Shadow Walkers discussion

The forest is where you can hunt, battle, or discover new things

Jason walked through the forest, his bow in his hand as he followed a game trail

Aedan sat on a branch in a tall tree with his knees drawn up to his chest and his arms wrapped around them. He was perfectly balanced, and had no fear of falling down to the forest floor. The bright green leaves concealed him from any lookers from below. Aedan came up there sometimes, just to think. He was smart, though. If anything, or anyone, tried to attack him, he had his bow clutched in his right hand and his quiver full over arrows on his back.

Jason kept on following the game trail since it was night time and he had the moon light helping him when he stopped, looking at the herd of deer asleep on the grass

Jade was in her cloud of shadows, walking around between the borders of the castle and the forest. She was debating between going into the forest, concurring her fear, or staying inside the borders, possibly cowering for life. Whatever it was...she wasn't about to give up at the moment.

Aedan heard footsteps and looked down through a hole in the leaves. He saw a boy with a bow in his hands. He wondered what he was doing. The boy suddenly stopped. Aedan's curiosity continued to spike. He leaned over on the branch to see more of what the strange boy had his eye on, when he heard a crack in the wooden branch he was sitting on.
Uh-oh... Were the only words he had time to think when he tumbled down to the hard forest floor, landing on his back, almost falling onto the boy.

Jason turned around, the bow pointed at the guy who fell down with an arrow notched into the bow then glanced at the deer, seeing that they were still asleep

Jade heard a noise nearby. She winced at the loudness and as it echoed through the forest.
"It doesn't seem to be the Demon." Elizabeth said.
Jade nodded and ended up walking away from the border line and into the forest to see what it was that made the noise

Aedan quickly sat up and held his hands up in mock surrender. He winced when a shot of pain went up his spine. Well, he did fall from pretty high up. He couldn't just expect himself to end up unscathed. He shuffled away from the boy, his eyes narrowing at the arrow being currently at him. Would he actually release the arrow? Hopefully not. He noticed that his quiver, full of silver tipped arrows, was still on his back, but...
He looked and almost groaned out loud in frustration. His bow was still in the tree, hanging on the snapped branch by its string. The moon glinted off of the silver bow. He looked back at the boy.
"Um...s-sorry?" Aedan stuttered.

"You scared me." Jason whispered as he put his bow down and turned back to the deer, seeing that they were still asleep

"...Sor-sorry." He repeated, not knowing what else to say. He wasn't good with talking to people. He hesitantly stood and brushed himself off, checking his clothes for anymore dirt. He looked up and saw the boy looking at something. He sent his gaze there and saw a pair of sleeping deer. What was he doing?

Jade saw two figures. Since it was night she couldn't see much to make out any physical details. She edged closer, still in her cloud of shadows

Jake watched as one of the deer got up and walked away then he followed it silently, his footsteps soundless as if he was a ghost

Aedan didn't know whether he should follow, or just walk away, glad that the boy hadn't shot him. He sighed, his curiosity getting the better of him. He looked back at his bow. He ran over to the tree and grabbed onto another branch. He hefted his leg up and began to quickly climb up the tree. Once he reached his bow, he grabbed it, and jumped down, this time, tucking down into a roll, and coming up on his feet. He scanned the forest, and saw the boy a little ways up ahead. He ran to catch up, and once he did, fell into a steady silent walk behind him.

Jade quickly ran after them, staying hidden in between the trees. Her cloud of shadows had disappeared, revealing her pale skin and black laced dress to the moon. Her eyes glowed with curiousity and despite Elizabeth's and Aidan's warnings to stay away, she inched closer.

Jake stopped as the doe ate some leaves from a bush then raised his bow when the deer stopped and looked around then he pulled back on the bow string, pulling back the arrow then let go and the arrow shot towards the doe when the doe dissapeared in a bright flash of light

Aedan almost gasped when the doe disappeared, but he held it in. "W-why would you do th-that?" He asked in disbelief, hating himself for still stuttering. It was just a deer, wasn't it? Was he missing something, here? And why was there a flash of light?
You should stop questioning things. He thought to himself. You're in a castle full of people with superpowers.

She frowned at seeing the deer disappear. She was closer now, maybe a few trees away from them.

"Hunting." Jake mumbled as he got up then cautiously walked over to were the doe was at when he stopped and crouched down in front of an blue oval shaped stone that was a foot long

"Why?" Aedan asked him, confused, finally gaining control of the stutter that he suddenly had. Why would he be hunting? Was it for training? Because there was a training room in the castle. Or, at least he'd been told. There were so many rooms in the castle, that he hadn't even found it yet. Suddenly, Aedan saw something in the corner of his eye. He turned his head, and his eyes fell upon a girl, a few trees away. He jumped in surprise. How long had she been there? He stared at her with his dark purple eyes.

Jason put the bow down next to the stone then picked the stone up carefully with his hands and blew on it softly

Jade tilted her head at the area of the blue sone like thing on the ground. She felt like someone was staring at her and she lifted her eyes to a guy that was staring at her. She frowned, as she had noticed they were both guys.
"Told you." Elizabeth said with a mocking tone

((Sorry about that!))

Aedan narrowed his eyes at the girl. What was she doing, just standing there? Had she been following them? He took a step towards her. "Hel-hello?" He called out to the girl. He wondered if she would respond, or simply run away.

