The sequel begins, this will be set a year after original anime! So hopefully everyone who was on it originally will return, and some new people will new chars will come back on! So to introduce my chars:

Some familiar faces

Name: Kaido Eiki
Age: 16
Personality: What I would call hot headed, he also tends to get smashed around a lot. Still trying to get over his grandfather's death.
Bit more: He is a master of strength powered chi energy and is starting to be able to use speed Chi reasonably well.

Name: Airashii Eiki
Age: 16
Personality: She is sweet and caring, and very patient.
Bit more: She was put in an arranged marriage with Kaido, and they both love each other.

Name: Tori
Age: OLD!
Personality: Wacky at times, but after his best friends death, a bit more serious.
Bit more: he is now currently busy as a lord, and along with all the other heroes who were made into lords to replace the corrupt old ones.

Name: Lord Panzer
Age: 40+
Personality: A fascist, he is trying to get revenge!
Bit more: He managed to survive the fall and teleport somewhere, but no-one knows exactly where...

Name: Tsar Owen
Age: ???
Personality: ???
Bit more: There is something wierd about this guy, he seems to help the heroes one second, annoy them the next. He has frozen himself, and has an evil plan for the world

New characters:

Name: Emem
Age: 15
Personality: He is currently training under his ancient master, which is leading possibly to a certain amount of Eiki/tori-ness.

Name: Master Ganjou
Info: THE OLD TRAINER OF EIKI AND TORI!
Personality: This guy is old small and bearded, but don't let that stop you! He is a master of all chi movements. He is probably the source of Eiki and Tori's wierd personality as his martial art was also completely improvised.

Name:Kari Neko
Age:In technicality shes VERY OLD but demon years are different from humans so she's only 20ish looking.
Personality:Fairly hot headed,cold and blunt,has alot of mood swings from her just being her,and gets very pissy without any chocolate in her system.
Bit more:Is married to Bayonet.Though her son was Takai's child,not Bayonet's so Kari has a bit of an issue as to which one she's going to end up with.Has black hair with blue streaks and black cat ears and tail and bright blue eyes.

Name:Kazuma
Age:1 year old
Personality:???
Bit more:Kari's son,has reddish brown hair and green eyes,has yet to get his cat ears and tail.

wow, i hope this is as good as the original. ok, golden oldies first:

name: alrik gatling
age: around 35
personality: moans a lot, but is very cunning and funloving. takes offense to any jabs about his small stature
bio: alrik is a master of mechanics, and can buolt any sort of wacky contraption imaginable.
currently: alrik retired to a property in the south of baronia, to be with his machines

name: genny juarez
age: 11
personality: one year hasn't made her much more responsible or mature.
bio: genny is half human, half demon. she has a forked tounge and poisionous bite.
currently: under the care of donner, who took her in after the events of OA 1

name: englebert donner
age: 60's
personality: grim and miserable at times, but has a lighter side
bio: a vampire, he was on of the original lords, now lives peacefully
currently: rules land of wyrm as he did before

name: maximillian walrus howitzer
age: 51
personality: still as bumbling as ever, but slightly more cunning this time round
bio: howitzer is in fact dead, but in spirit he returns though forces unknown
currently: unknown

name: eric messerschmidt
age: 30's
personality: acts scary and intimidating, but is a coward at heart
bio: one of the corrupt lords, he escaped in the last episode and is on the run now
currently: on the run

and now, i have two new chars (so many chars!):

name: xavier druganov
personality: funloving and thrillseeking, but fiercely loyal
bio: he is a prince of the renegade kergoi tribes of jarl, who want indipendance
currently: a rebel in jarl

name: korvak mauser
personality: stands for no fools (which is a pity as he seems to attract them like a magnet)
bio: a known rhudorian smuggler, he is newly employed.
currently: doing dastardly deeds in rhudor

(heh, here`s mine, I find being drawn to the mentally unstable at the moment )

Name: Kahram `Slasher` Ulgren
Age: 20
Personality: Sociopath by nature, merciless yet never kills unless he finds it neccessary.
Bio: Insane asylum convict

Appearance: Blonde mid-length hair, grayish eyes, skinny build, no scars or tattoos on his body, of which he is somewhat `proud` about.
Bit more: He was convicted to an insane asylum, he did not even plead insanity yet the judge saw him decadent enough, after being found guilty of murdering 9 people, all related to an underground smuggling ring. His style of murder always related cutting up his victims with knives, shallowly, making them eventually bleed to death from various wounds, allowing their bodies to fail them first rather than delivering the last strike. Notable fact, he has been skilled acrobat since an early age.

Face: http://www.althanas.com/world/customavatars/avatar769_23.gif
Clothing and body: http://2d-code.co.uk/images/banksy-and-qr-code.jpg

oh by the way, there is a new continent, so state if they are on the old one (AKA golden oldies world) or on the new one (Emem, and master ganjou)

and, just for clarification, the technology is kinda 1920's but they have sword, knives etc too.

oh, and ps, all of my chars are on the original continent, at least for now

Oh yeah thanks for that! But the 1920s tech is a bit rare, isn't it? It's not massively popular yet.

Mine are on the original continent for now too!

My char is from the old continent I`d guess, starting soon enough?

Wait a bit longer, and we play, and I should put my current state of mind, it'd be an unhappy version of L or something.

ok, when do we start. soon i hope

Yeah, probably tonight

Kaido was in Tori's tower, sitting there... wondering... what had happened to yesterday... what had happened to the world he once knew, a world with his grandfather, and general peace... which was ruined for a short time, but returned to another peaceful world, but... somethings were missing...

