Empires of Ashes

"These things are not hard to make, my guess would be either enemy spies or traitors to your Shogun"

*He looks to the masked woman and nods, taking the food*
"Thank you"

" or maybe another clan trying to take both of us out " she says then reaches out to welcome him " my name is aiya leader of clan higganbana " after shaking his hand " I'm sorry for the inconvenience we'll have food and shelter for you as long as you stay away from the temple and we will escort you back in the morning as long as you can help our case "

The masked woman with the food says " he can stay at my place if that's alright with him"

"Arthur, and for what it's worth I understand your concerns"
*he looks to the masked woman*
"You have my thanks"

Aiya: thanks for your concern , rest for tommarow we leave early
Aiya says removing her face mask and helm and walking away
The big guy nods and follows her

The masked women in cloth armor nods "follow me please I'll show you to your quarters"

"Lead the way"

She leads him to her small home flowers and all sorts of plant life including funguses she leads you in and there is a lab of said plant life a kitchen and a bedroom

"It's certainly cozy"

" I really enjoy it small spaces keep me organized'

"Suits you perfectly then"

" indeed you can have the bed I'll be working on my poisons tonight"

"Poisons?"

" I study and produce poisons I'm the best in the country"

"That's actually fairly cool"

" I enjoy it quite a lot I even know how to tell if things are poisoned" she says mixing plants together " so is there anything I can do for you?"

"At the moment no, but thank you....what's your name?"

" umi " she says mixing the ingredients

"Thank you, Umi"

" I'm glad to do it"

"Really?"

" yes I do enjoy helping people "

"That is nice to hear, seeing as I'm in your debt is there anything I could help with?"

" no I'm fine the company is perfect it gets lonely here sometimes"

"Good thing I'm staying here tonight"

"Indeed , you better get some sleep"

"It's not too late, no harm in staying up and talking"

" oh? , and what would you talk about "

"You?"

" I'm not something specia! "

"Doesn't mean you're not interesting"

" I mean all I do is mix poisons together"

"You don't just do that"

hours have passed back with the voldamian lords. They are preparing to leave, saddling horses, their armies mobalising and ready to march
The shogun is in the stables, armouring his steed

They both hear a knock on the door , umi goes to answer it before coming back in with a letter " so it looks like we both have a job to do tommarow " umi says to aurthur

A Lord walks up behind him bearing green and gold armor with white marking twelve of his men following him one holding a golden statue of a 6 headed dragon the warrior God " my Shogun I come baring a offering to show my loyalty"

Madara turns to the daimyo, glaring "Is this a joke?"

He seems nurvous " no m-my Shogun it's to resemble the warrior and is great luck for a warrior to have , we made it ourselves" he seemed cought off guard by this

"You're meant to be getting ready to march, not offering me gifts." he's annoyed

Arthur: And what is that?

" the note says to so sabatage the clan behind this do this and your people may come to our village unarmed of coarse " umi said to aurthur"

He was silent for a moment until they both hear a woman yell "Madara I need your..." The woman stopped silent turns out that woman is aiya and she has a massive hulk of a man with her and she grabs out her katana " I should have known it was you ,you unhonorable greedy shell of a man "
The Lord looks at his warriors pushing them at her " what are you doing defend me you fools!"

Madara: STOP!!

Aiya stops but stays on her guard , the others do the same though the hulk of a man walks over and grabs the statue " temple " he says before walking back to aiya

Arthur: "Pardon?"

"Explain. Now."

Aiya : he assaulted my town tried to raid our temple stole our statue of our diety and desicrated my father's grave , all the while dressed as our new allies trying to frame us both !"

"Is that true?"

Valceni : N-no she's a filthy liar like her father !

Aiya: please madara you know me I would never let my superstitions jeapordize our people beside a scout of our allies cleared up the situation and is gathering further evidence with one of my own

OOC: *waits*

"Where did you get that then?"

Valcini : I uh well we smelted gold to make it
He said nervously

Umi : well we are gathering further evidence and well sabataging them back

*Cue Mordred bursting through the doors*
"You had better have a good excuse for having my men arrested!"

Aiya : arrested? What , no he was just answering some questions , turns out he dressed his warriors in your uniforms and attacked my village.

Madara: oh what the hell is going on now