Sasha Martin's Secondary Magic Training (Private)

The port town of Cedar had sat not too far away from the area in which the ferry was headed. Much to her dismay, it would have still been quite a while until she would arrive in Cedar, but there was very much she hadn't seen from there in quite a while. It had been a rather long time since she had left for Era to join the Rune Knights, and she was surely in a mental debate over it all. She idolized the Knights since she was a kid, always dreamed of being one, but being a farm girl had made her blind to the things that had caused her to leave them in the first place. They wouldn't hold her back for long, no. This is purely a small set back, a trial in her course to become the Knight of Knights! The Knight people could look up to and fear the site of her mystical bunny suits! A smile crossed her face as her joke had made her laugh. It was often a joke she made with her niece as a kind of enjoyable, but humorous none the less. A wandering breeze passed along her face, brushing the hair that outlined her face back and forth gently as her orbs continued to their gaze towards the incoming port town. The idea of returning to the farm, not only in the guise of her new appearance, but the Morpher in itself would prove to be a very happily sound trip into the city life world. How her father would come to enjoy seeing his only.. well to be frank, only successful daughter. The only thing they could seem to do was try to keep Valerie away from being like her mother, and despite the odd fashions she had taken up, it was much better than they had feared she would end up.

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Seeing it for herself, and in her moment of weakness no less was something Sasha had come to enjoy the idea of knowing that despite all that she was through, she turned out very well. Her own brand of uniqueness, much like her auntie Sasha no less was comforting and at some times, oddly admiring. The sound of the ferry horn had made her jump, looking around at the surroundings after being scared out of her day dreams. The town of Cedar had come closer and closer, almost within jumping distance, but it was a rather stupid move that despite all of Sasha's patience, she would stop thinking to attempt and simply wait. having reminisced about her primary focus to get stronger and gain her aspirations of what she wanted to be for the most part of the ride was the most time consuming thing for her. Regardless of it all, she watched with amusement of being able to be on the ferry as it docked, rather than being in town from the farm to sell their harvest and being able to catch a moment as the ferry had made it's way in port or just departing. As the gate dropped to let everyone off, Knights met each passenger on the way out for their ID to make sure that their townspeople would be safe from random spies. They wore special gloves that on contact with fake ID, would burn it and reveal a magic imprint. A curious eye looked over the raven haired farm girl as she handed her ID over and it hadn't followed suit like a normal fake ID. The knight scratched his head before Sasha would lean up into his ear and mention the familiarity of his.. "extremeties" to him. His face turned pink as he soon realized the lack of outside knowledge of the information and let her pass.

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As Sasha skipped passed the knight, she gave him a wink, which only deepened the color of his face and made her giggle at it. She enjoyed the reactions of people when she did stuff like that, but it was almost clueless on why people would react in such a way. Regardless, she always had people who had given up their dislike of her actions, usually via learning of the rest of the girls personality. While walking through Cedar, she took a longer way through it towards the edge of town so she could find the old forest trail she and her father had taken when she was younger. Even in the drenching rain, the freezing snow, and the blistering heat, this path was always a road of tranquil memories and fun times. Simply standing there, smiling at the entrance of it had come to make her very happy that she had come back. The colors of the leaves were slowly coming over with the autumn fever and shading into several very harmonious and luscious mix of colors that had her albeit mesmerized by the array of nature. The strays of random, more calm forest dwellers even visit parts of this path, and it in fact was the very reason Sasha had began her love of nature. Once she had come to decide fully that she was satisfied with the reminiscing of her past, the raven haired wanderer skipped along into the path. She felt like a little kid once more and almost compelled to jump into her chibi form to relive the joy of it. That however, could be something she save for a later time and enjoy then when she's done being a simple little homesick child and enjoyed her time with her papa once again. After all, this day in specific was important to her, and to her papa.

