difficulty everywhere. Shooting from horseback was herder than it seemed, but he was getting the hang of it, kinda. After falling off of the horse a couple of times. The horse was seemingly quite violent, trying to buck him off whenever he tried to get it to do something hard or something it didn't want to do. Although they said that this horse was extremely exceptional its attitude left things to be desired. Heck, he hadn't even named the beast yet.

Kyle kept practicing, getting the hang of the shooting a bit, no longer falling off and he hit his mark a decent amount of the time, but it wasn't enough. He still missed some and he still was a little shaky on the horse. Especially compared to the way the rest of the people of his tripe shot. But he was on his way to being a man to them. He couldn't stop now. Suddenly, however, he caught something moving out of the corner of his eye. It was a girl waving to him. Maybe it was someone looking for a mercenary to do a job? Couldn't pass up that possibility. He made the horse canter over to her before he jumped off of it. "Yes, did you need something?" He asked with an inquisitive look.

[Jya]

Jya watched as the young man practiced his archery on horseback and found it quite remarkable. Sure he fell down a few times and had to get back up, but it was all for the sake of improvement. She wouldn't laugh, especially since it meant he'll be more efficient at killing someone in the future. Hopefully she wouldn't need to face him in the future, maybe she could make a friend? She had to at least try as he trotted over to her. She wasn't the most flattering girl to meet, but she still had a happy disposition.

"Ah, no, I just wanted to say hello and you did some fancy shooting there," she remarked, waving her hand at the direction of the arrows. She quickly searched for something more to say other than the fact that she wanted to see if he was paying attention. Now that she thought about it, picking up shooting would be a good skill to have.

"You don't happen to teach do you? I would love to pick up a bow, but I have no idea where to start," she asked. It was a shame, she had throwing knives, albeit she still needed training on those as well. Perhaps learning to shoot would improve her overall aim. When looked upon, he didn't seem that much older than her. Hopefully she didn't sound too conceited. She might not have the best talent for bow and arrow, but she did take pride in her eyes.

"I could pay, is there a practice bow perhaps," she half mumbled the second part to herself. 

[Bones]

"This is why I dislike fighting in sacae", spoke Bones as she walked with her unit of bandits. "Everything here is far too open. Sure you get some brush and tall grass from time to time, but their are no where near as many hills and cliffs as in Bern."

"I know what you mean Bones", spoke another brigand. "Back in the motherland their was always a crag you can hide in or a hill you can take advantage of. It was quite useful in scouting and seeing your targets before they see you, but here. Here it is so flat and open. By the time you see the target, the target is looking at you as well. Unlike some of the other fools saceans are more weary of females than most."

"Yeah we should really have invested money into some mounts", spoke another. "If he had horse we could ride out and return with a report quicker as lightning."

"Yeah and attacked the attention of every sacean in the plain as well", spoke Bones correcting her underling. "A horse is sign of power here. If you have a horse that means you have status and mobility. So far we can moved under the guise of mercenaries so even if we get seen we can play it off. Now if we had horses that would be a different thing. Mercenaries with horses usually meant trouble, especially if there is more than one of them. People are naturally going to ask questions and it won't be long before they figure out what we are doing. Sometimes you have to keep things simple", spoke Bones as she looked around.

"Easy for you to say", spoke the other maiden. "You were born into this life. I ended up becoming a brig...".

"Hey Bones I see something", spoke their archer interrupting her teammates conversation. In the distance she could see the beginning of a town. Their were a few people hanging around, but the buildings and stables blocked the total number of people from view.

"What we got", spoke Bones.

"A town", spoke the archer. However we don't know the population. It could prove to be a easy mark or a death sentence."

"Well that is what we are here to find out", spoke Bones. Everybody be ready to fight if we have too, but remember we are mercenaries looking for work. Don't kill anybody if you don't need to. We need to access the situation and then send the signal if the place is hittable", spoke Bones to her entire squad.

"Understood", they spoke in unison as they made their way into the village.

