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Post by Ludro "Ace" Gamblington on Apr 30, 2009 14:25:17 GMT -5
After an Hour or so, Ludro walked back to the Caravan and walked up to Lana. "I checked the Castle and I order guards to go around and check also... He is not there, Lana. So, Can we go home now?" He asked "If he is there, I will make sure that he will not hurt you."
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Post by lana on Apr 30, 2009 16:12:29 GMT -5
Lana shot straight up and almost fell out of the hammock.
"If he isn't there then where the hell is he?!" she hissed, more panicked surprise in her voice than she would have liked. She was positive that Rous would have been at the castle, if he wasn't...then maybe he was out looking for her?
Maybe he wasn't? Was he playing a game with her? Maybe he wanted her to look like she was crazy, thinking he'd been back, and then when no one believed her he'd be back?
"Son of a..." she had to take a few deep breaths before she was able to compose herself. She looked up at Ludro, needing to give him an answer, and dammit Rous she wasn't going to let Ludro of all people start thinking she was going insane.
"....Yeah...alright, fine, let's go back," she finally muttered, "but dammit, you better have my back because I'm not lying - that bastard's back."
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Post by Ludro "Ace" Gamblington on May 5, 2009 19:30:43 GMT -5
"Ok, Can you stand on your own? Or shall I just carry you in the castle?" Ludro asked as he reached out to help her up.
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Post by lana on May 6, 2009 10:56:49 GMT -5
Lana shook her head as she grabbed Ludro's hand and pulled herself to her feet. "Nah, I can walk. But man, what am I going to do about this?" She was a little tired yet, and holy man did everything hurt, but she kept herself up straight and with Ludro started walking in the direction towards the castle.
This was bad, for the first time in a long while Lana was actually scared; not afraid of dying, but afraid of losing to Rous, after all of the hell she had to go through to finally be rid of him. How could a guy like that come back from the dead, and what took him so long to do it?
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Post by Ludro "Ace" Gamblington on May 7, 2009 15:16:21 GMT -5
As they approach the Castle, Ludro walked in the room and glanced around. "See, no one his in here. Come on, let's go to your room." He said with a smile.
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Post by lana on May 7, 2009 16:05:59 GMT -5
Lana actually smiled at Ludro as they stepped inside. "Yeah yeah, alright, he's not here. Where the hell the guy went, I don't know, but you better believe me when I say that he's alive and I have to look out for him," she said as they stepped up the stairs and headed towards Lana's room.
As she came up to the door, she turned to face Ludro and crossed her arms. "I know I don't tell you this often or anything, but...thanks."
'You're probably the only friend I really have...and there's not a damn way in hell you're going to get me to tell you it because then you'll think I've gone soft on you...' Lana thought as she smirked and opened the door. She didn't see it with her back turned, but the curtains by the window - which was closed - shifted slightly.
Lana turned, stepping inside and asking Ludro, "So what are your plans for...whatever is left of the night?"
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Post by Ludro "Ace" Gamblington on May 7, 2009 17:05:57 GMT -5
"Start on some solitaire. I have not played cards for a while." he said as he pulled out his deck. "And You? Going to get some sleep?"
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Post by lana on May 8, 2009 12:34:21 GMT -5
Lana looked around the bedroom and shrugged. "Yeah, I suppose I might as well though I don't know how much sleep I'm going to be getting tonight. You have yourself a good night, alright?"
As she said this, she turned back to the room and went to close the door, peeking her head out just once more to say, "...We're still going to be doing that drinking tournament, right?"
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Post by Ludro "Ace" Gamblington on May 8, 2009 21:21:11 GMT -5
" I am ready for it, But I need to go practice right now." He said "Bye!" He walked out of her room and walked into his.
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Post by lana on May 11, 2009 9:10:41 GMT -5
Lana gave Ludro a smirk before she closed her door, and turned to face her room. She sighed, unlatching her belt that held her sheathed longsword and tossed it by a chair at the side of the room before sitting on her bed.
Almost immediately, she sprang off of the bed and marched over to her desk where she began to flip through papers she had been reading, letters she had been writing, and rolled her eyes as she found some drawings that Ludro had obviously snuck in and did.
It was during this brief moment that the curtains at the end of the room moved again, and Rous crept ever-so-quietly and with soundless breaths behind Lana.
However, regardless of his efforts to be a silent as possible, the feeling of another's presence had not gone unnoticed. Lana froze at the feeling of the change in the air, staring down at the curve in one of the letter 'e's on one of the documents laying about her desk and mentally cursed.
'...Oh...sweet son of a--'
Like lightning, she spun her body to the right, throwing her left fist and positive she was going to strike first.
Except for where he had already wound up with his right fist and when she turned she conveniently threw her face in his fist's way. Lana cried out as she fell backwards into the desk and she instinctively threw her foot up to kick at him as he reached out at her.
She quickly threw another punch at him and he grabbed her arm, smiled, and in a matter of seconds Lana was violently thrown across the room.
"DAMMIT!" she screamed as she crashed into the wall.
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Post by Ludro "Ace" Gamblington on May 11, 2009 15:15:11 GMT -5
Ludro was having sweet dreams about Rum and women, when the words 'Dammit' woke him up. He got up and grabbed his weapons and ran to Lana's Room.
"Lana, did you cut yourself on a rum bottle again?" He asked partly asleep until he saw Rous standing there. "Oh, So Lana was not lying... Hello Rous!"
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Post by lana on May 11, 2009 16:16:03 GMT -5
Rous turned his head to face Ludro and smirked.
"Gamblington," he greeted with a casual nod and then lunged at Lana, who had just been using the wall on her back as support to stand up. Lana screamed, "Oh shi--!" just before Rous pulled out his knife and stabbed her in the shoulder as she was trying to leap out of the way. She kicked him hard in the ribs in reflex and yelled some more.
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Post by Ludro "Ace" Gamblington on May 11, 2009 18:04:37 GMT -5
Ludro looked at Rous and then when his back was turned on him, he ran over to Rous and pulled him off of her. He held a Kusarigama at him while something else on in his other hand.
"Lana, get to the Guard room." He ordered her
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Post by lana on May 12, 2009 0:22:56 GMT -5
Rous laughed as he eyed Ludro and said, "Are you serious? You are aware that while I have been still alive she's never been captain, right?"
Lana on the other hand never usually took orders from her senior captain, but this one...uh...she made an exception for. Mostly because her shoulder hurt like a mother and she was bleeding all over the place again.
"Whatever," she spat quickly and bolted out of the room, grabbing her longsword as she headed out the door.
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Post by Ludro "Ace" Gamblington on May 12, 2009 16:35:22 GMT -5
"You are dead, according to the papers." Ludro said "And I have found someone who likes rums, instead of drinking those sissy Coconut milk. If I kill you right now, no one would ever know that you were back."
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