Here I come... The Start of a Journey

[Retane]

The Namekian had been traveling on the path with his companions, Arith, Sverit, and Gilush. Arith was bound to him by the sigil of Lythia that was branded beneath his clothing. The other two had been siblings, he had picked them up on lis last journey, in Coruscant, and had allowed them to accompany them ifthey chose. Or they could go their seperate ways. The two had opted to stay in his company, at least for the moment.

Retane had heard the comotion and signed the others to hold back. The Namekian moved closer, and had heard whispering and murmrings, though he couldn't see who or what it was that wsa making all the murmurings. There was the smacking of lips and the voice seemed to aim in the direction of another stranger. This one looked human to the Namekian.

From afar, The Emerald Warrior had watched the white haired stranger bend over and smell the flower for more then a few seconds. It was more then enough time for the unseen predator, to stand mave his move. He watched the makeshift weapon raise to what looked to be held at chest level as the head of the branch seemed to rest in another hand. The being had to be just over half the stranger's size and even smaller compared to the Namekian. But Retane was eager to watch this play out, so he didn't interferre.

The club soon closed in, and rose in striking range. Still, there was no indication that the victim had even noticed. The Emerald Warrior didn't flinch when he watched the club come down and sideways in an arked swing. It made a hard noise, and the passer by, went sprawling. Retane still watched. He expected this predator to finish the job, but instead it started to jump around in circles happy it had caught it's food.

The Emerald Warrior took it a deep breath, trying to visualize the outline of the agressor, and thought he almost had the figure understood as they both caught site of the matured adolescent stirring. The predator was either arrogant or stupid or something the Namekian couldn't understand as he shouted more words and then moved to attack.

Retane watched the speed, of the foe that had coughed "Gollum" and caught site of the white haired boy struggliing to get to his staff, which was actually interesting to the Namekian. The Emerald Fiend had to test his new found power. He wanted to see if he was faster then he had been, and finally accepted the rush of strength the Orgosynth had been wanting to give him.

Retane felt a little tingle where the symbiote rested, and could swear it felt as if it dug just a little bit deeper. Almost instantly, it was as if a surge of evergy pumped through his veins. He dashed them, out of the bushes he had been crouched in with a low snarl, aiming for the exact spot he planned to be. The Emerald Fiend made it and rose from his crouch, just in time, with a forearm up to render the assault useless.

The unseen figure cackled and carried on for a few more moments until the Namekian shoved a fist into where the predators chest should be. Taking the hit, caused the invisable figure to appear, and fly back in pain; Or Retane assumed it was pain, it could have been shock of the blow.

The Emerald Fiend popped his next as his target rolled around and got to his feet struggled to get to all fours in a crouch. The eyes were bulbous and it's skin was a pale-ish, white/green? It looked slightly moist, almost as if grabbing himwould be a pointless as if he would slip free. The figure had rotten, but sharp yellow teeth. He didn't look happy to see his quest for dinner distured either.

The Namekian lowered his hood and looked back at the white haired human, who seemed nervous. The stranger looked confused then offered a friendly smile. Retane just looked deep into the eyes of this person, he saw that the person was nervous, there was a pain deepwithin, but he seemed more innocent then anything. The Emerald Feind bit back his sub-thoughts and simply asked, "Are you ok?"

After a few moments of taking in the words, the stranger nodded and pulled himself to his feet and even offered his hand., "Yeah, I am Jack. Jack Frost."

The Feral Warrior saw the hand and looked at the huffing and angry creature from across from him, who had gathered his club. "Well I'll let you get back to your altercation with this thing, Jack. I assume you two can swing at each other now that you both have your sticks. I'll be going. Pretty sure you can handle yourself here. That or get eaten."

The Namekian turned back to the direction in which he had come. He had been unimpressed by the two and let out a sigh as he headed off. Deep down inside he had thought that this one had reminded him of someone. He wasn't sure who, but whoever it had been, he seemed to change his mind as Jack had spoke.

The Emerald Warrior jumped back, suddenly, after only taking a few steps as a wall of ice appeared before him. His fingers tightened into fists and he almost looked back till he watched a small line of arrows go 'thwack' and embedded into the ice, nearly an inch deep.. Retane looked back to see that Jack was still there a slight smile still on his face, though it was more nervous. His scepter had been stuck into the ground and it actually glowed the same hue as the ice that had stopped the arrows.

"Did you... Just?" Retane let out a growl.

"Sorry, I am a Guardian. It's my job." Jack Frost gave a shrug, but started to offer a bigger smile, but when an orb of energy formed in the Namek's hand the Guardian through up his staff to block.

The Emerald Warrior noticed what the Guardian had did but Retane had a different destination. His orb of energy hit another wooden weapon, the club aiming at Frost's head for a second time. The Green Warrior followed up fast with a second aiming at 'Gollum's ' ankle.

There was a screaming cough as the sneak assualt was actually haulted and the squirmy, thin creature went flying away.

Retane looked through the ice and it was almost like binoculars. He first noted that the arrows were crude and black. He saw a battle in the trees begin to transpire. What had he stumbled into? He pulled the cowl back over his head and looked toward Jack who was actually genueinly confused. "Do you know anything about this? Are you bait or something?"

The Guardian threw his hands up in sincere confusion, "I promise. I don't know why I was summoned here. The Man on the Moon and Omni decided I would be brought here to the Omniverse. All I did was smell a flower my sister would have loved. I didn't mean any harm."

Retane felt his arm burning where the sigil was. "Arith to me", Retane hollered to his back.