[Kyle]

(Ooc Buto the building is in the middle of a town and your archer still sees two people. lol)

Kyle shrugged as she called his shooting fancy. It might be to others considering that he was atop a horse, but in reality he was pretty bad compared to some of the men and women out on the plains. But that was why he was practicing. Because he wanted to- Nay, Needed to get better. Him getting stronger and more skilled was the way to survive in this world, and he would make it. Oh boy would he survive. Nothing would stop him.

Then she brought up teaching and wanting to pick up a bow to use. It really wasn't that simple of a thing to pick up considering it used a muscle in the back that few other things did. Although constant practice can strengthen that muscle nicely.

He thought about showing her how to do it, but then she offered to pay. Paying was good, great even! Yeah, he would full out teach her. "Yes, I can teach you. But I cannot teach you to shoot off of a horse, I still kinda need work on that myself." hopefully she wasn't watching the whole time, he'd probably get laughed at for falling off the horse.
He's Probably the only person in Sacae who's done that.

"A training bow? I believe they might have something like that in one of the back rooms. Let's check." He said as he heard the mumblings, not particularly caring if they weren't towards him. He walked over to one of the doors of the back rooms, and opened it, walking inside.

He began rummaging around the room before coming upon a bow that seemed like it might be perfect for her skill level. He then grabbed a quiver of arrows and held the bow out to her. "Can you pull this back? If you can relax the string slowly, don't dry fire it. That's dangerous."

[Jya]

It was nice that the young man took her up on the offer to teach her to use a bow. A part of her doubted that he was so willing to teach. She met plenty of people that would happily keep their knowledge and ability to themselves instead of imparting on another. Then again she did offer to pay, so that might be the best incentive for opening up to her. To be honest, she kept very little extra money on hand, but she still had a sort of nest egg established. It was nice being frugal, so something like this that came up really got her excited.

"Thanks, I appreciate it!" she remarked before remembering one of the most important thing when meeting a new person,"Oh right, my name is Jya!" It was a simple introduction, but it will do for now. She following the young man close behind, unconsciously making light steps. When he offered up the training bow, she inspected it for a moment. To be honest, she hadn't traveled with many archers, but all of them seem impressive with how they used a bow. She plucked at the back of the string to see how it pulled. It was a simple bow, but that was all it needed to be. With Kyle's instruction, she pulled the string area back in a fluid and consistent manner. At the very least, her training with her sword had taught her to be skillful and delicate with weapons. After pulling it back, she returned it back to its taut form with just as much smoothness.

"Yep, I think this'll do," she smiled, wandering a bit out to look at the targets. Her goal was to hopefully get close to one of those targets.

[Bones]

As Bones and her group entered into town they were questioned by a few wary people and the local guard. It seemed that their lie about being mercenaries worked well as they were allowed to pass, but from what Bones was seeing the town was not going to be a easy mark. Almost everybody here seemed to be armed from head to toe. It was sacee after all so they expected as much, but that did not mean the battle would be easy. However Paleface seemed set on taking up a hard target. He just wanted to be sure that they were not walking into a ambush and from what she was seeing it seemed as if they had no idea that the bandits were close by. That was good, but it did not mean that this city was a good mark. Bones needed to be sure. If she made the wrong call it could lead to massive casualties and to make things worst other bandit gangs might hear of it and decided they want to attack the main hideout. A mistake here could cost them much more than a few dead guys. It could lead to a collapse to the entire gang as a whole.

"Alright so far so good", spoke the archer as she walked next to Bones. She made sure to keep her voice at a level that did not sound suspicious, but also was not loud enough that everyone could hear it. Their was no greater give away to a bandit attack than hush whispering.

"Lets check out a few of the public buildings", spoke Bones. "Once we get a report on those then we can send up the signal. Me, Merry, Sue, and Ellen will check out the archery range. Phelia, Simone, and Gina will check the tavern,. Kisha, Renie, and Lila, I will leave the market to you all. If something happens to me and I am delayed the judgement will be left to you Lila".

"Understood" they spoke and the group of ladies moved out to take care of their own targets.

"Hey maybe I can get some practice in before the raid", spoke Sue as she placed on her bowstring.

"Save your energy for when you need it", spoke Ellen as she opened the door for Bones and Merry. "We can't have you tired and missing in the middle of a battle."