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The day in question of Sasha's visit wasn't purely for any particular "Hi, came to visit and catch up" type deal, but it was rather the first time in her life she had been away from the farm around such an important time and unable to think about herself, she was more concerned with that of her papa's ability to hold himself together. On this particular day, Sasha's mother; Isabella Martin had randomly gone missing. It was a mystery and a half on why it had been such a strange occurrence, but the Knights around the town of Cedar tried for MONTHS to try and find her. Despite them not being citizens per say, Sasha mainly had come around to with her parents when it came time to sell off crops of the season and everything was always voluntarily given to search by the Knights of the town for safety. It was in such, that Cedar had expanded the forest path and the farm as part of Cedar, even helping to fund the farm with times of lesser production in comparison to others, but it was always a time in which mainly the middle of winter hit. Back on topic now, after some time, it was declared that she was most likely either dead and they had stopped making her search a primary focus. Instead, they had kept her on a back burner while dealing with other issues as not to let the town fall into chaos. Still, it left a significant impact on the three left. Sasha's sister had began to drink, and after she had gotten pregnant with Valerie, she had come to begin to neglect her. Sasha had picked up the slack of labor, working herself to the point of exhaustion and using her frustration and put that into her work so she could come to ease the pain and frustrations she felt on nearly a daily basis.

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Sasha starred in awe of the luscious bounty of fruits and vegetables up for the fall harvest. Strawberries, pumpkins, squash, corn, and soo much more! Oh the sweet taste of freshly picked strawberries made her mouth water with the temptation of wanting to pick some now, but first things had to be done. She spun around and backed up toward her farmhouse while she starred at the crops bountiful looks and halted. Spinning back around, a dullish green colored wooden steps and patio. She waited a second and began to knock on the door in a random pattern. Knock-knock.. bump, knock, bump bump.. knock, knock, knock, bump, knock. The pattern really meant nothing aside from Sasha being... well Sasha. Humming to herself, a small boy opened the door, looking up at the raven haired girl. She knelt down and smiled, tilting her head at his appearance before he patted him on the head. "Wassup, my man. You seen my papa around? Short little Keebler elf lookin guy?" She giggled at the comparison, waiting a moment before the little boy turned himself into an adult male, standing nearly a half foot taller than Sasha and starring angrily at her. "Keebler elf? Girl you dun' gone lost your mind out there, ya here? Now come 'ere and give ya papa a big ol' hug!" Without a second, she reached out and gripped tightly onto his chest and rubbed her face into the man, starring sadly. "So what brings ya down here, darlin'? Don't tell me ya came all this way down here simply to say hi and hug me." He paused and rubbed her back gently with his own, just waiting for her to reply knowing she would. "Happy anniversary.. papa." He smiled and nodded before giving her a pat on her back. "There there. Come in and talk with papa now."

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The two spent some time relaxing like old times. Sitting in the living room of the farm house, sipping on literally freshly squeezed lemonade and talking like the old days. This kind of thing made Sasha happy she had decided to come back for the time being, and more so that she had gotten everything off her chest. He brought up her past expeditions from the Priory, to her mission with her niece, to having met with the member and guild master of Laughing Coffin. he was astonished to see her having left the Knights, but he was glad to see that the events of the Priory only made her want to seek out more causes and go further, rather than push her back. With that in mind, he knew he raised her well and that she was the strong, independent type of person she sought her to grow up to be. "Seeing you like this.. I want you to know how proud i am of you. I could die tomorrow and know that you were the kind of person I had hoped you would become. Just kno-" "SHUT UP!" She shouted, smashing the glass in her hand as anger came over her so suddenly. "Don't you DARE say such things, papa! You're the human version of an bull! You'll fight til you die and I know you would!" Blood dripped from the cuts the glass inflicted, but neither of them had really paid attention. Quickly, Sasha blinked and looked down and chuckled. "Gauze pads and tape?" She only had to ask before he nodded, knowing he hadn't changed where things were anymore. She ran up the steps and took a couple moments to dress the wound before she would come back downstairs. He had plans ready for her for the day, something he waited to see if she was able to handle, and after all that had happened since she got here, he knew she was.

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Once the raven haired girl had skipped her way down stairs merrily, she noticed he was gone. "P.. Papa?" She called out, looking both ways before headed toward the front door and opening it. She opened the door and saw him sitting in a rocking chair, various shovels and digging tools sitting leaned against the railing of the patio. "Come, kiddo. I need yer uh.. how to put it; ambition."Her curiosity never failed her before, and it hadn't done so now, shutting the door as she stepped outside and walking over to the tools, her hand gently running down the wood. "Long ways back, jer ma and I had this heirloom passed down in my side of the family. Was a lacrima of sorts, somethin' we didn't know about and didn't want to use, but was too unique to simply sell or anything. So, we buried it here hundreds o' years back. Only the inheritants of the farm in the family know about it, and you've shown me more than yer grand papi's told me anyone ever has. So, I want chu to have it. If you find it of course." She starred with a great amount of annoyance and eyes that peered and simply spoke for her, though she said it aloud regardless. "You're kiddin', right?" She asked, making him let out a hearty laugh and shaking his head. "I'm afraid not. Find it, as I have, and your grand papi, and so on in the past have done. From a line o Requip mages, you'll know when it's within yer reach, kiddo. NOW GET DIGGIN'!" He yelled, making her wince before a sigh came to while snatching up only a shovel and walking out to the land. She stopped and looked around, wondering where to begin her digging. 2 acres of land went a hell a long way for a farmer.