"Grandfather..."

Airashii was in the room watching her husband, she went to comfort him... she knew his pain... she had lost people too... her parents, just like Kaido.

Tori meanwhile was muddling about with paperwork... servants running around the place explaining what to do.

"What? So I sign here? What... here? What's this for!? Oh! Um, sign that later, this one? Ugh! WHY DID I ACCEPT THIS JOB LORD OF LANCASTER!!!!"

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Panzer was walking through the desert, his metal skin getting hotter and hotter in the sun.

"Blast that Kaido, if I wasn't a demon I'd be dead by now..."

He saw something in the distance... what looked like... buildings? A city? Or a mirage?

Panzer ran in joy, civilization! He touched the walls, and smiled

"Excellent..."

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Suddenly... the ice block, with a human inside started to shake... and a small mumble was heard.

"Howitzer, is it time?"

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Emem was climbing up a mountain, with a bucket of water on his head... panting...

"Phew... finally Ganjou might teach me his secret!!"

He looked down, he had definetely climbed a long way... he did exactly as Sensei Ganjou said... and he hadn't dropped a drop.

When he got to the top, he got to Ganjou and knelt,

"Look sensei! I have the water!!!"

Ganjou looked at the bucket, and before Emem could stand back up, slapped the water off his head.

"No you haven't! You dropped it!"

"WHAT?!"

"You must expect suprises!"

"THAT WAS FROM AN ADVERT ABOUT BEER!!"

"NO it wasn't! Alright it was, but that's not the point!"

alrik gleefully ran to a switch, and, eyeing his creation, pulled the switch.his contraption sparked a little, then fell over in a heap. cursing, alrik ran to itsz side and began repairing it
he though outloud "why does this keep happening, am i losing me touch?"

he stopped to ponder this thought, then concluded "nah, i'm just unlucky"

he took a glance at the home around him. alrik had bought a zeppelin crash site in baronia after the war, andhas converted it into botha home and a massive workshop. he loved the way light flooded in through burnt holes in the hull

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genny sat in donners castle, relaxing. she spent most of her time in the grounds, as she disliked the darkness of the castle interior. she was sat in a large room, where many castle servants and staff were also relaxing.
she noticed her guardian lord donner, seated a few seats away, reading the fifth print of the new "newspaper". she watched him smiling

he was babbling to a bewiledered looking footman "look at this hose persky kergoi rebels are giving the autorities in jarl hell. they keep robbing convoys. and look here they're planning to review hundred of mental convictions?"

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howitzer bowed low, and, taking some effort to pull his bulk back up, he said "yes my lord. one year to the day"

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"thank you mr winchester" said the barman, handing a beragged man a pint of beer. this messy looking man walked to a dark corner of the pub and sat, slowly consuming his pint. messerschmidt never used his real name any more, it was too famous. he had had to run to the ends of the earth to escape his persuers, and his name wasn't gonna give him away.

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the train flew towards a large bridge, its chugging echoing into the empty expanse of grass around, cropped low by wild horses. however, the chugging was heard by unfriendly ears, as a hand emerged from the bushes to signal to unseen friends.

the ambush was ready

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korvak mauser eyed the box on his desk, put there by a nervous looking man flanked by two of mausers gangers at the end of the desk. mauser took the bottle from the box, and removed the cork, inhaling the smell deeply.

he then replied "true. genuine asgard brandy. i'll take all you got, no questions asked"

the nervous man let out a huge sigh of relief, and said "thank you sir thank you"

Leaning from his left to right, Kahram stretched his sore limbs within the pitch black, enveloping darkness of his padded cell in solitary confinement. He remained in the position for a while, with his right leg stretched out against the wall whilst his leg remained near his own torso, the straight jacket made his daily exercises tricky, but he managed after it had been two years since he had been brought to this place. His eyes were closed as they served no purpose in the darkness of the cell, heightening his other senses such as hearing, which brought the sound of footsteps to his attention.

One, two, three. Three of them, the doctor and his thugs, the master and the whip. It had been two long years, spent in a cold, dark, dank cell with an unbearable sense of being trapped forever. But if Kahram knew something of darkness, then that was where his soul resided and his mind lingered on it`s edges, endlessly dancing on the fine line separating from a rantic lunatic and a sane person. Maybe he had taken a few steps over, to both sides, from time to time, but fact remained as long as he was enclosed within his cell, none of that mattered.

The heavy, reinforced door screeched and buckled aside before the muscles of the two mighty gorillas. Two, large men in white enforcing their employers will, his high-minded will, that saw these madmen as nothing, but a research specimen. Yet Kahram knew, he knew about the knife. A small surgical knife, crafted for the sole purpose of precision and clean cutting. As the dim light from the corridor forced it`s way into the dark cell, Kahram opened his steel gray eyes and stood still, eying the two men approaching. The third was preparing a needle, usually Kahram had been a good boy and taken the meds, but not this time, this time he would seek his own drug, freedom.

Springing himself into action, Kahram jump onto his bed from where he leap towards the other enforcer. With a powerful leap he had managed to being his feet to connect onto the man`s shoulders, that he used as another springing board sending the man face first into the steel frame of the bed. The other enforcer remained to his left, but he was too slow, too fat, simply put he was too late to save the doctor`s life. Like predatory fangs Kahram`s teeth sank into the doctor`s neck, ripping and scratching away at the skin, sucking away the precious lifeblood, that gushed out. Once resistance was made minimal Kahram quickly brought his head to the doctors chest pocket and bit his teeth together in the nick of time.

