Silver Pumpkins

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She couldn't see how dark the sky was getting, but it could still be felt. "Isn't it supposed to still be the daytime? Did I take too long?" The young girl had been heading over towards a pumpkin field just outside of Crocus to meet up with a fellow guild mate. She wrinkled her nose up a bit, frowning. "I don't smell rain coming, so am I late?" The pale reddish blond hair on her hair wasn't all that effected by the windy chill in the air, more than likely due to how short it was. If it was near sunset than she was definitely late! But the truth was that the girl wasn't late. This was one of the issues that came with blindness. Sometimes things happened that the other senses alone couldn't explain. This was one of those times, but the younger Talea had no idea of this in he slightest. How could she? The sky didn't typically darken without reason. But it didn't leave her without confusion.
Even if it had been over a year since leaving the military, she still had years worth of training under her belt that had given the child discipline. This typically meant she made sure to keep track of her time and location when she could. The idea of being late for anything was horrifying as well as confusing. She took work seriously, as well as the bonds she made with her guild mates. This is were the horror in her mind came from, as her being late would have meant being irresponsible with both a job and a fellow guild mate. Of course if the spider girl could see than there wouldn't be any fear or concern. This wasn't going to happen. She couldn't see or feel anything in the sky, that sort of thing was typically out of the young girls range. It was the sounds coming from ahead and above that put her on alert. Did the sand arachnid attack? There wasn't any point, not for her.

She couldn't feel the exact location, nor tell if it was actually an enemy or just normal animals. With that missing information, the only action she could take that wouldn't waste magic involved tensing her body up to try to be prepared for any attacks that might come her way, if they do come at all. It was one of the downfalls to relying on senses and magic and being blind. It was a sort of disliked vulnerability, a reminder that this magic was made by her people to use in a sand storm ridden area of a desert. Still, this didn't mean she was going to leave yet. A job was a job, her word was her word. She was trying to get here a little early too! She had tried to. One of her feet tapped the ground a bit, frustration starting to show on her face. The young girl looked up to the sky, a frown forming.
The chilly wind blowing around was a bit confusing. Wasn't the weather good before she came here? "The weathers acting weird...?" That doesn't usually change that fast, right? The general temperature of a location.

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Yuudai yawned as he moved thru the capital city of crocus and felt his eyebrow twitching with irritation, despite the fact that he fought hard and was a powerful fighter he still got looked at like he was an animal and second class being due to his appearance and his size. It was even worse around this time of year since many people considered him a dark creature and saw him and his tails as an ill omen with the only exception being Midi who saw him as a good omen due to his fox features. So here he was walking down the street in his hakama pants with his nodachi strapped to his back like usual and everyone on the street was giving him odd looks or looks of disgust.”God I wish I had more alcohol then in my flask” he growled as he took a chug of the home made alcohol in the steel container, it was blackberry Brandy and was much stronger then normal but to the Hybrid it was like drinking water. “hmm the sky is much darker then normal whats going on” he muttered as he headed for the pumpkin Patch he needed to be at for this job with a fellow guildmate.

As he got closer he saw a figure that much like himself didn’t seem human and instead had multiple legs and multiple eyes. It was Song a Guild Member he had yet to really interact with and from the looks of things she was rather on edge which made the hybrid snicker as he approached her his paw pads impacting the ground and sending vibrations due to his weight.”you keep acting skittish like that and I might mistake you for a jumping spider” he joked as he took another few swigs of his flask.”so they have you doing pumpkins picking as well” he commented as he stood beside her before a ice cold wind blew across the patch and while it didn’t effect Yuudai in the slightest he glanced down at Song.”keep warm I know spiders don’t handle cold very well this weather is extremely odd.” He commented before his ears twitched and he heard cawing before he saw a pack of crows appraoaching them and he blinked before getting tense. Something seemed off about them as they seemed to gather and then suddenly dive bombed them. The Hybrid was quick to respond and drew his Nodachi before spinning it fast like a fan before himself and Song.

The result was as expected with the sword shredding the flock with ease before Yuudai glanced down at them.”Something is off normally crows don’t act like that be on your guard” he said holding his blade to his side and slipped into a loose stance.

