"I Can Haz Slaves," Said the Cat | Job | Chelvaric, Pepper

There was great big building on the edge of Hargeon Town that acted as the headquarters for Rune Knights coming and going through the area. It was a recreation area of sorts, the kind where a Rune Knight could got and chill after a day of harassing minorities. Today, however, someone with more of a tense attitude was within the building, someone not in the mood to "chill" Pepper Lynch instead stared out a window in one of the building's rooms as she waited in angst for her less than welcomed helper. Her superiors had apparently requested someone from one of the wizard's guild to assist in the slavery taking place in the town.

Pepper hated the idea of taking a hand from one of the wizard guilds. In fact, she found the idea offensive. Law enforcement needing help from a bunch of mercenaries who probably cause more harm than good was outright ridiculous. When Pepper was first given the task of disposing of these slavers and told she would need assistance form one of the guilds, she nearly flipped her switch. She resisted, however, and only turned red with rage while she was given all the details about the job at hand. Now, here she was staring out a window in wait of a guildy. She wore her usual purple suit that day and carried an envelope of files with her.

She merely pondered and guessed she would be having a hard time with whoever her "partner" was to be. It didn't make her joyful that she had to work with someone, let alone of those people. She felt should would be having to be the assertive one of the pair, less she let this guild person destroy half the town in some careless act of vigilantism.

"Where is this man...?"

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Chelvaric looked through the bushes in the forest. A nice young eland was eating from some tree right in front of him. He was hungry and he needed some food as he was already a long time on the road to a place where he had a job. Sometimes you had to stop and do some hunting to regain your strengths. He winded up the radars in his arms to a point they were ready to jump off. he crawled very slowly and patiently to the prey and just when he was one meter away he jumped up and grabbed the antlers of the animal. He kept the raging animal in a head lock and stabbed his combat knife in the neck of the animal. The blood gasped out of it steadily but not that much. He couldn’t take a shower so he had to be careful. He cut some meat that he needed from the carcass and hanged the rest up in a tree for wolves to eat. After saying some words for the hunting gods he left for the city.

Chelvaric walked through the gates of hargeon town. The sea smell flew right into his nose. not a smell he was used to but a common one for the sea. It stung a bit in his nose holes so he scratched it. he wasn’t wearing any shirt and a lot of people were staring at his robot arms again. He sighed as he walked to the place where he was supposed to meet his job partner. His legs walking over the pavement clothed in army pants with a metal chain on the side. As he reached the building he was supposed to be. The rune knight guard. He liked the rune knights they were nice people who enforced the law and most of them were good although he did hear of a couple of more unlawfull ones. Ah well he didn’t get to choose his partners. He knocked on the door and opened it . “I am in search for the rune knight that needs to liberate slaves.”, Chelvaric shouted trough the room. He leaned against the wall as he waited for one of the rune knights coming to him in the more or less comfy room.

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Pepper turned around at just the creak of the door and almost shuddered when the voice reached her ear. That's when she saw the man who, much to her surprise, was rather well-kept with a handsome swathe of hair. His demeanor, his clothes, and his physical look gave him the air of a puckish rogue or some adventurous privateer that had more than a story in his past. Regardless, Pepper kept her most professional demeanor and hardly gazed in his direction to give him the impression that she wasn't as quite impressed as she felt. She approached him, her heels clacking against the tile floor, and stood bizarrely close to him, if only to give herself a more intimidating (some would say bitchy) appearance.

"That would be me. I'm Ms. Pepper Lynch of the Rune Knights, though I'd like to hurry past introduction as quick as possible." She walked over to a nearby wooden table and sat down her envelope of papers before grabbing a thin parchment from it. She read of it a few times, assuring herself she memorized its contents, and continued with, "Now let me go over the details. We aren't sure how many slavers there are but we do know they're operating near the docks where we suspect they're keeping a fresher batch of slaves." Pepper folded up the piece of paper and handed it over to the man, "This has any additional information about the docks themselves, but I expect you to have some prior knowledge." The latter part was a lie in that she did not actually expect him to know anything about Hargeon Town's docks unless he was from Lamia Scale. It was more or less of a way to overwhelm him and make him feel a little bad for no good reason other than to assure Pepper that she was right to distrust wizard guilds.

