"right" she said and turned and waved for the others to come over and join them and then she turned back to him and realized how close they were to each other suddenly and turned red and took a slight step back to give him some space and she hopped it wasnt too obvious how red her face had become

"alright. well do you have any leads?" she asked "its kinda hard when you killed the ones that were responsible without asking questions.." she said and sighed tapping her lip in thought

Kira didn't move from his view point. Even when Kairi did give him a wave to come out he was to busy. Quite far away from the village but he can make it out, he knew what he saw. Kira looked to the others to see that they where crowding around John now, but he didn't go over there. Instead he snuck out of the village and headed to where he saw them. The men in blue uniforms that where heading away from the village. He gave chase to them but he made sure that he wasn't noticed.

Kira was some way from the village now, he was still chasing the men, but he had a better view of them now. There was a small army of them, all heavily armoured and battle worn. All of them had burn marks on thier uniforms, and some still had the blood on their blades. Kira knew that a head on rush on his own would only end up in another bloodbath, with his own blood mixing in with their blood, so he kept his distance, but slowly kept creeping up on them to see if he could find their identities.

Finally they had stopped at a camp. A lot of the men went into the tents straight away, tired from their attack on the village and the march back to the camp that he already made before attacking. Some of the men where gathering around some of the numerous small fire's that where going, laughing and talking like what they just did was normal. Like it had no great value what so ever. Kira crept closer to the camp, trying to hear just what some of the men where saying to each other.

Ha! Did you see that woman though, trying to hide her kid from us, then realised we where standing right behind her! HAHAHAAA.

Yeah, that was fun, and that old man with the walking stick trying to get away from us. That made me laugh.

Kira had heard enough. Not only did they just slaughter an entire village, but there where laughing and making jokes about the people who they just so needlessly killed. He crawled back away, making sure that he wasn't in any sort of view from the camp before standing back up again. Kira was shaking with anger. Those men where exactly the kind of men he hated. Not only did they slaughter innocents, but they enjoyed every last second of it. They were pure evil. Before he was entirely out of eyesight of the camp he looked back, to see not only one camp, but at least 20 camps together. What he had thought was a small army was one large enough to take out an entire continent.

Kira walked back to the village, hanging he head in shame that he couldn't do anything about those men. He wasn't strong enough. Yet. He was going to get stronger. He was going to get quicker and he was going to do whatever he could to make sure that those men could not do that again. He was about a ten minute walk from the armies camp site before he heard a rustling sound coming from the bushes to the left. Three of the blue uniformed army men walked out onto the path that Kira was walking, laughing about the attack.

Kira had snapped. The men saw him an drew their blades, but Kira did not care. These three where going to die. Kira was going to end there life on this very pathway he was walking on. The village was still out of sight but a thin line of smoke could still be seen from where he was.

What do we have here then? Another villager?

No look at him, he is a soldier or something. But he isn't wearing our uniform.

Then he is obviously a enemy! Get him!

The three soldiers attacked Kira, as he drew his blades from his back one of them charged directly at him while the other two went around Kira's sides to attack from both left and right. The one that charged him got to him before he could react properly, only managing to dodge the full blow, while it cut his left arm. Kira leapt back and got his blades at the ready. His left arm was already cut, but his anger was drowning out the pain. He felt nothing. Kira charged directly at the one that cut him, shoulder barging him. The soldier flew to the ground, and before he could get up Kira had threw one of his swords at him, landing directly on his stomach, slicing right through him, and impaling the ground below him.

Kira turned to his right to see what the second soldier was doing, only to be hit from behind by the third soldier, slashing his back leaving a deep gash on his back. Kira was down one sword and up two injuries. He swung his sword behind him, turning while he did it, so the sword had done a full 360 degree spin, only to hit thing air. The second soldier now behind him took the opportunity to attack Kira from behind, only to be met by the hilt of Kira's sword. Kira turned around to him and charged up fire magic into his left hand, making a fireball. Smiling, Kira slammed the fireball onto the soldiers face, instantly killing him.

Kira had turned to find the last soldier ready to lunge at him, Kira rolled away and ran to the first soldier to pick up his sword. Now Kira had both his blades and a single enemy to fight. Kira placed both swords in front of him, hilts facing each other, then slammed the hilts together. Turning both swords 180 degree's Kira heard a click. He had attached his swords together to make a single double blade Now he could go crazy. He removed his left hand from the hilt of the blade so he could charge up fire energy into his hand. The soldier had started to sprint towards the camp to get help, but Kira would not let him escape. If he got to the camp and alerted the army of his presence, he would be placing the other students, and the garden in danger. So Kira sprinted after the soldier, blasting the ground in front of him with the fireball he had charged up, to hinder the soldiers escape.

The soldier turned to find Kira in front of him, he was too slow to react and the next thing the soldier knew he was on the ground.

Get up. I'm going to give you the chance to get ready. Not like you and those villagers!

The soldier got up and readied himself to counter whatever Kira was about to throw at him. Kira ran towards the man, who sturdied himself for the up-coming attack. Kira used the front blade to smash his sword breaking it clean in two, then turned around and stabbed him right through the heart with the other side of the blade. Kira had won his little brawl, but he wasted to much time already. Soon someone will realise that these three men where missing and come to find them. Hopefully the superiors would just say that they died during the attack on the village and won't send out a search party.

Kira started running back to the village, completely forgetting about John, Kairi, Faina and the rest of them. He had only one thing in mind. "I must tell Cid what happened here!" It took Kira half hour to get back to the village, it still smelled of death and fire. He ran past the group in the center yelling at them. Get the hell out of here!! Incase they come back!! If they find you here its not just you you are placing in danger, but the entire garden as well so move it!!!

Kira had no time to explain so all he could hope for is that they listened to him, and followed him back to the garden.

((For plot purposes, I deleted the last few posts. Please read Ben's post and try to work off it in a way that gets everyone back to the Garden. You can report to Cid what you found today.))

Grieves walked towards his Zweihander gripping the hilt of the blade tightly and lifting it to the hilt on his back easily. Something about the sword was different now, but Grieves couldn't put his finger on it, so he ignored it.

"I wonder how angry Cid will be at me" Grieves said to Kairi but more to himself than anything. Grieves offered his hand out to Kairi. "We should get back."

kairi nodded and grabbed onto his hand smiling as she quickly walked after kira.

"i wonder what he means... this doesnt sound to good at all we need to find out what he saw dont you think?" she asked john then blinked when she heard him say something

"oh ... no i dont think he will be he is a very understanding man." she said and smiled softly at him but she still bit her tongue deep into thought over what had happened just then although the warmth of johns hand did bring some comfort