A Reunion of the Tempest and Holy Variety

In a abandoned village not too far away from the Sabertooth Guildhall two cloaked and hooded figures, one taller than the other, stood with blue strands of hair flowing out from under the hoods. One held up a bird as placed a small folded up paper under a loop on the bird's neck. The one holding the bird then lifted his arm up and the bird flew off into the air. It was heading towards the Sabertooth Guildhall to find a certain person and deliver them a message.

The village was a moderate size but with being abandoned most of the building were run down and covered in sand and dust. The two stood under a canopy in the desert as they watched the bird fly away towards Sabertooth, their old home.

"Hopefully she gets it.. We will need her help." A masculine voice came from the one who had just sent the bird off. "Hopefully the bird can lead her straight back here to Sabbia Village too. Rather not have her get lost on the way here and take up too much time." He watched the bird fly off and smiled at the sight of it.

The message being sent would tell the reader about two of her missing friends and teammates from the past being in Sabbia Village waiting for her. It would tell her to bring herself to Sabbia Village to help them against a dangerous underground guild named Cor Torva that had held them captive for all this time. It would speak of how they just narrowly escaped with their lives but say that they were being chased constantly by this group and did not want to bring themselves to endanger the entire Sabertooth guild with Cor Torva.

They would wait to meet with their friend again to discuss their next move.

Kiersa was sat in her room, currently meditating like she'd been taught to by her Spirits, as well as her Sisters. The blending of the two principles seemed to work well for her, allowing her to speed up her bodies natural recovery rate, as well as slowly increase her magical power. That and it helped her to unwind from the stress of the guild lately. From inducting new members, handling the Guild Master's paperwork, handling exams... and then there was trying to find time for herself to handle any jobs as well...

However, peace was hardly ever a thing that lasted long, as a banging on her window soon broke the peace. She sighed and went over to look at it, blinking at the sight of a bird, with something attached to it. "What is it with this guild hall and flying things lately?" she remarked, before opening the window, the bird flying in and landing on her desk.

"So, what's this then hmm?" the blonde nun asked, carefully removing the message from the bird and reading it. Her eyes widened as she read it, then read it again, and read it again, looking at the writing, each swirl and tip of the letters. Without a single further word she grabbed her things and burst from her room, the bird blinking before moving to keep up with her.

"I wonder how long is will take her to get here with how close we actually are to Sabertooth...?" The hooded man spoke out to his companion but didn't get a response as like he did earlier. He looked at his companion, who seemed to be female from her body structure, and just shrugged. She was pretty quiet at this point and he didn't know why but really didn't mind it so much.

A sudden marching of footsteps echoed through the small village as a small group of people dressed in dark military-like uniforms. Some of them even showing they had a black emblem somewhere on their bodies.

The man seemed to hear the marching and sighed. "Looks like its time to start moving again." He then darted off from the spot they were in with his companion while the marching men caught sight of them and started to pursue.

A quick look at a map showed where Sabbia village was in comparison to the guild hall itself. "They're close... I hope I reach them in time..." she said, memory stabbing at her of another letter she'd received once before. The blonde nun slapped herself before running for the floating guild halls edge. "I will not fail again." said Kiersa as she leapt from the edge, plummeting towards the ground. "Stigmata of Flight!" she invoked, her divine wings manifesting and bearing her towards her destination as fast as they could take her.

"I'm coming... please don't be dead... Maker, please protect them..." prayed Kiersa as she flew towards Sabbia village. At her top speed it took her a little while, but soon enough she saw the village... and a pair of hooded figures being pursued by a group of military looking figures. With her target in sight, she plunged down towards them, drawing her Key and magic to her.

"Open the Gate of the Goat! Capricorn!" she invoked, the Goat Spirit appearing beside her in the air, who then promptly went to use the momentum of the fall to further enhance his Saturn Strike ability as he landed amidst the pursuers. Several of them went flying as the crater was formed around the Goat Spirit, who then proceeded to kick their collective backsides.

Kiersa landed between them and the duo, her divine wings dispersing. She quickly put away Capricorn's key before she spoke. "Stigmata of Damocles! Double!" she invoked, her hands falling lifeless as the holy blades surged forth from her wrists. "I will not lose anyone else to the darkness!" she cried out. "Maker's Sight." said Kiersa, her eyes glowing bright with the light of the divine, allowing her to determine if her foes were demonic, angelic or human.

