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Geni groaned before jogging next to John and Lizzy. "You two have a better fashion sense now." He said with a smile before looking at Lizzy, "Except for you." He joked with a false smile. "Anywho, got any idea of where your going, orrr-" Geni asked, watching as Lizzy continued snatching other's pouches of golds and other currency. "Oh for the love of thou's lord, just ask if you need gold." The man sneered and groaned, running his hand through his hair as he kept a well needed eye on Lizzy, but he doubted that she'll listen. Eventually Geni finally noticed that the two had pulled they're hoods further to hide their faces even more. 'Just leave them alone. The sooner they get back, the sooner you can get home..' A small voice within his head said to him, which he released a long sigh before speaking. "If we're gonna be traveling we should catch a ride.."
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Izzy sighed and decided to pull out of the crowd, John following. "So......why are you following us?Like, we never asked for this just by the way.You can go on with life, we'll be fine.As you saw before, we can run pretty quick for a while, this dude can plow through people no problem, I think we'll be fine." She said, John just mouthing the word 'sorry' to Geni as Izzy spoke.John eventually pushed Izzy ehind him and took over the speaking part. "Now sir, we do appreciate you uh...following us I guess?But I can assure you, we'll be fine."
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"Well, I could leave you, but do I trust you to be by yourself, yes, not Izzy though, and if the other kingdoms catch you two, alone, that's a death sentence." He explained as he halted in front of John. "And there's far to much... violence within all the kingdoms. So as much as I would love to ditch you two, I also want to ensure your safety." Geni said quietly, eyes biw averted to the ground. Previously his stance was proud and eye catching, but now he seemed much smaller and pitiful in a sense.
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John just chuckled at his first sentence, glancing back at Izzy. "Honestly? A death sentence sounds better then being stuck here.I'm already bored out of my mind." He mused, Izzy glancing up at him. "And old shorty here can survive, trust me." In response to that Izzy glared at him before sacking him upside the head, Johns till chuckling. "What? I can't call you 'shorty'?I'm a foot taller then you, it makes sense." John explained, Izzy looking up at him with daggers as her eyes. "You're taller then like, everbody here." To which John responded with a roll of his eyes, turning back to the guard. "So, who are you?"
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Geni chuckled lightly at the two bickering before standing up straight and properly, "I am Captain Geni of the Southern kingdom. I'm one of the finest guards you'll find, alongside my reputation I'm a personal guard for the duke." He said puffing his chest out before reaching for his sword on his belt and unsheathed it quickly, holding the weapon close to his chest diagonally. He suddenly let out a quiet chuckle before sheathing the sword back. "Anywho, you two are stuck with me until you leave, or until you die." At the last part of the sentence Geni's smile noticeably grew a little, but not by much.
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Izzy tried her best not to laugh, as what he was doing was very strange.She met a gaze with John and the two burst out laughing but shut up quickly. "I'm sorry it's just, that is very unusual to hear and see that from where we come from.We don't have gurads, or kingdoms, or anything like this.We have guns and knives, not swords." Izzy explained, raising a brow when he said they were stuck with him. "Huh, okay.Or you're stuck with us.The second option sounds better.Anywho, John, where was that place we were supposed to hit up for the..." She trailed off, glancing back at Geni before whispering into John's ear instead. "The assasin?" With that John nodded and made a 'ohhh wait, I get it now' face before answering. "Yeah he's supposed to be in the tavern with the..." He glanced back at Geni, making a disguise for the word 'poison' in his head. "collection.He has the collection."
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Geni stood there, confusion plastered upon his face as he stared at the other two, "So in the future there's no proper hierarchies!? No good weaponry! Do you even know what sparring is!?" Geni said in absolute disbelief as he continued to stare at them. But his confusion intensified further when Lizzy and John started speaking in hushed tones, looking at Geni ever so often while doing so. 'What if they plan on leaving you and cause harm?' A smple little voice rattled in his head. 'Or they create problems down the road..' a harsher voice reminded Geni, which he shook his head to clear his head of the voices. "So, uhm, wheres the next stop then? Or are we roaming until you both find what you need?"
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"Nope, kings and queens don't exist.Instead there's one person who supervises the country.Not a entire royal family watching over, except in a few countries, but the kings and queens hardly do anything." John explained, chuckling slightly at the guards shock.Izzy watched as Geni thought, hoping he wouldn't realize their plan to find the assasin, obtain the most powerful poison from this time, stronger then any they could make in a lab, and bring it back to the future.Simple, right? Anywho, John made a confused look at Geni, his words of nonsense. "We?Yeah no, it's me and Izzy.Unless you want to go through a war zone I suggest you stay here, alongside the duke or whatever the hell your job is." John mumbled, Izzy and him turning and walking back into the crowd.
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Geni rolled his eyes when the two spoke and began walking away, "I'm still going to escort you two, besides, depending on the direction we might stop by a few allies." Geni said with a lazy smile, not looking at Lizzy or John as he walked next to them. As the trio navigated through the crowd of commoners and merchants they eventually made it to a dirt road, a couple buggies and men on horseback strode past them. Geni observed quietly looking in both directions, jumpy is what he was. "So, mind if I ask what the true motive of you two, uhm, traveling here is? Are you guys philosophers?" He questioned, boredom thick in his voice.
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"Allies, huh?As if we need- actually, there are two others we're looking for." Izzy explained, avoiding a sketchy looking civilian to her right.John almost stopped in his tracks and his eyes went wide, a big grin on his face. "Izzy is that, is that Shortstack?" He asked, Izzy looking over and grinning aswell. "Yeah that, wait, if that's Shortstack, and you and me are here, where's the...." She trailed off, sighing and following John who was making the way through the crowd to a slightly smiling man outide of the crowd, arms crossed and eyeing them.This was Devan, or as the rest called him, 'shortstack' mainly because he was 5'4.Makes sense.Anyhow,Izzy and John made their way over to the Ex- Delta Force member and exhanged greetings, going over a gameplan. "Yeah well, now we have some guard riding our asses.He won't go away so....plan might be foiled.Anyways, where's this tavern?" John asked, Devan just laughing at his annoyance. "If we head south now we should be fine, head into the kingdom of Raleigh after a while, hit up the tavern, get the poison, get back to 2025.Sound like a deal?" He asked, John and Izzy nodding. "Let's go then, Im not waiting on you bums." With that Devan turned and staretd leading the group of one Shortstack, a medium size, and a giant to the tavern. (plot ideas?)
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