In the instant, that he was caught from behind, he managed to struggle around and slash the man across the face with the knife. Finally, smirking sadistically like some wild animal with blood dripping from his mouth and the knife caught between his teeth , Kahram stood in the midst of his handiwork. The two guards would recuperate yet the doctor might not. Thus he took the liberty of springing free, rushing into the corridor and from there trough the window. In one moment of shattering glass and wooden frames, light flushed into Kahram`s world as he left the insane asylum, right trough the third floor window.

His legs sprang open and snapped closed around the flagpole in the yard, right outside the window, albeit creating an unpleasant pain in his crotch. Yet that was not enough to wipe the smirk off his face as he slid slowly down from the flagpole and landed on his feet on the ground.

Finally he ran as the alarm was sounded, the howling of the insane wished him luck and the angered sounds of the guards barked after him. He ran towards freedom, a new town and a new string of deaths.

The ice cracked, and Tsar Owen burst out! He cracked his neck, and then his fingers.

"One year? And I presume that Solomon lost?"

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Panzer entered the city, the people looked at him oddly... he was an odd sight... a wierd mechanical human... with some bits of sunburnt flesh. Panzer looked at the city and the people, he walked on... finding his way into a bar.

"Where am I?"

"You're in the city of Tamalkia! Everyone knows of this famous town!"

"I've never heard of this... is it in the Rhudor desert?" he asked curiously, why had he never heard of this... was it a new city? No, it was far too big for that!

"Rhudor? Never heard of it, this is the Desert of Hassa!"

"Hassa? Where am I?"

The bartender laughed!

"Suffering from delusion! On Cerathius! Everyone lives here! You must be mad! Especially with that wierd armour..."

Panzer frowned at the man, and brought up his arm... his cannon arm.

"You won't be laughing once I BLASTED OFF YOUR HEAD!!!!"

The cannon fired, and the man's head rolled across the floor. The people were all silent, the guards watched in horror.

"ANY ARGUMENTS!!!"

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Airashii smiled at Kaido, and Kaido smiled back

"Maybe we should take Tori to see Alrik?"

"Yes, I think that's a good Airashii... It might cheer me up...

Tori ran out of the room, being followed by numerous servants, asking for papers to be signed!

"KAIDO, AIRASHII!!! TO ALRIK'S!!! TO ESCAPE THE SIGNINGS!!!! AHHH!!!"

Tori grabbed the two and using his chi he concentrated it quickly to his legs and ran, allowing him to escape!

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Emem stood on the rock balancing on one leg, with a piece of bread on his head.

"Good stay there, Emem, while I do a crossword..." said Sensei Ganjou relaxing in his hammock.

Having been on the run for a while, Kahram hid, with a bloody knife still entrenched between his teeth and bloody covering his most of his jaw not to mention the chest of his white straight jacket. He was quite the grimace and would require some riding up in order to blend into the public at large once more.

He quietly sneaked into an alleyway and sat down, sticking the knife between the straight jackets fabric and beginning to cut his hands free from the cloth. Finally after some effort and time his hands were free, albeit the sleeves remained almost intact and he had to admit he liked the overlong sleeves. They would come in handy hiding a knife, but there was a more pressing matter at hand.

He required a place to lay low and needless to say it needed to away from the normal public at the moment, some eccentricity would not do any harm. He began skipping trough the dark alleyways with his overlong sleeves swinging from one side to the other.

alrik continued to repair his machine

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genny sighed and opened her scratchbook. well, thats what it was officially. if one looked inside, it more resembled a guards file. she had written many notes about where to find the man known as tzar owen

she had a large stock of info, but no real proof of anything.

she sighed again sorrowfully. her last lead has been that he might have gone to the katul mountains, north of jarl, but that was probably wild speculation.

donner merely sat readinghis paper, remarking "look at the print, magnificent isn't it"

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"you presume corect lord" said howitzer "the man takai sacrificed himself to defeat him" he remarked "a brave fellow indeed"

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messerschmidt continued to drink.

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mauser now drank the sample bottle of brandy, allowing his men to do the real work for him

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as the train neared the bridge, a voice cried out "NOW!"

horses were let loose in opposite directions, tied to the wooden supports. the sheer force of these many horses pulled the bridge down

the train stopped abruptly, only to be swamped by fur-clad warriors, brandishing spears.

at thier head, a young man with a large fur hat charged headlong into te guard carridge, disposing of one guard quickly by throwing him from the bridge before he could aim his rifle.
xavier druganov then took cver behind a fallen box as the guard opened fire

Kari was sitting in her garden of roses playing with her son smiling happily at him while her cat ears twitched and heard everything,like always.

(this one`s directed at Alrik)

Avoiding any public contact, Kahram found himself, least to say curious, structure formed out of the shell of a former zeppelin. It had supposedly crashed there sometime ago, time seemed such an odd concept to Kahram at the moment, and some nut had converted it into a factory or a home....

Either way it awoke Kahram`s curiosity, due to the fact, that if there was machinery then he was bound to find tools and other items of interest, knives and blades quite possibly. Sneaking up to the building, Kahram entered and began to wander around, moving from one shadow to another. Finally he spotted movement as he arrived to a location, where someone was repairing the machinery surrounding them and Kahram saw it fit to make his move. Suddenly sitting down onto a machine nearby with his long sleeves hanging towards the floor and smirking at the man.

"Curious place you`ve got here, got room for a resident interested in tools?"