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"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII've been workin' on the railroad~ All the live long day~ ...no that's not right..." Singing random childish songs to pass her time had gotten to become more of an annoyance the more Sasha had begun to dig and dig. Sweat had drenched the clothes she had worn and dripped from her face, but the girl had continued to try and dig up this lacrima before she could even figure out what it would even do or look like. Apparently, she would know once she found it, and though her personality was somewhat similar to his, Sasha knew when the old man had his words of wisdom and he was very wise when he was serious, almost so that it was scary at times. Even so, she had dug up a nice portion of places that felt more.. at home like. She had paused to catch her breath, wiping of sweat away from her forehead and looking around. Her eyes set on the farmhouse for a moment before she seen her father wave at her, making her sigh and shake her head at him. Sasha then let out a small chuckle and dug her shovel into the dirt and pushed up some of the soil and began to dig more and more. She looked away and around towards the forested area some ways away, taking a moment break to get herself together to continue her work when she seen the bushes rustling. She took a couple steps forward when she kicked up the shovel and began to dig into another patch of grass and turning it up, making a good 6in x 6in hole before giving up and moving along a little more into it. Her face lit up as she heard a sound from the feeling of the shovel getting caught on something, digging around before she pushed up and out dirt and uncovered a rock and sighed. "God damn it.... Another one..." She gripped the rock and yanked the rock out of the ground and tossed it aside.

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Sasha's eyes couldn't leave what she was looking at right now. She didn't really know what to make of the object she starred at. It was a golden colored sphere shaped object, but there was nothing else to it. The feeling she felt from before was gone, and she didn't really know what to do with the object. She could always call out for her old man, pulled out the sphere and show him the object in hopes it was the lacrima, but he never told her what it looked like to be truthful. It could always be that rock she threw aside and she would never know it. Something about this thing was compelling, almost wanting her to even take it, but something in the back of her mind was telling her no. Refusing to go with the latter, she reached out and touched the object with her bandaged hand, and squeaked as a shock made her yank her hand and rub it for a moment. "What the..." She dropped to her knees and reached in again and touched the sphere this time, seeing yellow lightning bolts charging around it before it shocked the palm of her hand and sent her back a little bit. "Stupid.. little rascal you are...." She crawled over to the spot and seen a glowing yellow light. Her eyes widened at the sight, and without really noticing, she reached out towards it with her left hand, still being the injured hand in question and gripped onto this time. Only this time, the sphere shot out a large bolt of lightning into the sky and zapping Sasha along with it. She screamed out with pain and after the pain stopped, had come to fall head first into it. Her body felt heavy. Heavier than anything she had ever felt before and couldn't even lift herself out of it, though normally she could with her free arm no problem.

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Looking down, her one arm stuck inside of her hole with her had come to begin to glow. It was the same as the sphere from before, and it had been underneath her hand. Moving it, the sphere showed itself and began to reshape itself. Sasha watched in both amusement and confusion as she had no other choice but to really watch it. it had turned itself into a coin with the same shade of color that it had before and floated around Sasha's face playfully. Suddenly, it paused and let her look at the front of the coin and seeing the shape of a dragon on it before it had shot down and made contact with her morpher. Sitting perfectly inside it, the lacrima began to send shocks up her arm and making her scream and flail around in pain before she was able to pull herself out from the hole and fall onto the ground, holding her arm as a severe, unbearable pain had made her cry out in pain and loudly at that. gasping for air as she flopped around for another couple of minutes. It almost felt as if the whole arm was being ripped to shreds and ready to be continued to bring her such a horrid and large painful stinging pain. Finally, the pain had begun to subside and settle, quickly calming itself down and coming to a stop as she had finally been able to endure the bit of pain leftover. Thankfully, even that bit had stopped and it left her simply laying on the ground, gasping for the fresh air with a residual feeling of pain and tears from the whole ordeal slowly drying on her face. "Oh my.. fucking god.. that.. That hurt... Holy... god.." She spoke between breathes of air as best she could, sprawled out on the grass and starring up at the cloudy sky while she waited for a moment where she could feel like standing up was an option she could handle.

