Unexpected events (open/FNK)

Welcome to clover town, one of the most beautiful, peaceful towns in all of Fiore, home to the Blue Pegasus guild, the guild master meeting hall, many retired wizards, and, not quite the most important over all, but certainly the most important for this, home of Bastion Stonewall.

Having just returned from a rather annoying mission involving a particularly nasty lion and one rather irksome child, Bastion quietly made his way towards the guild hall, to get his payment, a shower, and most importantly, a good nap. He had lost his prized weapon, his favorite scarf, and not to mention a bit of his own flesh! His left arm still ached from where the lion had raked him with his claws, and put the arm in a sling. "Man.....what a nuisance." he grumbled to himself as he reached up to pull his wide brimmed hat down lower over his eyes, trying to hide his face from the crowds. He did not like his scar's, and inevitably, whenever someone saw his scars, they always, ALWAYS, had to ask. Nuisances.

So busy was he with his own, internal thoughts, and his incessant need to hide his scars, that he didn't notice several shadowy figures following him from rooftops, watching from alley ways, watching him very carefully. He noticed none of it, not even how the streets seemed to be getting emptier and emptier. So much trouble could have been avoided if he had.......


(Ok this is an open scene. All I ask is that your first post, all you do is place your char in Clover, I will get your characters attention on my next post)

Lance had just gotten back from the events in Crocus and was pretty happy about how they turned out. He had decided to take a break from jobs and decided to take a trip to Clover town in hopes to find some relaxation after the events of him and a girl in Crocus and the events that happened in Hargeon town. As he walked down the streets of Clover town with his pet dragon Draco sitting on his head the tiny dragon laughed as he was talking to Lance. "Hey Lance guess what?" Draco calmed down a little as Lance sighed "What?" Draco laughed "Chicken butt!" Draco just kept laughing. Lance sighed a little more realizing that it was one of those days.

Lance found a quiet field and laid down while Draco went to explore the town a little bit. Draco flew through town and saw restaurants and bars and the guild. Then a gust of wind blew through and hit Draco making him fly through the wind. He saw a person up ahead with scars on his face. The streets where strangely empty "Hey watch out!" Draco yelled as loud as he could as he ran into the person. Lance heard the yell also and opened his eyes and started to run toward the scream.

Shaku was scouting Clover Town this time, as he had already won over the nobles in Era and Oak Town, making a name for himself as a sort of "iron chef" at the grand opening of a very high end restaurant at the latter of the towns mentioned. He was deep in enemy territory however, so he had to be a bit careful on where he tread, not that he was flaunting his guild's crest, but he needed to make sure he didn't cause too much commotion. His purple hood from Genesis was raised over his head, hiding hid face in case anyone would recognize him from the Oak Town restaurant, not that he thought that he'd be meeting anyone from there all the way over here. But as stated earlier, this was Blue Pegasus' "turf", if he, a dark mage, was made in a place like this, his whole plan would be set back significantly, so he really needed to watch his back.

The sun shone brightly, causing shadows on opaque objects which the sunlight failed to get through. From one of the many shadows in Clover Town, one could be seen walking solo around the outskirts of the town. “Hm.. where can I find food?” A man, yellow haired, pondered as his stomach growled from hunger. Naruto didn’t have his breakfast earlier, and so the overwhelming hunger of his forced him to find something to eat that day. As he walked around, Naruto could sense that something’s off. The number of people walking around the time was decreasing from time to time, and could be noticed by the empty space in some alleyways. Naruto looked around, looking for a place to eat. But weird enough, many of the stalls are closed for some reason, and some of the remaining people were rushing somewhere.

“What’s happening?” Naruto asked to himself, resting his hungry body on a bench. The street was nearly empty, a small number of people rushing around here and there.

Bastion started as the dragon ran into him, his good hand shooting up and stopping just inches from swatting the thing away before stopping himself and instead offering his forearm to the creature. "What in the blazes? A.....are you a dragon??" He asked, truly shocked. "I didn't think any more were-" he started saying, before a kunai with a tag tied to the end flew past his eyes, a weapon all to familiar to him. Wether the white dragon had landed or not, Bastion had just enough time to twist his body about, placing his bad shoulder somewhat between the baby dragon and the tag, just before it exploded.

