Snippet #800981

Yuri chuckled at Anjali's growl and mew. Must be how the dragon's communicated he thought. He then patted her on the head affectionately and said "Yes, I'm ready. Let's be off." He made his way out of the woods and got on to one of the roads heading towards Crix. As he was traveling, he kept a close eye on Anjali as they walked.

Then he spoke up. "You want to learn my language?" He asked with hand motions, but already knew the answer. "Okay, we can start now." Then he began describe things around him and told her the words for them. It was rudimentary, but that was all he could do as of now.

As they neared the city, more people began to appear on the road. Yuri paid no mind to them or their expressions toward Anjali, but drew nearer to the girl protectively. He also threw his cloak behind his shoulders to expose both swords and the assortment of throwing knives, a warning not to mess with them.

He passed through into the city without much trouble, signing in with "Business" as the reason. Yuri paused to ask guards questions about the recruitment, and before long they managed to get to the arena. He noticed a line outside of one entrances and guessed that was the recruitment area. He also noticed that the line of people were no more fit to wield a weapon than a child.

He made his way up to the front of the line, disregarding the others and came upon a guard with a clipboard. He must be the one letting people in, Blaze thought.

Yuri placed his hand protectively on the shoulder of Anjali. "There is a line, you know." The guard said without looking up from the clipboard.

"I doubt all this people put together have as much experience as I do, mate." Yuri said.

The guard looked up and saw Yuri for the first time. A grizzled man with blades of all kind and a little dragon girl. "Ah! Finally. Another promising prospect. I'll need your weapons, as is the rule. And the girl, she-"

"Comes with me." Yuri cut him off. He would not leave her.

The guard winced and nodded. "Whatever. We need all the skill we can get and I'm not about to argue."

Yuri took his cloak off and wrapped the combat knife, the curved knife, hunting knife, and the holsters in it. Then he took off the two swords and placed it on top of the makeshift pack. "You had better not lose even one of them." Yuri warned. He kept the two hidden stilettos in his bracers more for Anjali's protection than his.

"Okay, this way." The guard led the two into the arena with a young man talking with a another man, yet the other was scaled.

Yuri raised a scarred eyebrow "Another dragon?"

"Darien, Here's another!" The guard called before leaving.

Yuri crouched down to Anjali's height with a smile. "Hey, after this, I'll get you something to eat. Deal?" He said with the usual motions. He kept crouching and waited patiently for his turn with this Darien. It was time to prove himself. Again.