Nowhere to Turn (OPEN!)

[Zabuza Midareta]

Drake was in his demon form looking over the 6th layer of the 7 layers of Hell. He was making sure the production for the invasion of the land would be successful. Everything appeared to be doing it's job when he was one creature, a normal hell spawn struggling with the cart it was pulling by itself. Drake sighed and morphed into his humanly form and grabbed his cloak. As he walked among the machines he could feel the monsters looking at his with his scars around his neck and arms. He didn't care he walked on over to the struggling beast and grabbed the cart and started pulling it with the hell spawn.

They had reached the pit filled with lava that they were to drop the cart into. Drake stopped to get behind the cart. and walked over there and wiped the sweat from his hair that wasn't covered by the mask. He reached the back of the cart when he felt a cold metal touch the back of his neck... and it wasn't flat either, if you get my drift... the point poked deep into Drake's scared flesh. Drake put his hands into the air and felt a collar put around his neck with spikes making sure he couldn't go demon form on their asses. "You know this is mutiny, right?" Drake said in a calm yet scratchy voice.

The hell spawns behind him said something in their language which roughly translated into "You will pay for our labor, mortal" or in Drake's mind I'm going to die. He gulped and turned around to have two of the demons grab his arms and spread them wide so his heart was open to be pierced by the weapon. The two demons holding his arms tilt him back a little on his heels so he couldn't somehow move out of the way of the attack. Drake closed his eyes real tight breathing his last breaths when he heard the mutinous creature draw back to stab him. He screamed as he fell backwards... wait backwards? when he hit the ground it was snow... snow? Hell doesn't have snow. Drake opened his eyes and saw he was somewhere completely different. He got up wiping the snow off his arms.

"Well, isn't this a pleasant change of scenery?" Drake laughed at himself. He looked down to see his cloak, his book and his mask on the ground. He put on the cloak, grabbed the book and the mask, but didn't put on the mask. He could feel his hair was sticking in all different directions and his horns were showing.

Drake looked around and saw a pod like thing and someone walking away from it to another group of people. He walked over and was behind the soldier at the group. All he did was watch, he did not speak but he aloud himself to be seen.

[shireling]

Samwise Gamgee, a hobbit, grasped his walking stick tightly, trying not to notice the strange man that had spontaneously pooped up from the ground. The man was tall, but everyone was taller than Sam. Hobbits only grew to about three feet. He was carrying a mask and...were those horns sprouting from his head? Sam narrowed his eyes and laid a hand on his Wessterness dagger, which was slightly concealed inside his long, woolen grey jacket.
Sam did not want to be noticed by the man. He had an ill feel about him, and something wasn't right. Unless the man allowed his gaze to drift downwards, Sam most likley woulden't be spotted, not taking Sam's bright red hair into account. That color always got him noticed! He pulled his green cloak around him-it was of Elvish make-and began to inch away.

[Yuna]

"She has a right to know." A right yes but Saturn took it one step too far when she raised her weapon in Ayen's face. Yuna quickly squeezed herself between Ayen and Saturn, her own weapon raised and pointed towards Saturn as her eyes narrowed to tell the girl to back off. "Get back." Yuna waited to see what Saturn would do but the High Summoner would soon find herself distracted as more people kept appearing near by. She saw a total of three in fact not too far from the crater Saturn created. "It looks like we have company."

[Hotaru]

Saturn watched his expressions. It wasn't until you were under the knife that you showed your true colors. Ayen was eager for her to drop the Glaive and she could only smile, knowing all too well what that would lead.

"You really don't want me to do that."

That would be the only warning she would give where the Silence Glaive was concerned. Yuna stepped in between them and held up her own weapon in an offensive matter but Saturn didn't stand down. She held her ground and kept the Glaive pointed forward even after Yuna pointed out the people drawing near to their position.

"So it would seem. Truce for now?"

Saturn would keep her weapon raised until the two gave a definite answer.

[Ayen]

"She has a right to know."

“Yeah, sure. Whatever you say, lady!”

Women were nothing but trouble.

"You 'really' don't want me to do that."

What the hell was that supposed to mean? Ayen was too focused on the Silence Glaive for his telepathy to work so he wasn't going to take any chances where this stranger was concerned. If she didn't see the problem with aiming her weapon at whoever then she certainly wasn't someone to mess with.

“All right, all right. Just put it somewhere safe and I'll tell what you want to know.”

It was after that moment that Yuna stepped in between them and forced some distance between them. Ayen took advantage of it straight away and started walking back until he noticed more people off in the distance.

"It looks like we have company."

“No shit.”

"So it would seem. Truce for now?"

“Truce? You stick a blade in my face and now you want a truce? I don't even want to be on the same planes as you!”

Ayen turned his attention over to the new arrivals, the first one he laid his eyes on would be The Rookie, or more specifically, his weapon.

“Hey! Put that thing away, are you trying to cause an avalanche!?”

He then saw Dante who was directly behind him.

“Behind you!”

Ayen said to The Rookie to alert him of Dante's presence before seeing Sam.

“Hey, hey you there! Are you okay?”

[Yuna]

Yuna frowned at Ayen but his reaction to her decision to inform Saturn of his "gifts" was understandable. Looking back on everything that transpired since perhaps it wasn't such a good idea after all. To Saturn's truce statement Yuna slowly backed away and put up her staff for now but had no problem bringing it back out if Saturn was to double cross them but something in her heart told her that the woman wouldn't do that. Turning around, the High Summoner walked over to Ayen's side and looked off into the distance where the people were before looking back to Ayen. "You sure you know what you're doing?"