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Song looked over towards Yuudai with her pale yellow eyes, a little surprise in her face. Emotions expressed on her face were as reactionary as looking towards the face of a person she couldn't see reactions from. These were reactions the youth didn't mind doing though, as it made the girl feel more normal. He was here? Not upset? Then... "If I'm not late, then why is it dark and cold?! I thought it was night time for a few minutes!" It was only after that she considered clouds, but ones that dark wouldn't come in so fast, right? But eventually the joke that was told sunk in. The young girl pouted a bit before raising an arm up.
"You'd be cautious too if you could hear things in the sky but not feel or hear their exact location! I'll get too big for you to make that joke after I finally get my colors anyway, you'll see." Ah yes. Baby spiders tended to be colorless, or pale colored. She was certainly not an infant anymore, but the lack of color certainly suggested that the girl likely hadn't hit puberty yet.
Safe to say the younger of the two Taleas still had some growing up to do. When she did become one though? She imagined she would be big and adult. This importance in color was likely why she knew names of colors at all, despite the fact that it was something the desert child couldn't even comprehend. Right now that was starting to feel a bit like a sore spot, as it still hadn't happened yet!

"I like the vibrations you make! It's easier to see that way. Why did they try to attack?" She hadn't known about crows for long, but it was long enough to know that she had never been attacked by any until now, if this could count as an attack? The young girl didn't know how close they were before being taken down. She had to guess that it was close enough to get cut down for attacking, otherwise the tall man wouldn't have cut them down in the first place. It wouldn't make sense to attack and say they don't act like that unless they started it. But of course those thoughts were tossed out the window as soon as the tiny 'bodies' she had assumed had been crows had started to move.
The girl had seen tiny things become one thing when it came to eating, or making stuff with dough. This? Never like this. "Crows don't do that normally, right Yuuidai? They don't?" She hadn't exactly grown up around the birds or anything, crows weren't really a desert local. The tiny bodies forming a one body had spooked the girl a bit. She wasn't sure what to do until it moved. If it was going to attack, then so would she! At least she could tell it was attacking. White threads were quickly woven together to make a spell. That spell caused a small white blade looking object to fly towards the being, another spell being woven as soon as the first one was launched.

The next and final spell sent towards the being that was woven into life with white threads looked like a white flat bladed star, a final one was tossed after that one that looked like a plain small blade. While the being definitely either died or fell over after the final hit, that didn't make the young girl feel any less unnerved. It was like the birds hadn't ever been individuals at all. That thought was more scary than the sounds it had made before had been. "Why did they do that?"

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“I would guess that something odd is happening the time is mid day so there should be no dark clouds or cold wind at all today so its bizarre to say the least” the hybrid said glancing at the sky. It seemed like Song didn’t appreciate his teasing and said she would be to big for him when she got her colors which made the giant hybrid snort before letting out a barking laugh. “you to big for me that will be the day but it will interesting to see how you stack up but I don’t see you breaking my armor” he said as he flexed and his fur gained a metallic sheen for a second. As he finished slashing thru the crows using his sword like a bladed fan he quickly flicked his nodachi to the side to remove any blood before he heard his partner compliment his vibrations before asking why they tried to attack. “im not completely sure but given how the air and the feel of the area is Im guessing something sinister is at work” he said before he spotted the crow bodys all forming into one creature before he could cut it down though the spider girl suddenly used a few spells and proceeded to down the creature rather quickly.”” he suddenly cut himself off as he appear to slash above the Spider before it was revealed he blocked a scythe blade aimed at her.

The culprit was revealed to be what looked like a possessed scarecrow and it suddenly cackled before slashing again which caused the Hybrid to parry before moving so Song was out of the way.”Song Get back this things moving to erratically “ he said blocking the strikes with his blade. Seeing no choice he pushed the possessed scarecrow back before calling out to Song. “Jump back as Far as you can or your gonna be in the cross fire!” he yelled before he suddenly turned his blade so it was facing the ground before plunging it into the ground. The moment it hit the ground instantly blades suddenly erupted from the earth and started to grow bigger and brached out like deadly bladed trees causing the scarecrow to be impalled on multiple sharp branches before the hybrid took a deep breath before he suddenly unleashed a powerful bellow of black metal powder and shrapnel at the creature causing it to be ripped to shreds . Yuudai took a couple deep breaths before he starts to bite and chew his way out of the forest using the steel to replenish some of the stamina he had use and he quickly emerged and let out a burp as he looked over at Song.”alright there we go that’s one spooky scarecrow taken care of” he said before he suddenly got a chill up his spine and he looked around warily.” Theres still something here but where is it” he growled his fur bristling and his tails moving erraticly as he moved his eyes around the area as fast as he could trying to locate what had him so on edge.


