Shine Like the Moon! ( Mission / Ardere )

Allison had left the young man to his own devices in the hopes that he would come out unscathed; something that the red haired mage would rarely have done, but she had witnessed his ability to defend himself. It was similar to the other brown haired boy who had been partnered with her on a more difficult mission such as this-- in fact, the two mages were quite similar but yet completely different at the same time. Eventually shrugging it off, the girl glanced towards Ardere to realize that he had promptly defeated the second duo of lycans and had been attacked by three more, and seeing as the man seemed to have a strategy to defeat them, Allison decided not to interfere. Instead she turned to face the two werewolves which had addressed her, leaping to the ground and cautiously circling around the redheaded mage. The girl wasn’t particularly worried; after all, they didn’t seem to be a huge threat, but nonetheless she truly did want a response from the lycans she attempted to communicate with; besides growling and soon after, battle. Tilting her head to one side, the mage regarded the two werewolves with something like curiosity, eventually opening her mouth to speak. “My name is Allison! It’s nice to meet you-- but I know you can’t speak. Please don’t fight each other, okay?”

A few moments later, the lycans had finished their response to her words; a swift charge directly at the girl, from head-on, with outstretched claws and bared teeth. The red haired mage dodged neatly out of the way before drawing her sword and slashing easily at the nearest lycan. Skipping to the other and then to the more seriously injured one, Allison continued to attack until she deemed that the werewolf was nearly knocked out; although the redhead wasn’t a fan of fighting, she was still perfectly fine with doing so since her attacks didn’t cause pain anyways. After several moments had passed, she had finished doing the same thing to the second werewolf, who had been kindly circling around the first fight, preventing their prey from escaping. However, what it ended up doing was allowing Allison to concentrate on one battle rather than two at a time, although she herself didn’t notice this fact. Once the red haired mage had finished checking that both werewolves were unable to continue fighting, or hunting villagers and causing chaos for that matter, the girl glanced around-- surely that wasn’t the end of them. And her suspicions were confirmed when only a couple seconds after this thought, two more werewolves emerged from the shadows, heading straight towards the girl. Counting up how many she had seen so far, Allison came to the conclusion that they should be getting close to the end of them, for now-- most likely the rest were in other parts of the town, although since the village was rather small, she and Ardere were apt to discover more soon. And with that, the red haired girl leaped towards the two werewolves, cheerfully smiling and saying a greeting and an introduction as she went.

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Boy was she late to the party! Before she had even had a chance to look at the board a group of two others from Sabertooth had gone on the job she wanted to do. "Here I am, still without a room to call my own in the guild and I'm already chasing after others to keep me from going broke!” The transfer to another guild had really eaten into her funds, though it was well worth the costs. She felt bad changing guilds away from Mei, she liked the girl a lot to just leave her, but Mao needed a good friend near her at all times until they could figure out what was going on with her memory. It just wasn't natural to forget one's friend completely! She shook her head to clear her mind for the mission, she had to catch up to Ardere and whomever was with him! She had asked Raven if she could do so, and it had been approved. Hopefully the others wouldn't be upset about that!

Now that she had reached the village in question, she could see the mayhem had already started. A quick trek towards the sounds of battle, and the howls of wolves, would bring the bandaged legs of the mage to find a tall, brown haired, man fighting what she would assume were the lycans. The job had them here to hold off and stop from killing, or turning, the people all around; something she planned to succeed in now that she was here to help out. The man must have been Ardere, as that was the only Sabertooth male supposedly on the job. She didn't see the other girl, Allison, anywhere in sight so she assumed she was elsewhere and ran towards the fire god slayer to help him out.

The short girl was intercepted by a single werewolf as she tried to get to the other job taker she could see, the creature jumping down from a roof somewhere and barely missing her with a claw that sunk into the ground to her right. A gasp would leave her lips as she leaped to the side, a whip like swing of bandages striking the beast in the face as she did so. ”Memory! Bring me the Dire Wolf!” That was all she could give, in the sense of commands, before the werewolf began pressing in constant attacks for her to avoid; the ground being torn up with each slice of the claws that struck each spot she was leaping out of. Somehow she managed to draw her weapon in her left hand, which surprised even her as she had not thought to draw it, and swing at the creature's arm the next time it came down at the short girl. The sharp side of her weapon caught the limb in between wrist and hand, slicing it like a hot knife against butter. The primal howl of pain was enough to make her shudder as she swung again, slicing it at the knee as Memory finished summoning the monstrous wolf from her long past job with Seikatsu.