They came up as humans... barely.

The duo had been running from the group of men for a half an hour. They would hide only to be found again and then chased after more a few times in the thirty minutes before the girl's arrival. When she arrived the two of them were running through the center of the deserted village trying to find some place new to go to buy some more time.

A explosion of dust and sand swarmed around the enemies as something fell from the sky onto them. The sounds of grunts of pain and anguish were then heard coming from out of the cloud of sand that was formed.

"Looks like our knight in shining armor is here finally." The hooded man spoke out with a grin on his face as he saw Kiersa land in front of them. "Its been awhile Kiersa. You look like you have grown a bit since the last time we saw you." He dropped his hood down to his shoulders to show that he was Cirven Mizune. "We missed you, especially her." He pointed to the other person he was with who still had her hood up. He then moved towards and stood close to Kiersa. "Wait for it.." He said to Kiersa as he waited for what happened next.

The hooded girl next to Cirven followed silently, never uttering a word as they dodged and weaved their attackers. Nothing about her features were visible to anyone looking at them, the black cloack covered her body, save for her ruined shoes. There was even a black scarf drawn over her face, leaving only her eyes visible if one was to attempt looking through the shadows of the cloak.

The pair had stopped once a goat man came crashing down onto the ground, creating a large crater between themselves and the enemies, scattering as if flies suddenly stuck in a trap. She gave a light sigh of relief as her eyes then followed Cirven's movements, listening closely to his words. She actually took a step back, instead of a step forward, betraying what it was Cirven had told Kiersa.

She was excited... but she was also scared.

It took the young girl a moment to gather up her courage, taking in a deep breath before pulling her hood from her head. The hood revealed two long, dirty pigtails that were tucked back underneath the cloak, and as the girl removed the mask covering her face, you could easily tell who the young girl was.

Her face had two large scars crossing her forehead, and another barely visible around the young girls neck. Her eyes were darker than they had been, however it seemed only to be a reflection of what she had been through.

"Hi Kiersa, thank you for helping us..."

The blonde nun blinked as she heard the pair of voices behind her, saw the streaks of blue hair atop their heads, her face breaking out into the largest smile possible. "It... it really is you..." she said, a small ding dong sounding beside her, as a red-headed girl dressed in a blue shinto priestess outfit appeared, her fox tail swishing. "Oooh! So this is Aayla and Cirven huh?" she purred, grinning a shit-eating grin at the Summoner. "V-Vulpecula! Wh-what the-" Kiersa stammered, the fox-girl snickering.

"Couldn't miss this now could I? Oh how you pined after them and missed them sooo much, that one especially~" said Vulpecula as she started to point towards one of them before Capricorn yelled to them. "As much as this reunion is quite lovely, may I recommend we deal with the current threat as it stands before we go any further?" the Goat Spirit called over as he slammed his fist into another of the military dressed humans.

Both Kiersa and Vulpecula blushed a little in embaressment. "Sorry Capricorn." they said in unison before the fox-spirit's hands and feet ignited, wreathing them in blue fire. "So boys and girls, who wants to play?" called out Vulpecula as she surged towards the enemy. Kiersa looked over to Aayla and Cirven once more, the smile still there. "I'd give you a hug right now but... um..." she trailed off, her divine blades still active, and there were still enemies to deal with. "Be right back, don't go anywhere! Please." she said before diving into the fray alongside her Spirits.

The random summoning of the fox spirit threw Cirven off guard at first. He was not ready for something like that to just appear out of no where and almost attacked it but stopped as Kiersa spoke out to it. "I almost just burned a hole through your head just now you piece of crap fox!" He yelled out in his own typical fashion.

Capricorn called out to them about dealing with the enemies around them before talking more. Cirven started to crack his knuckles and neck as he moved towards the group of men.

"Go anywhere? Wouldn't dream of it." He replied as he moved towards the men. "Let me remind them of who they are messing with.. Also you guys might want to move.." A grin formed on his face as a burst of white flames shot him off towards the enemy.