He inquired out loud, a glow of insanity was reflected from his dark eyes as dry, crimson blood colored his jaw, white straight jacket and the tips of a few stands of his blond hair.

alrik stood up, saying "look, you've no right to tresspass..."

seeing how much shorter he was than kahram, he stopped and said "um..i mean, you see..."

he noticed blood at the mans jaw. he warily said "yeah...i got space for a while...yeah, lots o' tool and all"

he searched kahram with his eyes, but put on his best warm smile.

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xavier waited until the soldiers had used thier bullets, then charged as they reloaded, taking two down with his spear. others were momentarily shocked and didn't reload, giving xavier time to finish two and then leap inside a carridge as cover from the others.

he saw above him a gun emplacement that was mowing down his men easily. he knew he couldn't get the gunner without getting into the line of fire, so pondered what to do for a momet

he was caught off guard, and a guard sprung into the carridge and shot at xavier. xavier got off lightly with just a grazed arm, and he swiftly impaled the guard.

taking the mans rifle, he shot towards the gunner. though nowhere near hitting him, it distracted the gunner for long enough for another attacer to put an arrow in him.

thanking his luck, xavier continued his attack

"Oh worry not I had a little misunderstanding with my doctor, nothing serious."

He said as he dropped down from the machine and gazed around, curious. He noted Alrik`s smile and responded with an equally friendly smile, which for a fact was genuine. He had nothing against the man as long as he co-operated and allowed him to take up some of the zeppelins space.

"Name`s Karham by the way, yours? And any place where I could lay my head down for a while or at least use a private space?"

still wary, but less hostile, alrik said "i'm alrik. alrik gatling. and sure thing, theres some space over there" he pointed his left at a space seemingly concealed behind some heaps of scrap metal "tools are just kinda dotted around. say if you want something"

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xavier kicked another guard from the train. surveying the scene, he saw his men had the passenger cars under guard, and the last of the guards were surrendering

a man shouted "prince drugenov, what are your orders?"

xavier shouted back "loot the supplies and take anything useful back home. then let the prisoners take the train home. we don't kill civilians or prisoners"

jumping down, he examined his band of men. they numbered no more than 10, yet the guard of 40 had surrendered quickly. he knew his plans had worked, and the guards had believed they were facing a far larger force.

one of xaviers group said "sir, can i take some for slaves. i like those two" he pointed, and grinning moved towards them, but one of the other soldiers stopped him "you heard what the prince said, didn't you thalat?"

nodding in thanks to the second soldier, he said "ok, lets begin looting shall we"

"Oh good..."

Kahram said and excused himself for a moment, removing some scrap metal to clear away a suitable spot and aligning a very modest resting place. He took off his straight jacket as he still had a black t-shirt underneath it, he placed the jacket aside, but did not forget to keep the surgical knife close at hand. He placed it in a small pocket in his black pants and then spun around like some sort of dancer, gazing at Alrik.

"Oh and if you could keep my presence here just between the two of us, that would be swell, right?..."

He gazed around at the machinery with a hint of interest towards them and then at Alrik.

"You don`t probably even have many visitors... do you?"

He guessed, speaking his mind as the environment did not appear all that normal nor cosy in the end.

more at ease with kahram now, alrik said "nah, don't get many these days. couple drop in once in a while, but, hell, i like it that way i guess" he looked up from his work briefly "still, could use some company i guess"

returning to his work, he said "and don't worry, i won't tell a soul you're here. no questions asked, i get it"

after a brief silence, alriks said "so, what you doing round here then, huh?" more to make conversation than out of curiousity

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genny was thinking in her mind about tzar owen. she had only met him once, very briefly, but in that moment she knew something was wrong about him. she never told anyone, they'd think she was crazy, but still, it was a feeling...nagging her for ages.

a familiar face peered over her shoulder, and said "you just don't give up do you genny"

"no donner" was her reply, then she smiled at him "i dont" then she returned to her book

donner chuckled inwardly. he may be her guardian, but she still called him donner. still, he mused to himself, with a name like englebert that was hardly surprising. uncle engle? no, that didn't sound right at all.

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messerschmidt looked out of the window at the outside. a snow capped mountain glared at him through the window, the deep whiteness only punctuated here and there by red gates along the mountain track, and finally a large temple at the top.

messerschmidt thought to himself *literally to the ends of the earth* he doubted anyone could possibly have heard his name. hell, they hadn't even heard of his country.
still, better safe than sorry, he thought. besides, winchester was easier to spell anyway. he finished his drink abruptly

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"ah, the local inns'll buy anything that wont kill their costomers on thier property. besides, asgard brandy is a delicacy, they'll yum it up and wont bother to ask questions about the nature of its journey here" mauser said to subordinates. after they did nothing, he said "that was actually a signal to MOVE!!!"

the subordiantes stumbled out, and mauser sat down agitatedly "fools, i hate them all!"

At first Kahram ignored the inquiry as he came to realize, that he had not been able to use his hands in a while and the removal of the straight jacket had been a liberating experience as, if taking off the last shackles of imprisonment. At first he boldly attempted to hand-stand, but alas his hand muscles had gone long unused and the effects showed as he wobbled his balance awkwardly on his hands.

Finally, after admitting defeat and deciding to take things slowly, he forced his feet against a wall whilst staring at Alrik with his head upside down. There was a moment of wonder expressed on his face as he thought of a best way to phrase his words.

"Oh, a new beginning, away from somethings in my past, and a place to stay at obviously. I am not a wealthy man, but I´ll pay you for putting me up here. I was kinda curious about this place, I heard there had been a zeppelin crash, but not that anyone would live here.