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It was still midday? Then she hadn't been late at all! The realization of that was slightly frustrating. The youth had freaked out earlier about being late for no reason then.  Song more than likely really had arrived a few minutes early like the girl had originally planned to. It wasn't all that strange how quickly she could go from killing something to wanting to get the tall job partner back for the teasing. Her mood could be easy to bend and change when she wasn't deeply scared or bothered. Something the child didn't expect so soon after killing the monstrosity was to get pushed back by her job partner. Then again the 'thing', whatever it had been was hard to just stop thinking about due to the unusual way it had come into being. It was easy to see how the girl had missed a mobile scarecrow as she had been  busy and freaked out with what had been moving before. None of these events were even remotely normal, but she was doing her best to get everything under control and understand it. Every time she thought everything was okay, more mess seemed to happen today! She hated it when things couldn't really be predicted. Yuudai's touch hadn't been expected, the child temporarily distracted by the information that fed her before moving back.

She had no issue with listening to orders, especially when she had a reason. Actually getting the reason behind a command was something new to her, but it was still very welcome. At least he had dealt with the creature that had been acting erratically. The girl let out a slight sigh of relief after it was dead. Give her something more predictable and she would find out how to help deal with it, or just take care of it herself. That seemed to be what life did give though, something a bit more predictable. Or maybe it wasn't less predictable and she just had more time to react than last time? But the thick fog that had rolled into the area suddenly was so helpful! A smile returned to her young face before taking out some black threads. One of her hands begun to glow after the spell was woven to life using the right pattern. The sand assassin silently sped to the were kitsune, tapping his bare back with the spell 'speedy steps'. He wanted to know where the enemy was? Then she would tell them in the most effective way! Which wasn't pointing, well not in her opinion. The child moved enough to get a shot without putting her job partner in the line of fire.

She had also started to quickly use white threads to weave another spell to life, a small whiter blade being flung into the foggy darkness as soon as it was done. "They're there!" But not long after she said that, the lantern light became clear in the distance. The mysterious figure was laughing, despite that the attack had landed. But it wasn't there to just look mysterious and sound like a maniac, which was why it didn't waste any time releasing an attack towards both of them. While song typically couldn't see attacks from the air, the swiping motion was enough to get her to move out of the way. She knew exactly where to move because of the thick fog, it's curtain that could make it harder for others to see helped her senses feel the area better.

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Yuudai kept glancing around and straining his ears to make sure he could hear a foe approaching before he suddenly felt his arachnid partner suddenly tag him with a spell before she managed to pinpoint the enemy and pointed him in their direction, it was rather helpful since the fog that had rolled it had caused trouble for him visually so any way he could get a boost was helpful. It wasnet long before he heard a cackle and saw a light from a lanturn appear which made the hybrid growl in hostility. It did take but a second before he saw a shape take a swipe at Song before he suddenly stabbed his Nodachi forward to try and get the enemy to move away from her. His attempt wouldn’t be as effective as normal due to the tip of his sword being blunted but the force of it was still more then enough to cause the shape to shriek for a moment and recoil from the blow. Before he could get another swing the odd pumpkin beast suddenly jumped back and into the fog before he could slash a it again with his nodachi.”Whatever this thing is it is moving lightning fast” he growled as his tails twitched erraticly.

Yuudai felt a presence behind him before turning and swinging his sword again but it seemed that he just bearly missed the mark again which made the hybrid growl in irritation.”This thing is irritating why wont it just stay Still!” he snarled before he twitched his tails once again and suddenly swung behind him before he suddenly felt his blade hit something. Sure enough it was the creature and it seemed this thing had a pumpkin for a head with a nasty grin before it tried to summon up dark magic and tried to hit the hybrid with it. Thankfully Yuudai quickly jumped back to avoid said strikes before hardening his fur on reflex to deflect the claws that the pumpkin beast tried to use on him.”Nice try but you wont break my armor especially with those wimpy nubs you call claws” he snarled before he slammed the butt of his blade into the creatures head and head it shriek in pain as it tried to move back to escape. Yuudai However was not going to let this go and he stepped forward as the creature backed up and suddenly slashes two more times and felt them both connect.

“This is the end!” he roared before he suddenly slashed upwards with both hands before the force of the slash bisected the creature and split its head right open as it hit the ground unmoving. Yuudai took a few deep breaths before composing himself and he flicked his blade out to the right to remove any pumpkin guts from it before he moved it to the sheath on his back and it slid thru the opening before it sealed itself again so the Hybrids hands were free. “alright Song lets get a pumpkin and get the hell out of here im ready to go drink and then spend time with my kids” he grumbled as he found a nice large pumpkin before he held it and waited for Song to get hers before they would head out to finish the job.


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