Suddenly in the center of the fray a blast of white flame erupted out and sent the enemies all flying near it while the others ran away scared from the sight. "Yeah, yeah. I could have done that earlier but we didn't want to go and fight without back up." He spoke as he walked back to where his sister was. "So about that hug, I'm not exactly the huggy type but you know Aayla is especially now." He tried to instigate the two best friends into hugging.

Aayla still looked very uncertain about herself as she brought her arms up to wrap around herself. She hesitated as she waited for Kiersa to speak, nearly pulling her hood back off and deciding to run in the opposite direction. However, when she did, the young blue haired mage smiled as she lowered her arms.

"I'm sorry I've been gone so long... it's just that- eep!"
Whenever the fire fox materialized from her key, Aayla leaped behind Cirven, hiding behind him as he nearly attacked the being. She only relaxed once he did. She had only just gotten used to Kiersa and her spirits when she was taken away, and now that fear of them had crept up in her mind again. She sighed a sigh of relief as she looked up to Kiersa, nodding at her comment of the hug.

"Why don't we finish this first..."
She agreed, taking a step back away from Cirven so that her water or takeover didn't hurt him. She looked towards their enemies, debating which skills she should use, as most of them would simply put out Cirven's flames...

A dark light surrounded the young girl for a brief moment before two large Adamantine wings sprouted from her back, tearing holes through the back of her cloak. She sidestepped around Kiersa and Cirven, firmly planting her feet in the ground before beating her wings so powerfully, that the wind they created became visible as it pelted through the remainder of the enemies that weren't knocked over by Cirven. It seemed her transformation was a waste of time however as those that could get up simply ran away scared.

She sighed before glancing back to Kiersa, beating her wings strongly once more so that she took off from the ground and straight into her. Although, it was the furthest thing from an attack as she wrapped her arms around the girl, gripping at her clothes tightly as she hugged her.

With the last of the enemies gone, the blonde nun let out a slow breath and dispersed her holy blades... juuuust in time to receive a full on tackle hug from Aayla. "Ooof!" she exclaimed, before descending into giggles and returning the hug. "D'aww! Isn't that just adorable?" cooed Vulpecula, to which Capricorn gave her a smack upside the head. "Owie! What?!" the fox-spirit glared at the Goat briefly before nervously chuckling. "I er... think I left the oven on back home... later!" she said before vanishing back into the Celestial Realm.

Capricorn rolled his eyes behind his glasses before walking up to the group. "Mister and Miss Mizune, it is a pleasure to once again see you, especially whole and well. Meh apologies for Vulpecula, she unfortunately comes and goes as she pleases... no doubt an unfortunate trait she picked up from her elder sibling." the Goat Spirit said, extending a hand towards Cirven.

Cirven smiled at the sight of the two girls hugging. "Its been awhile hasn't it?" He scratched the back of his head as he spoke. His attention was shifted towards the goat spirit as he was spoken to. "No worries. It actually just makes things easier.." Cirven smile changed to a more sinister one and before Capricorn could respond a blast of white flame erupted out from Cirven and engulfing him.

"Keep hold of her!" He then started to walk towards Kiersa and Aayla while pulling a syringe from out from under his cloak. "You know, this was a lot easier than I expected it to... Gah!" A dark colored crescent-like shockwave slammed into Cirven from in between two buildings. The shockwave caused the area around Cirven to explode into a dark energy while a red masked man revealed himself from between the buildings with a floating sword near him.

"Honestly Kiersa, did this fake really trick you that easily?" The masked man wore a red and white outfit and had blue hair similar to the fake Cirven. "If only you could smell the scent these two have. You would know they were nothing but trash versions of the real things.."

"Who in the hell..!?" The fake Cirven's white flames erupted out around him as he grew angry at the attack hitting him. "You are the real one aren't you? Thats great then! I will just kill you and become the only one! Flame Demon's Rage!" The fake Cirven launched out a a massive amount of flames from his mouth but the masked man dodged the attack by jumping high into the air while his sword darted around the blast and took swipes at the fake Cirven. "Hey goat! You just going to lick your wounds or you going to actually help your master?"

After the real Cirven spoke the earlier men who had ran away and other swarmed around the group. "Lumi! Going to need you for these guys!" Cirven called out to his companion as he kept the fake Cirven busy with dodging his attacks.