And I thought it was kinda fitting since I began a new life, this thing once soared the skies and now functions as a... home factory?"

He inquired all of the sudden with a confused, slightly embarrassed expression on his face as he was uncertain as to what the machines actually did.

Tori, Airashii and Kaido were finally at Alrik's house... well the crash site.

"I wonder what Alrik is getting up to?" Tori asked knocking on the door.

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The guards surrounded Panzer...

"Oh, you want to face me... well, I suppose you fools can try..."

One of the guards slashed downwards with his halberd, but Panzer grabbed it, and swung the guard across the room, taking down another soldier... The second guard went for a stab, but Panzer broke the halberd, and converted his arm into a machine gun...

Bullets came out of the window... blood was on the walls... everyone in the bar was dead.

Panzer laughed...

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Tsar Owen smiled

"So, I am..."

Tsar Owen went to touch a piece of glass, and went to stab Howitzer... but his hand just went through him.

"What?"

He continued trying to stab Howitzer as a test, he knew he could heal him if something went wrong, but why wasn't Howitzer getting hurt!!

"I'm... BLAST IT!!!"

Tsar Owen slammed his hand into the wall...

"Howitzer... we have a mission..."

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Ganjou sat up and looked up at his student.

"You know Emem, there's another continent... there used to be land bridge years ago... it started sinking... but I managed to cross it... which is why I'm here!"

Emem looked at his master

"Are you getting senile?"

Ganjou's reply was to throw a rock at Emem's head, knocking him off the rock.

"Respect your elders."

Kahram gazed towards the knock on the door and pushed himself off the wall, landing on his feet and quickly going for the straight jacket. He hid it well, underneath some pipes and metal scraps, that were piled up against the wall. Of course he did his best to wash off the dried blood from his chin and managed to do so quite quickly.

"Go answer, it`s not a problem, if it`s someone you know. Let`s just say I am taking up residence for now and paying for it."

He said calmly, hoping that the bluff would be enough and that he could avoid hiding or running.

alrim looked curiously at kahrams gleeful expression. listening to him speak, alrik answered "fair dos, running from the past. as for this old crate" he admired his home "well, i just like the feel of it, like you said, it used to fly around, now it's stuck here, and..."

he was cut off by a banging at the door. he went to answer it, then turned to kahram "is there anyone who you might wanna avoid?"

he then said louder, so those outside could hear, "who is it?"

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donner left and returned to his paper, and genny turned to the back of her book. here, she had sketched her own map of the world. baronia in the centre, start to the west, and then the wilds of jerata stretched to the eastern sea. to baronias north, donners land of wyrm sat alongside the sate of albiona. furthur north still, the plains of volchis, and at the northen coast the ice sheets of asgard. east of baronia, the white sea inlet lay, flanked to the north by jarl, and kartul on jarls own north boarder, and to the south by rhudor, which the outcrop known as sicilo to its own south. the rest of the south was occupied by the vast uncharted expanses of imperitor, punctuated only by the islands of aegyer on its west coast.

genny sighed. how she wished to visit some of these places.

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howitzer, momentarily shocked by his lords attack, soon understood, and said "my lord, you are not yet physical form. you must rely on others to do your will."

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xavier and his men returned triumphant to thier home settlement, in north-east jarl. the wives, children, and old people showred his warriors with praise. xavier allowed his men thier glory, but himself went to his fathers tent, greeted by fellow commanders.

he went to his fathers bed, and said "dad, it worked like a charm"

Kahram thought about trusting Alrik once more and decided to keep this course, he seemed sincere enough and did not want to stick his nose into Kahram`s business albeit he had barged into the house under very suspicious circumstances. If Alrik were to be proven trustworthy then this might be the beginning of an actual `friendship` for Alrik in a long while.

"Doctors, and needles, doctors with needles."

He answered with a careless expression on his face.

a little confused, alrik said, "right, no doctors with needles" and asked again "who's there? if you're that bloody teenager, clear off or i'll throw you under the next train, you devil"

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messerschmidt examined a painting to his right. it was of a woman with a basket of flowers. he smiled grimly, and began eavesdropping on local conversations

"did you know gustav was his son? he kept that under wraps....."

"jonny's hurt his leg again, porr soul...."

"they say gais maior wants to extent its empire even more. apparently the cumulan army is on standby"

messerschmidt perked up his ears at the last talk. so, this continent wasn't quite as much a paradise as the legends told. he was hardly surprised.

"It's me your good friend Tori, and Kaido and Airashii"

"Hey Alrik!" said Kaido.

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Panzer started walking up to the palace, with some guards behind him. He wasn't arrested, he was just walking. the guards were cowering.

"I'm just doing this to see your King..."

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Tsar Owen looked at Howitzer.

"But... isn't... it broken?"

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"KAIDO!" shouted alrik merrily, and flung the door wide open to greet his old friends "airashii, you look as good as ever, and tori, me old mate, you look, well, kinda stressed to be trutheful, but great to see you too!"

seeing them stare at kahram, he said "oh, um, this is kahram, my new..." he pondered "...lodger"

he said to kahram "this is kaido, airashii and tori"

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mauser sat in his office, with what appeared to be a primitive radio at his desk. he was saying "i don't care what it takes, just get it done now. your men are there, so do it. they need to be caught, at least one of them" he seemd to wait for a reply "the girl and her son too, yes, i'll leave that to you. you wont have to worry about bayonet, he's not coming back any time soon"

"look, just do what i say, yeah? i'll make it worth your while"

he slammed the reciever down "fools, all of them"

Kahram made a modest bow at them as a greeting.

