Holy Tempest tracks down the hunter

Kiersa blinked when she felt the massive reptile nuzzling her hand before nodding at Aayla and climbing onto the great sea serpents back. The nun looked on as Aayla's wings took form, recalling her own wing spell... admittedly, the Water Dragon Slayer's wings probably wouldn't accidentally kill her if she kept them active for too long, unlike her own Stigmata Wings. With the trio of femme mages all mounted and ready to take to the air, she gave a nod before saying, "Let's go..." She patted Zinnath who immediately took flight.

She directed the winged sea serpent to the exit point of the teleporter below the Guild Hall, and looked over at Mary, Cirven and Raven. The nun hopped off the sea serpent, patting its scales reassuringly. “Just a moment.” Kiersa said to the behemoth before she went over to Mary, and immediately went to embrace the older girl, followed by trying to kiss her forehead. “What’s wrong?” she asked softly. “You know my door is always open to you right?” Kiersa asked of the girl before looking at the others then back to Mary. “How about you tell me all about it on the way to the Ancient Ruins hmm?” she asked before giggling slightly. “You always did like to poke around the convent, trying to find secret passages… mainly to get to the kitchens easier to steal the dohnuts. You’d think a treasure hunt like this would make you happy…” she said in a stage whisper type of voice before she tried to guide Mary over towards Zinnath, and try to get the older pink-haired girl onto the Sea Serpents back.

The nun looked over towards Cirven and Raven, looking at Kuroe for a moment. “Think your friend can manage to carry Cirven’s big butt?” she asked Raven. “I think all those heretical munchies of his are starting to make him a bit big.” said Kiersa, trying to lift Mary's mood a little.

With a light shudder of her wings Aayla closed her eyes and leaped off the edge of the building, letting the large wings catch the air and stop her from falling. Even though she could fly, she would never ever get used to being so high up in the air... when she was able to think about it, it made her almost as sick as when she rode around on a vehicle. However, when she finally shook that sick feeling, she flew down after Zinnath and Kiersa, landing safely on the ground with a light sigh.

Her yes darted over to Mary who seemed to be having a hard time, her clothes still all tattered and bloody. She bit on her lower lip as she couldn’t help but glare at the girl, but yet at the same time sh couldn’t help feeling sorry for her. As much as the nun had done her wrong, she felt like the emotional pain the girl must be going through was revenge enough for her… even though her heart told her she deserved more.

“Zinnath will carry you if you just want to take a break and clear your head. But you know you don’t have to come along if you’re hurt”
She knew the girl wasn’t hurt… how could she be? She just died and came back to life right? She had to shake the thoughts from her mind before they stated to make her feel angry. She couldn’t let herself feel like that anymore… she couldn’t become Hydras again. With another powerful beat of her wings she took to the air to put some distance between herself and the source of her frustration.

Hovering above the others, the young girl waited for them to decide what they were doing and take to the sky again before Aayla took off in the direction of their newest job. This job was supposed to be something fun for her team to do… instead it was starting out with quite a bit of frustration.

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Mary was met with kindness of Kiersa and Cirven's batch of humor, she laughed emptily. Anyone that knew her enough knew there was no joy in it. This was barely suppressed anger that even a kiss on the forehead would not fix. There was things she wanted to say, but did not have the courage to do so. Mary simply said, "I died and something was taken from me is all. Also you know the Maker has funny ways to deal with Blasphemous gluttons, it's called cholesterol." Mary got on the creature known as Zinnath and decided to remain silent of her problems for most part. And then she saw their leader.

Mary turned her head away from Aayla in shame however, there was some things that she did that were unforgivable. Aayla was one of them, why did she think making the girl face her past was a good idea? Why did she do such things that were dark? Mary put her hands in the pocket that contained the letter that she carried, sealing her fate to not be part of their light. It would always be the darkness for her, but why would such things happen to her. She did the right thing helping the Rune Knights apprehend criminals, but got rewarded with what? A pair of pistols that she hid under her coat and getting drafted to join the army. She was not rea..dy to tell them about her turn in luck for the worse.

Mary quietly stated as they flew on Zinnath, "Sometimes bad things happen to good people. That is always the way the world works and there is really nothing we can do with that." Mary pulled down her hat over her eyes and kept to herself. She was not ready to talk about things yet, but it would be inevitable to do so.

Everyone had shown up before Mary could speak herself to what he had said. He felt that it went ignored by everyone showing up and quickly trying to comfort her but decided to just forget about it so that it didn't bother him. The last few words that the blonde nun had said would affect him though.

"Hey! I'm not getting bigger! You might want to check those pictures in that magazine again for the pudge you had in that!" He stuck his tongue out at Kiersa and then turned around from the group. He grabbed at his stomach to see if it was true about him getting bigger and frowned as he was able to pinch his stomach fat into his hands. "She wasn't lying!?"