"Any questions? We should hurry very soon." Skipping any pleasantries, Pepper took her folder of papers and placed it into a black bag underneath the table, a bag where she kept many of her important papers. She grabbed the bag and placed it hastily over her shoulder, making it very apparent she didn't want to lounge around and have a nice chat or anything, you know, warm like a descent human would do. "After all, the slavers aren't known to stay at the docks for very long...."

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He looked wondering as a weird girl who clearly liked purple to much was suddenly approaching him. her heels clacking on the ground echoing trough the place as some drum rhytme to march on during a army march. There was some sort of demeaning aura around her as she stood close into his face. A bit to close to comfy as he has a fiancée and all. “well do you wane head-butt or something this is rather close you know.”, he said with a grin tough he didn’t mean it at all. He walked over to the table that she was going to and he followed very close after she did some small introduction. “I Am chelvaric the guardian and that’s okay I rather go to business fast.”, he said as he took place on the chair in front of her getting into a bit more seruis mood.

He waited as pepper was going over some papers and listend closly to the mission instructions. He took the papers she handed and read trough it in a glimpse to just pick up some details. He didn’t realy need to worry blending and knowing his surroundings was the most important thing for a hunter to know so he would adjust to anything at the spot when he was there. “knowledge is more of a nuinca to a hunter then anything else. instinct is on what you have to trust. Go back to your animal self and we shall complete this job with no problem.”, he said as he handed the papers back to her and stood up he wanted to go hunt already. It seems she had the same idea as she stood up at the same time. He nodded at her to show respect that she was a doer not a talker. “only question is alive or dead. How you want the target.”, he said calmly as he followed her walking out the guild. He ignored the last part as he was already walking. He probably was a bit annoying her as she was trying to be a bit mean. Or he was just thinking the wrong things. Human emotions weren’t his thing at all. He scratched behind his cat ears and walked along.

They arrived at the docks. It was very busy on this time of the day as it was near noon and everyone was hurrying to get its job done so they could go eat. Chelvaric looked around and saw a building that was sort of the description they had to go to. “so how we go about this.”, he asked as he crouched behind some crates.

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The building that the duo came upon was right next the docks, hardly a walk was required to reach the boats from there. From the looks of it, however, the building had the air of being some old warehouse that no one really used anymore. It would have been the perfect place for criminals to meet up with, which would have explained how easy it was for earlier reconsecration to identify it as the target building. On the other hand, it looked as innocuous and innocent as any other building in the neighborhood. It had a very large front door with various windows on the walls, though it looked a tad dark from the outside. Before they approached it any further, Pepper grabbed the black bag from her shoulder and left it next to a wooden pallet since she felt certain it would only weigh her down once their operation commenced.

Pepper cleared her throat and went over the plan, if you could call it that. "The slavers are inside and we're certain the slaves themselves are inside. We should be careful that this does not become a hostage situation, which is what I will worry about. Your task will to be subduing the slavers, either killer or just incapacitate them. I can't tell you how to do your job but it would be more worth it if you kept the higher rankng slavers alive." There was indeed extra money promised for keeping the slaver heads alive, but Pepper was more interested in keeping them alive for the sake of extracting information from them. They were suspected, after all, to be connected to a much larger slaver cartel. Pepper could nearly smile when she imagined herself interrogating the helpless slavers using shards of glass in some new and devilish way.