The moment Cirven told her to hold onto Kiersa was the moment the rest of her body started to change. Her body soon became covered in thick adamantine armor, while her hands turned into claws made of the same metallic substance. She clung onto Kiersa tightly, going so far as to dig her claws into Kiersa's back to hold the blond girl against her. If her claws penetrated Kiersa's skin, then they would slowly start to inject poison into her flesh.

Aayla's expression didn't change to a sinister one like the fake Cirven's did. While she still didn't look like her happy, cheery self, she still looked like an Aayla who had just been through a lot. The blue haired mage actually looked sad as she held Kiersa, now in her Serpent Souls full form.

"I don't know why she needs you... It's not like you could ever do anything..."
The girl said lowly.

Cirven was about to draw blood from the girl himself, when a shockwave came out of nowhere to push him away. Aayla frowned at the attack as she drew her wings around herself and Kiersa, cutting the two girls off from any outside interference. If Cirven would be unable to get the girls blood, then she would have to do it herself. It wouldn't be that hard now...

Kiersa blinked as first Cirven engulfed Capricorn in his demonic fires, and Aayla gripped her harder and tighter. "Wh-What's going on?" she asked, starting to become a little nervous and scared, as well as helluva confused by the whole thing. Especially when a second Cirven made an appearance. Then everything started to happen at once.

The two Cirven's were fighting one another, whilst Aayla went into her full Takeover, encasing Kiersa with her wings. "I... I..." she stammered, trying to make sense of it all. Capricorn looked to the two battling Cirvens and then to the adamantite shell that was Aayla and Kiersa. He ran towards his Summoner and began to try and break through the wings.

The blonde nun looked at her friend in confusion and fear before taking a slow breath. "Stigmata of Veritas!" she invoked, her eyes and ears bleeding out as a blast of light suddenly shot out from her in a sphere that stretched out for 20 feet around her. "What is going on?! Why are you doing this?!" she demanded to know, the Veritas spell compelling everyone to speak the truth that had been caught in the blast.

Lumina had separated from Cirven and move through a house, she had barley gotten into position when Cirven called for her help. She frowned and mumbled to herself, "Man he can't do anything by himself." She walked up to the door leading to the meeting, she peeked through a crack to see a man drawing a weapon. He hand not started moving yet, Lumina smiled and punched through the door. The man let out a cry as Lumina's hand wrapped around his throat and he was pulled backward through the rickety door. She slammed the man down onto the ground and stomped a few time on his face until he stopped moving. Lumina pulled a seed from her pocket and cast a breath on it, she dropped the seed on the ground and smile. "Dinner time!" She smiled and exited the building looking for another enemy to fight.

As she looked around Mayu, whom had been prowling around for a rodent to eat flew up to her and landed on her shoulders. "Lumina, don't do anything stupid ok?" The little dragon dug it claws into Lumina shoulders as Lumina charged head long at another one of the bad guys. "AHHH LUMINA NOT SO FAST!"

The two Cirvens clashed a few times with Irritum dodging with the real Cirven away from the fake Cirven's flames. The sword had not been able to get in a actual hit yet but had made cuts all through out the fake's clothing. "I'm getting closer and closer to ending this, you know?" The real one spoke out as the fake continued to dodge the floating blade. A grimace of annoyance was plastered on the fake's face as he could not help but dodge the attacks and attempt to sneak in blasts of fire at the weapon just to miss. "Screw this!"

The fake then disappeared after a burst of flame shot him off. It was as if he had disappeared from how fast he was sent out. The real Cirven was then slammed into and through a building behind him leaving the fake standing where he was holding out his fist. "Has it been so long that you forgot you could do that?" The fake grinned at what he had done. The real Cirven pushed himself back up and grinned back. "Honestly, I'm not as dumb as you and will find an opening." Just as he was about to finish his sentence Irritum slashed down across the fake's back. The fake then stumbled forward and was welcomed inside of the building by a punch from the real Cirven which knocked him out of a window from the force.

"Lumi! We will be talking about that comment you said earlier with me not being able to do things alone later!" He yelled out and moved to pursue where his fake had gone only to be stopped by a explosion of white flames.

