Lost

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"That must mean that...someone has been here before. I have a feeling we are not alone right now...and that we're being watched." said Luke with both paranoia and seriousness.

[~Alois Trancy~]

"but I haven't seen anything else." Anna said looking around a little scared now "are you sure?"

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"I'm pretty sure...I can feel it...someone else is nearby." said Luke quietly. He reached to his side so as if to be drawing a weapon. He then remembered- he didn't have a weapon.

[~Alois Trancy~]

Anna looked around the room moving closer to him scared to death "are they close?" she asked quietly as she looked for and sparse movement

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"Shh!" commanded Luke. He dashed behind a large stalagmite and crouched there in hiding. A faint sound of footsteps accompanied by a what sounded like a thin stick tapping on the ground in increasing crescendo emerged and echoed throughout the cave.

[~Alois Trancy~]

Anna started to shake scared out of the mind who's here? what's going on? am I going to die? crap waaaaay to young to die. Anna looked at the entrance as the sounds suddenly stopped and a deathly silence hung over the cave.

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

The footsteps grew closer and closer. Until finally they stopped directly in front of Anna and Luke. Luke slowly peered out from behind the rock to see who it was. There, standing hunched over a thin stick was an old man with pale flesh and strangely colored eyes. There was a look of distress on his eyes. "You...who...?" began Luke slowly standing up.

[~Alois Trancy~]

"eh what are you doing." she said shakily as she stood behind him silently "who is that guy...."

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"Ah, I see you met Anna...come with me." said the old man slowly. He turned and began hobbling back towards the cave entrance. Luke followed him.

There was something familiar about this old man....For, isn't it true that the last thing both Anna and Luke saw before they wound up in this wasteland was an old man?

[~Alois Trancy~]

Anna to followed taking Luke’s hand as she walked afraid of what might happen, he sent then there and left them not knowing if they would live in the vast wilderness “Luke where is he going to take us? We’ll be okay right?”

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"I don't know exactly what's going on..." whispered Luke, still following the old man, who looked behind him, over his shoulder. "It's been a long time, hasn't it, Anna." said the old man, grinning a strange, twisted smile.

[~Alois Trancy~]

"eh, sure......" she said a little creeped out by his smile as she hid herself behind Luke "I don't understand why you left us both here, why just us. I dont get you old man."

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"The reason why I am here...I'd rather not talk about. I'm sorry Luke, but I must...." said the old man, his face downcast. "Why...?" asked Luke, horror-stricken. "Either I surrender to them, or hundreds of people die..." said the distraught old man. Not before long, the three of them were standing before the charred and mutilated corpse of the beast that had once roamed the wasteland. It had died in the storm.

[~Alois Trancy~]

Anna turned her head away form where the animal lay, sickend by it "surrender to who?" she said tightening her grip on Lukes hand "what are you talking abot."

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"Can one ever satisfy the ravenous appetite of Darkness? Few can resist its might and cruelty..." said the old man slowly. He then led Luke and Anna to a small ring like enclosure of thick trees encircling a stone formation in the ground- much like the Mauri South American drawings."This is what that beast has been guarding for years." explained the old man.

[~Alois Trancy~]

Anna let go of lukes hand walking up to the stone formation "I- I feel like i've seen this before, somewhere but I just cant remember." she said turning to look back at the old man "why has he guarded it this whole time? is it magic or just something important to him?"

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"I appointed that deceased beast to guard this place from you shortly after I was ordered to send you here, Anna. As of now, I cannot answer any of your questions- for I am short on time now. Stand clear of the second ring, please." said the old man as he hastily hobbled into the center of the eerie ring of stones and stuck his walking staff into the center one, which seemed to glow as he did so.

[~Alois Trancy~]

Anna just watched the spot where the old man once was "ordered to send me here......WHAT!" she yelled hitting the tree next to her growling mad that she didn't know anything now "how the heck am I supposed to deal with all this if he wont tell me anything!"

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"It was not my descision to send you here- it was my...mentor's. Stand clear of the second ring." said the old man backing up, leaving his walking stick in the ground. Luke backed up, too. He was speechless and utterly dazed with shock. The wind picked up as it seemed to be swirling around that place.

[~Alois Trancy~]

"stupid old man." Anna hissed stepping back and sitting on the ground "stupid old man, stupid walking stick, stupid magic circle..........." Anna growled looking down at the ground not even caring about how the wind picked up as she mumbled to herself.

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

In just a second, everything around the mystic circle of stones vanished- it was whisked away with the wind. Blackness surrounded the three of them. Suddenly, the grass and stone beneath them became a giant rug with the exact same design and from out of the blackness, the interior log cabin/hall-like place replaced the wilderness they were in. Standing in front of the only exit were five men in black robes with hoods donned concealing most of their identity. They were all armed with an evil-looking steel sword and appeared to be waiting Anna, Luke, and the old man's arrival.

This old man had just delivered Luke and Anna into the hands of armed, maline men.

[~Alois Trancy~]

Anna whimperd standing up and inching herself over to Luke "w-whats g-going on." Anna said weakly as she looked at all of them armed, loking like they could kill her with out a care "Luke i'm scared." she whisperd keeping herself as close to him as she could "what do they want with us."

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"Break for that window on three." whispered Luke quickly moving his eyes to a skinny window high upon the cabin wall. "One-two-thr-" Luke quickly turned with amazing agilty to make a dash for the window, but found his face instantly met an iron fist, sending him flat on his back, blood trickling from his smashed nose. Two of these shady assassins were behind Luke, Anna and the old man in the first place. The five guarding the doorway let another pass by from behind them. This man appeared to be of a higher authority than the others there. "Poor old Luke Arrius. The whithered beast is still trying to run."

[~Alois Trancy~]

Anna queaked and went over to him glaring at the guards "you okay? it looks like that really hurt." Anna said wiping the blood off his face with her sleeve before standing up and going infront of the man "how the heck do you think you are!" she hissed glaring at him "I want to go home now!"

[The Wayfaring Stranger]

"Hmm, what have we here?" chuckled the elite assassin approaching Anna. Meanwhile, an assassin grabbed the old man and pulled him away from Luke and Anna, wrenching him from his walking staff and twisting- almost breaking his hands.

(PS: All the assassins are in their 20s or 30s)