Order of the Ruinblade

#1: The Stranger

The inn was packed with anthros from all across the Kulaan Kingdom. Many had come to Raven Steed Inn to drink, make love, and tell stories. A panther with sleek black fur was flirting with a young bar maid, a lizard.

A group of guards drank at a table and sang loudly in the center of the room. One of them grabbed a raven woman and roughly groped her body, laughing as he gripped her breasts through her tunic and nipped at her neck.

In a small corner at an empty table sat a lone figure dressed in dark clothes. A black beak slipped out of the hood. The torch on the wall next to her revealed her face slightly, she had white feathers with tiny black spots on them. Her eyes were of a golden color, a long sword was strapped to her back as well as a small coin perse.

Nara watched as the guard with the raven woman undid her tunic and kissed down her chest. The raven woman let out a series of moans as the guard lifted her up and merched to the stairs and they vanished out of sight.

The harpy eagle rolled her eyes and leaned back in her chair, a young bar maid walked to her table and smiled brightly "would you like anything cute thing?"

"I'm looking for a lion named Marcos, do you know of him?"

The bar maid tensed a bit, a tiger by the look of her. She blinked her violet eyes and said "yes, Marcos often sleeps in the stable. He's a war veteren of the Tribe Wars. Why are you looking for him?"

Nara slipped her hand into her leather jacket and pulled out a light blue stone with lightly glowing ruins that shined purple. The maid gasped slightly and uttered "your a ruinblade..."

Nara kept her hood over her face and replied softly as she slipped the stone away "careful girl... Not to loud. My Order isn't welcome here in Kulaan."

The maid nodded and motioned toward the stairs "please come with me..."

Nara stood up as the maid hurried toward the stairs, she took a step and a guard called out "hey! Get over here and fill my cups maid!"

The harpy eagle sighed and turnex to fa e the guards "I think you've had enough beer."

"And just who the hell are you!?"

Nara smirked coldly as she pulled her hood back and long black feathers dropped over her back in a sort-of pony tail. She gripped her sword and slipped her other hand into her pocket "someone you do not want to screw with."

One of the guards stood up and drew his sword "say, I don't like your face birdie."

Nara turned her head slightly and revealed a long scar that ran from her eye and down her cheek. She drew her sword, a curved blade with a long red feather dangling off the handle. The rest of the guards got to their feet, there were five total.

The first attacked by kicking a stool at Nara, who jumped over it and rolled toward the guard. She parried the guard's sword and slashed him across the neck. Another charged at her, and the harpy eagle pulled her hand from her pocket and tossed a small blade at him.

The guard took it in the chest and Nara lunged forth and kneed him in the face, knocking the guard down. She rolled over the table the guards had been sitting at and stabbed one in the gut.

The forth guard grabbed Nara from behind and put her in a choke hold, the harpy eagle gasped and elbowed him in the shoulder and knocked the guard on the table. Nara turned and stabbed him through the neck.

She then side stepped a sword swing from the final guard and slammed the handle of her sword into his skull. Then she shifted and slashed him across the legs. Nara stepped behind the wounded guard and snapped his neck.

The rest of the inn dwellers stared at Nara as she pulled her hood back up and walked over to the bar maid standing by the stairs "apologies, but I hate ignorant fuckwits."

"I'm not complaining M'Lady, those guards have been troublesome lately. I only wish the inn had enough gold to pay the fines that'll be slammed down on the inn keeper... Marco."

Nara gripped her coin purse and handed it to the tiger woman and replied "just don't be ignorant like they were."

"I've heard of Ruinblades that have slaughtered whole towns without a care. But your one of the good ones right?"

Nara started up the stairs "sometimes..."