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Sasha laid out still sprawled in the dirt and heaving for breath as the pounding, pulsating pain in her arm had finally settled out and left her some peace and enjoyment. She lifted her arm up, looking at it as she had it hang over her head and inspected it. She was looking for any signs of any permanent damage or anything at all. Thankfully, none of that really seemed to be present around it, which was always a good sign to see none the less. The next thing she looked at had been around her morpher. Something about that had seemed to be a little different in a sense, but it hadn't really hit her just yet on what it had been, if anything at all anyway. Nothing seemed to be different about that either really, but that was simply AROUND it. Upon inspecting the object itself, she found that it was looking not so different, but still in the sense she found it different in some way. In the center, something she never noticed was there before. Similar to the sphere she seen before, a gold colored coin sat in the morpher and it had confused her on how it had gotten there. picking at it for a moment, she couldn't manage to pull it out, and after a moment of prodding at it, the coin sparked and shocked Sasha, making her wince with pain and shake her right arm for a moment. The raven haired farm girl sat herself up, holding her head from a bit of a random headache and shook it off before she slid her hair over her shoulders and began to pick out the grass that had gotten stuck in her locks. "Ewww.. Man, I always hated having this stuff in my hair... Stupid grass..." She sighed and finished plucking out what she could and ran her fingers through her hair, letting out her twin tails in doing so.

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After a final second, she gave a light shaking to her hair and ruffling it a little to make sure everything was out before she stood up to her feet. A hairbrush became requipped into her hand and she began to brush it out while walking back toward the farmhouse. Unsure of how, or if her papa would believe her was still unsure to her, but she would soon find out anyway. She paused and looked to her left as the large dirt trail that was used for vehicles coming in and out had become occupied by black vans. One sat horizontally, blocking the road from being used. Still running the brush through her hair, Sasha wondered if someone was just lost and had gone over to ask for directions. It was a logical option after all, and she looked over towards the house. Had only one van had been there, it would have been a much easier type of thing to understand, but a total of 4 black vans sat in the dirt trail leading up to the house. Something was up about this, but she just wasn't sure yet. Retying her hair back into twin tails, using the same ribbons as before to make cute little bows in it, she flicked the pair back behind her head and slowly walked toward the house. Something about it made her cautious, but still curious. If not for the curiosity, she still didn't know if she would be running in or running away to get the Knights to help. If anything, she was more worried about if these people had been giving her papa a hard time, and she wouldn't let that happen without regretting it. Still, rushing into anything could only exacerbate the situation more than it actually was, and that would be bad for everyone in this.

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Sasha began her approach toward the farm house. The sound of voices had become louder, almost nearing the sound of yelling in an argument. She had only heard her papa being loud a couple times in her life, but she could pick it out from anywhere. Not wanting to rush into anything, she slowed up her walk to pick up on what the conversation was, when the girl had then heard a crashing sound. "I TOLD YOU, YOU AIN'T GETTIN' THE LACRIMA, YE THIEVES! IT'S NOT YERS!" He shouted, just after the crashing noise. The raven haired girl dove in a small space underneath the patio of the house and she remained silent as voices and sounds bumped the wood just above her. She waited there, catching onto the conversation and the orders given to find her. The sound of the person giving orders was a more velvet throated feminine type. It felt almost calming and strangely familiar. She couldn't quite place where she could remember hearing it prior to now, but the idea had her baffled for a moment. She could see plenty of feet walking around, some running towards the bit of woodlands that surrounded the farm, probably to cover the thought that Sasha had gone and ran that way for safety, while some ran off towards the town to cover the dirt path to it. One thing was for sure, and that was that she had no means for escape, and that was a bad thing. Whatever this was about, she had no other choice now but to fight, but that was if they could find her of course. Heeled shoes exited the patio last, pausing right by her crawl space and waiting there for a moment. It then began to head off to the left before it was out of her sight. A moment of silence went by before a face popped up, looking into the hole and a smirk across her face. "Hello little rabbit, darling~ My my you've grown up quite nicely, but mama can spot a bunny hole from a mile away~"