"Pleased to meet you, as Alrik just said, I am Kahram."

He greeted simply with a hospitable smirk on his face, a facade yet he doubted that anyone of them could see trough it. Beneath the surface laid beast awakening, waiting for it`s chance and feeding on the under current of murderous intent, that had been unleashed as he had escaped from the institution.

Kaido naively as possible went to shake Kahram's hand.

"Hi! That's pretty neat! It's good to have guests!"

Airashii bowed

"My husband is right, if you want anything don't hesitate to come to the tower..."

But there was something nagging the back of Tori's mind.

"Aren't you from... No... nevermind! Welcome" said Tori smiling.

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Panzer was about to open the palace door when he had a plan... he took out his device, and a small mechanical eye came out of his chest... it looked at Panzer... the eye then emitted a red light over Panzer...

The red light emitted near Mauser's position... on the old continent...

"Mauser? Mauser? Are you there?!"

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"Emem, it's time to do the shopping!" said Ganjou

"or you to go for the pub," replied Emem.

Ganjou in his anger at this comment, concentrated his energy quickly into his arm, and blasted it out into Emem's face...

Emem was blasted across the floor... he got up... he was ok, but a bit bruised.

"Ow... ok, let's go shopping!"

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Tsar Owen looked at Howitzer

"What happened at the battle?!"

Kahram politely took on their greetings and Kaido`s handshake, only to be stunned by the old man`s stumbling and thus suspicion began to brew within. He would have to tread lightly from now on with them, he could not tell how well they were aware of his fame albeit he had hoped it would not have reached this place. His face did not twitch at first, but something came up, that he had not thought about during the introductions.

Kahram`s face was distorted by amazement as he looked at the married couple and their physical appearances, he swore they could not be more than teenagers and he himself was around 20 years of age himself.

"Eh... you`re married?" He said in slight amazement. "A bit early for that?... eh don`t pay attention to what I just said..."

He said hastily after having been struck dumb by their physical appearances and ages compared to the fact, that they were married.

alrik smiled and said "come in, come in. hows about a drink, eh?" he ran and began looking for some sort of kitchen amoung the scrap metal

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mausers face appeared in the eye. at the same time, mauser saw a red image of panzer appear on his desk. "panzer, my friend. i trust you've called about the developments." he straightened his hat "its all in position. i've hired some rebels to do the job. they're brillaint fighters and need the money. i've sent them after all of your enemies, and they'll be dead before long. the boy, the cat girl, the dwarf, all of them. they'll bother you no more lord"

he sat back " i wait for your command"

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howitzer said "solomon was released when kruger smashed takai's arm. but luckily it wasn't shattered. merely smashed into four pieces. sadly, i have been anable to locate any of them."

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xavier sat down in his tent. it had been a long day, he needed some rest. he lay back and closed his eyes. he thought he heards some voices late at night, but dismissed them as mere restful men taking in the night air. besides, sentries were posted everywhere, and no enemies even knew where thier camp was. they were safe.

"Oh, it was an arranged marriage" said Airashii grinning "He didn't want to marry me, but I fell in love at first sight, and he fell for me... so we're happy!"

Kaido nodded happily at his wife.

Tori suddenly turned

"I know you!!! YOu!!! You're!! The Grocer!!! I forgot to pay! Here we go, here's 3 gold coins!"

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Panzer smiled

"Good... But there's one problem... I don't know where I am! Oh, and about those runts... get them!"

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Tsar Owen sat there curiously!

"4 pieces... we're going to need help... do you think we could fool those heroes again?"

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Ganjou was now in the pub and noticed Messerschmit... a new person he thought... he concentrated deeply, he could sense in his energy despair... hiding?

"Hello sonny, do you want another drink?"

Karham couldn`t help, but sweat drop at the whole combination, that swarmed over him and to think that the old man had made him worry already. He nodded to the couple and then gazed in confusion at Tori.

"Your senile old man"

He said bluntly, but there was no hostility in his statement, a cold simple fact, that everyone might agree on based on what he had just said. He sighed and scratched his hair quietly before walking off after Alrik.

"Alrik`s got a point, can`t be rude to a guest eh?"

He said, encouraging them to follow into the kitchen or well what was supposed to be one.

mauser barked into a radio "yes, thats right sir, the plan is active"

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xavier, got out of bed, he couldn't sleep. he wandred the windswept camp, until he saw a light on in his commanders tent. he ran over to see what they were doing. he got there in time to see his commander in chief say "yes, lord mauser, the targets will be dead within the hour"

xavier said "what the hell is going on in here?"

mauser said "what? who is that?"

the commander replied "the prince sir. he has discovered us"

"kill him"

the commanders drew thier sabers. xavier stood still "what are you doing. betraying our morals?"

"we need the money to survive xavier"

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startled, messerschmidt said "oh, um..hello...um, yes please" he looked pertrified

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howitzer replied "it is i high likelyhood my lord. i'll see if i can" he grinned "persuade them"

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alrik said "i think this machine still works. i call it a coffee maker" he smiled "anyone?"

Kaido smiled and sat down with Airashii, whilst Tori ignored the whole comment

"NO no, I insist take the money! And I would love some coffee!"

The couple looked at Tori

"I swear he gets worse every year..." said Airashii about her father, "So what brings you here, Kahram?"

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Ganjou nodded at the barman

"You're new around here! What's your name?"

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"Let us be off... we must find them... " said Tsar owen.

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Panzer's hologram shouted

"Where am I, Mauser? Have you ever heard of Hassa?"