"I am not going to miss", spoke Sue a bit upset at her partners words as she walked into the building. "Besides a few shots with my bow is not going to tire me out."

"Yes, but running your mouth will", spoke Bones as she pulled Sue by her arm and made her walk forward. "Standing outside and talking about business will only cause us all trouble", spoke Bones.

"Sorry about that chief", spoke Ellen as she rushed by and entered into the main hall of the building.

[Kyle]

Kyle nodded his head as the lady thanked him for agreeing to teach her. That was unusual for him. Most people only thanked him after he had done something, never before. It was a much safer thing to do than thanking before in case you were let down. But she wouldn't be, he would make sure of that. "It's no problem. Teaching helps the teacher get better." Well at least that was what he was told, it was completely possible that they were either wrong or lying. But if they had lied to him and he was wrong how would this girl know? Unless she studied this sort of stuff.

"I'm Kyle.Nice to meet you Jya." He watched as she pulled the back again and again in a fluid motion, it looked like that bow would work out for her well. "Seems that bow is perfect for you." he spoke as he handed her the quiver and walked up to a rough standard shooting range, a bit closer than what he was shooting at.

He took out his bow and held it in his left hand, and put his feet so that they were his shoulder length apart and bent a little at the knees; his front foot angled towards the target. " Okay, see if you can intimidate this pose, but hold the bow in your off hand and you draw the string with your good hand. This is a good stance for practicing your aiming. The bent knees help promote balance along with the shoulder length separation of the feet." He then pulled an arrow out of his quiver and rested the nock of the arrow under a little knot that was tied into the string. Then when you-" Before he could finish explaining the shooting pose someone burst into the archery range, followed by some other people.

Great. It just had to be her. Again! As he turned to look at who was entering the building he saw the pink haired woman who had harassed him at the resting spot out in the plains. Why would a bandit be in a village? Did she want to die? Sacaens would never plain out trust people dressed like her, especially being armed. And why wouldn't they be?

He quickly turned the bow he had drawn on the bandit and her friends. "Jya, look out, I think we'll have to finish the lesson later. That pink haired woman there is a bandit that attacked me out in the plains. I know she uses throwing axes, so if she throws one be ready to move." He quietly told Jya.

"Throw your weapons to the side, bandit. " Kyle said as he took a step forward, although the distance between them was already a good amount. Why was she there? was she following him? She must have a death wish then. He was ready to shoot anyway so he could afford to ask a few questions once they dropped their weapons.

[Jya]

Jya looked at the quiver as it was passed to her. Well it was going to some time to get used to carrying it around, but at least she didn't carry all that much on her back in the first place so it shouldn't be too difficult. Actually it would be more comfortable to have it on her side. Perhaps she could move her lancereaver to her back and have the arrows closer to her. She lifted out an arrow to check the weight of the thing. By itself it was light, but she wasn't sure how many she would or could carry on her at a time.

She listened and watched the young man intently as he demonstrated the basics. It seemed as though they were soon to have a but of a distraction on hand. Before he could finish the first part about actually firing an arrow, they were interrupted. She didn't bother to turn behind to face the new people that entered. It seemed that her tutor was telling her that they were bandits. If that was true, then she needed to be ready. So while her tutor drew his bow, she placed the bow down. As she gently reached over to her old faithful killing edge, her hands tightly wrapping around the blade.

"I'll help," she said rather resolutely, still not face those from behind. She knew her limit, if any of them approached even a tiny bit threatening, they were going to find their head missing from their shoulders. She might be trusting Kyle a bit much, but she had a thing for trusting Sacaens. They might be hard and tough people, but they were fair and just. She waited for an attack or for the tension in the air to dissipate slightly.

[Bones]

"You", spoke Bones. Her voice was filled with both malice and hatred. It was the first time Bones had ever allowed herself to get emotional in a fight. The maiden's face flashed red with anger and her hand moved to the throwing axe on her side. Her expression and reaction caused a stir amongst her troops. It was the first time she had ever acted that way. Bones was the one who usually kept a level head and put the mission above personal griefs, but now she was about to throw everything away and without a moments hesitation.