He turned around and played everything off as if he wasn't just doing that and jumped up on Zinnath. "Hey Zin, remind me to cut down on the sandwiches when we get back to the guildhall.." He whispered to the snake who seemed to give him a nod after.

The group flew off towards the ancient ruins where their job required them to go. They had to beat some other men to finding some past magic items so that they didn't gain any sort of powers from them. The Magic Council seemed like they feared a Harper Goldenshine in the description of the job.

Once there, they flew around the area to see if there was any signs of other mages before descending down. Cirven pointed out a small group of them that had just walked into one of the old buildings and gave Zinnath a tap so that she knew where to land.

"I saw them go in here." Cirven said as they came to the ground in front of the building. He hopped off Zinnath and made sure to look around their surroundings. "No one out here it looks like. Guess we should just follow them in, right?" Without waiting for the others to agree he started to move in slowly. He stopped as he came to a corner and peered around it to see a group of mages walking ahead.

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Attacked? Died? What the heck? Raven thought as she kept staring at mary and everyone else without speaking a word. Some things just didn’t make sense to her. Deciding to ignore it, she shook her head as if shaking the complete situation out of her head before getting on Raven again. When Kiersa asked her if she could accommodate Cirven, she was going to say yes when she saw him get on the snake instead. He must feel better with his sister’s pet, she shrugged as she took off after Zinnath.

They flew around for a while, Kuroe keeping an eye for their enemies as she nibbled on a piece of bread she saved before going after Mary. When she thought about it, her life so far was way too quiet. She stood on stages as an idol, had fun with her guildmates and kicked behinds with her teammates. Somehow, she just couldn’t shrug this heavy feeling away from the pit of her stomach. Something just wasn’t right.

Pushing the unpleasant feelings aside, Cirven’s voice was what brought her back to the task at hand. By the time she regained conscious of where she was, Kuroe had already landed and was waiting for her to get off him. She didn’t miss the look he gave her and smiled instead. She didn’t want him to worry about nothing after all.

She followed Cirven silently as she guessed the others would be following them as well. Her thoughts drifted back to Mary who was still not smiling as she usually does. She was glad her friend was okay but she was also angry at the men for doing that to her. She must have pretended to not notice it but there was something going on with her, their team leader and the nun.

“Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” She exclaimed, letting the topic slide off her mind for then.

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Kiersa caught sight of Cirven checking himself and gave him an innocent look. “I am a nun after all.” She said as if that would explain everything to the Flame Demon Slayer mage. As she travelled with Mary, she remained silent. Whenever the girl started to get philosophical, the blonde knew it was best to leave her be, and not poke at the subject some more. When they arrived at their destination and both Cirven and Raven went in first without even thinking about it, the nun gave a short sigh before following behind them.

As she peered around the corner with them, she saw four people. Three of them looked kind of scawney, yet well-built men. The fourth however looked much more stronger… and far more experienced than the first three. The nun mage pursed her lips as she thought about what to do, before looking at the rest of her team-mates. “Alright,” she whispered so as to not attract the enemies attention, “I’ll try and trap the leader so they can’t get in the way… Aayla and Cirven, could you two use a double Roar to clear out the corridor? Mary and Raven, finish off what’s left. We can then ask their leader where the rest of them are, and where the treasure chamber is.” Plotted Kiersa, nodding to each person in turn as she made her suggestions. “Ready?” she asked, waiting for them all to give their approval.

With the orders given, Kiersa stepped out from their hiding place into full view of the four enemies. They stopped their digging and looked over at the blonde nun, blinking for a moment at her presence. “Stigmata of the Penitent!” she quickly intoned, assuming the position as she guided the chains of holy light towards their boss… who promptly deflected the divine restraints towards one of the grunts using rapidly formed crystals. Kiersa blinked her bloody eyes as she felt the chains connect with someone… but it wasn’t her intended target. She just hoped the rest of her plan survived contact with the enemy.

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Aayla followed along with the group silently, having left the overly large Zinnath at the entrance to wait for their return. She never liked being separated from her friend, and as soon as she could afford a bigger room, she would take it just so that Zinnath could come indoors with her more often. She nodded in silent understanding of herself before coming to an abrupt stop, almost crashing into  Cirven  but catching her footing before she did. She looked around confused, but sniffed at the air and quickly got the scent of a few strangers nearby. IT wasn’t until Kiersa spoke, that a plan had finally been made.

She looked over to the blond girl with a careful nod of understanding. It was a simple enough task… she just hoped that their combined roas would create enough power to bring the whole place crashing down on their heads. She took a deep breath as she glanced at her brother, and then took off behind Kiersa into the open. She released her breath with her hands before her mouth, reciting the spell.