The hologram switched off... Panzer looked at the eye, and put it back in his chest... he then lifted up his cannon arm and blasted through the door.

"Where is the governor, lord or whatever of this place!!"

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Kahram gazed into the distance briefly when, that question was presented, re imagining the torment of his captivity, that had forced him to seek shelter within the walls of his mind yet in the least he had not become a rambling lunatic. He had reattained his `senses` and seen the line as he continued to dance on the edge of the blade, between black and white, on a gray area of madness.

"Well let`s say, that from where I came from things got a bit uncomfortable so I decided to leave and begin anew. Not that actually matters, but I lost a lot of things.... anyway... about that coffee"

He said somewhat melodramatically and even put some effort into looking regretful about what had come to pass, true he regretted what had been before his killing-spree, but the spree had been done all to his own accord and he had not shed a tear for the nine lives he had taken.

alrik smiled, "here's coffee..." the cup was shot out of his hand by an arrow.

looking up, he saw several fur-clad men had scaled his home and were attacking from the top. several more were climbing down into the home, armed with sabers and spears

"argh, why do i always get attacked when i'm with you?" he shouted at kaido, before diving to get a gun as more arrows poured down

alrik shouted "guns over here. get 'em if you need 'em!"

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genny sat staring at her book. donner was talking to a footman, when suddenly the footman stiffened. he fell forward, an arrow in his back. screams erupted as men in furs burst through the dorrs of the room, armed to the teeth.

genny ducked behind a char, looking for a gun around the room.

donner shouted tomopen the back doors and let the staff out. he, meanwhile, ran to the mantlepiece, and took from the wall a long wooden stake. he then joined his body gurards in attacking the intruders

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meanwhile, at kari's house, more fur-clad warriors were approaching, ready to attack swiftly and with speed

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mauser sat back in his chair "it is done"

Karham was at first surprised as this had been the last place he had expected to have been attacked, by complete strangers none less, but it came to mind, that he was not their intended target. They had come for the trio or Alrik, either way judging from Alrik`s comment there was more to these people than he had dared to expect. Without a second thought Karham slid past one of the attackers, whose weapons swung over his head harmlessly. Meanwhile his right hand had reached for the knife in his pocket and delivered it`s blade into the man`s unprotected gut, forcing him to back off, bleeding.

However Karham had not ceased his attack there, but delivered a kick into the man`s kneecap, bringing him down a notch before raising his other leg as up as he could before bringing it down. The sound of bones crackling was accompanied by the slam of the fur-clad attackers body as Karham`s heel had connected with the back of the man`s neck. Thus being face first driven into the floor, stabbed and kicked into the back of the neck was enough to deal with the man.

The gruesome display of his yet rusty fighting abilities made Karham feel excited, a wild bloodthirsty grin appeared on his face and his eyes were swelled with murderous intent as he turned to face another opponent.

alrik stood, momentarily in awe at kahrams skill. a close call from an arrow brought him back to his senses. he spun from behind cover, wielding a rifle with some sort of customized scope. aiming, he quickly dispatched one bowman with a shot to the chest. another was a near miss

he wheeled round to reload, then back, taking another archer down. and so on. his fourth relorad was interupted by a saber-wielding man lunging at him. alrik used his stature to his advantage, slamming the gun butt to the mans shins, and then shooting him on the floor. however, alrik knew that a rifle was no use at close range.
he disgraded it, and grabbed another gun, a belt of bullets hanging from the side and a large set of barrels on the end.

he aimed, and emptied his bullets onto the fur-covered foes.

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donner parrayed a strike by a spearman, then delivered a kick to his torso, flooring him. he saw another begin to charge him with a spear, so donner ducked and tripped the man over. the man crashed into the wall. tthe wall, being old and weak, crumbled, sending the spearman falling from the high tower to the city below. light gleamed through this new opening, and donner, being a vampire, grimaced and swiftly stepped out of the light.

genny was hiding under a desk now. seeing a pair of fur boots beside her, she remained silent as posible. however, the owner of said boots kicked the table aside, and prepared a killer strike. genny reacted fast, and quickly bit deep into the mans arm. he yelped and lost concentration for long enough for genny to duck past him towards the wall. she looked back at the man, who now moved towards genny with rage. he suddenly turned pale, and keeled over.

poisionous bites had thier uses.

Kaido looked up at the men on the roof, he concentrated the energy in his legs and jumped up, the men looked in suprise and prepared their guns... but Kaido managed to concentrate his energy at his fists and punched the first one in the face, after that he blasted the other with a chi ball.

Airashii ran around dealing quick but slow strikes on curious soldiers... enough to distract them slightly.

Tori took off his cape to reveal his wings, he flew up into the air and took out his sword... he swooped down on a fur covered man.

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Ganjou looked at Winchester, who had not given him a reply, he knocked him lightly over the head numerous times with the staff.

"What is your name?!"

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Panzer was now in the throne room, where the king was... he was supposedly called "Sultan"... he was a large fat man who wore a turban and very grand golden threaded clothing.

"What are you?" asked the Sultan, a look of fear in his face.

"I am Panzer... Lord Panzer, I have come here from another land... and I would like your help," said Panzer with a grin.

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Tsar Owen went out of his cave and brushed himself off, he was a bit dusty.

He looked at the tower of Baronia, it had been fixed, but there were tiny people all over it...

"Howitzer, what are they?"

Albeit at first, distracted by the attack of those he now considered to be fighting with him, Kahram concentrated on his own fight as he two large soldiers came bearing down on him. The two attacked in tandem with spear and sword, forcing Kahram to back off and crouched briefly. Relentlessly they came at him and he was forced to roll backwards in order to escape their reach, a pain exploded in his right shoulder and warm liquid gushed out.