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Her voice was calming, but taunting just the same. Sasha starred in shock as she had so quickly spotted the hiding place as something more than a simply small hole in the patio for small animals, which it had been when Sasha hadn't used it to play hide and seek. She remained still for a moment and starred daggers at the woman before she smirked and the barrel of a gun pointed into the hole and she gave her a wink and motioned for her to come out. With that being the case, it wasn't really like Sasha was going to NOT come out at this point. She could do a lot of things quickly, but in a confined spot, she was the mouse cornered by the cat and it was time to give up the cheese.. so to speak. "Fine fine. Hold your horses, I'm coming out." She sighed and began to crawl forward before she paused and looked to the gun, then to the woman. "I'm kinda nervous around that thing. If you want me out, you better back up some." The woman simply giggled and stood up, stepping back several steps and let her exit the hole, waiting for the former knight to exit and show herself. She crawled out and stood up, brushing off her clothing of the dirt and crushed leaves she had on her and held her arms up at about head level and continued a quiet stare toward the woman. The woman smiled and stepped forward before she swung quickly with the butt of her gun. However, Sasha- with her eyes still dead locked on her had ducked back from it and made her hit nothing but air. Quickly following up, the woman cold cocked her in the face with her left hand, making the raven haired girl chuckle and smirk at it while her head returned to a position from before. "Enjoy the free hit. Cause that's all you get, shrew."

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The woman returned the same smile and walked up to Sasha, gripping up one of her twin tails in her hand and pulling her head back tightly. Her grip was strong, pulling on her hair and making her wince from the pain. "Little bunny~ If you hadn't come from me, I'd have shot you right here already for the shit you gave just now." She hissed, her smirk turning to a frown before she threw her back and toward the ground harshly, smacking her head into the wooded patio before placing the gun to her head. "Wait wait." The womans body froze up, as if giving her a moment and simply giving off a cold stare toward her. "W-Who are you?" She asked, looking up at the woman, she seemed to know Sasha in the way she had spoken, but in the same sense she didn't really know who it could be. Her lazy, neglectful sister couldn't be this same woman, she was too pathetic to be some souless bitch of a gunman and not methodical enough to think of covering every possible exit, even the hidden ones that only Sasha, her papa, sister, and- Without the woman saying a word, a coy smile appeared on her face by the reaction of Sasha's widening eyes and expression of shock. "N-No.. It.." The woman giggled at the confusion of muttered words Sasha managed to be able to spit out as her mind tried to grasp the reality of the situation being put on her right now. She knelt down and reached over, lightly running a finger down Sasha's cheek and then over to touching and feeling around her hair before it returned to her face and pulled her face upward by her chin, barrel still just at her head. "All I want is the lacrima little bunny. It's all I ever wanted from your degenerate father, and I'll be gone. No harm to either of you if you comply, I promise." She smiled, looking so innocent with the way she did it, as though she was truly going to keep her word.

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"You've grown quite attractive, Sasha dear. Much more than i would have thought coming from that degenerate we have tied up in the house." She spoke rather harshly and nonchalant  of a manner too. Gritting her teeth at the comment, Sasha tried to restrain herself from trying to attack her, since well it was her mother and the fact her gun was still inches from her skull. "Why.. Just tell me why..." She paused and stood up on her feet and starred with a killing intent almost at her. "Why come back here now, and for this? Why fucking bother!?" She stepped into the womans face, not caring for the gun she had in her hand. The woman pushed it into her ribs and held it there, though the bullheaded raven haired girl wasn't going to back off from her until she got the answer to her question. With a smile, she chuckled and shrugged. "Money, of course. That's all it's been from the start." The womans auburn hair slid down into her face. Taking her free hand, she reached up to push it aside when Sasha reached down and grabbed the gun and pulled down. A shot went off and soon the gun hit the ground and then lied on the floor. Miraculously, it missed both girls and they stood still, starring at one another. Firstly, was her mothers calm and relaxed self arms now folded and waiting patiently, while Sasha starred angrily, her hands balled up in fists as she was very frustrated, confused as well. Neither of them budged an inch, but men and women suited like government officials had come around from all sides, keeping their distance and simply waiting for orders. "Well? Are you going to give it up, or am I going to have to spank you like a disobediant child until you tell mommy where it is?" Her smirk vanished and a serious demeanor veiled the former calm gestured pose the woman had while Sasha remained quiet.