“Water Dragon’s Roar!”
She cried out as a large jet of water shot form from her mouth, over Kiersa’s head and towards the group of treasure hunters. It wasn’t until too late that she noticed that their leader had deflected Kiersa’s chains. What was this guy’s magic exactly?

Just as the thought occurred to her, her roar took a sudden curve in front of the man, suddenly blasting into the side of the wall as if he had hit it hard enough to change its direction.

“What the heck..?”
She asked before a shriek escaped her lips. Two large diamond halves erupted from the ground in front and behind her, closing together suddenly and trapping the water dragon slayer inside.

“H… Hey let me out of here!”
She protested, hitting the side of the crystal in immediate panic.

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Mary stepped off Zinnath and into the view of the cave. Mary sighed as they were there and walked away for a bit to the side and took to a knee to one body that they picked up and threw aside like some kind of ragdoll after everything of value was stolen. How could Mary show the Maker's mercy when such evil exist in this world? Those willing to hurt the innocent and laugh about it should not know the Maker's love. Far from it, they should know her wrath. Mary closed the eyes and bid farewell to the body... her own body. Mary returned to the group in time to hear Kiersa's speech, the girl had gotten so much stronger now. No more stuttering and now taking charge of the group. The strategy would have been fine, but there was one problem with the plan. Mary said, "Kiersa there is only one problem with that plan!" It was then that Aayla already cast her spell and it simply curved away before the water mage was trapped in a crystal prison. Mary finished what she wanted to say, "They are Crystal mages meaning that fire and water are not really going to do much against their magic. They are also supported by gun mages in there, so we need to be careful for support. You actually need to improvise and get them stuck in melee combat to tie them up." Mary looked at the tunnel that would get them all killed if they ran down it. Mary also looked at Aayla and sighed, nobody really had magic to remove her from that except by defeating the mage. No cover, not place to make a defensive position except...

Maker groaned, "Okay Aayla and Cirven you can kick my butt later and even kill me if needed after this. Not that it matters anymore..."" Mary placed her keys on her wrists and wore the keychain like a bracelet and walked ahead. She then unleashed the darkness of her soul, oozing off her body in wisps like a small mist. She was ready, but no twinkle of mischief in her eyes associated with it. Nor did the smile, but she needed to know what to do. There was always a weak point to gems that enough pounds of pressure to break the gem. 1.5 tons of a small girl kicking at one such point of a gem would cause it to crack and practically shatter. This caused her to smirk slightly, but saw what the boss had at hand. He had a crystal bow aimed at Aayla. Everything seemed to be in slow motion as it was let loose. The way it was spinning in the air towards her friend. It was getting closer and closer, but it would not hit Aayla. Mary shoulder bumped Aayla into the wall for cover, but took the arrow instead in the right eye. The arrow pushing back Mary a little bit, but despite the immense pain that coursed through her face she could not stop the momentum. The tunnel was a giant kill zone, there was no cover... So what could make one? Mary was on her knees as she flipped through her keys, gasping in pain as she did so. There was one key to make cover and that was her Golden Key. "Aries give us cover-" Mary then received another arrow in the chest for her troubles that knocked her flat on her back. The Ram freaked and put up a wool wall halfway down the corridor to block the more volley of arrows. Mary hoped they would understand to ignore her for a bit and use the opportunity and new cover. However whoever was close to her could here her try to gasp out, "Drop the wall on them... Make it top heavy..."

Cirven agreed with the nun's plan and followed just behind his sister but he waited to fire off his own blast until his sister's had collided with the enemy. He took in a deep breath and readied his attack but stopped for a brief time once he saw one of the enemy in front of them slap away his sister's blast of water. He figured it was a lucky strike of some kind and decided to attack anyways. His cheeks puffed up as some holy flames pushed out a bit from in between his lips and then he let out a ball of flames at the enemy.

"Flame Demon's Rage!" He yelled out as the ball was sent flying at the mage who slapped away the blast earlier. Cirven smiled thinking that his blast would succeed where his sister's failed but was proven wrong. The man simply swatted the mass of flames the opposite direction the water blast was sent.

"Kiersa! Your plans suck!" He yelled out at the nun who was held down by her own spell. Just after he spoke he was surprised when his sister was enclosed in a crystal of some sort next to him. "Hey! Let her ou-Whoa!" He started to yell but was cut off by the sudden crystal arrow flying at him. He just barely dodged it from piercing into him but it managed to cut through his sleeve and slice his upper arm.

He was about to yell at the man again but noticed the crystal bow was now aimed at his helpless sister. Without thinking he jumped in front of her to either block or take the shot but Mary had cut in front of him and took it herself directly into her face.

"Mary!? You idiot! Why would you get in the way like that!?" He scolded the girl but knew it wasn't the time to keep that up. He was close enough to hear her speak as the volley of arrows was stopped by Aries. "How are we supposed to do that?" He grunted out.

