Private Finished Last Call In The City

Rockman · Jul 26, 2018

The man sweeping raised an eyebrow, and took a look at the cellphone. "Can't say I have--" the man then flipped it over and saw the design of the black dragon. "Is this some kind of joke, are you with them?" he then backed off and was halfway through the bar door, he then tossed the cellphone to Zoraida's feet. "You fools think you can just vandalize businesses with your graffiti, I hope the police arrest you."

With that the man entered the bar and locked the door in a huff.

Ain not sure what happened ran up to Zoraida and stopped next to the bar door, he wanted to ask what happened but he wasn't able to. So instead, he motioned with his hands on both sides of his body, not really sure what these gestures were even doing to get his point across.

@Zora

Zora · Jul 26, 2018

When Zora showed the man the cell phone and he saw the black dragon symbol, he instantly reacted like she was a monster or something, ran into his shop, and accused her of being a vandal. Finding this somewhat amusing, considering that she was dressed in a very expensive and tailored outfit, and looked nowhere near a hoodlum. Zoraida turned the cell phone over in her hands. "So, you belong to an undesirable?" she mused with a chuckle.

Glancing up at the young man, she noticed his concerned gestures and just smiled slightly, "Looks like this phone belongs to some gang member or something." she explained in answer to what she assumed was him asking her what happened. "The black dragon seems to be the symbol or mark of some group of undesirables," she said, half tempted to bang on the door and insist the shopkeeper tell her more.

"Do you recognise this symbol at all?" she asked him, while quietly considering whether she should maybe go directly to the police, they could probably be able to help them or get the phone back to its owner.

@Rockman

Rockman · Jul 26, 2018

Ain brought his hand up to his chin and nodded in confirmation, he learned that it was probably a gang members cellphone or undesirable as the girl put it. It brought a question about whether to continue looking for the owner or not, he shifted in place for a good minute before nodding mostly to himself, he will return the phone no matter what.

The question about whether he recognized the symbol though, it wasn't like he knew what it was but it almost felt like his eyes may have glanced over it at least once since coming to the city. That was strange, he had only just started walking around. His eyes then began looking back and forth along the streets, seeing far and wide, and he couldn't see anything.

He was about to stop looking when he looked at the bar, and painted on the side of a wall was that symbol - though part of it was scrubbed off. Almost nonchalantly, he extended his arm and pointed at the symbol which was the same black dragon on the cellphone, though Ain couldn't tell the difference their was one part that differed - the claw of the dragon was pointing in a direction off to the east.

@Zora

Zora · Jul 26, 2018

When the young man with violet eyes confirmed that he did indeed know that it probably belonged to a gang member Zora frowned slightly at this information. She could, if she had to, defend herself if things got sticky - though her magic was shaky at best lately and she could end up freezing a city block or a turn a puddle of water into warm bath water... she never knew what might happen, and therefore preferred to not get herself into any dangerous situations if at all possible.

Looking over at the wall, following the stranger's direction, Zora stared blankly for a moment, not sure what she was seeing, then it dawned on her, the same symbol that was on the phone... and it was seemed to be pointing east. "What the heck..." Zora said under her breath as she walked with purpose towards the dragon symbol, and then looked eastward, wondering if there was another symbol somewhere.

Disregarding any feelings of "this might not be that great of an idea", Zora suddenly went off up the street in search of another symbol.

@Rockman

Rockman · Jul 26, 2018

Ain was looking at the symbol when the girl suddenly started off on her own, he really had no idea what she was doing but decided to follow behind her. Where was she going, did she figure something out? It was too bad that he couldn't ask her, as far as he knew he just started following a girl down the street like a stalker. However, he had to follow her, she still had the cellphone on her.

As they walked for about five minutes down the street, he sighed as he had no idea where they were even going, that was when he noticed something further down - another black dragon symbol. Without thinking he ran ahead at top speed, blowing past the girl with the unnatural speed he possessed - he may have appeared to be a blur and stopped next to an old abandonned store; To make sure that the girl could see it he again extended his arm and pointed at it.

This black dragon symbol pointed northward towards what appeared to be old warehouses, but Ain of course didn't understand the significance of the pointing claw.

@Zora

Zora · Jul 27, 2018

As Zora hurried up the side street, she saw something shoot passed her and slowed down a bit. Looking back, she didn't see the young man there and realised that he must have flown past her. Picking up her pace, she arrived a minute or so after the strangely quiet man, who was waiting for her in front of an abandoned building - and it, too, had a black dragon symbol painted on it. This time it was pointing in, what she thought was a northern direction...

"This way..." was all she said to the young man as she started off again following in the direction of the claw. Once again, disregarding any reservations she might have normally had, curious as to the symbol, and with that odd exhilaration, one gets when they have stumbled on the possible solution to riddle. Besides,Zora wanted to see where it might lead, despite every indication that it might not be a good idea.