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"Can't do that." Was her only reply. She continued to stare angrily at her, but she simply angered her mother badly. "Then we'll let the pig go, and you give it to us." She tried to play a bit of a bargain for her. Seeing the safety of her father would prove to be a nice thing for her to see she would be kind enough. She smiled and held her arm up, showing the coin on the front of her morpher and chuckled. "Don't you hear? It's mine, and it won't be leaving ME any time soon." The woman took a step closer before Sasha had Requipped a weapon into her hand, and in doing so, her morpher activated. "IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" Along with her blade being summoned to her side, her hair turned snow white, her dark eyes bright sky blue and her clothing becoming changed as well, though not through her requip. The eyes of all the people, her mother included had widened in the surprise of her transformation and took a fighting stance, ready to fight at a moments notice. All different elements had made the idea of picking off sections and being in a well off armor for it all harder as well, but she had the advantage still. Her sawtooth blade pointed at her mothers neck raised a well done leverage on the group, making her smirk as she waved them to move away. "Now, all of you. Back it up or I kill her. I'll say it once so DO IT!" She barked, pissed off now that she had come to resort to the idea of having to resort to this. "As I've said, mama. It's mine. My morpher cannot be removed at all, and I think the lacrima is the same way now. You won't simply 'get it' now. Now will I give you it what so ever. After all you've done to papa. You can fuck off."

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Even the change in Sasha's voice had thrown off the auburn haired woman. She found it to be very odd that all of this had come from some cheap looking bracelet, but now there was a lacrima infused with the bracelet and giving its power without Sasha even knowing. Her sword sparked with electricity every few seconds, and had it not been for the serious nature she bore on the surface, she would have shown more of a curious thought towards it. "Is.. This must be the lacrima.. Lightning, eh?" She smirked as the devious nature of her ideas struck her. The woman took a step back and the blade held to her neck dipped lower as Sasha sighed and rested the sword on her shoulder. "Fight me. Right now. JUST you and me. If you win, then I'll willingly go with you, and work under you as anything you want, from a servant to a hired killer. If I win, you get the fuck off this farm and don't ever come back. Deal?" The woman remained silent, arms crossed under her chest as she thought the deal over. Sure, he idea of the bet seemed dumb, but having a free worker for the rest of her life was just as securing for the time being as having someone whom could simply give her a fortune. "Instead. I'll just add you to the cost of the lacrima. I'll sell you off as a sex slave mage whom can serve an owner on and off the battlefield." Sasha's blood began to boil at her alternate deal. The idea she had come to FOR HER OWN DAUGHTER NONE THE LESS, had Sasha infuriated and the weapon rattling from her now out of control temper. "You are absolutely a disgrace to humanity. I'll kill you here and make sure to sleep REAL comfy tonight knowing you won't ever think that way about anyone else like that again." She readied the blade once more, never more ready to kill anything before in her life until this moment.

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The woman laughed at her remark, as if a big bluff used to hype her up rather than the threat of her life. The woman herself had requipped a pair of swords to her side and drew them, pointing them both toward Sasha before she had come to smirk. "So it's a bet! Oh I have a few clients who would just love to make you their toy. This should be fun." She tensed up in her legs and pounced. In the same moment Sasha had done the same, the three blades clashing together. The back and forth push for power began to slowly drift into the woman's favor, before in one fell push, Sasha pushed away the twin swords and swung in for a kick. The woman blocked it with her own, using the kick to regain balance herself before she taken a swing to the leg, possibly in an attempt to sever it. Sasha pushed off with one foot and landed about a foot or so back and skid to a stop before the woman seemed to ease her combat like pose and smirked. Sasha shared the moment of the test they both seemed to have wanted to take with one another, but if she had thought she was done, she'd be kidding herself in thinking so. "My, not bad little bunny. The Knights taught you well I see. Now lets see what happens when I try a little." She smirked and took her tensed stance once again as Sasha shrugged and nodded, chuckling at her comment. "Feel free. While your at it, you think of how bad it'll be when my single blades outdo your dual blades." She laughed a little at the taunting comments, waiting to see if she would strike a nerve, but the woman was very reserved. It was amazing to say the least that she had managed to do so, but in thinking so, every fuse has it's end, and she just had to keep it going long enough to get her there.