"Now, I'm going through one of the back ways so as not to attract any attention. I can't risk the slavers seeing me before I secure the slaves." Magical energy began pulsing through Pepper  as she charged one of her favorite spells. Her entire body started become engulfed in glass and, soon after, the glass began turning translucent and invisible. Wen the spell was completed, Pepper's entire body, her clothes included, was invisible. Her voice popped out of the air where she was standing, "But don't worry. I'll be there eventually if you need any assistance." Pepper headed off from the man for the other end of the building, leaving behind footprints in the ground. It almost looked as if a ghost was walking along. When she reached one of the back doors of the warehouse, she reached for the doorknob and carefully pushed the door open as if it were a gentle feather.

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Chelvaric waited on pepper to arch down and explain her plan as he at the same time kept the building in his eyes as he had to make sure nothing happened before that. they could try to sneak away and that wouldn’t be good. He wondered what these slavers had in there arsenal of weapons. There probably wouldn’t be that many mages in them. Or if there were probably some illusionist mages or some chain magics. The usual types of magic to subdue people into doing your  bidding better. He hated those people who took advantage of other people. This would be a very good way to practice his magic a bit more. nothing was going to stop him In securing and saving those poor people. Apparently pepper was going to free them while he had to take them out. He looked to the old abandoned building and could see it was from a decade ago so the entrances and exits were rather limited and not fire safe. They would have to be carefull in not setting anything on fire. At the same time they could easy be trapped and smokd out one by one. He nodded to her as that was a good plan. He should better draw all there attention so he can finish them off easy. He did the okay sign to her plan and spoke softly. “alright just wait for a lot of commotion and do your thing. Don’t worry I am strong enough to keep them at bay. ”, he said with confedince and looked up.  he wondered where she went as she suddnely disappeared as a ghost like when she was walking away from him. that was pretty cool magic he said in himself and he started to walk towards the buildings front door.  

He was ducking close to the ground to not be seen easy as he wanted to blend in his environment. He ran to the closet wall of the building and pushed himself against the wall. There was no movement or sounds yet that were out of place. He wondered if someone had seen him but he dint think so. He walked closly trough the door window and saw around seventeen guys. Most of them were working there ass off in holding the slaves in line and walking around carrying crates and other stuffs around. Two of them were a bit more nicely dressed and had whips in there hands. They were standing on a walking above the others. The slaves were held in metal cages but they were open as they were herded in one group probably being made ready for transport. He didn’t see any other people for now nor a boss. They were maybe in one of the offices upstairs. He would look at those later as he first needed to take the two big ones out before storming in. he summoned a grenade in his hand and pushed open the door throwing it in. in just a second it was about to explode. His magical emp greande stopping all C rank magic in that 35 meter area.

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Pepper stepped through the backdoor and watched about the room. There were enemies galore but they peaked no interested. What caught her eye was the herd of slaves being grouped together, out of their cages and into a single large group. Only a couple of the men in the warehouse worked to keep the slavers grouped together while the rest worked around the warehouse as guards and box-movers. There were certainly a lot, however, and Pepper's own training told her to make sure she pegged everyone. Seconds passed and she counted seventeen among them. She almost felt comfortable that she had brought someone a long, especially an expendable man from a wizard's guild. Speaking of which, she waited for him. With the group of slave being closely guarded by five men next to them, Pepper did not plan to go in for a firefight, even with her invisibility.

Pepper kept herself close to the wall, waiting for some sort of distraction from her comrade. That distraction in the form of a grenade, one that very few people noticed until it went off with a beautiful spark and dazzling light. Everyone in the room, even the slaves, seemed out of it and quite shocked for a good moment. That's when Pepper found her opening. She rushed forward, quickly walking but in a way as not to create sound, and began channeling magic through her arms. The translucent glass that enveloped her arms turned tougher, and glass shard began protruding form her hands and fingers. All the while, she was hidden away in her invisibility. She was preparing for her favorite and most deadliest of spell combinations; in fact, a blood lust began shadowing her. Were she stalking a more skilled opponent, her very blood lust might have given away her own position.