"Who are you calling dumb!?" The flames grew more intense as he spoke out and then all came together to construct a massive blade made of white flames. "We finally to the part where you become a 'try hard'? Good.." Irritum flew into the real Cirven's hand and started to glow into a white light which separated into six katana shaped forms. The light then stopped and Cirven took hold of a second sword as the other four floated behind his back similar to wings.

The fake then rushed towards Cirven and swung his flame blade down towards him. Cirven used the two blades in his hands in a X-like formation to block the blade as well as using the other four to do so too. The sudden stop of the blade caused white flames to burst out all around the room and ignite the house in the white flames.

Aayla had to shut her eyes for a moment as the orb of light shot out from Kiersa's body. She would have shielded her eyes, but she needed to keep her claws exactly where they were, piercing Kiersa's back to keep her in place. Slowly, her claws were becoming drenched in Kiersa's blood, and that would be good enough for her master to use... Whenever Kiersa spoke next however, she felt her attention inexplicably drawn to the girl. She had asked her a question, and she felt like telling her nothing more than the truth... however, there would have been no reason for her to lie about her intentions.

"I need your blood, simple as that. And you've given me more than I even needed..."
She began, leaning towards Kiersa so that she could whisper into the girls ear. Her head brushed so closely to her face, that her right pigtail brushed against the blood pouring from Kiersa's eyes.

"Aayla's been waiting for you... and for Cirven, and even Marrick... she's all alone."
She whispered, her tone barely audible even to the blond haired mage. With that done, she pulled her head back, chuckling softly and then glaring towards her wings when she felt someone begin to pound against them. No doubt her spirit.

"I'm afraid I have to go."
She stated next as she forced her wings open, using them to push Capricorn aside before she released Kiersa and jumped up into the sky to get out of their reach.

"Brother! Let's go!"

Kiersa fell to the floor as Aayla let go of her, or whatever this creature was... Her blood stained eyes shot up towards where she heard the voice and she bared her teeth in a darkened snarl. "No... you won't..." she said, drawing her second key. "Open the Gate of the Eagle! Aquilla!" she invoked, before plunging her hands to the ground. "Clad mine flesh in thine vestments, sacred shield of the Dragon of Divinity, sheathe to the sacred blade of Arturia! Lend me thine light, and grace mine allies even as thou damn mine foes! Shine forth, Avalon! Stigmata of the Penitent!" the blonde nun roared, a blinding beam of light encompassing her before shattering, revealing her holy artifact armour, her blood evaporating and the divine chains wrapping around her arms before shooting up into the air towards Aayla, even as the Eagle Spirit appeared and took flight as well towards the Aayla-Thing.

"You dare to desecrate her form... you dare to desecrate her voice... you dare to desecrate Aayla! I WILL NOT ALLOW IT!" roared Kiersa as she tried to bring the hopefully bound Aayla-Thing crashing to the ground, whilst Aquilla worked on trying to punch and kick the Aayla-Thing, her hands and feet crackling with her Celestial Lightning magic encompassing them. Whatever this thing was, it was using Aayla's magic, and she remembered Aayla and her fears of thunder, her weakness to lightning... something that Aquilla had in abundance. With every strike, it sounded like thunder rumbling around them.

Kiersa took no pleasure in this, but then again, this thing wasn't Aayla Mizune... and she would rather see it destroyed than allow it to exist any longer.

The two Cirven's clashed weapons over and over sending electricity and flames all over the room more and more. This gave more fuel to the flames literally and caused the building to start to fall apart from the burning. They both clashed blades one more time and were in a deadlock until both pushed off from each other using their enhanced strength.

The fake smiled evilly at Cirven as he figured something out that he didn't think the other knew. "I wonder if you noticed what was happening here." He chuckled as Cirven looked around them more to see how bad the fire was spreading. "This will be your grave and I will be the only one left. The one to live a life that is mine to live!" As he spoke the fake used his power over flames and became an ebodiment of them himself. He moved through the flames and out of the building leaving Cirven alone in the burning down home.

Outside the fake heard his sister call out to him and watched as she attempted to leave but was about to be attacked by some spirit that the now angry nun had summoned. He used his flames to rocket him towards the nun and the bird and took a swing with his massive blade made of flame at both of them. "DIE!!" He yelled out as the weapon swung down towards them.

