Snippet #2694787

Ravyn’s ears kept their focus on the human and the feline. It helped that the room on the train was quiet, it allowed him to hear everything. One ear turned towards the opened door and once again he couldn’t keep his feathers from floofing up at the blood mage. Thankfully they went down rather quickly. He wasn’t too happy to see a crusader and could tell the pair weren’t happy about it either.

When he noticed Sam hand a bar of chocolate and a soda to Alexia. He was tempted to ask if either of them would be willing to sell but decided against it. For now he would remain quiet and listen. Ravyn did notice the curious looks the crusader was giving the feline. He wondered if she knew her but with how much Alexia was avoiding them, he didn’t think it was friendly on the cat’s part.

He put it out of his mind when Sam pulled out a device he hadn’t seen before. It had a screen obviously and looked quite old. Something pre-shatter maybe? The dragon had heard of those that survived the shattering and gained incredible abilities. Was he one? With them so familiar, was she one as well? Maybe that was why the crusaders were after her.

The dragon looked away for a moment at the blood mage and the crusader. This car was full of interesting people. His focus turned back to the human when he heard music coming from the wire going to his ear. Try as hard as he could he couldn’t resist asking about the device and the music. His question had to wait as Sam turned his attention to the crusader and politely asked that she stop staring at Alexia. He was interrupted by her angry reply basically telling the human male to shut up.

It annoyed Ravyn that the crusaders had such disdain for the male gender. Even though he was both, and some of his race that had interacted with them on rare occasions that were both, were treated as bad. If not worse for being part female. There was such hatred for non females, it was no wonder his race avoided them as much as possible.

It started going downhill rather quickly. Each time Sam tried to reason with her, her hand went straight to her sword. He had a feeling that if there wasn’t an audience she would strike the human down to get him to shut up. Her tone shifted quite easily between extremely rude towards the male to sugary sweet towards Alexia.

As he listened, the crusader revealed that she thought the feline was an avatar of their goddess. Alexia did have enough power to pass as one and, from the rumors his kind had collected, looked similar enough to where he could see where she would think that. He hoped it would end without violence but their fanaticism to their goddess was too great and the odds were high a fight would occur.

If he thought she would actually listen to him, he would have tried to get her to stop as well. But that could just make things worse.

“Ma’am… it is in your best interests to leave my employer alone.” Sam’s next warning, which turned out to be the last one offered, was spat on and her hand went back to her sword. Her long winded reply proved how deluded they actually were. Males were less than dirt, only fit to be slaves and breeding studs. How disappointing that there were those out there that thought like this. Females weren’t supposed to rule over males nor were males supposed to rule over females. They were meant to rule equally. At least that’s how his race does it as well as the other races they get along with best.

Once the train passed the boundary, his ears immediately flattened against his head at the sight of the feline’s face. It was, to keep it simple, damned scary. He was beyond glad it wasn’t directed at him. If Alexia was this avatar of theirs or, hell the goddess herself even, she wanted nothing to do with them. The look on her face was akin to murderous hatred. To be honest it made him like her more that she hated them.

It seemed like she would end this conflict quickly until more burst into the room. “You say you may have found the true emissary of the Goddess Crusader Xena? You have never named another to be such, and if you have indeed found her without naming any false prophets, you know the value this holds for both our Order and yourself.” Just when he thought this could end up being a longer battle than expected, in the blink of an eye he looked at the female crusader with a spear sticking out of her back.

He didn’t even see Alexia move. One second she was seated then ‘poof’ appeared behind the crusader Xena with a short spear piercing the crusader’s body. Alexia also answered one question, she admitted she was their goddess and hated the very idea.

Events went quickly from there. Alexia was a sight to see in a fight. She was quick, very efficient and a damn scary fighter. He in no way wanted her as an enemy. He knew he stood no chance against her. The leopard girl was quickly dispatched in a shower of blood. Ravyn didn’t spare a glance at the blood mage, he didn’t want to know what he thought of it all.

Just when he thought she would spare the rest if they agreed to not mention anything that happened, she froze them solid, nice bit of elemental control by the way, and threw a spear through them. Most impressive.

Once the fighting was over and calm fell back on the pair, they decided it would be a good idea to depart the train. After the power that was unleashed, it would be highly unlikely other crusaders weren’t alerted to her presence.

As they left the room, Ravyn grabbed his staff and followed them out. They were already at the end of their conversation when he approached “Please, may I join you?” He asked the pair. “Being part male and having an elemental affinity that could create ice, I think staying wouldn’t be healthy for me. I’d be happy to trade for your temporary companionship if you wish. I think I could be useful and I’d help out however I could. Even if you went after more crusaders.”