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Ellie sighs in relief once she sees Dorian, almost stumbling over from him literally crashing into her. She shakes her head at his absurd question, a permanent frown on her lips. "It's Tyler," she explain in a whisper, looking around. "I...I heard him scream my name - well, most of my name..." She turns around and inspects the scene, unable to decipher what had happened. She expects the worse. "I think he might have been kidnapped, or...killed..." Goosebumps line over her skin and she feels like she's in a creepy horror movie, that she desperately wants to get out of.

Dorian starts looking at the ground for Tyler's footprints and follows the trail to a point where the outline of someone roughly Tyler's size was on the ground "three footprints here two sets out..." Dorian notes a small amount of blood on the ground and follows the tracks to the woodline where he hears a couple men talking. Dorian pulls the cowl low over his face and disappears into the shadows and gets within striking distance before letting his presence to the two men be known "Nice night innit?" Is all Dorian says before running in between the two men slashing at there legs and disappearing into the trees again and quickly and quietly climbing a tree, he jumps out of the tree onto one of the men and stabbing his swords into the man behind each of his collar bones, he tries to retract his blades but the went through the man and got lodged in his armor. The other man swings his sword downward and clips Dorian in the shoulder as he tries to roll out of the way, he pulls a dagger with his good arm and winces at how outmatched he is in this fight. "I've failed you again Seluné..." Dorian looks at the man who is grinning murderously at him.

The man pulls the swords from his armor and tosses them onto the ground behind him. "My armor strong like Masters!" He says, clumsily stepping forward and slashing at Dorian.

"I take boy!" Says the other tall man, who proceeds to toss Tyler over his shoulder. He gurgles and spits onto the ground. "Meet soon, brother," he says, before turning the other direction and slowly walking off, each step creating a loud pounding sound against the ground.

Ellie follows Dorian with cautious steps, a disappointed gaze plastered on her face as she sees blood trails. Maybe he really is dead.. That thought quickly diminishes as she sees large, bulky men - and the next thing she knew, Dorian was off murdering people. The men do seem a bit clumsy and aloof, probably with no brains in their heads. Once she saw Tyler, she exhaled a sigh of relief. That's one advantage - we can use strategies, she thinks, as she tries to figure out the situation with her back pressed against a nearby tree, Other than the fact that they're stronger, bulkier, and have more weapons than us combined. Her hands rest on the grip of her gun, before hastily leaving it alone and retracting her sword instead.

She steps out into the bright sunlight and stealthily runs over to the man busy slashing Dorian. Her body crouches low and she kicks his legs out from underneath, making sure that he looses his balance. Without another second, she pulls out her gun and stomps her foot on the arm of the man to hold him in place, before aiming the gun at him and blowing what he had left of his brains out.

Her head turns away from the gruesome sight and she shoots a few bullets into the tree right next to the tall man was carrying Tyler - it wasn't hard to notice where he was why the sound of his footsteps. "No one moves or I'll shoot someone else's head off like this poor man!" she yells out, kicking the lifeless body in front of her as to prove her point. "Put him down, or face the extreme consequences." she said sternly, though her hand was trembling as she held the gun.

Dorian is dizzy from the blood loss but pulls himself to his feet and stomps on what is left of the dead man's head "My ears are ringing" is all Dorian says before he legs give out and he collapses and falls face first into the ground. His breath is shallow and every once in a while he says "I've failed you" though completely unconscious.

Tyler still sits in complete darkness. He sees nothing, but begins to here Serra's soft voice,"wake up, Tyler. Wake up, wake up, wake up!" Serra's voice escalates from a child's sweet voice to a loud angry screaming. Tyler opens his eyes as he here's a gunshot. "The hell..." Tyler says, still trying to see clearly. All he sees are a bunch of trees, but he instantly knows he's being carried. Who's carrying me?. Tyler looks down and examines the black armor, the same as the man he was fighting before. Tyler listens closely to Ellie's threat.

"You kill Brother! You kill Brother!" The captain yells, his voice deep and loud.

Shit! I have to do something! Tyler thinks about his plan of action. If he moves his arms to grab a weapon he could lose his only advantage: being awake.

The captain runs at Ellie, despite her threat, confident that his armor can withstand a bullet. His speed seems to have completely altered, as he is now considerably fast. "YOU KILL BROTHER!"

Now! Tyler closes his eyes as he does seemingly the only thing he can, lifting his head and biting into the captains neck. Tyler recoils at the taste of the man's flesh and blood.

"AARGH!" The captain screams as he throws Tyler off of his shoulders and onto the ground.

Tyler wants to smile, but instead bites out a chunk of the man's thick neck. At least his plan worked, it stopped the captain immediately. Tyler offers a half smile, despite his teeth being covered in blood, and offers a half bow to Ellie to go along with it. Tyler looks around for a weapon, and sprints to Dorian's unconscious body to grab his sword, "I'm just borrowing it buddy." Tyler says, his voice weak with both weariness and disgust.

