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She paused. "...Sort of." She pasued thinking it over. "They can speak the normal language if you need to ask anything. We just choose to speak in another to make sure others-"isuch as yourself"- don't understand unless we wish it."

The scarred man strode up to Ryu and nodded. "Howzit goin' new boyo?" He brought his hand up and slapped Ryu across the back. "Let me be ta one to point you to a house ye can use fer now."

Nikida seemed to soften up watching the two, before turning away to head towards her house. Unlike the other ones, hers was built into a tree higher up. It almost looked more like a watch tower then a real house and for all Ryu knew it could have been just a tower.

"Here's where you ken stay for now." The man with a scar over his eye only grinned before pointing Ryu towards a small but comfortable looking houe-esque construction. Interestingly, all the houses seemed to be built around, on, or atleast attached to their own seperate trees in someway. But that wasn't as weird as the fact children were running around on the streets of the small community.

The man had nodded and left Ryu to his business. Meanwhile, Nikida had been watching from her house. It was of some interest to her considering. Something about this Ryu... I'll have to keep an eye on him.

The children knew better. If anyone watched for yoo long, it was obvious that even thr kids seemed a bit if not unaturally alert. The entire village was actually alert. It was as if living in the forest had kep them on thir guards long enough to seem natural. Nkida eventually came back down from her treehouse and walked back out into the woods just staying within sight of the house so she could practice with her weapon.

She on the otherhand was still training. Tightening her bow string and adjusting it slightly to correct almost unnoticable imperfections in it's draw. By now, she was sweating slightly. Pulling another aroow back her arm muscles tensed slightly, but enough to be notice, long ago discarding her coat. Letting the arrow go and rawing another in a quick motion, it made a light cracking sound as it nailed the circle on the tree in it's middle.

She sighed and nodded bring an arm to her forehead to wipe at the sweat on her brows. Now it's perfect again.

(( Sorry if it's a bit long...well, maybe that's an understatement... sweatdrop I kinda got carried away...you can hit my hand if you no like it -holds out hand to any that think his post is too damn long-))

Rekko had been living the life of a normal slave, a very untamed, disobeying and powerful one at that, but still a slave. He got rather bored of weak, kind and pathetic mistress's, so as a result, he killed them. He usually used his powers to either frame someone else for the death of the mistress or he'd presuade the slave-ring owner that he did not kill the mistress. He always succeeded, until last night, he ******** up.

He hadn't done enough to presuade the slave-ring owner that a particularly suspicious man killed her, and finally he killed the man for not going along with his plan, though of course the man didn't actually know Rekko's plan, and Rekko was detained and exiled from the four lands, East, South, North, and West, since he'd had a mistress in each at least once. He played along, weak and just a pathetic untamed slave that needed to be beaten and then gotten into chains, then four of the elite soldiers took him, actually dragged him on their horses, to the edge of the forest full of exiles. While they were dragging him his already pathetic, torn, and tattered up clothing only got all the more pathetic and torn up.

But they made the mistake, a very costly mistake, and did not take a single non-human soldier with them and, as a result, Rekko incinerated his bindings and killed the four soldier's before they could do anything about it. They always underestiamated him, all of them, from his mistress to damn pathetic soldier, they all thought him weak. They all paid with their lives for it.

After he killed the soldier's he used his powers to make the Earth, the ground beneath the soldiers dead bodies, just up and swallow them into the ground, along with the blood. The horses though, were let go, sent back to their Master's with a note from him, it said that he'd one day come back for them as well.

Rekko's dark gaze looked into the forest supposively full of the outcasts and exiles, wondering if it was true, he could easily sense beasts and things not of normal proportions in the forest, but none matched his strength nor power so he wasn't afraid. He started to walk into the forest and to wear he sensed the least bit of human activity, all the while their was a powerful, but invisible white-hot barrier protecting him. He would so love it if one of the beasts in the forests decided to get within 30 feet of Rekko, then they would be incinerated.

Rekko kept walking for a long while until he saw a tree that had fallen just recently from the looks of it, which made his brow raise. He walked over to the part of the tree that still stood and concluded that it was cut by a powerful sword stroke. He grinned slightly "So, maybe there really are some exiles in this forest...but I wonder, why is it that they fought?" He shrugged it off, roaming around the area of the cut-down tree, he found some arrows lodged in some trees or branches and a few in the ground "Looks like they were up in the tree branches..." He said to hisself aloud from looking at the direction of which the arrow's must've come from. He kept looking around the area, and he easily sensed that a pack of the beasts living in this forest where watching his every move, though he could've cared less.

(( gonk crying -whimpers, then growls- Jeez dude, I didn't actually expect someone to hit my hand....-eye twitches- Damn, I fogot about that, I usually am through with reading and remembering... gonk Thanks for telling meh tho))

Rekko's head turned slightly as three of the beasts that were watching his every move jumpped from their hiding spots all around him and attempted to attack him. He gave them credit for being quite muscular and powerful beasts, but still, they were completely incinerated once they got within 30 feet of him. He watched as where they had once been lunging at him their were instead puffs of smoke. He shrugged it off though.

Rekko kept examing the area and noticed a branch with some black rot, and upon examining it for closer inspection he noticed a small poisoned dart. His eyebrow raised, then he stood back up "Hmm, I wonder...I hope they don't take me as a threat..." He sighed softly, the last thing he wanted and needed was yet another enemy, he was strong and quite powerful, but having too many enemies is something that noone could handle while having no allies.

He sat upon the ground in an open clearing closeby to the fight scene and put his hands behide him, supporting him, and then looked up, looking at the treetops covering most of the sky, then he waited, for he was quite sure that someone in this forest would have noticed him by now, and especially since his barrier had incinerated those beasts.