"Bones wait", spoke Merry as she grabbed the female brigand arm. After a quick pause Ellen grabbed her other one after realizing what was about to happen. If Bones started a fight in here it would alert everyone else to their plans for the village. The other teams would probably be hunted down and slain without much of a question. They needed to give the signal or Paleface might simply pass over the village out of fear of ambush.

Sue however had a completely different reaction than the other two. As much as she understood that Bones needed to be stopped she understood that this man was a enemy. Rather than try and hold back her boss from attacking the archer she instead drew back on her own bow and pointed it at the man. "Lower your weapon", she spoke with a cold calculate tone.

"Don't you dare shoot him Sue", shouted Bones as she struggled against her own soldiers. Her rage was so great that not even their words could calm her down. "That bastard nearly shot Shu!"

"Calm down Bones", spoke Ellen as she held onto the maiden's arm for dear life. "If you attack him here everyone in the village will come down on your head."

"Listen to Ellen. You can always get him latter", spoke Merry. 'If you attack him now you are only signing your own death warrant."

"i don't give a #$%^! I am going to split his skull open with an axe. Nobody threatens my kids and get away with it!"

"For the love of Harmut get yourself under control", spoke shu while keeping an eye on the archer. "Now is not the time for you to let your own personal feelings get in the way of things. Sure he threaten to shoot Shu, but he did not actually do it. Let it go there are more important things at stake than your pride."


"$%^& you Sue!"

"And you", spoke Sue as she focus on Kyle. "You lower your bow and I will lower mine. We have no intentions of fighting anybody."

"Get out of my way and let me kill him", shouted Bones! The maiden resisted the grip of her friends, but their combined might was far greater than hers.

"Well none of us three", spoke Sue. "We will take her out of here and let you all get back to your practice", spoke the female archer. "Merry and Ellen drag her out of here", spoke Sue taking charge of the group.

"Understood", they spoke as they pulled the pink haired maiden out of the door. The entire time Bones struggled with all her might to break free. Sue on the other hand kept a keen eye on the boy. She did not trust him. She heard how he placed an arrow in Bones leg during their encounter and knew very well how dangerous he could be. If he let loss his arrow hers would be shortly behind.

[Kyle]

Kyle was sort of surprised when Jya offered to help. She had no stake in these bandits that he knew of. Was it because she didn't want him to get hurt before he taught her? Maybe. Or was she just a good person or someone who hated bandits? There were many possibilities. But the thing that made him the most curious was her level of skill. How good was she to just step up like that? But this wasn't a time to think, there were bandits here.

Aaaaaaaaand, they ignored him. Figures, Of course they would. They were bandits. They never had any logical reasoning. All they wanted to do was kill, kill, kill, pillage, pillage, pillage, It was so annoying and useless. At least they provided him with some decent work; taking them out that is.

His eyes narrowed as the pink bandit's hand went to an all too familiar looking axe that she had. His body tensed as he prepared to loose an arrow at her, but before she could grab her axe two of her partners in crime grabbed her arms. They, at least, had some common sense. They wanted to live. At this range he could probably hurt them at least before they could get close, and with his horse they'd be hard pressed to catch him. the only threat would be if they h- Archer!

He noticed, even though he was focusing on the raging bandit, the movements of someone drawing a bow. After he already told them to get rid of their weapons too. He let go of the string and the arrow went flying right past the bandit archer's head, sticking in the wall beside her. "That one was a warning." He said to them as he quickly drew another arrow into the string.

He didn't really pay attention to what they were saying as they kept swearing and arguing amongst themselves, as he kept aiming at the archer, ready to take her out at so much as a signal of her getting ready to shoot. The bandits then dragged the pink haired one out and the archer of their group had the audacity to tell him to lower his bow first. "You lower yours first." He would give the bandits any sort of edge.

Once the bandits had cleared out of the building he turned to Jya. "Sorry about this, but we'll have to put the instructions on hold. That pink haired bandit attacked me once already and if she's here then the town might be in danger. Well if the bandits had an army. But either way I think we should alert the guards." After he spoke to Jya he was. . . confused. He never really spoke that much before. What could have changed? Maybe he just had more to say? Yeah, that had to be it.