"Doing my own plan. Back me up guys!" He yelled out and then used his propulsion spell to shoot himself around and towards the enemies at the other side at high speeds. He came out of his boost of speed holding the Kukan now in its Agneya form. The blade then quickly was consumed by flames that formed around it and extended its range. "Slayer form, Ageneya. Absolution." Cirven spoke out in a low tone and then slashed his blade out hitting the nearest mage to him with the blade and the flames while hitting all of the rest but the mage who was subdued by Kiersa with the flames. The man who took the brunt of the attack fell to the ground with a burning cut across his chest while the others yelled out in pain from the attack.

The crystal mage only took a short time with dealing with the pain and formed a crystal blade which he used to slash at Cirven who parried the attempts but was forced into a deadlock with his back against the wall from the last attack. The other enemy started to charge him while he was vulnerable.

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OOC: Kind of a long one. Sorry guys.

Raven kept nodding, listening to Kiersa’s plan as she ignored the growing heavy feeling in the pits of her stomach. Something just didn’t feel right. Something was going to go wrong. She just had that feeling.

Shaking her head to rid herself of the terrible thoughts, Raven looked ahead as Kiersa managed to trap one of the enemies while the water dragon roar and flame demon’s rage got deflected all of a sudden. She stood there with her eyes open for a long time as she tried to find a suitable explanation to what she just witnessed.

However, what happened next left her wide eyed and speechless. Something was winding its ugly hands around her as she watched the injured Mary. Fear, was it? She wondered looking down at her trembling hands. She couldn’t believe that Mary got hit in one of her eyes. She dashed to her side first, breaking free from the invisible chains that held her down. It was an old feeling, Raven realized. She regretted the visit of this old friend called fear that she abandoned a long time ago.

She stopped close to Mary just as Cirven had and heard her speak but shook her head as she looked at Kiersa to help Mary. “Kiersa, you should help Mary somehow. I will go help Cirven along with Aayla,” she quickly breathed out as she turned around to see Cirven dealing the final blow on one of them while another stood still affected by Kiersa’s spell. That left the strange man with the deflective powers and another one of his lackeys.

Closing her eyes, she took a few seconds to get into her royal form, a crown and a complete change in outfit indicated that she was drawing the ancient power of her ancestors. Two red pools glowed in the still dark as she found Cirven engaged in battle with the crystal mage.

She took one step, another and then quick steps with the help of her ring’s passive ability to gain speed. As she neared the other one trying to charge at Cirven while he was busy, Raven jumped forward, elegantly rotating with her raven sword out towards her opponent twice, dealing twice the damage in one motion. As he fell with a scream, she landed right next to Cirven and the Crystal mage, swinging her sword only to have him evade it by swiftly moving away from Cirven.

“Alright. Let’s take him out too”.

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Kiersa had to bite back the retort she had been about to give Mary with the information, but something was nagging at her. If it only deflects fire and water... why was Penitent affected? It was then that the notion came to her. "No... not fire Mary... Light! Light and Water!" she exclaimed, releasing her hold on the defeated grunt, fumbling for her Keys. Given her blinded state due to Penitent, she had to rely on sense of touch before she found the one she could summon. "Open the Gate of the Goat! Capricorn!" she called forth, the Celestial Spirit of the Twelve Zodiacs appearing forth with the chime of a clock.

He took one look at the situation before nodding, Kiersa's desires remaining unspoken as he dashed forwards towards the Crystal Mage who was now duelling Cirven and Raven, aiming to slam a fast punch into the man's head whilst bringing a knee up towards their gut. The Crystal Mage doubled over, holding their face as their nose had been broken with the Goat's attack. The Goat Spirit then slammed his elbow into the back of the Crystal Mage's neck, knocking them out before going back over to his young Summoner and helping her up. "What's going on?" she asked of him. "The enemy is down, but it would appear that young Miss Aayla is encased within a large crystal." he said, Kiersa's bloodstained eyes widening before she felt around trying to find the prison, Capricorn guiding her towards it.

She felt about the crystal, tapping away. "I read that crystals have a breaking point... so if we find it..." said the nun, trying to reassure the Water Dragon Slayer trapped inside. Kiersa tapped some more before finding the spot. "Capricorn sir..." she asked of the Zodiac Spirit who nodded. "Step back." he said, addressing everyone. Once they were all a decent enough distance, the Spirit slammed a fist into the point that Kiersa had found, shattering the prison. "Are you alright Miss Aayla?" the butler goat asked of the blue-haired girl.

Aayla brought her hands over her ear as Mary came crashing into the crystal, creating some nice big cracks into her prison before stepping out in front of it and taking what she could barely make out as an arrow to the eye.

