Intruders [Complete]

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Character(s): Kenshin and Jintetsu
Content: Paixao's historical fiction buddies continue their mystical grand adventure.
Setting: Elysian Fields and St. Destino Church
Time: Mid-day, the day after the festival
Warnings: There will be fighting, yep.


There was no sun visable in the cloudy sky, making it difficult to pinpoint exactly how long it had taken for them to cross the field, but Kenshin suspected mid-day was soon approaching.

The Elysian Fields were beautiful, yet also strangely eerie, the white grass barely moving in the soft breeze that rustled locks of Kenshin's hair. It was so quiet, nothing seemed to be making a sound, not even the orbs of light that floated down around them like falling snow. At first Kenshin had thought it was really was some strange snow before they'd entered it and he found he was mistaken. Still, it was very similar. The sound of falling snow...

Kenshin found himself stepping lightly as he could. He almost felt like they were intruding into this quiet peaceful yet strange world. How different it was after being trapped inside those domes all that time. The rurouni wouldn't mind staying outside and wandering about to see what else he could find, however there was much going on within the city, and with the journals not working he'd have no idea what was going on. And what if Kaoru-dono was somehow pulled here? Or any of his friends? No, staying outside wasn't an option.

Finally their destination was there before him and Kenshin found himself slowing his pace as he took it in.

It seemed almost forgotten out here. Abandoned and forgotten...

Was there really something special about it? It seemed hard to believe... Yet perhaps that was what one was meant to be led to think. Anyone with something to hide would find a place like this an ideal location.

Well, there was only one way to find out. There was only one way into the church that he could see, so it seemed coming in the front door would be the only option, despite not being ideal. Kenshin subconciously touched the sakabatou's hilt as he glanced to Jintetsu, before heading towards the door.

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The first room turned out to be a dead end, empty of anything but a few bottles of wine and an ornate-looking chalice. The one through the door opposite it was more cluttered and took longer to search, but yielded an equal lack of results. Jintetsu didn't bother to upend the place. Anyway, there was something fundamentally weird about going through a priest's stuff, even if he wasn't coming back.

"You still think there's anything to find here?" Haganemaru commented quietly as Jintetsu opened the door back into the sanctuary. "I mean, I'd hate it as much as you if we came all the way out here for nothing, but ..."

Jintetsu just looked at him briefly, then silently fixed his hat and went on.

By now Kenshin had disappeared from where he'd last seen him, but a glimpse of bright red hair up in the balcony showed him where he'd gone. Rather than yell across the room, Jintetsu made his way back to the narthex, and found the creaky wooden stairs without too much trouble. "Find anything?" he asked as he came through the upper doorway.

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After a brief exploration, Kenshin came to the realization there really wasn't much more up here, other than a metal staircase winding up into the bell tower high above and a door. What the door was, the rurouni wasn't sure as it was locked although judging from the structure of the building it couldn't be a large room. It could just be a storage closet, in fact. Well there was only one way to find out.

Being locked that didn't mean they couldn't get in, it just would leave a great deal of evidence they'd been here, but if that was the only choice...

Kenshin shifted the sakabatou, grasping the saya and the hilt, preparing to make a battoujutsu at the door, but paused when he sensed Jintetsu getting closer and the tell-tale sound of the creaking stairs. Sure enough, the wanderer appeared a moment later.

The red-head shook his head, "No... there is little up here, but this locked door."