It wasn't a big explosion, mostly noise and light with little concussive force. But it wasn't meant to be. Any caught in the immediate area who lacked the proper protection would likely be stunned, and as five tall, darkly dressed men, all sporting a yellow patch with a black spiral on their arms, approached, those caught in the blast would be easy prey.

Bastion unfortunatly had no such protection, and he doubted the dragon did either. But that was hardly his concern. He couldn't believe it, despite all his hard work, they were back. Somehow, through all the years, his darkest nightmares were back. And he could hardly see or hear as the collectors closed in......

She had walked into Clover Town, her eyes looking all around, she looked up when she heard the small explosion, her cloaked eyes narrowed as she started running towards where this blast of light had been. She was dressed in white, with a green cloak and a red long scarf. She didn't know what had happened, but if someone was in trouble, then she was not going to let anything happen to them. She skidded to a halt and looked around.

The streets were quiet, too quiet and empty. She scowled when she saw the stunned people around. and the darkly clothed figures. She walked forward, not realizing that she had stood her ground infront of a fellow Blue Pegasus member, but then again, she was still incredibly new, "What is happening here.." her voice quiet but seemed to be heard all over. She readied herself for something bad to happen. A gust of wind blew the hood of her cloak from her face. Her black hair looked brown in the light her eyes silver. Her expression serious.

Mysterious enemies appear in the middle of town to attack the peaceful citizens. This is the perfect way to earn trust as a hero in this town. Looks like it will be easier than I thought he thought while holding his hand out. In it, his trust scythe Ventarus appeared, seemingly out of thin air. Jumping off of the building he was on into an alley at its side, Shaku dug his scythe in the wall to slow his descent at the cost of making the alley looks a bit more weathered. Soon after he hit the floor he sprinted towards the mysterious men who still hadn't made their identities known and attacked a normal bystander. Shaku stood a good fifteen feet away from them as he readied his scythe for battle. Both his hands gripped tightly around it, he activated a perculier ability that it had, creating a field that engulfed a twenty meter area, well surrounding the men and him. Without hesitating, he cleaved his scythe downwards with all the force he could muster, aiming for the man to his rightmost side. Hopefully he wouldn't see it coming and not bother dodging the attack that he couldn't really see coming for his left shoulder.

Naruto continued his walk after the short rest on the bench earlier. “Hm.. Food!” Bumping into a ramen stall, Naruto thought it would be okay to be merry, rushing towards the stall with a smile on his face. “One ramen please, sir!” The man running the stall smiled, giving Naruto the ‘aye!’ face. It was amazing, how fast the ramen guy would be able to prepare one under two minutes. It looked so good, the smell thrusting into Naruto’s nose. “Dig in!!” Naruto said, as the man put the readied ramen onto the counter. “Soo.. what do you p-“ “BOOMM!!” A loud explosion caught Naruto’s attention, as he looked out of the stall to see what was happening.

“What the..” Naruto saw puffs of smoke on the air, coming from somewhere two blocks of buildings away. He stepped out, putting the pay on the counter with a rush. Bringing along the bowl of ramen, Naruto headed towards the explosion area, where he could see people gathering about. “Eh??” Naruto tilted his head, as he took in a gulp of ramen. There was a guy, standing, facing another guy, hooded. There were also a lot of hooded people, standing a bit further than the first hooded guy. They seemed to be watching, not doing anything. Yet.

Lance ran through the town a fast as he could and heard all sorts of stuff going down. He rushed around the corner and saw Draco and he raced up to him and picked him up "Draco are you okay?!" Lance said as he hugged the little dragon. After the little reunion was done it was back to reality and heard an explosion "What the hell is going on here?" Lance said smirking a little as he walked up to a person who looked a bit scared "Hey... what the hell is going on?"


OOC: Sorry its not long I am a little busy at the moment but I told Shaku and Drago that I would post today

As everyone neared the scene, and Shaku even attacked, those who were especially observant, or just able to sense magical aura's, really subtle ones, everything about this would seem wrong. From the birds in the air, to the five cloaked men, even to the random citizen Lance had questioned, it all seemed wrong. And as Shaku's attack came into contact with the cloaked figure, everyone would see why. Because as soon as the attack hit the man, the whole world seemed to shatter, like a stain glass window, revealing a much worse situation on the other side.