After the chaos somehow becomes silent by her bullets, she looks over to see Dorian in a heap of unconsciousness. She hopes for the best as she cautiously makes her way over to him - however, she takes only a step before one of the men begins to charge toward her. She flinches and holds out her gun, steadying her aim as she rested her fingers quickly on the trigger. Then a loud scream is heard from him, and she jumps back with surprise.

Her eyes widen as she witnesses the gruesome sight of what happens next, feeling both relieved and disgusted at the same time. She remains completely still and frozen. Only when the tall man throws Tyler on the ground and takes action, lifting up her gun and swiftly pulls the trigger, the man's screams silencing as the bullet tore through the flesh of his face. The barrel of the gun smokes as she turns to Tyler, shrugging a bit. "Sorry, I had to." she mutters, before walking over to the scene and handing him her bottle full of water. "Drink some and spit it out - I don't want my companion to have flesh for teeth.."

Dorian groans,fighting his way back to consciousness he can't move his left arm which makes him curse under his breath. He struggles to get to his feet and leans against a tree for support as he drops his dagger and starts fumbling with his armor to take it off. When he finally does wriggle free of it he pulls out a needle and thread and starts stitching his wound up stopping every once in a while to pour some of his water on it to clean it out before starting the next stitch. Once the wound is closed he starts moving his fingers slowly before trying to move his arm. "What the Hell is wrong with those things? There is no way I missed skewering his heart or at least both lungs.. " Dorian says weakly looking at the two dead behemoths.

"Thanks," Tyler sassy, covering his mouth while talking so Ellie doesn't have to see his dark red teeth and the bits of flesh stuck to them. He takes the water and takes a swig, swishing it, then spitting it out onto the grass. "This is disgusting," he says, chuckling at his misfortune. He continues spitting the water out, then hands the bottle of water back to Ellie. "We still have a guy to interrogate, right?" Tyler asks, hoping he didn't beat the man completely to death. Tyler hands Dorian's sword back. "You good?" He asks Dorian. "And am I good?" Tyler asks Ellie, opening his mouth wide.

Ellie merely chuckles at Tyler's sassy attitude, before walking over to Dorian to inspect his wounds. She turns to Tyler, quickly glancing over to his mouth. "You have a bit of skin on your front tooth." she points out, snickering to herself before turning back around. "Maybe they have some sort of immortality, or regeneration." she says to Dorian, pouring water on some of his untreated wounds. "I thought that you would have killed them, with how fierce you were fighting." she says. "How many guys did both of you find to interrogate, by the way? I only found one, but he probably escaped by now..."

"I have one kid who was all but pissing himself before I broke his arm and hog tied him next to the guy Tyler killed. Very little encouragement and he'll squeal" Dorian replies weakly as he starts putting his armor back on. And cleans his blades off with his cloak before putting them all back in their sheathes. "That's another brand..." Dorian mumbles to himself before looking at Ellie and Tyler "How are you two?" Dorian asks as he pulls the little metal bar with the symbol he brands on himself and twirls it in between his fingers.

"Well, I just bit out a chunk of a man's neck," Tyler begins, rubbing the flesh from his tooth and throwing it on the floor, "However, my andrenaline is definitely pumping!" He exclaims excitedly, despite the horror of just having pulled human flesh off his tooth. "I had a weird dream," Tyler says, but trails off quickly, he saw Serra, how true could it really be? "Um, we've got the man I knocked out, if I didn't beat his ass to death," Tyler says, his memory slightly becoming clearer. He looks down at his fists to see that they are covered in dry blood. Luckily, the andrenaline is holding away the pain. "Anyone know if he's still with us?" Tyler sits on the ground and begins to laugh uncontrollably, "Because if he is, I get to have round two. I'll make it a real fair fight," He says, referring to his previous "fair" fight.

"You both have very interesting ways of handling your captives." Ellie murmurs, looking up at them both. "And, I'm doing well, despite seeing the horrendous sight of someone biting another man's neck. Good thing I didn't eat much." she says, before examining her gun. She sighs and runs her fingers over the rough, scratched metal."There's only four bullets left in this thing." she says, before shoving the weapon back in her belt as she cleans some with the water. "After we get cleaned up, we'll search the area and see what we find."

"I actually handled him quite well. He's still breathing. For now at least" Dorian replies to Ellies mumbling moving his shoulder in slow circles before putting his arm through various exercises heading back towards the town "I'll start the interrogation." Is all he says before heading towards where he left his captive. Soon there are agonized screams coming from that area.

Dorian looks down at his captive and grins to further frighten his soon to be willing informant. "I don't know about you but I'm having a blast" Dorian says to the frightened captive. "I'll give you a break" he stomps on the captives knee breaking it so that the leg is bent the opposite way. "That was your break. Maybe you'd like my companions to ask you these questions. I guarantee you that if you don't answer them then I'll get creative" Dorian says to the boy with a glint of happiness in his eye. Dorian sits facing away from the captive awaiting his companions to join him and the captive that now has a broken sword arm, broken left leg one ear and three fingers missing.Dorian builds a small fire and places the small metal bar that he uses to brand himself into the fire heating it up, he then takes off his cloak and armor and reads the letter from Seluné while he waits.

