The Guardians of London: Third Echelon CHAPTER THREE [6 Slots Open]

[Lord_Ascendant]

Bastian smiled, following the little girl. The ground crunching underfoot, he felt safe here. Whatever this Dark Skull was, it was bad...probably the Shadow Lord released by the Necromancers so long ago.

Lurker, being the shadow he was, walked behind Bastian and was very quiet...no one had noticed him yet but they knew he was among them. Lurker didn't need to speak, he was busy thinking.
They paused near a small body of water, allowing Bastian a chance to try something Faustus had given him before he had left, something he thought he needed more. Bastian tipped the tiny glass vial into the body of water, a small crystal clear lake and whispered "Water, hear my words. I call to me a master of your domain, may her name be sung through the deeps. I call Breaker, Guardian of the Light." out of the water, she formed. The vampire was off-duty and had been awaiting a new assignment, thought the long journey to Faerie through the void took only seconds for her but for the rest they slowly watched the water form into her feminine shape. Bastian wasn't as impressed as the rest of the men, though.
"Finally, something to do. How can I help..." asked Breaker.
"Breaker, welcome. We're here to defeat a Shadow Lord and we need your help...do you think anyone else can come?"
"No...it's busy back home. I'll help however I can, though."

Spoiler: OOC

She deserves to see Faerie.

 

[MrJKapowey]

"Oh, hello again!" Harper grinned, "now we just need to get a few more people here and it's the whole gang..."

 

[Daft Sikes]

Hadrian elbowed Harper to get his attention. "So, who exactly is she?"

 

[Tortilla the Hun]

Pyotr was in the midst of wringing out his soaked jacket when the violent outburst of Jeffery's occured and was seemingly defused. Fucking Christ, I've been a Chronomancer for many years ahead of him, and I'm not nearly that unstable. Running his hands through his drenched hair, he considered an important fact, Not all minds are the same, not all are as strong. Chronomancy is not for everyone...

"Ha! You can say that again..." the Russian said to himself as he withdrew a half-empty bottle of vodka, the very last he had, from his pack and took a large swig. After gulping down the strong drink, he stored the remainder in his pack before speaking up to the little, floating Fae that introduced herself as Rena. "Excuse me, króshka," he addressed with a polite and sincere smile. "There would not happen to be somewhere where I may be able to purchase a few bottles of vodka, would there? I appear to be running short in that supply."

 

[Vesuvius Hetlan]

Jeffery waved hello at Breaker unintrested, he had his wife who was all he needed to pay attention to in matters of attractiveness, and went back to musing on certain topics in his head. He did some number crunching in his head before he realized something. He knew how old he was. This wouldn't have been a big deal to most people but for Jeffery it was. His temporal-vision had clouded most things resulting in Jeffery loosing track of time, literally. He turned to Harper and Hadrian and placed a hand on each of their shoulders. "I remember... I remember my age! I'm 50!"

 

[Daft Sikes]

Hadrian snickered at this and gently removed the hand that was on his shoulder. "Jeffery, have you taken your pills?" He asked jokingly. "It looks like you took too much again."

 

[Vesuvius Hetlan]

Jeffery gave Hadrian a look of mock surprise. "Such uppity kids. I guess I'll have to tell you to get off my lawn and have you sit in the corner." He imitated having a walker to support him.

 

[Daft Sikes]

Hadrian chuckled. "I always thought you were younger than that." He shrugged and crossed his arms. "Must have been the trench coat."
"Anyway, do you happen to know who that is over there?" He gestured to Breaker, who was still standing at the head of the pond and conversing with Bastian.

 

[MrJKapowey]

"She's a vampire, member of some house or another. She was helping out when we apprehended the Golden Skull. Breaker's har name, she's an aqua-mancer."

 

[Daft Sikes]

Hadrian bristled at the word "vampire."
"Huh... So that's why my nose was itching like crazy." He muttered. "It'd probably be best if I avoided her."

 

[MrJKapowey]

"DOn't worry, I'm sure you'll get on fine! Maybe. I dunno..."

 

[Daft Sikes]

Hadrian grunted, still eying her. "I doubt that. Our kind don't get along very well with each other." He bit his lip anxiously. "I learned that the hard way."
He stayed silent for a moment before shaking his head. "I'm probably getting worked up for nothing. It was only one time, and one guy."

 

[Kuroneko Aisha]

Rena was happy to take a break and giggled as she went over to the lake to get a drink, unaware of what Bastian was doing. Suddenly, the water seemed to morph and a new person was shaping out of the water. Squeaking in surprise, she hurried out and hid behind a tree before peeking out and watching what was going on. It seemed the woman was a friend of theirs, and she thought it would be nice to have another female in the group, but she didn't know anything about the woman.

It was about this time when one of the males came over to her, smelling kind of funny, and asked if they had something called 'vodka' at Grand Moon. Confused a little bit, she said. "I don't know what you're talking about. I've never heard of that kinda stuff before."

 

[Daft Sikes]

Hadrian moved over beside Rena. "Let me see if I could help you out here." He put a hand to his chin. "Have you ever seen someone wander out of a small building with a bottle in hand, while ranting or mumbling about his problems and insecurities to him or herself?"

 

[Kuroneko Aisha]

Rena tried to think about a situation like that in her past, but she shook her head and said. "No, I can't say that I have. I've seen others walking around with water flasks, and everyone mumbles about their problems every now and then, but together..I don't think so."

 

[Daft Sikes]

"Okay..." his brows furrowed. "How about people complaining about "hangovers"? Or people acting out of character and smelling funny?"

 

[Tortilla the Hun]

"Well," the Russian started as he pulled the quarter-full bottle of Stolichnaya vodka and held it up for Rena to see. "It looks something like this." The bottle was clear with large sticker, having a black-and-white drawing of Hotel Moskva with 'Stolichnaya vodka' in gold, cursive lettering over it. The drawing and lettering was boxed in by a thick, gold border. Above and below the bordering were red boxes, the top encasing 'STOLICHNAYA' in white, boxy print and the bottom encasing 'RUSSIAN VODKA' in the same fashion.

 

[Kuroneko Aisha]

Rena thought about that scenario before nodding her head and saying. "I think I've heard some of the ol..I mean, other adults my age, talking about something like that after they've had some spirits." She was talking of the alcoholic kind of spirits, and not the ghosty scary kind.

 

[Daft Sikes]

"Well, it looks like you're in luck Pyotr." He gave him a pat on the back. "Well, maybe. I doubt that they have vodka over here. But hey, better than nothing, I suppose."

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

"This is Breaker, she's an aquamancer and an ally. We'll be needing her help, for some of the vague rumors I've heard there is a lot of snow and ice we have to cross and an aquamancer would make the trip quick and, obviously, her other skills." said Bastian.
Breaker's eyes narrowed and Bastian said "She's a skilled diplomat, boys. Don't get in a twist."

"Where am I?" asked Breaker to Bastian as she walked across the surface towards him.
"Faerie. You know, where Fae come from..."
"I know what Faerie is but why me?"
"I'm not the best diplomat....and the rest of the sausage fest are....not inclined to that area. We need your skills."
"I'll try my best..."

"The little girl over there is our guide. Maybe you can find out stuff we can't..." said Bastian, spinning out some fate threads idly.
"I'll introduce myself..." said the Vampire.
She walked up to Hadrian and Pytor and introduced herself to the little Fae girl, Rena.
"Hi, I'm Breaker. I'm from their world and they called me here to help. I'm good at talking to people and being nice, unlike these buffoons who only know how to grunt and break things." she said with a wink at the boys.