Dungeons and Time Clocks; Choice 3 Team 2 Event Topic

With the kingdom's army on the front lines, fending off the Rune Knights trying to take what is their's, the castle is left with minimal defenses of its own. Seeing the chance to take things into their own hands, groups of mages have gathered in attempts to get a piece of the magical item  that the Magic Council is invading for. Whether for greed, for power, or for some other reason in their minds, they have found their way to the inner workings of the castle and must find a piece of the item so that might use it for whatever purposes they have devised for it. Is it for greed? To sell the part of a whole to the highest bidder? A trophy to keep in a collection of stolen goods? Or maybe a grand scheme to steal every piece from the others, and use the power of the item as it was designed to be? Only time will tell!

Rules of the Game!

The players for the group start off on the ground floor of the castle and must find their way to the fifth level of the dungeons to find a piece of the magic item. You have ten post orders max to do so and must roll a dice at the first post of the group per round. This dice will tell you what random thing has happened, which will be listed below!

Roll A Standard Dice(D6), Results Are As Follows;
1. Time Loop Trap! The party finds themselves back up one floor! Progress is lost and many all will be confused unless a mage with some kind of time magic is in the topic.
2. Automated Defenses?!? A set of ten turrets line the halls of the floor. Each deals a spell rank worth of damage to those it hits, and take 4 of ANY spell rank in damage to be destroyed.
3. Empty Floor! The floor down appears to be one of simply storage and another ladder down. The party may choose to waste a post order for it and rest to regain all HP/MP/Reset Cooldowns, or the person may roll again for free to see what happens on the next floor down.
4. Guard Dogs! A pair of large dogs find the party, howling loudly and startling anyone into a 50% slow until they are defeated. Each takes 4 hits ANY rank to defeat. Any rolls of this after the first will upgrade to a 5.
5. Alerted Guards! The party must fight off a group of highly trained guards, which happen to be a mix of physical and magic users. They take a total of 5 hits ANY rank to defeat, and 2 spawn per player. They deal a spell rank worth of damage to those they hit.
6. TRAPPED! A dangerous trap goes off, up to the people in the topic, that sets will make someone fall behind one floor as they try to escape from it. The group may choose to leave them, to either make it out on their own or to die instead, but it will set them back an entire floor.

Rolling~

The member 'Cirven' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Normal Dice' :

The Black Sails had arrived with two separate groups in order to take an extra piece of the pie than they would have gotten otherwise. It wasn't as though they thought they would get both pieces but they also felt there was a bigger chance in separating into two groups in order to get at least a piece of the clock. The newly founded group had to make a name for themselves as well as a profit too so it was only natural that they would try to make sure that they could amass as much of both as they could.

Along with his fellow Black Sails crew Cirven made his way into the opposite part of the castle of their other assaulting group. His group consisted of Sakura, Aliannah, Jiyu Megane and himself which was one person short of the other group but that was not seen as an issue, at least not yet. They knew they had to rush through to get a piece of the clock before the castle could get more of their forces to the castle to deal with them but did not know what else to expect at all.

Cirven's mind was on more than just capturing a piece of the clock alone. A newer member named Aliannah was a part of his team that was throwing him off. She was a the twin of Euphemia but even then he could tell them a part from their scent. Their was another difference between them though; Aliannah had a magical aura that he could feel. A similar magical aura that he had felt in the past with a certain person he was close to. He tried to push the thoughts to the back of his mind to focus on their assault.

Cirven's group made it to what looked like an area completely void of any life or any sort of defense mechanism to deal with. It was strange for the first line of defense against them to be something completely undefended by anyone or anything at all. "Watch yourselves." He spoke out to the rest of his group as he cautiously made his way into the room, taking the lead.

With each of his steps, his eyes wandered around the area looking for anything out of the ordinary but he could not see anything but an empty room. His attention lingered away from his next step as he looked to his right and his foot went a bit deeper into the ground than he thought. He quickly looked down towards his foot to see that the floor he was standing on was disappearing. He quickly thought of the others around him and pushed them back so that the trap would not catch them too where the floor swallowed him up and closed behind him.

Below the floor there were sounds of grunts and expletives until finally the floor opened back up and looked to spit out a human sized die. "I feel like who ever made this first trap has more of a sense of humor than most clowns.." Cirven's voice could be heard from the inside of the die. He could see that it was a die from the inside of it but could not see out of it. A loud grunt could be heard accompanied by the sound of flesh slamming against metal. This caused the die to tumble over which disoriented Cirven who was inside it. "Harder than I thought." A long sigh could heard from inside the large die and then multiple strikes from the inside of the die sounded off causing the die to tumble around with each one. Cirven stopped after his tenth punch to the die from feeling slightly dizzy and annoyed. "Go without me for now! I'll catch up! Not going to let some joke of a trap beat me at the start like this!"