[Jya]

It didn’t seem as though this situation was going to become any lighter than it was now. At that point, Jya had already reached and slid out one of her throwing knives with her freehand. Should she take the offensive first? No, she had too little information to go on, as far as she knew this could be a huge misunderstanding. That seemed to become rather unlikely as she could hear quite a bit of cursing from a woman and threats being sprouted. This whole waiting game was the worst part of it all. At the very least, nobody seemed to notice her, but she didn’t dare turn around to get a look at their faces just yet. If she ever did turn, it would be to throw her knife straight at the easiest target’s throat.

If not for one side’s decision to start pulling the rather hostile woman back, someone would be on the ground dead at that point. They seemed to have enough rationalization to back off in case the whole town starts to be on alert. She had to thank the heavens for this respite. Even when Kyle sent out a warning shot, she forced herself to stay in control. It wasn’t until they left, did she relax her shoulders and eased back onto her heels.

“Yeah, I understand,” Jya sighed, her hands quietly and deftly returning the throwing knife back to its little hiding place. Just the fact that bandits were roaming around rather casually around town caused her to be on a bit more alert now. She hated the idea of being around a town when a bandit attack occurred. As it stands now though, their best bet was getting the place ready for fight back.

“You think they’ll believe us?” she asked, turning to face Kyle, “plus, how much time do you think we have?” The answer was probably obvious. Even if they went looking for a guard now, there wouldn’t be much if any time to prepare.

“Not like we have much choice, I guess,” she mumbled the last part. It didn’t seem like they could distract that group of woman. She turned a bit on her heels and began to leave in search of a guard.

[Bones]

"Let go of me", spoke Bones as the two maidens dragged her out the building. The war maiden had calmed a bit and her voice was on a even tone. Still the two looked at each other with distrustful glares and then turned their attention back to their pink haired commander.

"Listen Bones, you can't", spoke Merry, but she was interrupted by Bones mid sentence.

"I understand, just let me go", she shouted and with a sudden quick jerk she broke free from their hold. The maiden's face had returned to its normal hue, but the wrinkle marks on her head told that she was still angry. Taking a moment to regain her composure and let the eyes from everyone outside turn away from her Bones turned to Sue, who just left the building. "Send the signal", she spoke.

"Wait should we not...", spoke Ellen but a glare from Sue told her to hush her mouth.

"Understood", spoke Sue as she motion for Ellen to follow her. "Ellen come with me while Bones and Merry gather everyone else together and pull out."

Seeing the angry expression on Bones face Sue took that option. Once the two of them were out of ear shock she turned to Sue and began to speak once more. "Should we have waited for the report from the other groups. I mean we could be walking into a kill zone if there were too many people around."

"True", spoke Sue as she took a quick look around and made sure nobody else was there. "However Bones is not in a good mood and if you had brought that up she might have even taken your head", spoke the archer. The words made Ellen cringe at the thought of an angry Bones attacking her. She had seen the maiden fight once before. Her rage was something to be feared. "Bones would have signal even if there was a thousand soldiers here. I have known her for a very long time and one thing you should know is that Bones is a bull. The moment she sees something she hates she charges. She does not care who gets in the way friend or foe."

With her words spoken and her task nearly complete Sue set off a signal fire. The flames began to send up a pillar of smoke, which Sue had tainted with powder. The color caused the flame to to turn a bright pink color which signal the rest of the brigands to move in and begin their assault.

"We better get to the rendezvous point", spoke Sue as her and Ellen made their escape.
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"Paleface", the signal has been sent", spoke a bandit as he walked up to their leader. The man was covered from head to toe in armor and had a massive axe hanging from his shoulder. At the time he was dinning on some roast duck which was wrapped up in a basket.

"Good", spoke the burly man as he tossed his food aside. He would have time to eat after the raid was complete. "It has been too long since we have had a good fight", spoke the leader of the Skull bandits as he picked up a iron mask. Placing the iron mask on nobody could tell what he looked like. The only image they would be able to place on the wanted posters was the image of a Skull faced general. Following their boss example the bandits began to pull mask over their head marked with the image of a skull. Some of them were made of iron and others were simple black cloth mask pained over with white pain. With there faces hidden and their axes ready the bandits moved from the bush and began their assault on the town.