Five men surrounded the group of slaves; two stood directly in her way. She held her hands out and slammed her glass shard-covered palm into their necks, forcing them on the ground as they bleed out quickly. She had went for the jugular, a technique she must have practiced a thousand times. The other three men were much too distracted by the EMP to even notice their fallen friends. The blood on Pepper's hands slid down the slick glass of her hands and returned her to complete invisibility. Consequently, a couple of the slaves in the group noticed and started panicking but sounded absolutely mad when they started raving about an invisible monster. Pepper worked around the group of slaves, slammed her palms into one of the men's necks, and went on to the next.

The last man of the five men, however, noticed his friends falling and reached forward. By some bad luck, the man managed to grab Pepper's hand and forced her out of her invisibility. The man was certainly caught off guard as he didn't expect to grab a woman. He even less expected to feel a sharp pain as he had accidentally grabbed at the sharp glass of Pepper's hands. Pepper almost gasped but, in a desperate attempt to make sure none of the other slavers in the large room noticed, slammed her palm into the man's jugular as well. Down he went.

Pepper shook her hands to get the blood off and sighed, "Now to get the slaves out..." The slaves kept their mouthes shut but they were obviously scared.

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Chelvaric heard the bang of the grenade and knew he could go in. he threw the door open and rolled inside the building toward the closest group of boxes. He looked over them and saw that the two big guys on the top exploded into little pieces. Apparently they were less strong then he imagined. The pieces of flesh and meat were falling down on the ground. Nothing like a good old blood shower he thought. The other slavers who were just starting to run to his location were now all red colored and they seemed a bit more scared but still willing to fight. these were to weak to realy fight hard. Maybe he should just display some power and make them scared. Nothing worked as good as some good old scare tactics. But what should he use to scare them. He didn’t want to just blow a big hole into the wall. Maybe just a evil looking outfit would be good enough for them. Yeah he had the right tool for that. he may be a hunter but just merciless killing wasn’t his thing anymore. He needed to get better and not be like his father. He had to cleanse the chelvaric name and become a man of virtue and honor. Something he only recently had in his goals. He opened a blue magic circle in front of him and out of it a armor dropped. It was completely grey and looked very knight armor like. Only the head had more of a drone appearance. The eye in the middle was a red eye. The droid’s back opened with a lot of smoke coming out. He stepped in and put his arms into the robots arms as the suit closed. The camera turned around and activated. The surroundings were perfectly seeable as like trough his own eyes but this time there was a hud over it so he could see some info like ammo and surroundings scanner.

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He jumped on the boxes and aimed at the weak slave drivers shooting in front of them. They seemed so terrified that they screamed,” demon, demon, demon” and ran away crying and feared. Most of them were gone out the warehouse. He walked towards the location of pepper as he was gona help with the slaps when suddenly a wave of water hit him full and pushed him back wards. He cursed as this pushed him into boxes that fell on him. he pushed them off him and looked at the attackers. One of them seemed a lot stronger as the rest. His blade was surrounded by water. He wore a more nice suit and a top hat. Not the usual pirate kind of slaver he guesed. In his other hand he was wearing a walking cane. Next to him there were some lesser guys but they ran off to the slaves. He couldn’t take care of them as he had to kill the other guy.

He started to run dodging the water bolts being fired at him. he shot a couple of times towards the mage but he blocked most of them with a water shield. Chelvaric cursed as that was very annoying. He activated his ability and disappeared. Reappearing in the back of the mage and summoning a elecktrical knife in his hand. He stabbed the guy right in the back and disappeared again when the mage threw a spell. Chelvaric was back in the position he once was and started to shoot at the mage who wanted to defend but the knife exploded shocking him and he stopped doing the spell. The gun bullets flew right into him piercing his chest multiple times. He fell on the ground bleeding out and being realy hurt. Chelvaric smiled as he had won a harder fight. he looked back at the slaves and hoped that pepper was alright. She was still a beginner. But he was sure she wasn’t doing that bad. She seemed to be pretty capable of hiding herself if it was needed.