OOC:

The blonde didn't know what to do, she followed after her sister and joined the guild that she had join. But she didn't expect to be separated from her so quickly. Her hands fumbled in front of her as she thought about what the group would be doing. The were trying to protect a piece of the clock, well, she wasn't sure if they were protecting it or taking it for themselves because it was a precious item, but they were there for it none-the-less.

She didn't know anyone in her group, not their names, nothing. Well that is what she thought. A small smidge of her felt like she knew the guy that was leading their group through the hallways that created a labyrinth around the castle. He had dark blueish black hair and had a red eye along with a blue one. He seemed strange. He was relatively tall, but wasn't so lankey that it made him unattractive.

Gah what was she thinking. Her hands tensed in front of her as she quickly and silently shook her head.

Aliannah wasn't sure how she felt about being separated from her sister after only reuniting with her a couple days ago, but the way that she could see the guy that had indigo hair was looking at her she knew that he wouldn't let any harm come to her, or maybe it all of the group.

The clear words of warning entered her head, they had reached the first floor. Aliannah took in a deep breath and focused on one thing that she was really good at, hiding her presence. She stayed behind everyone, watching them and the way that they moved and the room around them to make sure that there was nothing coming for them.

But, the sound of a hollowed footstep had her spinning towards the front of the group trying to warn the person who took that step to move out of the way and quickly.

But she was too late, the guy at the front had fallen victim to what looked like a large metal dice. The young woman watched for a moment, and she could feel some part of her laughing at the situation that the guy in front of her caught stuck in. Idiot.

She didn't hear anything as the people in front of her possibly ran up the stairs as the man had suggested, but she simply stood there looking at the dice before putting a hand on it and looking for the creases where the metals would have connected.

"I feel sorry for you, I heard the hollowed sound of your footstep and didn't move fast enough. You shouldn't have to be stuck in a box. But, I don't know why, there is some part of me that wasn't to call you a moron and start rolling the dice."

OOC:

A female voice spoke to him from outside of the box saying that she felt sorry for him but at the same time wanted to call him a moron for getting stuck in it. It was as if for her remark she sounded like someone else and caused his brow to twitch in a slight annoyance like that same someone would from his past. "Shut up, Alyia!" He yelled out as his hands morphed into metallic claws and he flailed them around inside the box, each slash making more progress than the last. "This box is nothing!" He yelled out again as he picked up speed with his onslaught of attacks until finally he was able to cut through it and make a way out for himself.

He triumphantly jumped out of the dice box as if he had not just made a joke of himself while attacking at a dice block over and over causing it to roll around with him inside of it. "I told you, Alyia! Easy peez..." He was cut off in his talking as he looked towards the girl who stood waiting for him and he remembered who he was with and who she reminded him of. Problem was, she was not her.

"I..I mean... Hi..." He awkwardly waved to the girl and tried to play off the fact that he probably had just made an idiot of himself in front of her and any of the others who stayed around. He hoped she did not hear him call her Alyia because he did not want to explain anything about the friend he felt he had left in their time of need. "Lets keep going. We have to get this clock piece before things get too crazy here. If not we might not be able to get back at all."

He didn't waste much time and ran off towards the stairs that lead down to the next floor and quickly went down them where they had to be ready for anything.

Rolling~

The member 'Cirven' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Normal Dice' :

Alyia? Who was that? The girl looked at the dice with a tilted head, was this guy okay? She heard more mumbled words coming from the box before it began to roll around the room angrily. She didn't even think that something could roll angrily. Who even was this guy?

Suddenly a pair of long metal looking like claws ripped through the side of the side of the dice and finally tore through the metal that had the man inside caged. A concerned look passed over the features of the girl as she looked at the man. He seemed to have lost himself as his hair was now a mess and he was panting as if out of breath. If she didn't know better she would have thought that he had gone insane. He was not facing her but began to speak confidently as though he was talking to this person named Alyia. Alyia must have been a really important person to him.

Her head tilted at the man as he turned around to face her. His words stopped in his throat as he looked at her. He seemed embarrassed. She was a smart girl. There was something about this person named Alyia that mattered a lot to him but he didn't want to talk about it. She would ask him about it later. Possibly on a different day, this was also simply just not the time, they had better things to do rather than talk about people of their past.

His next words confirmed her thoughts before he ran to the ladder at the end of the room before climbing down it. Aliannah followed suit swiftly before crawling down the ladder only to find what looked like a storage room. What? Weren't the rooms supposed to have like dangers on every level? Apparently not.