@Rockman

Rockman · Jul 27, 2018

Ain kind of looked at her incredulously, what was this way, heck he knew nothing about the girl and he was willing to so easily follow her. His old self would have left already, but maybe the owner of the cellphone was this way. This was probably the first time he let someone take the lead like this, even more than that, he was always the one to decide the course when it came to giving orders and leading back in the other world for which he lived.

He followed along just the same, this time it felt a bit wrong, the warehouses they were passing were all several floors high and he swore he saw people looking through the dirty windows at them as they walked by. It felt unsafe like they just exited the more policed areas of the city, and this is where people would be more likely to commit crimes.

In the distance, he made out a cloaked figure handing off something to a disheveled looking person, it appeared to him to be a guy selling off some kind of drug. He wasn't really sure, but the disheveled looking man soon handed some money to the cloaked man before running off and past both Zoraida and himself. The cloaked man seemed to duck into an alleyway nearby, and vanishes.

As a point, Ain ran off ahead again, and looked in the alleyway to see what he saw. In the alleyway was a door with the black dragon symbol on it, on the side was a strange lock that seemed runic in nature. Following his current method of showing things, he raised his arm and pointed down the alleyway at the door.

@Zora

Zora · Jul 27, 2018

Zora was slightly oblivious to everything around her, focusing on the path as it winded its way to a more remote, older and perhaps derelict part of Manta Carlos. It wasn't until they were in the heart of it that she actually began to realise where they were... Slowing her pace, she gazed around her uneasily, this was not the safest of places... glancing around to see if the young man was still with her, she saw that he was right behind her, and felt a modicum of relief in the knowledge he was there.

Stopping suddenly as a man unexpectedly darted past her into an alley, Zora halted, not sure what to do next. She had come this far, too far to turn back and she had a feeling it was more dangerous to go back the way she had come, she now started noticing that they were being watched... Frowning at this, she wondered where to go now.

Then as she was considering a path, the young helmeted man also darted down the same alley and without thinking, purely on instinct now, she followed him, letting him guide her as he had before. Slowing her pace, Zoraida stopped and then advanced with some hesitation to inspect another black dragon on a strange looking door...

"Geez..." she murmured as she walked towards the door, reaching out to touch the door handle, and then pulled back as if were hot, not unsure she wanted to go on or not... thinking that Aedan would kill her if he knew she was here, very likely putting herself in danger and all because of a cell phone, softly chuckling at the irony of this thought.

"What do you think, should we go in?" Zora finally asked the young man, realising that she had lead him to a very nasty part of the city and maybe, just maybe, she had made a mistake.

@Rockman

Rockman · Jul 27, 2018

Ain wasn't really worried at all for himself, but this girl was a different story if she was a more normal human. Was it really a good idea to take a stranger with him into a possibly dangerous warehouse, if she got hurt or killed that would be on him at this point; not that he really forced her to do anything, her actions were her own. It was fine, she was smart and somehow led him to this door, though he still didn't understand how she did so; it was a departure from his usual self but he didn't mind stepping in if need be.

He pointed at Zoraida and gave a thumbs up to show his approval of her, he had made the right choice in getting her help even if this event wasn't what he expected. Turning to the door, he went next to the girl and tried to open it but it wouldn't budge, in fact he felt a small shock of magic energy pulse through the door. It was magically locked, he had encountered such a thing before from mages, usually it required some kind of key to open but they didn't have anything like that.

Taking his time, Ain looked at the runic lock tapping it lightly causing a bit of magic to pulse from it the same as the door, this was how to open it but if not this was the end of the road. Turning back to the girl, he shrugged and walked a bit away to look around the alley for a clue that probably didn't exist.

If he had to, he had a last resort to handle this, but he would rather not use it in case of emergencies...

@Zora

Zora · Jul 27, 2018

Zora watched quietly and with interest as the man tried to open the door. She nodded thoughtfully as the spark of energy pulsed softly from the lock as he touched it before he moved his hand away. She saw It was locked magically. She had some knowledge of these sort of locks thanks to her family line. Druids often sealed things - or doorways - with runic symbols used on locks. Not all of them needed a key to open them per say, they just needed the right rune to unlock it.

Letting the blond haired man try to open it, Zora used the time to remember what symbols did what. After a long moment, she looked around her, and then saw what she was looking for - a rock with a sharp edge. Picking it up, Zora went over to the door and started scraping a few runic symbols into the door, she had absolutely no idea if it would work or not, she wasn't even too sure the type of magic that had been used to lock the door. It had been years since she had used runes to do magic. Finishing the runic symbols, she dropped the rock and took a step back, and waited to see if it would work, or if it had zero affect on the door and the lock.

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