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Chelvaric was pretty useful for dealing with a mob of slavers, but a handful of them managed to break past him. Five, specifically. They did not worry Pepper though; she ordered the slaves, "Stay still." The Rune Knight rushed forward and prepared the attack. As she approached, she pumped magical energy through her body and caused a glass shell to encompass her body. The five men, each wielding a wicked weapon, surrounded her and pounced like wild jackals. Each one landed a single blow with his weapon and each one got the same result--the weapons barely caused a crack in the glass shell. There was an eerie pause next to the cracking noise as the men tried to comprehend what had just happened. Pepper merely stood there in wait as she channeled more magic power through her body. Glass shards began appearing on her body as well as a smile and, suddenly, the glass shards went flying in every direction.

With the men all surrounding her, Pepper managed to avoid hurting the slaves in the attack by allowing her five opponents to take in all the glass. Some of the men screamed from the glass in their eyes while others just gurgled as blood filled their throats from the piercings. They all fell in a similar way though; they fell to their knees and slumped over as they slowly lost consciousness to the black void of blood loss. Pepper kicked one out of her way and smiled. "The justice served to them was too proper." She walked over to the slaves and started working on a way to get them out. From the looks of it, they were all connected by a net of chains on their feet. Since they could at least walk, however, Pepper immediately began ordering them with, "Alright, we're going out the back. Chelveric, sweep the warehouse of anymore slavers!"

Three hundred years from now, in the great fascist state of Fiore, they were still telling tales about Chelvaric and Pepper's undertaking in Hargeon Town. One third grade history teacher was most renowned for telling the tale in his spectacular way. It went something like, "So there they were! Chelvaric was getting beaten black and blue! He was probably bleeding from every possible place on his body. That's when the great Pepper Lynch showed up after helping the poor slaves and wrestled the last of the slavers off Chelvaric. When it was all over, Chelvaric was in tears as he had no way to thank his savior. So he did the only sensible thing kissed her feet right there in the bloody warehouse. Just three days later, he committed seppuku in the Sabertooth guild hall as it was the only way he could return honor to himself."

Okay, granted, that story might have been a little exaggerated and stretched across the centuries, but it would later become the foundation of thousands of legends in Fiore as well as the premise for Pepperism, a religion involving a glass goddess, five hundred years past that. Special parts of Pepperism include the belief that one day the glass goddess and a robot man with saber teeth will one day rise up from the other world and save all people bound by slavery. There would also one day be a Chelly cult in which the followers believed the robot man was actually stronger than the glass godless, but no rational person would believe that so it died out out within a decade of getting started. In fact, it would later be an illegal cult in Fiore at some point in time.

Back to the present time though, Pepper rushed the slaves outside while counting on Chelvaric to keep on sweeping through the warehouse for any more slavers. When they were outside, they were greeted by the immediate foul aroma of more sea salt, although the slaves were more than well adjusted after being hauled across the seas. When they were a couple yards away from the warehouse, pepper began tearing the slaves' chains apart by smashing her palms against the chain connections. The slaves were still relatively frightened but they obeyed orders well enough, especially when Pepper order them to sit still. Some of them did not know whether to actually listen to her or to run off in different directions since many of them had absolutely no idea what was going on. Some of them weren't even certain what country they were in, let alone what town they might be standing around in.

She headed off to check on Chel in the warehouse...

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Chelvaric saw how pepper was defeating the remaining slavers. She was pretty okay with it. not a flashy fighting style. More of a normal we see how we fight when they come at me style. Wich was perfectly fine for a rookie. He wondered if shell develop any particular fighting style over time. It would probably be something high risky melee like as she was made of glas. Glas was sharp but at the same time very easy to break so it would be risky but highly rewarding. He smiled that was pretty good. After she was doen defeating them she suddenly was looking very absent minded. He wondered what she was thinking about. Anyway now that she was leading the slaves out he could just go to somewhere else. well this was a easy job he guessed. He saw a book laying on the ground and wondered what it was about as the cover had a little kitten on it. he opened the book and started to look trough it. it didn’t seem that interesting at first. Just the usual cat species and how they looked like. Nothing he didn’t know already. But then he came to a more interested part in the book.

