It is late afternoon as you walk (Drake)

[shiningdrake]

Drake was surprised when he heard the other man speak. You're not from Gensokyo either? he asked, surprised, Actually, neither am I. He wasn't hiding his speech from either of the other two. He looked over at the bunny girl, who apparently was named Tewi, and said, I was just passing through, headed to the Human Village.

Drake then noticed that Tewi had gotten a... Slightly disturbing smirk on her face. He decided that it would be wise not to mention it, but he did silently think in his head: Uh-oh... Drake had a bad feeling about this...

[Kitten4u]

There was that really creepy, disembodied voice again. Tewi stuck her index finger into her ear as though she were trying to pull the sound out of her head. She'd rather not be completely insane right now so she continued to ignore it. The guy that was actually talking's question was rather silly though, then again he claimed to be a tourist so that made sense. Granted, the use of the word "tourist" made her a bit upset. Sure, he may not have known that this was rabbit territory, but that didn't make it any less theirs. The fact that he was treating something as serious as invading their forest like it was no big deal was a bit annoying.

Not to mention his reason for coming here was extremly questionable. Smelled blood? Well yes, it wasn't unusual for rabbits to accidentally step something or for them to scrape their arm, but the smell of youkai blood shouldn't attract other youkai. Or at least she assumed he was some kind of youkai since she didn't think humans could smell blood (unless he was talking figuratively in which case she'd have to kick his ass right here). Not to mention, if he had smelled blood how could he have been wandering around aimlessly? Wouldn't he be following the scent? She didn't hear any reports of anyone dying, so this was very suspicious. And finally he seemed to know that they were protecting something. It wasn't at all unusual for youkai to be territorial, just look at the tengu. Anyone that tries to climb the summit of Youkai Mountain would have to fight at least one of them just becuase they didn't want people on their mountain. This guy was definately suspicious.

Ah well, she didn't really want him in her forest, so she would be more than happy to escort them out...Assuming he stopped being so suspicious. Well, there was one easy way for her to get the proper information out of him, but there was just one little problem. That monsterous dragon that happened to be with him. Could she beat both of them? Maybe, she was suprisingly strong after all. But brute force really wasn't her style and her plan would never work against something that big.

"Ah, I see. Weeeell, I suppose I can show you the way out, but..." she pointed at the dragon, "Your friend here might have some trouble fitting through all the bamboo to follow me. Most of the forest is denser than this spot, so I don't think he'd be able to see me from the sky either..."

That would work. She either had to convince him to ditch the dragon. He could probably just fly out of the forest anyway (why didn't he already?), so she didn't think he would be too worried about it.

[psyc]

Seth winced at the voice which entered his head, it really was intrusive and it somewhat hurt Seth's tired mind.
"No. I was born in Cairo" he smirked a little with a shrug before looking over at Drake with a raised eyebrow "I doubt we come from the same world, or dimension, or whatever you call it, cause where I'm from there ain't no dragons and I picked up my pearly whites here"

Seth watched the girl a moment and frowned, she was planning something, she was spending far too much time thinking between her words, if she was just going to show him the way out she wouldn't have been spending so much time considering it out to just let them go, but maybe, maybe she was genuine
"I didn't think we are exactly what you could call friends" Seth said raising an eye brow, but just shrugged and followed without a word, not really thinking beyond getting out

[shiningdrake]

Drake said to Seth, They don't actually have dragons in my world either. This was a power I was given, I'll leave it at that. It's possible that we're from the same world. Drake then glanced toward the bunny girl and said, If I can't fit through, it's unlikely that he can. Drake's dragon form and the way it moved was such that it was often easier to maneuver through small places than in human form.

Besides, Drake didn't trust Tewi. At all. Something seemed slightly off. Especially that little smirk she had given. Drake wanted to try and keep watch on her, in case she tried something. Although he didn't really know Seth or have any real reason to worry about him (Well, aside from the obvious fact that he was about to go with a creepy bunny girl, in pink even! Everyone knew that pink was not a good thing!) but that was just how he was.