Something had happened and the Namekian was unsure what it was. He thought about resummoning his only true comrade, but, Arith came into view as he dashed through the brush. The Lythian cocked his head at the wall between him and the Namek. As he got closer, Arith simply leapt high, and used his sabers to finish scaling the unnatural blue wall.

He was no longer in his black cloak, and his weapons seemed to have freash blood on them. The Champion of Lythian looked down towards his comrade, then turned a "Man, It's a war up here. Do I kill the gremlins, or the humans and elves?"

Retane looked back to Jack, "Who shot the arrows?"

Frost looked shocked and confused still trying to grasp what all was going on., "The-the green ones."

The Emerald Fiend shouted back and asked where the other two of his party where. "Elves and humans have them captured. They thought they were going to catch me. Damned fools don't know who I am. No one is going to catch me."

Arith looked up in time to cut a flying arrow, "If you ask me, now is a good time to bring Inirtias, or Ashlon. Because I think we could really use some help here. Onsecond thought, Raze would be nice and we could kill them all."
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The Emerald Fiend looked back to Jack Frost, towards where Gollum should have been and then back up to the Lythian and beyond to the ruckus that he couldn't make out clearly. The Namekian tried to decide his next move, but everything was happening so fast. The Namekian closed his eyes. He needed to focus. They were either in the middle or involcved in some conflict, and he didn't have the answers. He clinched his fist in annoyance and the Orgosynth on his back shuddered with excitement.

They would fight. It was obvious, but who?

The Namek felt a pair of eyes looking back at him, the spot where the Sigil of Lythia was marked, had started to tingle as well. He saw it in his mind, the shadow mist. It was urging to come forth. The eyes were blue; Deep Blue. Te fog drifted downward, from the cloud that it had had the eyes, and soon began to take the shape of a humanoid. Still, the actual image was unclear. Retane tried to focus on the Lythian, but he couldn't form him in his mind.

"He's an Elf" Arith was shouting from somewhere off in the distance."Imagine Enroshia but slightly shorter, silver hair pointed ears. Tends to like green. Usually wears a cloak. Carries a bow. Yeah THat it right there."

As Retane listend, his mind molded the figure into the Lythian companion. The Namekian opened his eyes and saw the image he created staring at him. He was still in shadow mist form though, still the figure seemed rather calm, more calm then Arith had been at least, "What is my name?"

The Horseman blinked confused for a few moments as the gentle voice spoke again, "To summon me, you must know my name. This all seemed urgent, so calm down and just say my name."

The Namekian furrowed his brow in annoyance. It bothered him that he wasn't calm, but still it ate at him more that he was told to calm down. The symbiote was distracting him, being active and not being used. He'd have to learn to control it. The Emerald Warrior took in a breath, and remembered. It was either Inirtias, Ashlon, or Raze. Arith and Enroshia had mentioned the first two, and he assumed that Raze was probably more like Arith himself. So it was down to Inirtias and Ashlon.

The Horseman just did what he always did, he trusted his insticts, "Inirtias." The shadow mist vanished and there stood the real one. The elf had a bow and quiver of arrows strapped to his back. The only other weapon he owned, was a short dagger tucked into his belt almost actually in the shape of an arrow. He wore a green cloak with a weird insignia for it's clasp.

Before anything else could be said though, an arrow sunk through the meat of the Emerald Feind's left bicep. It was again black and crude. The elf responded in turn as the arrow had barely missed his own head. He whipped around, kneeling and dropping his bow and swinging it to his forearm and reaching for his own brown arrow. He took aim and fired, dropping a slightly smaller green being. Retane knew then why he had called them gremlins; The Lythian called anything green a gremlin.

"Goblins in the trees, elves and humans as well. Humans and elves fighting the goblins-"

"Gremlins" Arith shouted.

Inrtias could only shake his head and actually offer a quick smile then regain focus, "Are you and Arith planning on going up there? I can offer you cover from down here. But I would be careful, you are kind of an outcast in this battle and I'm not sure if you have any allies up there."

Retane realized that the Lythian was talking to him and looked up from staring at the black arrow, "Who shot this at me?"

"Goblins. It's rough and barely made it through. Though an elf is usually a better shot and would have killed you. If you are willing to risk it, go on up there with that arrow as is. Maybe it will identify you as an ally if thats what you want." Inirtias still remained calm as he kept his bow dancing around with a readied shot. "I'll cover you."

Retane felt like taking vengance on his attackers and leapt up to the ice beside Arith, who's head bounced and bopped trying to keep up with the action. "The blood on your sabers?"

The Dragon Warriior looked over at him and nodded, "Gremlin."

Retane only nodded and looked up into the air, it was then that his eyes caught sparks from down to below. The Namek saw something strange as he watched about ten goblins run out of an area nearly bent over carring a lit fuse stuck deep within a gorge. They were sneering and laughing and the Emerald Warrior did the only thing he could do. He grabbed Arith and shouted at the top of his lungs., "Watch out!!!"

The Namekian and the Lythian hit the ground in crouched, defensive, positions as the explosions began to happen. Trees fell in all direstions, the ice wall shattered, and debris kicked up. Still there were cries of war in the distance. The tree's, however, fell backways away from the center of event; Collapsing other trees onto other trees until the outer most region leaned on their treefolk brothren for support.

As the dust settled the Namekian could only look around. Arith, Inrtias, and Jack stood there in a clearing, nearby a path. Gollum wasn't around and they were surrounded by battle. Then the warrior remembered, "Sverit, Gulish, where were they?"