Jade's hands instinctively gripped onto her weapon, named Cutlass. She didn't trust more than half the people I the world. Then again she didn't even know that there were people until Aidan had told her when they first met. She didn't answer him, but only responded by nodding

Jason stared at the stone for a bit then opened the bag he always carried with him when ever he was in the forest then put the stone in the bag on top of some padding then closed the bag, picked up his bow and arrow then turned around to look at the girl

Aedan watched as she nodded, acknowledging him. He didn't know whether or not she was dangerous. All he knew was that most of the things outside of the barrier were hell bent on killing him, for some reason. He didn't know why. He didn't know much of anything about the castle, in fact, or why he was allowed to stay here. He had only arrived two weeks ago.

Jason put the bow over his shoulder as he looked at Jade and said "Hey Jade."

Jade looked over at the other guy,her eyes somewhat wide. She felt like she had seen him before, though she didn't know his name or who he was. Somehow she felt somewhat bad about that. Though she did have a reason, she was and is never observant. Ever.

Aedan looked at the boy. How did he know her name?
They probably know each other, idiot. He thought and rolled his eyes at himself. And he really wanted to come up with something else than strange boy for the blonde haired boy standing next to him. Then he came to a realization. Why was he standing so close to these people. They could be hurt at any moment. He also realized this was the first human contact and conversation he's made in while. It felt different, but it scared him to death. He was putting them in danger, just being near them. He took a few steps away from them.

Jason looked around and muttered "We should get out of here.", keeping an hand on the bag that held the stone in it, feeling like the stone had some importance to it

Jade's attention snapped to the guy moving away. 'He's just moving back. Calm down.' She told herself. Despite her trying to comfort herself, she wasn't relaxing a bit. She had shown herself to two strangers just out of pure curiosity. And yet she didn't even know where Demon was at. She could be near. Or far. Still...she knew she was on Demon's radar.

"Why?" Aedan asked the boy with blonde hair. He remembered from before when the boy had shot a deer, then it turned into a stone. Why did it do that? He could ask questions later, if they saw each other again.

Jade agreed with the blonde haired guy. She knew what was out in the forest. Especially when she was the one who had started the whole thing. Well...Demon was what she had started.

"Don't you guys feel like something is watching us?" Jason said, keeping a hand on the bag as he took off his bow then lifted his hand off the bag and grabbed an arrow out of the quiver on his back

Aedan was about to say Of course I do, but that probably wouldn't have sounded as normal as thought it was. He always felt like something was watching him. It had started the day after most of his family died. He shivered at the memory, pushing it to the back of his mind. Aedan nodded slowly at the boy's question. He gripped his bow tighter and reached for an arrow inside of his quiver. Once he had it, he notched it on the string.

Jason notched the arrow in his hand on the string then muttered to Aedan "When i say duck, you duck... duck." as he spun around, pulled back on the string and let it go and it shot past Aedan, messing his head and dissapeared into the darkness when it hit something and the thing gave out a roar of pain

Jade's eyes widened as she saw Demon standing far away. She immiadiatly began to form a cloud of shadows around her

Aedan barely had time to move his head out of the way. His eyes widened at the roar the demon gave. He aimed it in the same direction, but didn't let the arrow fly out of its position. He took in a shallow breath through his mouth.

Jason took another arrow out of the quiver then notched the arrow on the string, pulled the string back in a fluid movement and let go of the arrow and watched as the arrow hit the demon in the chest below the heart

Jade looked at Aidan and Elizabeth for help.
They both sighed

Aedan finally let the arrow fly, hitting the demon in the center of its forehead. He wondered why the demon hadn't tried to attack them before, when they hadn't had their guard up. Well, whatever the explanation, it was here now.

Demon stared at Jade.
Jade backed away, now fully cloaked in her cloud of shadows.
Elizabeth took hold of Demon, making sure that Jade and the other two would be able to leave

"We need to get out of here." Jason said in an urgent voice

"Well what do you think we are trying to help you do?" Aidan said and rolled his eyes, helping Elizabeth hold back Demon

"I realize that." Aedan muttered under his breath to the boy's question. He quickly notched another arrow and let it fly, hitting the demon in the head again. He gestured for the blonde boy to follow him. He knew a short cut out of the forest. He went here a lot more than one would expect in a demon infested forest. If it were his choice, he would just climb up a tree to escape. So far, all of the demons that he'd met were wingless or couldn't climb very well.

Jade dissolved in the cloud of shadows. Next thing she knew, she was inside the border line of the castle. She was safe. She was away from the monster, the threat, the demon.

Jason followed Aedan, keeping an arrow notched on the string of his bow as he looked around

Aedan notched another arrow on the string of his bow just in case. He ran through the thick forest, jumping over fallen trees and logs. His eyes darted around, looking for anymore signs of danger. He looked back, just to make sure that the boy had followed him. He turned back saw a familiar wall of trees in front of him and sharply turned a corner.

Jason kept on following him, holding the bow and arrow in one hand and had his other hand on top of the bag with the stone it

Finally, they broke through the thick vegetation of the forest and out into a wide open space. Aedan was breathing deeply when he saw the barrier in view. They were almost there.