"MARY!"
She yelled out instinctively, slamming her fists against the crystal in a vain attempt to get free. She even attempted using magic to get out, but the more magic she began to use, the weaker she felt. The crystal was absorbing all of her water, which also meant it was slowly absorbing her body. She grit he teeth as she fell to her knes, still doing her best to bang against the cracks.

It wasn't until Kiersa and Capricorn had come over to create a whole through the crystal did the girl stop to look up at her partner. She smiled softly before pushing herself back up, taking Capricorn's hand to help herself out of the hole created by the goat man.

"Thank you Capricorn... thanks Kiersa..."
She said with a light blush, embarrased that she would even get stuck in a trap like that. She looked over to the others, barely able to see passed Aeries' pink fluff but she could just make out the forms of her brother, of Mary and the passed out treasure hunters on the ground.

"Do you think they found anything..?"
She asked the team as she walked up to the area everyone was just fighting. She looked at Mary quickly, wanting to go and help her btu then sharply looking ahead of her and without a word continued on ahead. She still hadn't forgiven the girl, even if she did protect her... it wasn't as if she was really putting her life in danger or anything.

She walked up to the fallen Crystal make mage and looked into the hole that they were digging. She could see a metal slab of what looked like a hidden door under all of the dirt and reached into the hole to pry it open.

Mary was still on the ground with an arrow in her eye, not dead but her body went into shock. It was not as if each death made Mary's body more dulled to the pain, it was still the same. New body meant everything was fresh, including the nerves. It was all a new experience for her body and thus it made the pain more unbearable. Another thing Mary noticed that her blood was not red anymore, over the weeks it had been growing into a darker and darker color until it settled into pitch black. Another example of her inhumanity, but by now Mary was used to it. Used to the pain, used to the darkness and used to the fact that she was one of the Makers hated beings. As she laid there bleeding there was still a smile on her face. There was peace in the darkness, but it could change at any second. Those were not all of the bandits, but Mary was ready for them.

Mary felt the arrow in her shoulder and groaned, this was going to hurt so much. Mary grabbed the arrow and pulled it out in a single pull. Better to get the pain over sooner, but there was so much blood. So much pain. She then reached the arrow in her eye and turned around. This was going to be more physically gruesome. She turned to the darkness and pulled it out, this time she made a small gasping noise. Pain... was a reminder that despite her inhumanity she could still feel pain. In a way she partly understood Kiersa's magic now, endure pain for others. Mary stopped praying for the Maker, not because lack of faith. Mary just felt it was selfish to ask the Maker to watch over her when there were other people that need it more. She chuckled, realizing how silly that sounded.

Again though it seemed more like the path of the nun, the pacifist and healer was never going to settle right. There were other people like Kiersa that were better suited for the job. Instead she was more suited at hurting people. Mary knew what she had to do... The Rune Knights were right... Towa was right... All she could do was destroy, but she could at least destroy those that are evil. It was time to come clean.

"I got drafted to the Rune Knights. That is what has been on my mind lately. I leave in about a week to serve for 6 months minimum. It is just this and things that have occurred lately have put so much into perspective."

Cirven was about to have a blade carve through him while he was in his predicament against the wall. He would have one option with beating the attack but that didn't matter at all after his teammate quickly dealt with the enemy charging him with her own blade. She had moved a lot faster than he had seen her move before before attacking and even now had a new look.

She then swung her blade at the crystal mage but missed as he let up on his deadlock on Cirven and dodged. "Thanks Raven!" He spoke out as he didn't waste much time in attacking the crystal mage back with his enhanced blade but the crystal mage was just as good with a blade as he was if not slightly better and managed to block, parry and dodge the multiple attacks he swung towards the man.

The crystal mage blocked another attack but this time Cirven slashed down his flaming blade so that the flames flowed down through the defenses to hit him and also shot out a shockwave of flames at point blank range. "Got you!" Cirven yelled out as the blast of flames sent the crystal mage flying back into a wall with a small explosion of white flames.

The crystal mage grunted as he slammed into the wall but still stood up on his feet. He then slashed his blade across the ground and upwards sending out a streak of sharp crystal towards Cirven. The crystal attack came fast and gave Cirven only enough time to try and block it which caused it to push him back and towards the wall behind him. Cirven was forced to jump out of the way of the attack but was still hit in his leg by the attack, though not as badly as it could have been.

"Tough guy, huh? Guess you won't mind me using a bigger attack then.." Cirven ran towards the crystal mage while building up a massive amount of flames over his body. The flames then all channeled into his arm as the crystal mage shaped a bow out of crystal and shot crystal arrows at Cirven. The blue-haired slayer was able to dodge the arrows by running sideways enough to where they never sunk into his body but they still came close.

Cirven then lifted his arm up and aimed it at his enemy. "Flame Demon's Wrath!" A beam of concentrated white flame shot out towards the crystal mage and slammed into him. Cirven was sent backwards from the use of the beam and flew out of the hole created from his sister's water blast earlier.