[Hotaru]

Saturn would offer no apology to either Ayen or Yuna for her previous actions. They were necessary. These people were not the Outer Sols; Sailor Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. These people were not her guardians or her queen, Queen Serenity. These people were no different from civilians of Earth and that was enough to gain Saturn's distrust as civilians from Earth has proven to be a threat in the past. Not just to their own planet but to the people around them.

The Soldier of Silence held the Silence Glaive close to her like a staff and followed behind the other two. Standing on the opposite side of where Yuna stood to Ayen, the Soldier of Death and Rebirth examined what she could of the three up ahead but since they were still too far away there wasn't much to exam. But that didn't remove the immediate threat they could all pose.

"They could be dangerous. Can you fight?"

[Xemnas]

Rookie shook his head at first... and tapped the silencer at the end of the sub-machine gun to show it wasn't likely. Silly.... a silenced weapon couldn't cause an avalanche.... in fact, all this commotion was more likely to cause a deadly avalanche than his weapons.

He took a step forward and did a perfect rear-march at Ayen's warning, bringing his weapon down and then leveling the sights of his weapon on the one who followed him, tilting his helmet forward menacingly in warning not to come any closer, unless he wanted to be riddled full of holes. The M7/S had short to medium range, meaning that the closer you were.... the more likely you were going to be hit, and this one was inside his range.

[shireling]

At that moment, several things happened at once. Apparently, his plan that involved not being seen was crashing around his ears. A man shouted something at him, but Sam couldn't hear him over the distance. Sam walked forward a couple paces and shouted, "What?!?" He pulled his hood over his head in an attempt to block out his bright red hair, but it was no use. One of the figures pulled out what Sam recognized as a weapon. He cried out in fear and shock and immediately dove to the side, pulling his hands over his head.

[Zabuza Midareta]

Drake stood watching all the shifting in movement and saw them come to notice his presence... and someone behind him as well. He glanced behind him and saw the creature dive to the side after seeing the strange man tilt his head and point at him weapon. "Looks like someone is looking for a fight they won't be able to handle," Drake made a tsk noise with his tongue, Is that the reason they call you Rookie?" He laughed to himself. He stood there with his book in his hand. He scratched his head and messed with his messy brown hair. His hand drifted closer to his face feeling over the skin he had felt so little of. He looked at them, some staring "Sorry? Is my face to scary for public consumption, for the eyes of the innocent? Oh, and don't try to deny your non-innocence. Compared to me everyone is innocent."

[Ayen]

"You sure you know what you're doing?"

“Of course I do.”

"They could be dangerous. Can you fight?"

“I can handle my own just fine.”

"What?!?"

“I said, 'Are you okay?'”

No good. Sam was already on the ground with his hands over his head thanks to the commotion now between The Rookie and Drake. Ayen would lead Yuna and Saturn over to their position just in time to hear,

"Sorry? Is my face to scary for public consumption, for the eyes of the innocent? Oh, and don't try to deny your non-innocence. Compared to me everyone is innocent."

“Okay... I'll take your word on it. You have a name or do we just call you 'Red Skull' or something?”

[shireling]

Sam peeked up from the cover of his arms. "Watch it! That man's got a gun!" he shouted to the person that had just arrived. Sam glanced at the other man, the one who had made depressing remarks about his face. He was dodgy, no doubt whatsoever. Sam would do good to stay away from him, bit he always seemed to get mixed in with the wrong crowd.

[Yuna]

Yuna took Ayen's word on it for now and followed him with Saturn to the source of all the commotion. Sparing a glance towards the three strangers not judgmentally but curious. The High Summoner would frown however at Ayen's latest attempt to be witty. "Ayen, you're being rude." Yuna turned to face Sam's direction and slowly approached him, showing that she was no harm and offered a polite smile in greeting. "It's okay. No one is going to hurt you. My name is Yuna, what's your name?"

[Hotaru]

"That isn't an answer."

As the three drew closer to the others Saturn could sense the evil coming off of Drake. The other two, much like Ayen and Yuna, didn't send off any warning flares but the man with the red face under the hood certainly did. He matched the appearance of most Youmas back in her homeworld which just goes to show you can take the fish out of water but some things are universal.

"Your severe lack of innocence is hardly being brought into question."

Saturn spoke coldly and kept both of her violet eyes locked onto Drake. Hopefully the soldier standing by them would be able to use that weapon in his hands if a confrontation erupted between them. Out of all of them Ayen looked to be the only one unarmed and unable to defend himself and Saturn couldn't guarantee everyone's safety in a fight. No soldier could guarantee that.

"Who you are and where you come from is."

The Soldier of Silence then extended her glance to the others as well.

"The same goes for the rest of you."

[shireling]

Sam stood. It would be best to give these people the information they wanted. A lot of trouble could be avoided that way. He absentmindedly rubbed the back of his head and answered, "My name is Samwise Gamgee, a hobbit of the Shire. I was just wandering about searching for anything unusual when this man here showed up." he said, his hazel eyes narrowing as e turned to address the red-faced man. "Look here, Sir, I haven't any money to give ya. If it's gold you're after, look somewhere else, all right?"