[Kitten4u]

"Alright, if you say so," she shrugged. "Just try not to break any of the smaller trees. We've been having some problems and I doubt my underlings would react well if the forest was damaged," she turned around. "Oh and one more thing. Make sure to keep up because I won't be slowing down~"

She still didn't think the dragon would be able to manuver through some of the tighter places, or at least not as quickly as she could hop. Tewi had lived in the Bamboo Forest for the past 1000 or so years, so she knew this place like the back of her hand and knew exactly how do move through it. She quickly darted through the trees and even hopped off of a few of them. She wasn't moving as quickly as she could since she did want them to be able to keep up, but she was moving fast enough to try to ditch the dragon. She kept looking back every so often so that she would know exactly where they were.

Where was she leading them? Well, she really was leading them towards the outside of the forest. Unfortunately for them the edge of the forest also had the most traps, and she was leading them towards an area that had more than usual. Most of them were just ropes and what-not that were designed to handle an averaged size human or youkai. They were completely hidden and since it was dark they would be even harder to see. Of course, this is why she wanted to ditch the dragon since it wasn't unlikely that he would be too big or heavy for these traps to be effective.

They were starting to get close. She looked behind again to see if they were still in eye-shot. If the dragon was still in eye-shot she'd have no choice but to use a bit of magic. Tewi could bring good fortune to those she wished, but she could also do the opposite. She always hesitated to do this in the forest because it might mean that the person would be lost forever and she really didn't want people wandering around her forest until they starved to death or something. But whatever, in this case she really needed to make sure he got trapped like the youkai. She smirked again and blew a kiss at the dragon, he would be extremely unlucky for a bit now. Of course, this was assuming she hadn't been able to ditch the dragon in the forest.

She still continued hopping for a good five minutes at least after she blew the kiss at the dragon so that he wouldn't think she was being suspicious back there. Then she suddenly stopped and started to sniff the air as though she had to remember where she was. It was a big forest and everything basically looked the same. Not to mention, it was a bit foggy as usual. Tewi didn't think that they would find it strange that she had to find her bearings. Of course, she made sure she stopped far enough away from the traps that if they were suspicious of her and wanted to stay back a bit that they would probably walk into them anyway. Hopefully she'd be able to get the information out of them after they landed into the traps.

The traps were suprisingly well-crafted. While it would be possible to break through them it would be rather difficult since a few of them actually had rabbit magic on them. All of them would bind the feet, but if they were unlucky enough they might run into one that would bind their hands or even their whole body maybe (obviously neither of those would be effective on the dragon). Though there was one kind of trap that was even worse than that. Several of the traps were made not only with the strength of rabbit magic, but also had bits of some of Eirin's shady drugs on them. Some would cause paralysis, others would make the vitem throw up for at least an hour. There was such a variety of different things on there that she honestly didn't know what would happen if they were unlucky enough to run into one. Of course, Tewi always made sure to keep some antidote on her just in case she or one of her underlings accidentally ran into one, so she could cure them once she was satisfied with their reason for being here. And if their reason for being here ended up being suspicious she could just drag them out of the forest and leave them to die outside of her territory.

[psyc]

Seth nodded silently to Drake "yeah maybe we are" he shrugged "Doesn't matter now, even if there was no barrier I couldn't go back"
"Given to you huh?" Seth smirked "They must'a really liked you then, unless your one of those who are here to protect humanity?" he laughed at that remember some poor deranged bastard he'd met a while back.

He gave Drake a little shrug "Well it's either this or burning, I'll take my chances"

Seth looked back to where the bunny-thing had gone, "Man, she even bloody hops!" he thought to himself with a smile, and was able to keep the pace quite well, one of the pluses to being a vampire, he figured it came from having to run from the sun or rain so often.