Cirven got up from the ground and came back through the hole in time to see Capricorn deal the finishing blows to the crystal mage. "You mean all that didn't deal with him but your attacks beat him?!" He yelled out as he watched the crystal mage be KO'ed.

He then looked to the side of the hole and saw that one of the weaker men from earlier was hiding there in fear. "Hey guys... I think we scared this one enough for questioning." Cirven stood over the fear filled man and made sure he didn't go anywhere.

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“Yeah..You are welcome,” she replied before standing back, watching Cirven take care of the crystal mage. She was going to help him when she saw Capricorn dash past her and towards the fighting duo. “Well...that takes care of that,” she said rather emotionlessly as she turned back to see the trapped mage looking at them with wide eyes, his legs shaking. Shaking her head, she ignored him for the time being before going straight towards Mary.

She stood next to her sighing, not knowing what to do for the girl who was obviously going through emotional troubles. On top of all that...she was being recruited by the council. Raven won’t deny it but she had been an admirer of the council for a while. She had even wanted to be a rune knight. But, she held herself back because she knew she had more to do before making a move for the council.

She found Kuroe land next to her and looked back at the large bird that was looking at Mary as well. “Mary, just do what you think is right,” she advised as she helped the girl up. Mary would be ok, she knew that but she couldn’t help but be sorry for her friend as well. Kuroe took over from there as he came behind the celestial mage to wrap one of his wings around her, letting her lean back on him if she wants to.

With that Raven went back to see that Capricorn had dealt the final blow on the crystal mage and Aayla was looking down at something. She moved towards where Cirven was as he stood over the trapped mage. “S-Stay away from me! Your friend already found the treasure!” he cried, looking at Aayla who was standing curiously over where the hunters were digging.

"What can I say sir?" Capricorn asked as he looked over at Cirven, a slight smirk playing on his furry face. "Just needs the right touch." The nun groaned at her Spirit's attempt at humour. "Remind me to never let you and Cirven on your own..." she said, her sight returning to her now, although she wished she didn't see what she saw now. "Mary!" she cried out, watching as her friend pulled out arrows from all across her. "Oh Maker... Mary I'm sorry..." Kiersa tried to apologise for not healing her sooner before hearing what she had to say. "The Rune Knights? That's... not so bad is it right?" she asked, unsure how she should feel about Mary being drafted into the Council's personal magical army.

Kiersa went over to Mary and tried to give the girl a hug. "I'll miss you... You'll write won't you?" the nun asked her before blinking at the sound of the man's voice and remembering why exactly they were all here to begin with. "Oh! Right!" she exclaimed before looking Mary over. "Umm... anyone needing fixing up before we go further? In case there are more of them..." asked the nun as she looked around the group.

Cirven and Mary appeared to be the only ones injured, and so it was to them she went to. "Stigmata of Grace." she invoked, first over Mary's wounds, biting her lip as the wounds transferred from one nun to the other, her eyes bleeding out once more, before getting Capricorn to guide her towards Cirven. "Shut up. Not a word." she said when she got close to the Flame Demon Slayer, before he could try to vocally object. She knew he hated it whenever she used her magic, but use it she would. "Stigmata of Grace." she invoked once more, to heal Cirven's wounds, her body trembling as his injuries became her own.

Capricorn collected his young Summoner and held her in his arms as he regarded the group. "I will look after Miss Kiersa till she recovers." he informed the group, his tone not exactly one brokering any arguements. His ears twitched when Aayla opened the metal door. "Miss Aayla step back!" he called out.

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Aayla simply pretended not to hear what Mary had said about the Rune Knights, what with them having been in the head of battle and all. She had also completely avoided talking about it by running straight for the hatch the treasure hunters were digging at, ignoring the last little guy who was trembling so bad he was almost crying. 

She knew what it was to be afraid like that, and felt bad for him... however she couldn't let herself start feeling like this when it came to the enemy. This guy and his group were going to use the Wizards Saints treasure for dark purposes, and she couldn't let that happen.  As she finally got the hatch open, she heard Capricorns cry and instinctively went immaterial just as two bullets went soaring through her chest, embedding themselves into the wall.

'How many of these guys are there...'
She thought to herself as she spun around to face the man that had shot her and frowned as her body began to glow. Her wings emerged from her back while her hands covered themselves in tough tough Serpentine scales. The man that had shot her was still running towards her, pulling something from his belt as he attempted to place the explosive directly onto the girl. However, as Aayla leaped forward to close the gap between them she swiped at the bomb, tossing it out of the man's hands before using her left claw to cut across his chest. Just them however, another two treasure hunters came crawling through the now open door, both firing at Aayla, pelting her wings with constant gun fire.