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This time, the woman made the first move and headed right for Sasha. She was pretty quick, but Sasha always had the upper hand in seeing things that most people would normally miss, even if normally she was quite air headed and childish sometimes. The snow white haired girl took a swing as a parrying counter, and struck blades with the woman, with a spark of electricity shooting randomly outward from the collision. The blades again clashed and held together pushing back and forth. Upon closer inspection, the blades of the older woman's had begun to crack. "Cornered, little bunny~" The air around the blades had begun to swirl and shot Sasha back, sliding onto the ground on her back. Blue metal pieces had rained onto the ground as the winds shattered her sword in one shot, but not before her own had snapped in half and the tips fell to the ground. Both girls swords vanished from their hands and Sasha hoped up to her feet and waited patiently for her to pick the next move. The woman had stood still, simply starring Sasha down in wait. "What exactly do I call you? Because mama isn't gonna ever happen. Not after what you've done to us all!" She blurted out angrily. The woman laughed a little and shrugged before shaking her head and sighing at her daughters blatently lack of respect for her, but she knew it was going to be a thing. "Tiffany. Tiffany Mart-" Before she could finish, she had jumped aside as a large metal axe had struck down next to her. The same sparking lightning had surrounded this weapon as well, and Sasha shot her head over, her face obviously showing how pissed off she had gotten. "Don't you finish that god damn statement! You are no longer apart of this family, you heartless demonic bitch!" She shouted, swinging once more towards her.

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Tiffany quickly reacted and ducked the swing and requipped a pair of spiked gauntlets. The gleam in her eyes that Sasha seen, looking under her arm made her decide instantly what to do. The fist shot quickly to her gut, and her body became enveloped in light. As the fist struck her body, Sasha winced in a bit of pain before she gave a half grinned face. The light quickly dimmed and a sky blue colored bunny suit donned her body. Her clothing completely replaced with the cuff links, bow tie, and icy blue bunny ears that came with it. Even the heels on her feet had matched it all. Quickly, Sasha grabbed her arm and stopped her weapons movement and swung it back around, ready to take off an arm right quick and in a hurry. Her arm entirely had stopped as a whole and when she turned around, shadows had caught the blade and then pulled so hard, it took the bunny suit wearing girl along with it, launching her several feet before it slammed her into the ground. She landed on top of her blade luckily, but she still felt all the pain of her head slamming on top of it. The shadows below her snapped the metal in half, though rolling off of the weapon had saved her from landing in a mess. Rubbing her head, she looked over and seen the limp, crushed vines and red plants growing from them and flailed around for a moment before she jumped up, angrily. "THEY FUCKED UP MY TOMATOES!" Sure, Sasha had become a vegan before and after she left the farm, but there was still the very annoyance with the fact that she had HATED when her family crops were destroyed, and now they were all dead meat... literally. NEW FERTILIZER EVEN! They never tried human corpse before, but it was supposed to make for a nice one. "You never did say I couldn't have outside interference, bunny~ Now they won't again, but consider that a warning that you don't forget when you make a bet. Cover your bases."

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Jumping up to feet, Sasha flicked her snow white hair behind her head and brushed off her bunny suit, looking around at all the remaining people. All of them had begun to get spells ready and looking at her. With a smirk, she motioned to them to try them, all at once to be exact and she chuckled, pushing her arms out as the vapor in the very air around her had formed a large moving snow globe. Spells were launched left, right, up, down, and straight ahead. With a sigh, she watched spells hit the snow globe and crash into it. Looking around, the couple leftover mages were of fire and lightning. She licked her lips looking at the lightning they had. it looked... oddly tasty. First, the fire mages launched small sized fireballs, which pierced the last of the shields durability, while the lightning mages there shot them straight for Sasha. Without actually thinking, she began to making a sucking motion, making the lightning collect and shoot around before it had becomed consumed into Sasha's mouth. She gulped it down and exhaled a breath of relief before she patted her stomach and rubbed it several times and giggled. "Thanks there. I was really hungry, but now I'm not. I feel fully charged now!" She chuckled and all of the people had starred in shock before some of them had ran off. Leaving few mages and her mother, Sasha took a couple steps forward before lightning had began to grow in visibility and speed in her hands, clapping them together and pulling them apart slowly, as if a magnetic force was pulling her hands together. In the mean time, she began to generate a large ball of electricity in her hands and grinned evilly as she readied to use this ball of lightning to attack someone. Just not yet.