It was talking about a place cut off from this world. It had been mentioned in several cultures that there was a place were all cat spirits went back to when they died. But of course a lot of people did this off as just fairy tales. But how could it be fairy tales if even cultures that never met speak about the same place with the same details. This was just proof it should exist. Was the comments of the writer. He turned the page and saw a very big city. Nearly as big as fiore. This was one gigantic place. He saw picture of a angel cat-human, a demon one and a normal one. And the city being split in three pie parts where they all lived.  It seems they were still not on good terms together. Well who would be supprised when demons and angels would live next togheter that they wouldn’t be so peacefull. They are the opposites of each other. Thays why there were walls build between the city parts. It said it was ruled by a god but that that god had disappeared since then. They much be speaking about vertir that his dad was looking for. Did the demon lie to him saying it was fake before she killed him. he wondered deeply as this was rather strange. He searched the pages for some way to locate it. but all it said that it was in a secret dimension.  But all the pages that talked about an entrance were burned or missing out of the journal. He was sad as this wasn’t what he wanted. How would he ever find it now. He sighed and put the book between his belt and his pants. Well time to go out of here he guessed.

But just when he wanted to do that a bullet flew into the wood next to him. he rolled behind the boxes as more bullets were flying around. He looked over the box wihtout exposing him to much and he saw six guys spreaded out over the top balcony. They were spread out for a long way and they were shooting on his position hard. Bullets were raining down. They were fairly good shots but not that great. A lot of the bullets flew very far off and he wondered where they even were aiming on. He took his hanker chief and threw it to the left side of the old battered boxes who were sturdy enough to stop bullets from piercing trough. He was realy thankfull for that tough nothing would have saved him if they could just pierce it and shoot him trough. As they all started to shoot to the hankerchief he jumped out to the right and shot a small burst to the two closest enemys piercing there bodys with his bullets. He rolled to the next cover and aimed for the other group and got two headshots on them. The other two were getting scared and jumped down and hided behind boxes to shoot on him. he sprinted forward and summoned a big ass motor on his back and flew right toward the enemy. They bullets hit his leg and his arm a bit but for the rest he came to them in a rather good state. He shot one bullet trough the head of the left guy and he sprayed the right guy as a cheese full with holes blood streaming out. Nothing could stop him. he looked trough the hangar as it was now filled with bullet holes. The gun smoke was settling and the now so quietness was weird as the gunshots just resounded trough it. it was like a party became a graveyard.

“well well you are suretenly a very good fighter. But its not because you can kill my henchmen that you will so easily get rid of me. I am the master I am the strongest slave driver of hargeon.”, chelvaric heard the real smoothe voice say as in the middle of the hangar a crane hook was going down with on it a more then flashy girl. Next to her there was a guy with two cutlasses. She had one of those big pirate hats on and had two small guns in her hand. “you harvest what you sow captain. Human lives are worth more then anything on this planet. Ill rather die then stop fighting scum like you. You are old fashioned. Now let my bullets eat your bodies till nothing is left from you. But dead wont await for you.”, he said and the captian shot a bullet to him it hit in front of him and threw him back against the wall as it exploded in a burst of flame and smoke. She had exploding bullets that wasn’t that good. But ah well he would have to fight with what he had. He holded his stomach as it was bleeding a bit from the blast. Maybe fighting in a naked upper body wasn’t the smartest way to do it. how was he going to defeat them he wasn’t completely sure but he would do it for sure. Nothing would stop him to avenge these slaves. Round one was done the final round was about to start he just hoped pepper wouldn’t join in as these guys were rather hard to beat.

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