"Hey.... guys! Any time now..!"
She called out to her team as she drew her wings tightly around herself to protect herself from the onslaught of bullets from 2 of the TReasure hunters, while two more seemed to come out of no where and ran straight for the 'injured' party members.

Mary winced and turned slightly at the sight of Kiersa's eyes. It always pained her how much she had to sacrifice for a simple healing spell. Maybe it was a necessary process, but wasn't their love and devotion enough? Wasn't her actions enough? Wasn't the blood of those that defile the Maker enough? Mary could see from her eye that she was in pain every time she healed a wound. No person should have to go through that. Mary sighed, "I will make sure to write and it could be worse. I could be joining Savage Skull. I know its a position of honor and should be glad for joining, but I will always feel like it is not home. At least it is a place where I can defend those that I care about." Mary ruffled Kiersa's hair as she contemplated in silence, that nun has grown up so much. Mary smirked as she put her hat down and walked to the middle of the room.

Everything was going to be fine.

She looked up at the group in time to notice someone was about to shoot her. Mary was about to pull out her guns, but it seemed like everyone forgot about Aries. She was so shy and quiet that Mary had completely forgotten about her! From out of nowhere a ball of black wool came from nowhere and detonated. However while the ball of wool did hurt them, the bandits seemed to be lulled into a pacified state and did not want to attack. Mary smiled, "Good job Aries! And whatever you do, don't apologize!" Mary was trying to get the sheep girl to stop being so apologetic all the time, but that was an uphill battle. Mary looked at the still black wall of wool that was made earlier and had an idea for later...

OOC: 2 gunman attacking injured party take C-rank and is pacified.

Cirven was half surprised the man gave up the information they wanted without them even throwing threats around. A part of him wanted some practice in being more intimidating but that chance was stripped from his hands by the cornered man. "That was fast. Thought you would at least have some sort of pride to keep your mouth shut. Was looking forward to scaring you some. Oh well.."

Cirven raised his flaming blade up and started to swing it down towards the man. A shrill of fear escaped the man and he went limp as he fainted. Cirven called the form of his blade off in mid-swing and stopped it just before hitting the man. He sighed and shook his head. "Guess I should be happy that I scared him enough for him to faint. Some sort of accomplishment there."

He was about to place his weapon in its sheath but stopped as Kiersa came to him instantly telling him to shut up and healing his wounds. He grunted as he saw her pain filled face. "Idiot... Stop taking all the weight on your own shoulders. I learned this just for helping you."

Cirven focused a mass of his white flames over the blade of the Kukan causing a total of ten flaming blades to form around him as it let off a bright white light, five on each side. The light stopped shining and shown that the blade he held had changed into one made of pure white flame. "Yo goat, let me help her. By the way don't panic and go help them with the fighting if you want. I will help Snow White here." One of the flaming blades that was floating around him moved towards Kiersa and slashed down onto her. No pain would be felt though after the blade hit her but she would feel a soothing rush over her as the injuries she had sustained healed up.

"Feel any better?" He grinned and looked at Kiersa seeing that her wounds had been healed by his blade. His attention was not on the enemies at all but helping his friend.

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OOC: Kiersa is healed by 15% and her wounds are healed due to my blade form's healing ability.

Raven turned in time to see two other hunters come out from where Aayla was. Running her eyes all over the place, she found Kiersa in Capricorn’s hands, Cirven next to her and trying to heal her and Mary was still on the ground trying to reach for her guns while they were all protected by Aries’ wool. Overall, the situation wasn’t so bad if they ignored Mary’s condition. Most of them could still fight and the two other hunters that showed up didn’t look as bad as the crystal mage they had to take on.

Moving towards Aayla, she drew her sword once again before swinging at one of the hunters that rushed towards her with what looked like an iron rod. He swung it at her the same time she swung her sword though he was aiming for her face when Raven was just trying to have him faint. She avoided it by crouching down but it was too late to draw her sword back and she found it pushed further deep his hips. The hunter fell with a loud cry as Raven moved away.

Looking at the blood covered blade with hate, she turned her face away at the memories that rushed through her all at once. The thought of her whole race dead was not what she wanted right then. With shaking hands, she drew the sword to a fighting position once more. Every time she looked at the hesitant men in front her, the picture of her fallen people invaded her.

They must have seen it as some sort of fear on her side because they were both rushing towards her with their weapons held up. Gritting her teeth, Raven tried to move her arms but was shocked when she couldn’t move them at all.

Kiersa felt something plunge into her, and though there was no pain, the impact still made her gasp before its effects were felt throughout her body. She still could not see due to the Stigmata's effects, but she could feel the wounds she had taken on for her comrades healing and sealing themselves. Capricorn eyed the Flame Demon Slayer warily before laying Kiersa down before him, and looked over the current combat situation. He saw that Raven appeared to be... hesitant to continue the fight, dangerously so as the men were rushing her.