The attack revealed the whole scene for what it was, a massive illusion. The five men were an illusion. The random citizen, all of them in fact, were illusions. The emptiness of the street was an illusion to it seemed. As soon as Shaku's attack hit the 'man' it would keep going right through him, and down the street! And as he stood there, the counter would come, in the form of a kunai with a spell tag attached. But when this spell tag went off, it didn't explode like the last one, it simply threw a powder at Shaku. One that would burn the eyes and make it hard to breathe if it got him.

But Shaku had it far from the worst it would seem, as the person Lance had been talking to proved to be an illusion, only in so much as he was an innocent bystander.As the illusion broke, it would be a tall, broad man, wrapped in loose black clothing that sported several spell tags, and wielding two short swords, with one sword already in motion, swinging at Lance's neck!

But again, this was far from the worst of it, as now there appeared to be ten men, all similarly dressed, all sporting spell tags all on their clothing, and all armed with various weapons. Two more were rushing to attack Lance, another was charging Shaku, shield leading the way, with an archer shooting at Shaku as well, three were rushing Naruto from different directions, and two had somehow used the illusion to place themselves on either side of Reiki, both armed with spears! And somehow, through all of this, Bastion had disappeared in the illusion. this was certainly becoming a very bad day....

Things were going south really quickly. As soon as his attack struck the man, the illusion was shattered and it was apparent that there were now ten darkly clothed men. Ten or five, it mattered not, he would defeat an army if it meant fulfilling his goal. Assess the situation... he thought while spinning, the tip of his scythe redirecting the projectile to the side while making a sound from the weapon cutting through the air quickly. He activated his optical spell, scarlet eyes, soon after, turning his eyes into a deep red color with a black comma shape near his pupil. Everything seemed to be moving slower at this point, allowing for more time to think. Two things happened at this point, one was Shaku swapping his scythe out for his black revolver in his right hand while pulling out an ethereal sword in his left hand, being held reverse style from his trusty lineage. Since the ethereal sword wasn't actually a weapon he requipped at will, his revolver was able to be used alongside of it.

Not only that, but his speed was increased by a significant amount, allowing for the quick traversal between him and the pesky archer that had no means of defense if he got in close proximity. The arrows were easy to avoid in his quick steps towards the man clad in black. During these steps forward, he shot off, five times to be exact. Three aimed for the man's heart, one for the forehead, and one for the solar plexus, all with near perfect accuracy. Five, one left before I need to reload Right now, he was right in the archer's face. But instead of firing, as most would expect, he jumped in the air while beginning to spin clockwise. Shaku fired the sixth round forward, increasing his spinning speed quite a bit due to recoil. In an instant, his sword was aimed for a downward slash along the enemy's chest. Afterwards, he would turn towards the shielded man, confident that he had put the black clothed archer out of commission.

His attacks, though, they all went right through the bowman, increasing his suspicion on the moment that first downed on him when his attack simply phased through the first man. That's when he stood still and awaited the shield man to strike, prepared to prove a theory he had concocted up to this point if the first man was an illusion, and I couldn't even hit the archer, who's to say all of this isn't all still part of the plan he thought suspiciously, waiting for the moment of truth when the shield man would strike, weary for any tags, since that seemed to be the only real weapon they threw at them. Shaku was slowly piecing this contrived puzzle together, and he didn't like the picture.

As the illusion broke, her eyes widened, she looked at either side of her, seeing the men, fear flashed in her eyes as she grabbed the front of the green cloak with her black fingerless gloved hand and pulled it off. She wore white trousers, a brow wrap around her waist, white shirt and a short brown leather jacket, her scarf blew in the wind. She chucked her cloak out of the way and started forming handsigns. Her eyes closed and swung her fists outwards to their own sides of her body and a slight purple glow appeared as purple crystal swords formed in her hands, she scowled and looked at the two men, "If your here to fight me... then fight!!" she yelled, now showing anger in her features. She looked behind her slightly, seeing that Bastion was no longer there, she looked back at the men, backing away ever so slightly to have a bit more room.