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The remaining mages seemed to be stuck in place. They were oddly compelled and confused on how and why she had gotten this power, but they were just as confused as Sasha was. Sasha just decided to roll with the idea of what was already happening, but the leftovers afterward was something she would just have to pick up at a later time of course. For now, she would take what she got and she would let that be that for the time being. Once she got these pesky little pains in her ass out of the way, she would get to learning how to properly utilize whatever it was she was stuck with as well as of course being that she would need to know WHAT the object was so that she could do some research. Obviously being able to eat lightning and have it taste good, let alone being edible to begin with was frightening but incredibly useful as well. Having waited long enough, Sasha felt compelled to see just what this ball of lightning could do, and with one loud shout, she shot the ball of lightning out, shooting it out towards the area they were at. The ball traveled faster than she had expected it to, but the ball crashed right in front of the group and imploded almost. Kicking up loads of dirt that created a smokescreen and leaving a mystery in the air of what happened, a few leftover sparks shot around before it all was left to silence. The cloud of dirt had made it hard to see anyone, and the whole area was silent. Was it possible she had just completely knocked out or killed them all? She took single step before the sound of coughing made her pause. She waited for a moment and starred in wait of what would happen. She hadn't gotten another weapon ready yet. She wanted to wait what would come of the scene before she could plan what would happen next, but anything was possible.

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The suspense of what was behind curtain number one was overwhelming. As much as Sasha had wanted to charge in, the ides of coming to a trap was just as consuming an option. To be exact, she had thought that blocking it with a shield and using the sand to block her from seeing them prep a trap, then as she would go through it, capture her and win heir part of the bet, turning her into some trick turning warrior, or just some sex hungry object depending on who had gotten their hands on her for the most money. Then again, thats how anything involving auctions goes, so the premise working for people was thought to be the same really. Best case scenario, only about 1 of them would be up and weakened from the impact, making the fight much easier. Slowly, the clouds had begun to dissipate into nothing, but for now it left her was silhouettes of several bodies on their feet, some of them standing and wobbling. After a moment, they had dropped to the ground and left only 3 or four left standing. Sasha slowly took a step closer to the cloud, her worry of running into the woman being the trap she had thought of. Finally, the smoke cleared and left the woman standing there. Her face angered, teeth gritted and her clothes in slight tatters. The weapons she had on shattered and left her hands burnt, the skin colored a darker brown from the degree of burns and painful type of impact the shot had done to her, but the adrenaline in her must have been really strong to make her not only stand up, but want to keep fighting. If there was any doubt before if this was truly Sasha's mother or not, then this would prove it to be correct. Only Sasha would have this kind of determination and anger in her to wanna stay conscious after such a thing.

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Sasha smirked and looked at the woman, chuckling even as she had seen the kind of fire she never expected the woman to have. "Wow. If I had ever doubted you actually being my mother, this would be something that would convince me otherwise." The woman shouted like a banshee, requipping a large weapon to her hands and charging towards Sasha at a high rate of speed. Her brow arched at the sudden furious rage she had. It was more than she had ever seen anyone ever have at all, but this was good. It was what she wanted the entire time. She found the thing that makes this woman tick; damaging her skin. She grinned and requipped herself a large blade and swung it around, gripping both sections of her weapon with one hand each and waited. They collided once more and the struggle had gotten harder and more serious. Sasha felt compelled to begin enjoying the serious fight. It was finally getting to be fun! Something inside her was making her giddy and overly excited for the fun of this. She was albeit squealing with the joy of having the chance to have a serious battle where she could die without being in fear of dying for once. The battle loving grin never left Sasha's face as they fought over who had the overwhelming strength, but in the end, it all ended with Sasha pushing out again, almost without a challenge and swinging the blade with great speed and power, knocking around Tiffany's with almost no fight back. When Sasha had gotten onto a roll, she was like a fighting demon with no end until the end was drawn for her. She had never found the restraint on her own, and today she'd go all out and end anyone and everyone in her way! Anyone that dare try to stomp on her dreams, her goals, her family, her land, ANYTHING!

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