Not even thinking about it the girl sprinted to the end of the hallway and to the ladder before taking the first step down and looking up at the male. "This room is evidently just a storage room, come on we don't have much time." Without another word she descended the ladder into the next room.

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Notes:
Mp: 100
Hp: 100

Rounds: 2/10

The member 'Goddess Aliannah' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Normal Dice' :

The next floor was completely void of any life or any sort of defenses. It was a perfect room to spring a trap with all the random oddities around to throw off any thieves and then spring up from some of the stuff laying around to surprise attack anyone near. At least that was what Cirven though because it looked like others didn't share that same thinking.

He didn't want to spend much more time in the 'storage' room than necessary which meant that it wasn't worth the time of stopping. They had just started their charge to the lower floors and needed to move quickly. Before he could speak up and make the first move Aliannah had beaten him to it and ran towards the way off the floor and to the next alone. An uneasy feeling struck him as she got ahead of him. "Hey! Don't go alone!" He darted off towards her and jumped down to the next floor to land next to her where a blast flew towards them. He quickly summoned up two plates of metal in front of them which barely stopped the blast and caused the area to be covered in dust and debris from the sheets of metal.

He quickly grabbed Ali by her side and ran behind a pillar where they were able to hide. He peeked from around the pillar to see what had shot at them. Lined up on the sides of the room the room was ten turrets that they had to figure out a way to deal with before getting to the next floor. He knew that they did not have enough time to deal with all of the turrets and to get a piece of the clock they wanted.

"We have to find a way to avoid them and get to the next floor. We do not have enough time to deal with all of them. What do you think?" He asked his companion with him and any others that could have been with them. He gave them a short time to respond but it did not matter what they would say because he already had his mind set on his next move.

"We have to do this quickly or else we won't get through." A purple aura came over his body. To anyone who knew what it was, they'd know that it was the manifestation of his killing intent that he was letting seep out that was a way for him to ready himself to use Anima Messor. This showed that he was ready and confident in his next move. "Either follow me and try not to get lost." He spoke to his companions.

He dashed out from behind their cover where he changed his arm morphed into a black metallic cannon. The turrets all looked towards him and took aim but before they could fire he had already shot off a ball of metal that flew out between the closest four turrets and him. The ball exploded into shrapnel and damaged each turret while covering the area they were in a dark dust cloud which caused them to not be able to see their target.

Cirven then dashed into the dark cloud of smoke where he used it to his advantage because he could not be seen and his enhanced senses would help him know where the four turrets were so that he could dash through them without being seen which would also give the others the same advantage if they could get through correctly.

Cirven popped out the other side of the dark cloud only to be quickly shot through by multiple shells shot by the next six turrets. If the turrets would have been living things though they would have quickly become surprised as another Cirven jumped out from behind a pillar near them and shot out multiple needles in a cone at them. This only managed to hit two of the turrets but just like the others this made the area around those turrets surrounded in a dark cloud that they could not see through well.

Cirven again came out from the now connected dark cloud where he was met with a barrage of shots from the turrets. He dodged what shots he could as he shot off another metallic ball between the four last turrets. The ball exploded into another mass of the metallic dark dust and connected with the other mass of it which would allow the team to quickly get through the floor if they did not get lost in the dark cloud. The dark cloud would only last so long though.

Cirven came out of the dark cloud again, his body showing the signs of where attacks barely missed him as well as one spot on his side where he had been hit directly that was now soaked in blood. He had thought he would reach the end of the floor without trouble but found out that his last addition to the dark cloud had only covered two of the last four turrets which left him with a turret on each side of him. Each turret quickly shot off shells at him giving him little room to dodge and with the end of the floor so close...

Spells Used in Sequence:

The blonde landed on the ground softly and sturdily she was ready for whatever came at her, or was she. She wasn't used to this, she didn't know why she thought that she could do this it was as if something inside of her was trying to tell her what to do on instinct, but she didn't want to do it. A blast sounded from her right and the man that she had left behind jumped down from the hole in the ceiling landing next to her and blocked the explosion that occurred only inches from her.

She could feel her body being pulled away from the explosion and behind what seemed to be a barrier, her eyes were closed, clenched shut. Her body was tense and slightly shaking, she wasn't used to this. Taking in a deep breath the girl opened her eyes and looked out in front of her, there was nothing but another wall. Turning her head the girl glanced around the pillar that the guy had pulled her behind. There were turrets, wha-?

Worry infected her head and the girl bit her bottom lip, she hadn't fought against the arm that held around her waist from the man who had protected her. She needed to think clearly.