The ten foot creature her pet had summoned was quite larger than their current foe, something that came to her advantage as her summon suddenly pounced on the werewolf and used it as a personal chew toy. Not wanting to stay and watch the grisly scene of attack longer than needed, Aiyana began to make her way towards Ardere. She needed to find out everything that had happened so far and figure out what the plan was! She didn't have to worry about her pet or pet's summon, they would follow close behind once the dire wolf decided the lycan was well past being a fun toy, though still alive.

Aiyana watched the impressive display of power from the male mage as he took out the rest of the lycans that were visible from where they were located as she walked the rest of the way towards him. He had good hearing as well, as he heard her and her two creatures that were with her coming up behind him from a good distance. Upon getting close enough to have a conversation without raising their voices, the man spoke up with a question; who was she? There were many answers to that question, but only one that was suitable for what was going on around them. ”My name's Aiyana! I just transferred to Sabertooth from Lamia Scale, it's nice to meet you!” A wide smile would reach her face as she slightly rolled onto the heels of her feet, green eyes squeezed shut in happiness over meeting someone from her new guild for the first time.

Now it was time for the man to introduce himself, even though she had been given his name at the guild hall, and maybe even tell her what the game plan was for this job. She definitely did NOT want to be going around blind with just the two others knowing what was going on. Wait...now that she thought about it, where was the other girl that was supposed to be here on the job already? ”Oh! And wasn't there supposed to be someone else with you already? I didn't seem to see anyone else other than the villagers as I came this way.”

An anticipatory growl left the maw of the massive dire wolf as it sniffed the air, most likely scenting out other werewolves in the area from a distance further than the human's of the group would ever be able to do. The beautiful creatures dark gray fur seemed to shimmer with the light breeze, and the bright red eyes seemed to have an unnatural glow as it looked into the bandaged mage's green ones. Only the blood of a lycan marred it's beautiful features, it's muzzle and fur down the front of its body stained a darker crimson color; making it look black in color. The creature from her old job had been a sad kill for her, one to put it out of misery instead of out of spite or conflict. It still saddened her that such a being had had to be killed, beautiful as it was. Her eyes went back to Ardere's shortly after, listening intently to the man who was in charge for this job.

At least she had the right person! Not knowing the face and introducing herself to someone she didn't really know was kind of nerve wracking in the environment they were in. The Sabertooth girl listened to him talk about Allison retiring from the mission, something she frowned slightly over. She was really hoping to meet the girl, she LOVED meeting people and making friends. After that, Ardere mentioned checking on some of the citizens before they began their search for the source of the insanity and bloodshed that was wrecking havoc during the perfect moon. 'Oh gods! I'm missing the perfect moon festival in Magnolia town while out here!'  She was missing a once in a lifetime opportunity, unless she lived through the next fifty years and made it to seventy four, to try and save lives. While the trade-off was worth it, as any life spared was worth more than fun for a night, she was really sad to miss out on such an occasion.

”Yeah, let's make sure people are all right before we try to solve this for them.” With that said she followed after the slayer from the same guild. The young, bandage wielding, mage was usually extremely talkative, but Ardere had said there wasn't time for chit chat so she was keeping quiet until she was needed to talk; instead using her right hand to pet the dire wolf as they walked to a house. The tall man questioned a lady through a window, asking if she was all right, only to be ignored as she went back into hiding by shutting and locking the window. ”Yeah, that was rude. Guess I can't blame them with everything that's going on. We're all that's really keeping them safe at this poi~” Her last word was stopped as she fell to her knees in what she thought was a shallow hole she hadn't noticed. Upon standing back up Aiyana realized what it really was, the footprint of one of the werewolves. 'Good lord! Their own walk crushes the ground! Guess I'll need to be a lot more careful when fighting here. This is nothing like what I'm used to.' Ard's speech brought her out of her thoughts, the man bringing up following the tracks to lead them to the 'nest' of the turned humans to end it once and for all. ”Sounds...peachy. Let's just be careful, and you lead the way.” While she was used to being the one doing the leading, she loved being able to say those words. The binding bandage mage was MUCH more comfortable taking the orders rather than giving them.

The two walked quietly along, Ardere leading the way as he tracked the large beasts to where they hoped would be the nest of the werewolves. Aiyana wondered what the nest would look like when they finally got to it. Would it be a cave of some sort, dug out with tooth and claw? Or would they create something from the ground and trees of the forests around the village? The bandaged mage would just have to find out when they finally tracked the creatures successfully. It was terrifying to see the damage that had been caused in the village in the time they had started their rampage, houses tore up and the very ground destroyed in places. It wouldn't be long before the two stopped moving, the sounds of footsteps reaching their ears of something other than the large feet of the lycans.