Crouching some feet away from his opponents Kahram reached for his own shoulder and taking a touch of his own blood on his fingers. At least it was a real wound gained in combat, not a needle puncture from a doctor syringe filled with nasty chemicals, that made him woozy. The beast smirked within him and made Karham grin again as he licked his own blood, which tasted acutely refreshing. Swapping the knife to his left hand, Karham prepared to fend off the next attack and take his chance to counter-attack. It was true, that the tandem-style of attack the two were using was effective, but the fact was that only the sword could effectively react close up and Karham wanted that sword.

As the spear point came at him, he spun around and then prepared for the sword. High? Low? Stab? Karham pondered and made a close call dodge as he leaped into the air, just above the sword stab directed at his chest. The spear was still too far extended and Karham took the opportunity to familiarize the sword-wielding attack to his own foot sweat. Kicking the swordsman in the face eliminated him out of the fight, at least for a while, but the spear was coming again. Karham made a daring move by actually slightly moving aside from the spears way after landing and caught the spear between his own side and the knife in hand. Then not hesitating he rushed forward, sliding the knife along the spear and delivering it into the face of the soldier. The knife sunk into the man`s eye hole, killing him effectively whilst Karham gazed around and walked towards the swordsman lying on the ground. The sword remained a few feet away, but Karham proved to be more faster than the stricken soldiers and grabbed the sword.

For a brief moment he admired the sword in quiet splendor as, if detached from reality and the battle raging around them. Then he sadistically smiled at the soldier, whose courage was only matched by the insanity dwelling in Karham`s eyes. Karham preferred brave victims, who would not turn into sobbing wrecks at their moment of deaths, defiant till the end.

"In how many pieces do you want to be sent home?"

He inquired before raising the sword into attack, but was interrupted by the sound of the still raging battle and he realized, that it would be rather suspicious, if he began cutting the man slowly to death in a situation like this. He sighed and grabbed the spear nearby, driving it into the man`s gut, it would not kill him, but ought to hold him still for a while. At least long enough to be interrogated.

alrik emptied another cartridge into a nearby man's head, stopping him before he reached cover.

alrik then shouted, firing his last shots into the air for effect "run for the hill, you bloody thugs! you'll not have my home ruined!"

many of the attackers were now demolalized by the fierce resistance of the group, and many began to flee.

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messerschmidt laughed very fakely, and said nervously "h..hey, i'm winchester, e..ernst winchester"

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donner thrust his stake through another attacker, hissing as he did. genny, meanwhile was backed against a wall. she slid along to where a bag was in the corner.

she felt inside for any sort of weapon, and her hand grabbed something. pulling it out, she smiled.

she'd stolen these sticks of dynamite from alrik last year.

taking one, she made a break for the fire place, where a roaring fire still illuminated the room.

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mauser sat calmly in his office "now, i wait for my next order"

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howitzer followed owen out of the cave "they rebuilt a lot after the carnage of solomon" he said "the new tower is said to be able to see all the way to the west coast, right across jerata."

he then continued "tori still controls it, you know. baronia is now more powerful than ever, they basically control stark as a large province now, though its unofficial. that fellow, runton, knox's old enforcer, got the job of governor"

seeing his masters boredom, he said "what do you want me to do, my lord?"

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xavier rode into the night. he had long since lost his persuing former friends in the dense grassland, but in the flat steppes it was hard to hide, so he'd had to extinguish his torch, and now rode aimlessly into the night. he only hoped this would lead him to somewhere where he could stop his own peoples villainy

Tsar Owen laughed

"Those foolish heroes, it'll be easy to win this war... Howitzer, I'm sure Knox's enforcer will remember you, try and cause an uprising there... meanwhile, I'll look around for other people. The point is, I want the people to help me, by finding those pieces... and destroying each other!"

He jumped down into the sunset... darkness was falling...

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The Sultan looked at Panzer

"So, if I do as you say, you will bring my country to glory and not kill me..."

Panzer smiled

"Yes, I have no interest in this wasteland, but over there, on the other side, is my land, my revenge!!"

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Kaido sat down,

"What were they here for?"

Airashii looked

"We were targeted... THE OTHERS MIGHT BE IN DANGER!!"

Tori looked down

"We can check our friends areas... I have a tunnel beneath the tower going out to the other states..."

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Ganjou knew he was hiding something

"You look foreign... you see, I came from another continent, nobody believed me... but hey... so Winchester, you from the continent?"

Emem was now in the mountain hall again... he had found something in the market today... a piece of a bracelet of some sort. Nothing special, he just enjoyed collecting items... but it was now that something caught his eye... something that he saw glowing in the distance...

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"Speaking of which...here`s someone to tell us what they were doing here..."

Kahram began with a foreboding tone and turned around to grab the spear, that stood in the floor, impaling a man on his back against the floor boards. He cruelly twisted the spear and placed his own foot on the man`s fingers as his other hand remained on the floor.

"I`m not sure, but I´d like to make this fellow elaborate on his agenda or the one he`s working for... and now that I got mixed into whatever or whoever you really are, you might as well spit it out as to who these others might be."

He said with a questioning tone, placing himself in the position of the interrogator, who required information instead of them asking him those annoying question as to his origins. However when Kahram was distracted and the victim certain of his eventual death, the warrior pulled a hidden dagger and slit his own throat, much to Kahram`s annoyance.

"Tsk.... that`s not much fun."

He said with a grin on his face.