Hearing his suggestion the girl only nodded, they needed to get past them but they wouldn't be able to destroy them. "There is no way that we would make it in time if we tried to destroy every single one." She still didn't know how the magic that she had inside of her worked, but she could feel the pulse of it under her skin. "I'll distract them." She needed to act brave. She needed to do this.

But the man that she had been working with moved faster than she did. Launching himself from behind their barrier against the turrets and right at them. A cloud of smoke and dust came from his direction. Aliannah knew that he had told them to follow him but there was something that made her stay behind.

She watched him and there was a part of her that wanted nothing but to yell at him and help him, but she didn't even know the extent of her magic. She followed behind him slightly, looking at the damage that he was causing in his wake, this was something to behold. Crash after crash, bullet after bullet, explosion after explosion.

It only took him minutes, no seconds. There was almost nothing left, but as the black haired guy finally came to a stop in front of the rest of the group he was not in the best of shape. He was covered in blood stains and his clothes were ripped. Something like a low growl slipped from the lips of the blonde, unknowingly. She didn't mean to do it on purpose, she didn't know what had come over her.

However the fight wasn't done. There were two turrets left. She could see it in slow motion and she knew that she needed to react quickly as two bullets came flying at the man who had just done the most damage of the level.

She didn't know how she knew that to say but she did it.

"I Call Upon Thee Cage of the Devil!"

A black like shell covered the man in the middle from the bullets that were flying towards him.

"I Call Upon the Hell's Criminals!"

The second incantation of a spell slipped from her lips as she stepped from behind the pillar and pointed in the direction of the turrets. Eight white creatures appeared around the turrets and started to bite and hit on it, each dealing a D-Rank spell damage. The turrets began to shut down as the small creatures looked down from the turrets at the blonde who had summoned them. They were awaiting their next orders.

But she didn't have any at the time as the girl ran over to the man whom had taken the brunt of the damage. With panic in her eyes she glanced him over. There was really only one serious wound that she would be able to wrap, she knew how to do this after being in the hospital for most of her life.

"You are something, you know?" She wanted to yell at the guy and hit him several times for some unknown reason but she knew that this was not the time nor the place for that and he was already injured. She walked over to him and pulled her first aid kit out of her backpack. Opening it she pulled out some gauze, glaring at the man until he lifted his shirt to expose the wound on his side. She pulled out a couple of disinfectant wipes, clearing the area of blood before wrapping the gauze around him to help and stop the bleeding. "But don't ever do something like that again. Alright? Promise me?"

She finished cleaning the man up before looking around and at the stairs that went down to the next floor. Fourth floor, they were almost there. Taking in a deep breath the girl packed her stuff away back into her back-pack before swinging it over her shoulder and making her way to the next floor.

She looked down through the hole in the flood before moving to go down to the next floor. They didn't have time to stop.

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Spells Used:

The member 'Goddess Aliannah' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Normal Dice' :

Cirven could only block the incoming barrage of shots that was about to rage towards him but as he curled up surrounding himself in the metal that he could control, he did not feel anything slamming into him at all. He then heard a incantation for a spell being called out as he opened his eyes to see a black shell surrounding him. The incantation that was called out was one that he knew. One that he knew that only one person knew. "Alyia..." He spoke out to himself as his eyes widened. He knew it wasn't her. It couldn't be her. She wouldn't be in such a place helping him do something that she would probably frown down on him for.

"I really am a worthless Ace to you aren't I?" He spoke out but laughed after. "Or maybe I am just the right fit to compliment you...?" The black shell disappeared from around him to show that Aliannah had made her way to him and dealt with the turrets that were attacking him using little white creatures to destroy them. A spell that Alyia used in the past. It was like he knew what to do next and removed his top for her to patch him up. She spoke about him promising to not do anything reckless again which he knew he could not agree to. He was naturally reckless and did not like to involve others in his actions like her.

"I knew it..." He spoke out to her as she used the gauze to wrap around him and to prevent himself from answering her promise. "Aliannah, you said in the past that you were close to death in a hospital, right? What if I told you that it isn't a coincidence that you were suddenly better." The gauze had been wrapped around him to cover his wound. "I'm pretty sure I know what is going on with you. I just don't know if I really am right or not though..."

He grabbed his shirt and put it back over his torso. The blood stain still was on the shirt and made it blatantly obvious he had been injured which he planned to watch out for.  "I will tell you after this is over though. It isn't the time or place to get into a conversation like that.Lets go." He moved to the exit to the current floor and to the next floor. This time he did so slowly and kept his guard up just in case.