Lumina was plowing through the mooks that cirven had left her to fight, they were hardly a challenge. From what it seemed these guys had not expected a third fighter to be on the field, and they were clearly not meant for close range fighting. Lumina had just dispatched another when she felt the tingle of magic to her right, she started to turn thinking that it was one of the mooks trying to cast a spell at her. She was sorely surprised when she took a blow from the side which sent her flying into the courtyard of the local church.

"Now now young lady, you left yourself open." Said a strong fatherly voice, "Always watch your flanks, or someone might take advantage of it."

Lumina scrambled to her feet trying to get up a defense, she failed as the man rushed forward and delivered a blow to Lumina's unprepared defense. This sent her through the thick wooden door's of the church, this time though Lumina rolled with the blow and when she impacted the door she rolled with it. As she came towards the ground she righted herself in the air and landed on her feet, the door flying off somewhere in the church. Lumina was ready for another attack, one that never came.

"Oh come on I'm not that unfair." The speaker was a man with white hair, "but if i wanted to kill you i could." the man stopped at the door, "My name is Vandris Whole-brook, Member of the..." The man sighed, "What is your name little one?"

Lumina glared daggers at the man, refusing to speak and keeping her guard up. "Your odd? didn't you just want to fight?" Lumina cocked her head, she lowered her fists, "Lumina, my name is lumina."

"lumina... where have i seen that name..." the man walked past Lumina farther into the church then stopped suddenly, "RIGHT! your the girl from they encountered when hunting the dragons nest right? well then little one lets see what makes you so scary." The Man dropped into a fighting stance. "No tricks, no magic... just your fists."

Vandris:

Lumina's HP 88%/100%
Lumina's MP 90%/100%

"How dare I? You make it sound like I created myself, idiot!"
Aayla flew up as fast as she could go, spinning around in circles, slowing down and dodging the chains that were suddenly launched up at her. While the holy light from earlier was in fact blinding, she found it had little effect on her body as she had expected it to have. She was just a copy after-all... who knew what it could have done. Apparently, she was a pretty damn good copy for it not to fully blind or even hurt her.

Just as she thought that she would get away from the chains, she felt one of them wrap around her armored ankle and tug at her. Meanwhile, the creature known as Aquila would come down on her, her talons slashing down into her armored arms with a thunderous crash. This caused shudders to run down Aayla's spine but she refused to let down her guard or back down as Kiersa attempted to tug her back to the ground.

"Damn it... The more you hurt me, the more you're hurting the real me you know!"
She yelled down at the nun while trying to protect herself long enough for Cirven's attack to connect and set her free.

Capricorn appeared next to Copy Cirven, as if from nowhere, aiming to land a solid gut punch straight into the Copy Cirven that would potentially send him flying back a bit. "Forget about meh?" he asked of the Clone. "You will not harm her." the Spirit of the Goat constellation said, hurling himself at the Clone to engage him in a flurry of high speed punches and kicks, trying to keep him off-balance and put him down.

Meanwhile the nun heard the Copy Aayla's words and gritted her teeth. "I don't believe you!" she cried, Aquilla continuing her thunderous assault on the transformed girl, using her Lightning to try and super-heat the metallic substance that was her Take Over, thus hopefully creating weak spots for her to take advantage of.

The fake Cirven was not ready at all for the goat spirit's fist slamming into his chest and was sent flying away as thought he would be from the attack. He landed on his feet and before he could move to dodge anything else Capricorn was back onto him slamming his fists and feet into his body. There was a problem though and Capricorn would quickly figure out that his attacks were simply him punching and kicking into flames at the Fake's flame body ability which would injure the goat with each attack he threw that connected.

"You stupid piece of.." The Fake raised his flaming blade above his shoulder and started to move the blade to slash across the spirit. "..SHIT!" Before the blade could hit the injured spirit though wind soared from out of the flaming building and stopped just in front of the attack. The real Cirven then blocked the flaming blade with three of the Tanka blades in his left hand and used the other three to slash across the chest of the Fake. The Fake jumped away and clutched his chest from the three slashes now across it.

"Sorry, Goat. I was sort of waiting for a good moment to strike him rather than constantly bashing heads with him. I was pretty sure you had him at least until that hole was shown. Go and help Kiersa while I take down this fake." Cirven spoke as he approached the clone of himself who seemed to be furious at the tactic used against him. "I'll.." White flames erupted around the clone Cirven and shot up into the sky above him like a beacon. "I'LL KILL YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE HERE!!"

