Riders In The Wind

Chapter 7: New Arrivals

Xavier and I had finally made it back to Saregami, and Nara was finishing cleaning Xavier's wound's from the wolf attack. He had gained a significant amount of bruises and gashes, and would deffinitally need some stitches put in. I had one small gash from the alpha wolf that attacked me, and I simply packed the wound and wrapped it even though Nara insisted that she look at and make sure that nothing was to damaged. "Nara I'm fine I can take care of myself and Xavier is the one you need to be worried about  I don't know how much blood he lost when he was attacked. Besides you taught me everything you know about healing, so there is nothing you need to worry about." I said trying to sound convincing, Nara sighed, "Fine but if that wound becomes worse it's not my fault." She said as she went back to check on Xavier. 

I was stating to get worried though it had been a couple of days since he was attacked and once we got to Saregami he passed out because of bloodloss and exhaustion.  I left to go help train the soldiers, hopefully that will help get my mind off of worrying so much.  Even though Xavier was a pain I wasn't going to be cold hearted towards him, I was trained to be a stone cold killer but death was still a painful thing to cause or watch happen. A sword coming at me snapped me back into focus. Easily parrying the attack I sidestepped, tripped the young man I was training using my foot, and pointed my sword at his throat. "Dead, now what where the flaws in your attacks?" I said as I helped him up, of course it was a test to see if he would take advantage of the opening. He took a hold of my hand, pulled me down to the ground as my sword was flung away from me, he pointed his sword at my throat and said, "Dead." Smiling I said "Not quite. You think you had me, but...." I put my legs around his arms, twisted and pulled him down to the ground next to me, pulled out one of my daggers and pressed it to his throat after I kicked away his sword. "... you never really had me at all." I said still holding the dagger to his throat, I held it there for a few more seconds and then stood up retrieved both of our swords, and handed his back to him. "It was a good practice and you've improved since I last sparred with you Rouge." 

I was cleaning my blade afterwards in my room, when I heard a commotion near the gate. Not that I wanted to, but I had a feeling that it was important or at least would be, so I went to go see what all the fuss was about. Staying close to the shadows I watched the crowd gather around the gate only to be run off by the guards saying it was nothing important, and everyone needs to go back to what they were doing. Nothing important? If it were nothing important 1 a crowd wouldn't have gathered, 2 the guards wouldn't be wanting everyone to go back to what they were doing, and 3 this has suspicious written all over it.  I hid myself where I could see everything but no one would see me. The doors opened, and through them walked the Red's, they weren't alone though, behind them were very sedated strangers. They didn't appear to be from here, the older one looked to be close to my age, the younger one was about 10 maybe a little older. They were brought to a room Xavier and I knew very well. Soon a girl with flaming red hair showed up to see if they were trustworthy or not. I knew her as Kystetra.

Before Nara went into the room I dropped down from my hiding place. I scared the guards a little, but Nara wasn't phased. "I guess you're interested in the newest arrivals?" Nara said not looking at all surprised, "Kind of, they're still knocked out I'm guessing?" As I said this I looked over at the Red's, they all looked down when my gaze came their way. "Yes, they won't wake up for another hour or two, but they look pretty banged up so I thought I would treat whatever wounds they might have." Nara said looking over the newcomers. "When you are done, you will leave. As of now, these people our for my brothers and I to deal with." Kystetra said showing no change in her expression. I nodded, I had a new interest at the moment, and walked towards the   redheaded band of lookouts. "Come on you guys I need to talk to you." I took them to a unoccupied room and shut the door with a little more force than was necessary in this situation. "WHAT  were you thinking?! Even I could tell that you heavily sedated those two girls! They couldn't have put up that much of a fight! You could have easily tied them up and brought them to us that way! I thought I trained you all better than that!" I kept yelling at them for a good 3 minutes. "You're dismissed, but you are not to leave Saregami until those two wake up. Am I understood?"I said in a threatening tone. "Yes." They all answered in union.