Seth didn't ask too many questions, he just really had to get out of this place, in a way it was in this woman's interest to get him out, come sunlight he could set the whole friggen forest alight.
"What was that?" Seth asked raising an eyebrow seeing her pause to blow a kiss, okay if that wasn't suspicious he didn't know what was, he was tempted to just turn around and run in any direction that was away from the rabbit, however glancing at the sky he had to make his choice. Which was he more afraid of, the sunlight, or a rabbit, it didn't take him long to decide as he hurried back after the girl.

A moment before it was too late he spotted something in the grass and pulled back his foot as two iron claws came together with enough strength to rip his foot off
"What the hell!?" he asked scowling at the rabbit "thanks for the heads up. Your not leading us out of here are you?" he asked scowling at her, this is what he really hoped wasn't true. Way to waste time, at this rate he was going to have to turn back, he was going to die in here...

Seth took a step back from the rabbit and in a moment of bad luck a trap of some sort hit his calf. He didn't look at it, but he could feel the blood seeping into the back of his trousers and gave a shout of pain from it. Whatever it was had cut right through the muscle at the back of his leg

[shiningdrake]

Drake followed Tewi through the forest alongside Seth. He was flying, since it was really rather easy for him to do that in his dragon form. He noticed that Tewi even hopped like a rabbit. Wow. Just... Wow. Un-freaking-believable. A bunny girl, in pink, who actually hopped like a rabbit... And apparently blew sudden random kisses infused with some type of weird magic (Oh how Drake liked being able to sense magic. It came in extremely handy when you realized that someone wasn't a flirt, they were casting spells on you without your consent.)

Drake stopped immediately and hovered in midair. What did you just do? Don't even try to fake it, I can sense magic. He was growling pretty hard now, extremely ticked off. He knew she was up to no good. Suddenly, there was an abnormally strong gust of wind, which he hadn't been expecting, and it knocked him to the ground. Once he touched the ground... Something snapped immediately over him. It had hold so tight that it actually scraped some of his scales off, and he knew he couldn't break free.

Drake also noticed that Seth was trapped by something as well, but injured. This just figured. Something always had to go wrong or weird. Drake snarled at the evil bunny girl, What did you think you were going to gain by leading us through a trap filled area? Why didn't you just let us wander, lost? Is there a point to this, or are you just some psycho that likes to torture travelers?! Drake was rather ticked off now. He couldn't get out of this trap... He contemplated trying to shift back to human form to see if that would help, but more than likely, it would make things even worse...

[Kitten4u]

Oh goodie, they both stepped into traps as planned. This would make her life a lot easier for the time being since she'd really rather not take on two guys at once. She probably could if she really needed it, but it was really annoying. Tewi stood there and sniffed the air for a bit longer before turning around. There were a few more rabbits in the area, and if she was remembering their smell correctly they were reasonably strong, but they might as well be fodder compared to her.

"Look, I really am sorry," she sighed. Tewi was being perfectly genuine, but it wouldn't be hard to mistake that comment for sarcasm. "There have been a lot of problems in the forest lately, and it seems that some of the other rabbits are displeased with the way I've been doing things. Well, I'm sure you're not interested in rabbit politics, so I'll spare you the details. Anyway, I need to know why you're here. In detail," she crossed her arms and actually looked midly intimidating. Well, at least as intimidating as a small rabbit youkai in a frilly pink dress could.

"If your story checks out I'd be more than happy to guide you out of the forest. If you know anything about me you'd know that I normally escort people out of the forest. You'd also know that just the very act of seeing me meant that you would probably be able to get out of the forest unless you decided to use the luck on something else." All of this was completely true, and she didn't look like she was lying anyway. Of course, since this was Tewi that didn't mean much. "Of course, I had to cast a spell on you so that you would fall into these traps so that I could interrogate you properly. I figured you'd be more likely to tell me what I want to know if your lives were on the line. Oh, and just so you know, that magic I used was basically a curse that would make you incredibly unlucky. If either of you try to attack me I'll just leave. You probably won't be able to get out of the forest if that happnes, so play nice~"