The real Cirven grinned as his fake morphed into the demonic form that he used to have in the past. "They really did copy me well..." He stopped and waited for the attack that the fake would use against him.

Lumina narrowed her eyes at the man, "no magic? why are you being so... different the the other idiots here?" Lumina dropped into a fighting stance.

"because... Its what i choose." the man smiled as he spoke. "I was told to observe that man Cirven. I was not expecting to see you here and i can't gauge your strength watching you trounce those Idiots. So i will fight you myself, make sense?" The man opened his hand and motioned her to come at him. "well then... Test your might!"

Lumina didn't need to be told again, she leapt forward punching with her right fist. Vandris blocked the strike easy and lashed out with his foot, catching Lumina right in the chest. Lumina skidded backwards, placing her hand on the ground so she didn't fall. Vandris charged after her, Bringing hes foot over Lumina head and bringing it down with titanic force. Lumina rolled to her right, putting Vandris in line with the wall, as his foot cracked the stone floor where she had just been standing. She didn't give him time to recover by shoulder charging him into the wall, he let out a gasp as he impacted the wall. Lumina Pressed hard against him, then suddenly Pulled back, reeling her fist back and lashing out at him. Vandris twisted out of the way, Lumina hit the wall with enough force to crack its surface. Vandris finished his twist with a spin and backhanded Lumina with in the back of the head, driving her into the already cracked wall. The wall cracked more as she impacted it, this time a large portion of it falling away. Before Lumina could get her footing Vandris pulled her backwards and delivered a turning Kick right to her gut, throwing her across the room into a pillar. She grimaced at the man who held his ground.

"Not bad... Not bad at all. But you lack refinement and your attacks are wild and undisciplined." The man eased up his stance. "I can help you out if you let me."

"Go..." Lumina coughed up some blood. "Go to hell" She pushed herself upright and dropped back into her fighting stance.

"GOOD! I like that spunk." Vandris smiled and moved in to continue his assault.  

Lumina's HP 70%/100%
Lumina's MP 90%/100%

"Are you really willing to risk it?"
Aayla demanded of the blond with a saddened look. She felt Aquila's talon come crashing down into her armor again and winced as she felt it beginning to crack. This form was probably her best option to get away, and here this dumb bird was breaking it.

"Kiersa... please just... let me go... You can hate us all you want, but there's nothing we can do about who we are! We're only doing what we have to, to stay alive! Let me go... and maybe you can save the real Aayla... no one deserves what she's going through..."
She attempted to plead, swinging her body around to swat at Aquila's talons before they hit the weak spot in her armor again, but instead felt her talons land a hit to her chest. Lightning danced around the spot before causing the clone Aayla to cry out in pain and suddenly start dropping from the sky.

Capricorn nodded at the real Cirven. "Took long enough." the Goat said, a slight smirk on his face before he hurried to his Summoner's side. Said summoner was now looking up at FakeAayla, her eyes clear of blood and looking at the armoured flying girl. "I... I don't hate you..." she said, the chains of her holy magic dissipating as she couldn't maintain the spell any longer. "I... I pity you... your life isn't your own... your face is another's face... even your magic is another's magic..." said Kiersa, watching as Aayla's copy fell from the sky.

"Capricorn, catch her..." she ordered, the Goat Spirit nodding before moving into position to catch the girl before she hit the ground, Aquilla hovering nearby in case the girl tried to deceive them again. The blonde nun went up to the girl, and moved to pull out a cloth to wipe away the girls tears and blood. "...Could you really allow another to exist like you? Forever trapped as anothers shadow? Their mirror?" the armoured nun asked the clone.

"You need my blood you said... or rather, whoever sent you does... You have a choice... either do as this person tells you, and condemn another soul to a life as an eternal mirror, forever being compared to someone they are not... or, strike your own path, become your own person... destroy the blood you took..." said Kiersa, looking at this duplicate of her friend.

She offered her hand to the girl. "We could start over... I'm Kiersa Bec... what's your name?" asked the nun, trying to keep herself from falling apart from this insane situation she had found herself in.