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3 months later

Akiri and Tsubasa trekked through steep and perilous mountains heading for a T'kail slaver camp. The T'kail are a group of people that live deep in mountainous areas. Their main business is slave trading. This used to be legal before the latest emperor declared it inhumane. The T'kail people kept trading secretly until one of their slave camps was found. Ever since slave camps are being busted all over the land and the people who take a camp down get payed generously by the emperor. The leaders of Maice wanted to be in on this supposedly easy money so they sent Tsubasa and Akiri. They thought he deserved to be sent on a mission after having to train for the past 3 months.

Akiri had become quite good at fighting again but still lacked alot in defense so he needed Tsubasa to help protect him.

"We're here." Tsubasa said from the top of a rock. Akiri was lagging behind trying not to fall and break any bones. Climbing with one arm was pretty damn hard, especially with the added weight of his sword and shurikens.

As he got to the top of the rock and looked down into the large crator he saw the camp too. Tents made with leather were abundant in the camp. A large fire burned at the other side of the camp and cages were in the middle of all the tents. Screams echoed around the rocky surroundings and lasted much longer than Akiri wanted them too, they sent chills up his back. Men in raggy clothes walked around with sticks in their hands hitting various cages. One man, probably the leader of this camp, held a leash attached to the neck of a viscous looking wolf. It's fur was dirty and knotted and it snarled at the cages.

Two men led a woman into one of the nearby tents. Not long after they went in screams from the woman made their way into the two boys ears and etched itself into their minds.

"I'll go into the tent over their," Tsubasa said pointing at the one with the woman and two men," and you go around to the back of the camp and kill as many of them as you can. Got it?"

"Yeah.."

Tsubasa ran down the side of the crator and crouched next to the tent. Akiri ran along side the edge of the crator until he got to the other side of the camp and slid down the side of the crator. The fire was right next to Akiri now and the stench was horrible. He couldn't tell what was in the fire but it smelled like burnt flesh. Back at the other side of the camp Tsubasa was still crouching next to the camp. He was waiting for Akiri to start attacking but the screams from the woman just on the other side of the tent made him uncomfortable. He wanted to help her but if he attacked too soon then all of the slave drivers would attack him at once. He needed to wait for Akiri.

He's close Akiri, can you feel him watching?

Akiri shook the voice out of his head and ran foward into the camp, he didn't want to hesitate for any longer. The first man he came by was faced the other way and Akiri cut him down effortlessly. The second turned just in time to see the blade slice into his chest. The third almost had time to raise his stick to try to block the blade but wasn't fast enough, not that the stick would have even helped in the first place. Tsubasa cut through the leather and jumped into the tent when he heard men yelling on the other side of the camp. He killed the first man with his sword and the second with his hand by using his palm to shove the mans nose into his brain.

Akiri had killed half the men outside while the other half had already ran away. All that left was the camp leader and his wolf. It snarled at him and the wolf's master let go of the leash. Akiri was taken off gaurd by the surprising speed of the beast and swung his sword too early in reflex. The wolf lunged at him. Akiri closed his eyes and bent down hoping the wolf would miss. All that touched Akiri was alot of blood. He looked up and saw the wolfs body torn to peices as if it exploded from the inside. The leader was choking by some invisible force.

Tsubasa came out of the tent helping the woman to walk. He was staring at the Akiri then at the leader. Then, something that Akiri will never forget, a beast materialized behind the leader with its hand around his neck. The same beast that took his arm. The beasts hand crushed his neck and threw the leader to the side. In the dark beasts mouth was an arm. Akiri just sat there on his knees staring at the beast, no... it isn't really a beast. It was a man dressed in dark clothes with a blood stained straw hat. The man had no scarf around his face but the hat still darkened out his face.

"I keep what I take Akiri." The man said. Then he let out a laugh that made Akiri start to scream and crawl away from the dark beast of a man. He curled up into a ball when he couldn't crawl anymore and just lied on his side shaking.

Tsubasa sat the woman down and ran to Akiri. He kneeled down and shook his shoulder.

"Akiri, whats wrong? What happened?"

Akiri just started up at Tsubasa and didn't say anything. The look in his eyes made Tsubasa panic. It was an empty but frightened look.

Note: Sorry for me being away for so long but I won't be doing that anymore except if something really important comes up. Anyways I hope none of ya'll are mad =D