The Goat immediately blitzed towards them, getting between them and the young miss. The Celestial Spirit's apparently sudden appearance gave the two men a brief pause and stumble in their stride. It was enough of a moment for Capricorn to flip his body so that he was on his hands before he then spun on the spot with his legs, his hooves catching each of them across their jaws. He followed up by flipping back to an upright position, and slamming a fist into each of their guts, continuing his assault with a severe cross chop to both of their necks when they doubled over winded.

The pair went down like a ton of bricks, the Goat Spirit's only reaction was to now brush off his suit before he walked back to Raven. "Are you alright Miss Raven?" the Celestial Spirit of the Goat asked before providing a large piece of cloth from inside his suit. "To clean the blade Miss." he explained before returning to Kiersa's side. "I must be away now young Miss. Good luck in the rest of this endeavour." he said to his Summoner before regarding Cirven with a wary eye behind the glasses. He gave the man a curt nod before dissipating into stardust as he returned to the Celestial Realm.

The blonde nun tried to stand herself up, groaning as she held her head. The wounds may have healed, but her body was still going through the aftermath of not only the healing, but also the amount of blood she'd lost in doing so. "Is... is everyone alright?" she called out, biting her lip as she tried to discern if the fighting was truly over this time, and they could ensure that everything was alright and where it should be.

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When the sudden hail of bullet fire ceased, Aayla opened up her wings so fast that blades of air shot out from them and crashed into the remaining gun mage, forcing him into the side of the cave as he was directly hit by both blades. He couldn’t help but gasp out loudly as the wind was knocked out of him, and he passed out as soon as his head crashed against the stone. Aayla let out a relieved sigh as her wings disappeared in a golden light, as did her claws.
 
“Thanks Raven… you too Aeries.”
She said kindly to the spirit even though she couldn’t properly see her through the cotton. She had no qualms against the Zodiac spirit, only the one she was contracted too. She peered down into the hole the men had crawled out from, satisfied whenever she did not smell, see or hear any new enemies. She looked up to Raven, then back towards the cotton.

“Hey Cirven! Raven and I are going to go down into the treasure room! Take care of Kiersa!”
She called out. He couldn’t see her, but at least she could let him know where she was. She then glanced over to Raven and walked over towards the girl, gently placing her hand on her shoulder and giving it a light squeeze as she saw the look on the girls face.
 
“Hey… Raven… are you alright? You want to talk about it?”
She asked their newest companion with worry in her own eyes. She had seen the look in Raven’s eyes before… seen it many times reflected back at her from her water… She had been hurt pretty badly .

“Come on… come down into the treasure room with me. It’ll be more private.”
She told the girl, leading the way but not descending until she was sure that Raven would come with her.
 

When they did finally step down into the treasure room, Aayla’s jaw very nearly dropped at the magnificent array of jewels, treasures and ancient keepsakes. It was like something straight out of a pirate movie!

Mary relaxed a bit now that it was all over, she smiled  at Aries and pet her on the head as the summon started to apologize away. Mary put a single finger on Aries lips to stop her as she said, "Don't apologize unless you did something wrong. Otherwise there is little reason to do so and it makes you look weak. Weakness is not going to get you reunited with Leo and take that key from Nakiya's hands..." There was a look of pained sadness in Mary's eyes, it was her fault that Aries fell to darkness. And the pain of readjusting her when she fell to thralls of madness was terrifying. To those that were afraid, the darkness was among the scariest things in existence. To those that were not, it was one of the most comforting things to shelter you from evil. The pain in Mary's eyes watched as Aries quietly went back to her part of the Dark Celestial Realm. The Dark Portal opening for one final time today as Mary dismissed all her summons one by one.

Mary sighed in silence as there was one last thing in Mary's agenda, to get back what was stolen... She sneaked into the treasure room and looked at the mountain before sighing at the huge pile that was in front of her. She quietly pushed things aside while Aayla did her job as a leader and comforted Raven. It was then that she came upon a curious weapon, one that was a pair of sickles connected by a chain. Mary grabbed it and for a brief second felt a rush of power in her. It was strong, powerful and dark, but otherwise felt no different than anything else she had. Shaking her head to remove the notion there was a smile on her face when she found it. A simple letter containing very important to Mary...

She walked out of the treasure room and approached Kiersa. This was it, the final goodbye for the 2 servants of the Maker. Mary had one final parting gift for Kiersa as she placed it at the blonde's hands. Mary said, "This was not the way I wanted to give it to you. I wanted to help you use this... Just not the way the Maker intended I guess... Just use it, this came when I became a rising star and asked for help... If Kiersa was to open it, there was a bank note for the credit of 98,537 jewels under the nuns name. Mary's head was down as she was trying to not cry. It would soon be time to go...

"...May the Maker watch over you Sister Kiersa."