Tyler smiles and grabs the man he bit by the arm. Maybe it was the brute strength or the raising andrenaline, but Tyler drags him to the "willing participant."

He squats down in front of the boy and smiles, "Hi there, buddy!" Tyler says, pulling up the dead body. "See this gruesome looking mark?" Tyler asks. The boy nods in response, smeared tears covering his face. "I bit a chunk of this asshole's neck off," Tyler says, exhaling into the boy's face. The putred odor causing him to bend over and throw up all over the ground. "And you know what? I'm kinda itching for another taste," Tyler says, getting closer to the boy's face. "I know about the castle in the goddamn mountains! Who is he? And where is he?!" Tyler gets louder, "DONT YOU GIVE A SINGLE GODDAMN SHIT ABOUT THESE INNOCENT PEOPLE'S LIVES?!" Tyler screams into the man's face. The boy says nothing, just looks Tyler straight in the face. "You stupid prick!" Tyler yells, punching the boy hard in the face. There is a loud crack and he is unsure whether it was the boy's face or his knuckles. The boy groans before slowly sitting back up, seemingly willing to accept death.

"I'm gonna kill him," Tyler says, walking away. "Your turn." He whispers to Ellie.


[OOC: Sorry for late posts, dealing with drama right now V.V

Also I almost dropped the F-bomb like 6 times in this post alone ]

Ellie watches both of the scenes unfold between the poor kid, a calm and unfazed look plastered on her face as usual. She nods at Tyler once he finishes his brutal lecturing, watching the kid writhe in pain. Her eyes linger on him for a second before walking over to him and kneels down beside him. The boy flinches as she approaches, his eyes tightly closed as if he is expecting some sort of violence from her. The stench of bile and blood was unpleasant, but it only made her anger increase.

"I'm going to start this out nicely, since I don't want you to die out on us - even though I desperately want to punch you face in." she says simply, staring at the boy in his eyes as they open. She cracks a grin. "Sorry, that was a bit rough, wasn't it?" Her face dims down to seriousness. "All you need to do is give us all the information you have. If you foolishly decide not to give us what you want..." As if to prove her point, she adjusts her position so that the heel of her shoe is pressing into one of his injured limbs. The boy moans in pain. "..we'll break every single bone you have in you. Got it?" The boy says nothing, but tilts his head down. Ellie's anger drastically increases out of control, and she punches him, her knuckles just brushing the side of his face as she purposely switches the target. The boy flinches again and weakly clutches his cheek in pain, but looks to her fist that has been pounded in the tree that he rests on with surprise.

With a sigh, she retreats her fist from the tree, her force leaving a small dent in the wood. She flicks some blood off of her bloodied knuckles before rising to her feet and walking away from him, her eyes cast downward and expression unreadable.

Dorian pulls the metal bar from the fire and brands his shoulder, next to the stitches before looking to the captive "I warned you. Now I'm gonna get creative " Dorian says as the boys eyes widen with absolute fear. "I'll talk! I'll talk! Just don't hurt me anymore!" The captive yells and Dorian just grins and looks at his companions "Tyler, you have more questions than I do and your questions would answer my questions." Dorian then sits next to his little fire and pours some water on his newest brand to relieve some of the heat still trapped inside his damaged skin. He then looks at the brand above his heart that is still pink but otherwise completely healed, he has a brand below each eye, on his stomach above a scar that goes across his entire torso, the one over his heart and now the one on his shoulder. Dorian starts putting on his leather armor and cloak again pulling the cowl low over his face sothat all but his mouth is concealed in shadow

Tyler waltzes back over to the boy. "I'm back! Did you miss me?" Tyler says, getting back into character. "I'm going to start with some easy questions. You answer and You don't get hurt," Tyler says. "What's your name?"

"Matt," the boy quickly stumbles out. "I'm sorry! I didn't want to-"

Tyler covers his mouth and smiles and shakes his head, "Look, Matt. I only asked what your name is. I want you to only answer the questions I ask, okay?" Tyler asks slowly. The boy nods.

"What's the name of your master?" Tyler asks.

"I don't know," the boy says. Tyler grabs his hand and grabs Matt's pinky finger. "I DONT KNOW! I know where he is! How to find him!" Matt pleads.

"Tell me," Tyler says.

"He lives in the Opal Palace, that's what he calls it," Matt says.

"Any of you have a map?" Tyler asks his companions. "You're going to point this out on a map," Tyler says, in an intimidating whisper.

Ellie watches Matt closely, a smile twitching at the edge of her lips as she sees the poor boy give in. She usually wasn't one to injure youngsters, but this time was an exception. She is pulled out of her thoughts of what he meant by 'Opal Palace', before her hands reach to her pocket. She searches for a map before pulling out a slightly faded one, it torn up in some places and the words are hard to read. "This is all I've got." she says quietly, handing the map to Tyler before returning back to her position leaning against a tree without a glance at the boy.

"Point it out so we can finish this." Dorian says to the boy sword in hand starting at the captive, his free hand holding the letter from Seluné.