Gaining One's Trust (Private)

[sobi]

The humid jungles of Aluez weren't treating Bradley Foxx very well. The young Arctic Fox, being an arctic, had a thicker coat than most, and while he could bear the heat around here, it was the humidity that got to him. Wearing the robes of their flag certainly didn't help, being lightweight in comparison to most regal uniforms, but still making the white-furred tod somewhat warm out in this weather. He sighed and stood in a rather open part of the jungle (as open as jungles ever got), waiting for the officials of the country that had the decency to allow Brad and his rather large band of refugees and nomads to finally settle down in a place of their own...Almost. He was hoping that these negotiations would go peacefully and without a hitch, as he honestly wished to trust these people...But then again, they had trusted many people in the past, which caused them to end up where they were now...

Brad's sister, by comparison, was far more comfortable in this heat, having worked hard in it for a long while. Unlike hir political-minded brother, Brenda was a warrior, born and bred. The Red Fox's jungle fatigues stuck tight to a lean and well-toned body that had been forged through the heat of battle to what it was now, the modified AK-47 clasped in hir paws with an almost-relaxed, professional manner. Shi wore body armor, as did Brad and the four other members hidden away in the dense foilage of the jungle, just in case things went bad. Brenda turned to hir brother, seeing his fur somewhat matted with sweat as shi shook hir head a little, gently berating him, "Honestly, Brad, sometimes I worry about you. You are a wise leader and all, but this? We've been waiting half an hour for these guys to show up, and we're not even guaranteed that they won't just try to kill us like the last few times we tried something like this." The sweaty Arctic shrugged his shoulders, still looking out into the jungle and not turning to his sister,

"If we do not give these people a benefit of a doubt, then how exactly will that look to them? It's hard to trust those you don't know, yes, but if we do not try to trust them, how will they ever grow to trust us?" He smiled warmly before turning to Brenda, winking to the armed Red, "Besides, what's there to worry about? I feel safe with you and your team..." Brenda snorted softly and smiled back to hir slightly smaller brother. Like the young Tod needed hir help. Shi knew of the array of dangerous daggers beneath those robes and sleeves, which could be flung with deadly accuracy into anything that he did not like. Brad prayed to whatever gods were listening that he wouldn't need them today, and he hoped further that their new allies would not mind the weaponry as a precaution. Brad had hoped for a lot of things in the past, and now, more than ever before, he hoped once again that things would go well.

[Aluez]

The forests were truly unique in Aluez, not only were they made of jungle plants and trees, but also temperate ones as well, such as pines, redwood, and so on. Of course... this made it hard for the Aluezi to get around on the ground, which left one option that was 'safe'. The thumpowhopping of the two gunships could be heard as they approached the LZ, one of them smoking from damage taken from the earlier skirmish that had delayed them by thirty minutes.

Black in color, the two HIND's touched down in the grassy knoll and came to a rolling stop before their engines shut down, a massive dent in the side of one of the choppers, which of course, caught fire from the engine as soon as the thing was shut down.

"Put the damned fires out!" shouts Orillion, the old Crow stepping out from the flaming chopper before watching the pilots spraying smothering solution into the engine, straightening his coat out before looking around, noticing a party off in the distance, rasing his hand waving toward them for them to come over.

Blair on the other hand, remained in his helicopter as he watched the crew of the other one scramble about, merely looking over his papers and making sure his computer was charged.

[sobi]

As the gunships and helicopters started coming down, Brad and Brenda could immediately see what had gone wrong, and why their meeting had been so delayed. Brenda quickly motioned to hir soldiers to move up and assist where they could, the seven figures hurrying over to the old Crow as they saw the damage. Something had impeded these creatures on their way here.

Brad was the first on the scene, with Brenda and hir soldiers close behind. He quickly bowed to the old Crow and his comrades, speaking swiftly and to the point, "Peace, friends. I am Bradley Foxx of Sobreviviente. I can see that you've been attacked on the way here, and we will help you to the best of our ability.

[Aluez]

Orillion nearly grabbed his rifle from his back and shot at the figures until he heard Brad speak, slowly relaxing and looking at the other people working. "We have two injured inside the chopper, damned rocket put a good smack inside of us" he chuckles nervously before rubbing his shoulder. "I am Casper Orillion, leader of The Order of Orillion, the collie over there in the other chopper is Blair Blackfur, head diplomat to Aluez." he offers out his hand to the Fox.

Blair cleared his throat, turning slowly to face the group before grabbing a Saito T6 and putting it in his belt holster, stepping down out of the HIND and walking over to the group. "Good afternoon comrades, I am sure you already know who I am from Casper."

[sobi]

Brad grasped the Crow's feathered hand firmly and shook it, even as his sister motioned quickly two a few of hir soldiers, "James, Ezio, help these men with their wounded." Shi then turned to the smallest and lightest-equipped of their soldiers, obviously a scout and advanced marksman from his garb, "Les, get back to base on the double, alert them that there may be trouble on it's way. We'll help our allies to base." As hir spotted runner took off like an arrow from a bow (spotted for being a cheetah), shi turned to Blair and nodded to the Fox, "We'll be taking you back to our community. Maybe while we're working on getting back you can tell us what happened."

[Aluez]

"What happened is that someone tried to kill us, and nearly succeeded" says Blair, giving a slight bow of respect to them before smiling softly. "They won't follow us, we already took care of them, luckily they didn't fire again at us"

Orillion nodded slowly before just keeping himself quiet, letting the two talk as he watched the soldiers closely. He liked the help, but he also knew sometimes that help from the outside meant trouble.