What they saw was a large group of villagers, torches and guns in hand. 'Are they crazy? They would never survive a fight against these things!' The girl didn't have to say anything to the people as Ardere told the short girl that he would handle it. A simple question was asked by the slayer, the answer given back simple and followed with failed hostility. Ardere kept his calm, something not many could do when they were done wrong, as he simply pointed off in a direction that was quite off from where they had been going towards. It was most definitely the wrong way. While they would be mad later, it would spare their lives from being taken this very night.

They were back to the tracking once the village revenge group was out of sight, so they wouldn't just follow the mages, and it didn't look promising to Aiyana. It seemed that the nest was going to be somewhere out in the mess of forests that surrounded the village. The trees were unwelcoming, the noises even more so as she looked into the darkness. Her weapon sheathed, and her pet and summon on each side of her, the woman prepared to follow her job partner into the forest after he sighed and talked about going into the woods. ”Well, as long as their nest is not a house I'll be fine. Don't want to have my favorite fairy tale ruined because of this job.” The words were more for herself than the man she was with, only saying them slightly above a whisper as a spoken thought.

The member 'Fire King Ardere' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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A shiver was the outward showing of the fear she felt as they walked through the forest. Decaying trees littered the place, decaying ones filling in where the decaying trees were not. As if it wasn't creepy enough, Aiyana could hear the sound of the werewolves wandering around outside of their human vision. Everything seemed dead, or dying, and the forest would have been silent if not for the breeze around them causing the leaves to shift in protest. A fear of the dark was not fun either. She was in a dark forest, with only one man around her. The bandaged mage wasn't sure why, but the thought of it just being him made her even more nervous; as if triggering some fear she wasn't even sure she had. As if feeling her fear, not that she was good at hiding it, Ardere moved to walk beside her instead of leading the way. It worked in a weird way for the poor girl, both making her more nervous and letting her feel a bit more safe.

It wasn't much longer that they had to walk before a rustling amongst the trees nearby would reach their ears; werewolves close by. The dire wolf started growling at the noise as Ardere informed her about them being surrounded, and to keep calm and wary. A deep breath as she stopped moving would be the young mage preparing herself for battle, her khopesh being drawn with her left hand as she stroked the side of the dire wolf with her other hand. Her bandaged legs kept moving as she continued walking next to Ardere. The flame god slayer showed no outward signs of fear or nervousness, Aiyana wishing she could be that calm even if just on the outside. Her eyes always gave her away her thoughts and feelings, even if she wanted to keep them a secret sometimes. The slight fear she had grew a bit worse as the dark path they took grew noisy with the sound of the rustling leaves, werewolves bursting forth from both behind and in front of them at the same time. The tall man muttered something after letting loose a sigh as the enemies revealed themselves, two lycans behind them and three in front of them; all charging in and ready to tear them apart if they didn't fight back! 'Well, looks like the trip to Grandma's house is already ruined.' The sour joke in her thoughts made her frown slightly as she prepared herself for the two enemies now running at her.

So Ardere would be taking on the three coming at them from directly ahead. That left Aiyana with the two coming up from their rear. ”All right, just be careful. It sounds like there's more still in the bushes.” With that said, Aiyana stood her ground as the two werewolves continued to run at full speed towards the woman. One of the lycans would have the displeasure of being tackled by the ten foot beast that would go by the name “Fenrir.” At the same time as this the bandaged mage would slide underneath the legs of the beast charging in her, her weapon coming upward to swing into the beast's knee as she went through. A loud crack would be heard by those around, the leg cracking as a pained howl left the wolf as it fell to the ground for a moment.

Not waiting to see how the monster was going to attack, Aiyana threw out a group of bandages with a simple flick of her wrist. These bandages would wrap around the downed werewolves legs, just above the knees, as she pulled and brought the wolf back to the ground with a dull 'thud' as it's chin hit the ground. The thing roared in fury as it reached down to cut through the bandages, only to find the side of it's head being repeatedly hit with the blunt side of her blade until it only saw darkness. With the beast unconscious Aiyana turned her attention to the second wolf she was charged with fighting from this group. It appeared that her dire wolf had taken a slash along it's left side, though not without shredding both arms of the lycan it was in battle with. The Sabertooth female charged into the fray, smashing the hook of her weapon into the open mouth of the beast as it went in to bite at her precious summon. ”My friend is not your food! Bad werewolf!” With teeth flying about as the creature shook it's head, Fenrir went in with a tackle that took the beast to the ground, the head of the creature striking a decently large rock that would drive it to darkness that it would not soon wake from. ”With luck it will stay out until this night is over.” By then they would have defeated the entire group of creatures and, hopefully, saved the village. The young woman turned her attention to the trees around them, keeping an eye out for any would be attackers that may charge the medium sized group that composed of humans, pets, and summons.

