“No rushing in this time. We go in and analyze. Keep the noise level to a minimum.”
A soft touch on his wrist caught his attention. He glanced down to the woman who was gazing up at him. Was she... concerned? Probably, well it made sense. He wasn't one to really think things through entirely. To him it made more sense to strike fast and hard whenever you could. Touya took a look at the caravan that they'd caught up to. He counted several men and was assured to his count by April's voice softly reaching his ears.
“Good. Four non-combatants, thirteen guards.”
Non-combatants? What kind of term was that? Well, he didn't have time to reflect on it really as April moved away from him. He wondered where she went and then realized that something must have caught her attention. Even so, it was difficult for him to simply sit there and do nothing. They were only thirteen humans and with his power he could easily take them all out in one strike. Even if he didn't wish to do so, fighting them hand to hand was easy enough as well. To make things even better, he could get to the cage that held the other Therian's and free them. He knew that once freed, they would willingly help him in the fight.
From the corner of his eye he caught April falling backwards. The rain was hard and he thought that she might have slipped in the mud beneath them. However, that didn't seem to be the case as she looked up at him from her spot on the ground. Having fallen, Touya had lunged forward quickly to assess if she was alright or not, worry in his gaze. That was replaced with confusion as she spoke to him, fear in her eyes.
“Riverbend… And the Jaeger Guard…”
"Jaeger Guard?" He asked in response to her words. Looking up from her prone figure he searched through the haze of rain and slowly gathering fog. A group of men were coming towards the camp and they didn't look to be any normal men either. Touya's heart clenched in his chest and he wondered just how easily he was going to win this fight, if at all. His original idea was starting to sound more and more appealing as he sat there. If he could take out the majority of regular soldiers, than taking on these... 'elite' ones would be easier without the pesky little runts in his way.
Once that was done, he would then free the people in the cage giving him five good warriors. Touya was sure the only reason they did not attack the humans was because they were trying to prove that they were not like Val and his men. He also wished to prove that, so how was he going to do that? If he killed them all it wouldn't sit well with April. However, if he didn't kill them they would most assuredly kill him. His eyes narrowed as he watched the camp intently. Finally, after devising a semi-plan he allowed his claws to extend and the blades on his arms to come out.
Reaching to his back he pulled out both his folded blades, but did not engage them. Turning he looked at April for a moment before he said anything to her. He was going to try to keep the casualties to a minimum. After all, they were only there for the Therian's and then they would leave.
"Stay here," he told her simply and started forward through the haze. His power hummed around him as he slowly let it build. The glow was ominous in the rain and as he approached the back of the carriage, he kept low and silent. Once he reached the cage that held his brethren, he reached up with his clawed fingers and easily snapped the flimsy metal lock off. He opened the door of the carriage quickly, knowing that the sound of the metal breaking had probably alerted someone. Looking to his kin he called to them in their own language.
"Hurry, into the trees and don't stop," they stood quickly then and Touya rounded the carriage, making himself seen and becoming the target to the humans. Only then did he snap open the blades of his weapons and attacked the first of several men that came at him. Touya's aim wasn't to kill them, however so his fighting style changed. Still fluent in every move, he was mostly on the defensive and knocked the blades and axes that came at him. His only other concern were the men's newest weapon, the guns that were hastily being loaded and aimed at him. He charged his body and expelled the magic outwards, intending only to knock the men off their feet. Any injuries they sustained upon falling wasn't going to be all that life threatening.
Touya fought carefully, aiming his hits to either cripple or knock out his opponents, but not to kill. Mostly he wanted to show April that he was not Val and that he was capable of being compassionate despite the fact that the men before him were trying to kill him. He worked his way forwards through the mass of thirteen guards and finally set his eyes upon the man seated on top of the horse with his 'elite' guard with him. At that moment, Touya wondered if his decision had been the right one.
The moment he'd set eyes upon the city, Damea had started running. Something was making him anxious and he didn't like the feeling that had followed him since leaving the man named Miles. It was as if fate were telling him to hurry, to go faster than what he was. A bitter taste sat at the back of his mouth and he couldn't get rid of it. The fire mage made the city in the next hour, just as the rain clouds began stretching from behind him. It was an interesting sight to see a sheet of rain following after him as the clouds dispersed from the south.
Damea entered the city, with his chest heaving and the air seeming like it couldn't get into his lungs fast enough. He doubled over as he reached a guardsmen and reached out for him. At this point it didn't really matter who knew whom Damea was looking for so he gripped the man by the sleeve and stopped him from walking away. The guard, unsure as to what to do stood there like a statue. Once the mercenary had gotten enough breath in his lungs to speak, he looked up at the man and huffed out a few words.
"Reginald... I... need... Reginald," then he dropped to the ground on his hands and knees, panting for air and feeling sick as well as dizzy with weariness and fatigue. He could only hope that the guard would get his point and hurry off to get the doctor. Damea needed the man right then.