"Its the most disturbing thing I've ever seen," Amethyst said wide-eyed.
"I thought I was prepared for this," Xalan added hesitantly.
"They're merciless."
"Don't make a move, maybe it'll end soon."
"Its...inhuman!"
"Well, we aren't human."
"Yes, but this is...."
"Monstrous?"
"That too, but..."
"Unbelievable?"
"And will you two be having anything else?" They looked up to the waiter who had cautiously moved around the atrocity zone to reach them. Both took a glance at their companions around the piles of used dishes that no one had dared to collect.
"More Coffee," Amethyst requested in shock.
"Tea for me," Xalan added.
"mah phhs mpff ff grmf, mmph bffr fan hf eeffng f ff heh bn!"
"ah oo fr fah oo gif dmmph waph nfi?" Xalan and Amethyst sweatdropped.
"Can you afford this?"
"uh..." Xina looked into her purse and started counting out the money her father had supplied them with. By the time she had counted out the total, the check came. Amethyst and Xalan leaned over and read it, then they face faulted.
"What do you mean we're out of money?"
"I thought your father gave you plenty of gold."
"Well, I took what I thought we might need," Amethyst said, embarrassed. She thought that she understood her father's parting smirk and shrug now.
"I don't see where its a problem yet," Xalan said. "We can always just camp and hunt." He noted the expressions on the other three travelers faces and changed his mind. "I guess not, but what do we..." Xina and Xalan both started sniffing at the air. They gestured quietly and all four quietly followed the kage-kitsune.
"...we do with her?"
"Oh I can think of a few things," a lewd voice answered.
"Don't even think about it, we're supposed to find out where she's from first."
"Oh why bother we can just sell her some where."
"Why can't let them do this!" Amethyst shouted.
"Hey, wait we don't want to..." Xal sputtered as the princess walked out to face the bandits. "Let them know we're here first."
"You knew that was coming," Jol said. They walked out for the end of Amethyst's short fight with the two bandits.
"Well that takes care of that!" Amethyst declared smuggly. Jol looked down at the two bandits.
"You know it would be nice to know who they were talking about," he noted. Amethyst winced.
"Or how many of them there are," Xal added. "Of course now we have to wait for them to wake up."
"Err...sorry," Amethyst swallowed. "I can heal them!"
"Where's your sister?" Xalan and Amethyst paused to look around.
"Oh....joy," Xalan said.
"So you're telling me that there is a princess of Sailoon here in the forest," the bandit leader said.
"That's what I said."
"And you'll take me to her if I give you my prisoner?"
"Uh huh," Xina nodded vigorously.
"What's the prisoner to you?"
"This just sounds like a fun idea," the bandit sweat dropped.
"What stops me from just taking you prisoner right now? I'm sure you'd fetch a nice price."
"Oh you wouldn't want to do that," Xina promised waggling a finger.
"And why not?" Xina's eyes widened momentarily and then she smiled.
"Sore wa himitsu desu," she said with a hint of veiled menace. The much larger bandit swallowed.
"Okay boy, you have a deal," Xina face faulted.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A BOY?!?"
"You're....not?" the bandit asked sweatdropping.
"No, I'm a girl!" Xina was thinking. "Must. Not. Kill. Yet."
"Err...sorry."
"Interesting rock formations here, did you carve them or were they already in the cave?"
"Lady, you're a prisoner."
"Time enough for that later, what about these rock formations?"
"Listen we kidnapped you."
"This stalagmite actually looks like a dragon!"
"We're probably going to sell you on the open market."
"If this is natural it is the most amazing thing I have ever seen."
"Don't you understand any of this?"
"What part of Beleriand are we in?"
"ARRGG!!! That's a month's worth of travel away!!"
"Really? Wow, its a magical gate too."
"Okay, we're releasing the prisoner."
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" The man ran running down through the tunnels laughing hysterically. The bandit leader sweatdropped.
"That's the third one now," he said.
"Not right now I'm busy looking at this stalagmite." Xina formed some darkness around the elf girl and the spoken of stalagmite. "Oh, oh, oh, What, I'M BLIND!!!! This is GREAT....What else can this thing do?!" Xina sweatdropped.
"What did I miss?" Xalan whirled to see his sister pop her head out of a shadow.
"Xina, where did you go! We're looking for the bandits.."
"Oh, I already found them," she stepped completely out of the shadow dragging along a blue haired elf-girl with her.
"Hey, I wasn't finished analyzing..."
"Tinuviel!" Jol shouted, and then he blushed.
"What is it a sub dimensional vortex?" the elf girl continued. "Hi Jol. Oh I know, a pocket dimension!!"
"Umm how did you get her away from the bandits Xina?" Xalan asked.
"Oh I just promised to show the bandits where Amethyst was," Xina added.
"Xina-san," Amethyst swallowed. "Why'd you do that?" Xina hung upside down from a tree limb and smiled.
"Sore wa himitsu desu. Hey, this is fun!"
"There they are! Attack!!"