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Aiyana was almost surprised at the sudden attack that would be aimed towards Ardere. She had not seen it coming, and the young woman wasn't too sure if she had been able to react in time had it been her in his place instead. The tall man managed to avoid the swipes, and supersonic roar, of the creature before it began to make it's way towards Aiyana's small party. A large swipe of those massive arms would come at Aiyana, the girl jumping backward with all her might to just barely miss the attack. She felt the displacement of air from the attack hit her face, the coldness of the air from it chilling her spine as her dire wolf latched onto one of the arms and bit down with all its might. The burning beast did not like this, not one bit, as it swung with the other hand to slice across the creatures face. The poor dire wolf was struck along one eye in the process, the precious piece to the body being cut through like a sharp knife to a grape; losing the sight from the eye completely.

Her summon let go of the arm howling in pain as it jumped back, only to be struck by a howl that shook the foundations of the very earth. Her pet's creature would be sent flying, desummoning along the way before completely disappearing just before it was going to fly into a tree. Not having time to feel sad that her summon had been defeated, the bandaged mage was commanded to move back. She did a quick turn, running a few feet before stopping with a turning slide to see what was going on. The magic was nothing like fire magic she had seen before, and it seemed like there was more than one type of magic at play when there was suddenly a massive explosion that set the werewolf ablaze; the attack slightly moving the creature in the process.

Another supersonic roar would send debris everywhere, Aiyana catching a decently large, and very sharp, piece of tree in her right hand as she made her charge back at the werewolf omega. After it's roar, the creature began to move towards her job partner, something she wished to stop. A swing of her khopesh would strike it's back as it began to move, the beast ignoring the strike to continue after the target it wished to now kill. Before he was out of range, the young woman drew the sharp wood back as let loose with a throw that would pierce the creature through the left shoulder. The attack struck true, the natural spear shredding through and severing enough nerves to render the left arm useless. With the beast continuing the charge Aiyana ran in to catch up to it. If Ardere didn't manage to take it down before she got to them she would make sure it stayed down.

Aiyana and Memory ended up watching Ardere knock out the massive beast just before the group could merge on the strong creature. It was worriesome watching him fight the creature amongst the trees, and the flame god slayer was panting slightly as he made his way back onto the path to speak to the bandaged woman that had managed to escape unscathed so far. ”Yeah, I'm all right. My dire wolf kept me safe so far, sad he couldn't last the rest of the job though.” It really was disappointing, even if the summon had helped take out a multitude of monsters stronger than they were.

She was about to ask how he was doing when the rustling of trees signaled the next batch of werewolves attacking them. It was another group of five, the same split up as last time. ”What! Is it just because I'm a woman?” The Sabertooth female yelled this at the two werewolves, the creatures not even acknowledging the words before coming in at the girl. She ran towards them, jumping over a low swing, and smashed the khopesh twice into the face of the one that she had managed to dodge. ”Memory, give me that frightful spirit!” The words were screamed over the sound of the howl that she managed to knock her off of her feet, something impressive with her ability to stay standing due to her magical hat. Getting up as quickly as possible, the young woman saw one wolf trying to swing at the ghost; the thing immune to physical attacks due to having an ethereal body.

Using this to her advantage she focused on the already injured one. A wrist would be caught with the hook of the khopesh, a hard twist cracking the bones before she swung her other arm around to strike with bandages into the side of his head. The creature was fazed for a few moments, though it was surely confused right after. Her summon had possessed it, turning it's body around to howl at the other lycan that had come after her. The second monster looked confusedly at it before they two were engaged in combat, both taking heavy damage before the possessed one was knocked out with a blow to the face. The spirit left the unconscious beast, striking out with it's ghostly form to defeat the other raging beast in it's weakened state.

The noises of the lycans, somewhere out the in this deep forest, were not the kind one would ever wish to hear again. Aiyana wished to just find the lair and take care of the leader of the pack, taking out their chain of command in the hopes that it stopped them from carrying out coordinated attacks. Even with her want to take them out, it wasn't like she wished mortal harm on them. She had never killed any other human on her own, even if they were deserving of a death sentence. Sure she had slain many monsters and animals, but how many would fault her in that when she only did so when they were attacking her or her friends?

