"Kia you awake?" Lea said talking into his ear on the bed.
"Yeah" Kia said slowly stretching.
"Okay good then can I ask you something?" Lea said very calmly as she stood up.
"Sure, what is it?" Kia said sitting up looking at Lea.
"WHY ARE YOU IN THE BED AND NOT ON THE COUCH!" Lea said as she kicked Kia across the face launching him off the bed and to the ground.
"I got lonely laying on the couch." Kia said slowly getting off the ground.
At that moment Kia and Lea both heard a knock on the door. After a moment there was more knocking. Lea and Kia both got ready for the worst as they slowly walked to the door daggers in hand in case it was Black Talon. After hearing the knocking one more time Lea got next to the door and asked "Who is it?"
Without hesitation they heard a female voice say "My name is Ms. Valkyrie I am the mayor's assistant. He wanted me to come get you two and let you know he is ready to meet with both of you."
At that moment Lea opened the door revealing a tall red headed girl in a slim uniform with a binder of paperwork in her crossed arms. "Okay, let's go then" Lea said looking at the assistant.
All three of them left the room and walked down a long hallway surrounded in doors. They went up a stairway two more floors and entered a hallway with only one set of doors in a big open area. "Here is the mayor's office him and his other hired adventures are waiting inside." Ms. Valkyrie said gesturing to the big set of doors.
Lea and Kia both walked up to the doors and when they pushed to open them, they seem to just open on their own. The doors opened into a large room double the size of the room Kia and Lea were staying in. The room had a nice rose red carpeting and three large windows stationed behind a long desk where the mayor was sitting, he is a well-dressed man with a scruffy face and black hair with a grey strip through the side of it. To his right stood a male sorcerer and to his left stood a female sorcerer. As Kia focused on who the two sorcerers were, he heard the female say "good to see you again handsome." At that moment Kia realized it was Maria and Dante.
"Good to see you again Maria." Kia said as him and Maria gave each other a warming smile.
"I see you two have already met?" The mayor said with a friendly tone.
"Indeed, Me Dante and Kia already had a conversation after Kia forced me onto a bed and pinned me down and put his hand on me." Maria said with a sadistic smile.
Lea's face lowered in anger and turned to Kia and asked with a menacing tone "Is that true Kia?"
"No!" Kia said calmly
"Okay good" Lea said calming down.
"It was a couch" Kia added.
"WHAT!" Lea said as her cheeks turned red and she slapped him as hard as she could.
"HAHA! You are all so lively." The mayor said as he stood up and bowed in respect. "The name is Mr. Knightly I'm so happy the nearby elf tribe could send some help."
Kia and Lea both bowed in return and then took a seat across from the mayor. "So, what are these two doing here?" Lea said starring Maria down.
"These two are other wandering adventurers I hired to take down Black Talon which I already told them who you two are when I got back into town from Helsing." Mr. Knightly explained.
"How is Helsing?" Kia said with a smile.
Mr. Knightly then got really serious and with an upset voice said "The town was destroyed by a fire dragon. We were originally going there to find some information on Black Talon, but when we got there everything was freshly burnt down with nothing else really left behind."
Lea looked to Kia with a worried look. Kia with a blank face looked to the mayor and asked "How are the citizens?"
The mayor looked to Kia and with a relief look told him "The mayor and his scouts spotted the dragon and they were able to evacuate in time. Did you have friends there?"
"I am from there my mentor was the blacksmith there but he is sadly gone so I held his shop together." Kia said relieved.
"I am sorry to hear about that and about the shop being burnt down." The mayor said in respect.
"It is all fine as long as the people are okay." Kia looked back to the mayor and said "We should get back to the topic at hand Black Talon." Kia said getting a little more serious.
The mayor laid farther back into his seat and turned it to face outside the window while he explained to Kia and Lea "Black Talon was a minor organization picking on the people of Tarken. When I took over as mayor 2 years ago is when they got really bad. We don't know how but we heard rumour of them moving monsters around to innocent people terrorizing them."
"It is true we dealt with an ether monster at a nearby farm and when we checked it and its babies out I noticed a mark on its arm." Kia said chiming in.
"What did the mark that was on the monster look like?" Dante asked looking at Kia in complete interest.
"It looked like a talon with three black feathers' around it." Kia said to Dante after he was asked.
"That's Black Talon's symbol all right." Maria said looking out the window to the streets underneath.
"Okay, please mayor continue." Lea said gesturing to the mayor.
"Thank you, Lea so here is what we know now is that they started getting more active when I was elected mayor. The reason we think that is because of the laws I started to set for example I didn't allow slave trades in the town's limits. This affected one of Black Talons businesses so they moved it underground. They later determined that if I was gone then they would be able to hold control over the town as much as they use to. This made them contact a group their name is still unknown and who they are is also but what we do know is they are the ones supplying Black Talon with their monsters. We don't know why but we do know that at midnight they sneak containers in through the sewers now that we know they have the monsters then that must be what is in the containers. Dante and Maria have found where they enter from and that they will have a new shipment tonight so that will be your chance to end all this once and for all. One more thing the shipment team aren't human."
"What are they then? Demi humans?" Kia asked curiously.
"There are two demi humans but they are only slaves who are greatly abused. The problem is the one who commands them." Maria jumped in.
"Then who commands them or what?" Lea asked slightly worried.
"The one commanding them is one of the demon lord's generals. The worst thing we can assume is that he isn't the only general and they may be planning something bigger, but that will be something we can ask him ourselves.
"What does he look like?" Kia asked with complete interest as he leaned forward.
"Trust me you will know him when you see him. His name however is Elex." The mayor chimed in.
"Okay where will the place be me and Lea will deal with it tonight." Kia said in a confident tone.
"Don't get restless there me and Maria will be going with its impossible for you two to take them on alone especially since they have monsters from all around." Dante said stopping Kia.
"Yes, we were hired to do this as well and we plan on participating in the raid." Maria said backing her brother up.
"Great we all have an understanding now is time for the plan are you four ready?" The mayor said putting his hands together.
All four of them looked to the mayor and each said "yes" with complete confidence that they will be able to take them out with complete ease.