Chiro skidded to a halt as he saw the guards, blinking in confusion as his sensative nose had not only been unable to pick them up, but their weapons were serious.  He could possibly survive, but then he heard the others and saw he was surrounded.  He let out a small snarl, watching her as she once again began her taunts.<br/><br/>"I have no intention of letting Eric Lentan have you, Alhanda.   You have misinterpreted your own challenge.  The moment you rent my sisters tail, you have asked yourself to be hunted.  The honor of the hunt is mine alone, Alhanda.  Letting others into this game is, inconvenient but necessary."<br/><br/>He snarled again none the less, but used a wing and pressed in the code on the keypad.  What sort of trap had she laid out now?