The young woman watched Ardere finish off the werewolves that had gone after him as she walked closely in his direction. The flaming sword was a beauty to have seen in motion, the young woman adoring the flames even though they were the one, slight, weakness to her magical bandages. Managing only a slightly upturned nose, and a small frown, at the burnt flesh and fur smell, Aiyana nodded to the single comment the tall Sabertooth mage said to her. ”Yeah, it can't be too much farther now. Not with how many of the beasts are coming at us.” The man gave the bandaged woman time to compose herself for a moment, something she really needed after losing it for a moment over something as simple as gender inequality.

Moments later the pair would be on the move again, footsteps quietly sounding on the beaten path they were walking on. Strange noises could be heard off in the distance, though the origins of them could truly be said to be 'mysterious' as the young girl could not begin to guess what it really was. She had to be honest, Aiyana knew nothing about werewolves other than they turned into bloodthirsty creatures with the right moon; such as the one tonight. Other than that she was relying on her job partner, and guild mate, to handle the knowledge part while the two did their best to complete this mission. The amount of questions she had on the subject were limitless, though they didn't have time to get them answered with the rate at which they seemed to be coming up to the nest these things had created. 'Please, please, PLEASE do not be a house that they set up in! If they ruin “Little Red Riding Hood” for me I'll never be able to think about the story ever again!'

So this was it, they had found the place that the creatures called home. The large entrance of the cave seemed to loom over them in the light of the blood moon. It was bright for a moon, making it even more spooky when they entered the cave after Ardere's rhetoric about entering. Flames would be put out as Ardere led the way into the cave. A brief walk would find them in a large room, a very occult looking one. Moonlight shone down onto a tablet sitting in it, the object shining intensely because of it. If the young woman didn't know any better, she'd say that it was the cause of the whole curse. Before she could bring her attention to figuring out how to break it, however, she noticed the people tied up at the back of the room. A fit of shivers left her as moved towards them through the silent room.

The Binding Bandages user never reached the people to rescue them at that moment, the earth beneath her feet shaking as a massive creature walked into the room. It was a giant werewolf, red eyes burning into both of the humans eyes as it looked at each of them in turn. The fur of the creature shown like the finest gold in the light as the beast walked towards them, on only it's hind legs. This was definitely the alpha werewolf, and it showed. Aiyana could only pick a few times she had felt this scared before, though they were always when she was alone. This was different, she was with someone else!

The wicked smile of the wolf would find a bandage coming in at it, a claw swiping at it slightly to late as it took a direct hit just about it's nose. The creature's swing hit her bandages and sliced what she had out to tiny pieces. The bandages attached to her would slowly regenerate as she began to circle around as the beast charged in towards the mage that looked the most threatening, the flame god slayer. The man had a dark aura around him, showing the darkness magic that was added into his flames that were meant for the killing of gods and all that was holy. One day she would ask how he had gotten to have the honor of being taught his line of magic, if it was even something allowed to ask about.

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The heat of the flame from Ardere's attack were strong, strong enough that she stepped back in reaction. The young woman wasn't in danger from it, but she knew better than to hang around open flames that could harm her bandages. Last thing she needed was to get burned by 'friendly fire' after all! She watched as the man's attack hit the lead werewolf, the beast barely sliding backward with the powerful blow. Coming in from the side, avoiding flames and falling debris that were now coming from the ceiling, Aiyana let loose a double swing of bandages that would strike onto the back of the creature before the room would suddenly glow golden. While the irony was not lost on her, the bandaged mage had other things to worry about at the moment.

Weapon in hand, and her summoned spirit going in to land a free attack, the young woman charged in to attempt an attack of her own. Her khopesh swung downward, striking at the back of the monster's knee. The creature ignored the hit, kicking out to the side to strike her in the chest; sending the girl sailing until she hit the edge of the wall. She stood up slowly, her head swimming as she heard her job partner ask her to distract the massive beast. Nodding her head, a single call yo her summon could be heard throughout the room. ”All right spirit! Get in it's face and annoy the crap out of it!” As her ghostly summon distracted the creature, the Sabertooth female went in with a volley of bandage attacks that would strike up and down the creature from head to toe. The beast just grew more irritated at this, however, and decided it needed to take care of her over the burning man.

The swift claws came at her, the young girl jumping back in time to avoid being physically hit. What she did not expect was the attacks being so strong that the claws would slice past what they were attacking. The next thing she knew she had four large gashes along her midsection, one bleeding bad enough that she would need to heal herself when the heat of combat was off of her. Sadly this was not the case, as the creature thought her to be the one that needed to die. A roll to her right would allow her to avoid the bite that would have taken out her throat, if not her entire head as well. This lycan was deserving of the title of Alpha. With this much strength, speed, and brutality it was a force to be avoided if one could.