He made it to the fourth floor and looked around cautiously for anything that stood out but like the earlier floor they had been to he did not find anything there at all. "Did they think that one trap and a group of turrets would keep us from getting this far or something...?" He continued moving through the floor slowly, even when making it to the floors exit. "Okay...." He spoke out slightly annoyed about no challenge or surprises on the floor.

On the way down he could feel that the next floor was different. It was the fifth floor in their journey and from some info they had come across it was the floor they needed to get to in order to get their hands on a piece of the clock that everyone was either after or protecting. A piece that he planned to take for his crew.

Upon making it to the floor it was almost completely void of anything but one small pedestal that held an item in it. "Keep your eyes open for anything." He made his way to the pedestal with no surprises at all. A grimace came over his face as he stood in front of the clock piece. "That was a bit too easy. I feel like we are going to be cursed or something if we take this thing." He slowly reached his hand out to touch the clock piece but decided to wait for any of his comrades to voice their opinion on the situation.

This man was hiding something from her, well maybe he wasn’t hiding it, he seemed as though he was going to tell her, just not now. But he knew something that she didn’t know. Something about her suddenly getting better, she knew that it wasn’t just some miracle, but there was something else going on. There was no way that she would suddenly have magic after waking up when she didn’t previously have any magic.

They moved onto the fourth floor.

It seemed to be another area merely for storage. Being her and wanting to hurray up the girl would have rushed through the area. If nothing was attacking them as they were coming down what was the likely hood that there was actually something that was down there. Something that was stalling until they thought that the had a safe place. With these thoughts in her head the girl began to stick closer to the guy in front of her. Sure she had rushed through a floor like this earlier, but it seemed as though two of the same floors was a little strange.

But though she felt scared she wanted to get this over with quickly. Quickly enough so that they could grab the piece and get back up to the surface where the man could tell her what he thought was the truth.

The two passed by boxes stocked upon each other. Her soft hair was no longer clean, covered in dust and drenched with sweat. Reaching to her hair tie she pulled her hair up and tying it up with the band. Her blonde hair now off the back of her neck and swinging more freely behind her.

They reached the end of the level before slowly making their way down to the next floor.

There was the piece on a small pedestal, just for the taking, but there was no way that they could just shimmy up there and take it. There had to be some kind of drawback. “Careful!” Aliannah reached out and snatched his hand back quickly.

The member 'Goddess Aliannah' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Normal Dice' :

Cirven could feel something in the room around them as he reached out his hand and as he pulled it back his companion grabbed his hand and shouted out just as a large dog's maw clamped down where his hand had been. The dog had gray fur and was the almost the size of a bear. The dog did not let up after missing with its bite and kept up an assault with a a few more snaps of its jaw at Cirven.

The bites were not hard to dodge at all but it did not seem that the dog was trying to hurt him as much as it was just trying to get him away from the pedestal with the clock piece. Cirven jumped back from the clock after dodging some of the dogs attacks, where he stood and stared at the large  canine. "Okay. This mutt seems to be trained pretty well." The dog growled at him and his team while another growl could be heard from behind them. Another dog had shown itself and guarded their exit out of the floor. This dog looked similar to the other but had a slightly different shade of gray for its fur. "So we can't get the piece or leave? Isn't that a bit harsh? At least give us one or the other here." Cirven sighed. He did not feel too comfortable fighting dogs especially ones that were simply trained to do something by their masters. It felt kind of like him hurting his own family but he knew he had to.

"Aliannah, you deal with the dog that is protecting the pedestal and get the clock piece for us. I'll make sure we can get out of here." Cirven walked towards the dog guarding their exit out. "Here boy." He spoke out playfully towards the dog that only growled as a reply.  "Sorry about this but we are going to be taking that piece over there and need to leave here."

Cirven then quickly ran at the dog that waited for him to get close enough to him before snapping out its large maw at its opponent which missed as Cirven managed to move to the side of it and swung his right hand at the face of the dog. To Cirven's surprise the feeling of his clawed hand making contact with the dog's face was that of metal and metal instead of metal on flesh. This threw Cirven off for a few seconds and allowed the dog to slam its claws down across Cirven's chest which surprised him even more as it felt again like metal on metal this was due to Cirven's body being outlined in the metal his body produced.

Cirven took the blow from the dog and huffed out air as he looked towards his opponent. He placed his hand on his chest to feel the clawed tear through his flesh. The wound was not as bad as his earlier one but the fact that the dog could do that with just its claws meant something. "So, you have a reinforced body too? Interesting. I can't be held back though."

The dog rushed towards the demon this time and lunged at him. Cirven challenged the lunge by shaping his arm into a metallic pillar and slamming it into the dog's side while it was still in the air which sent it into the ground. Cirven quickly moved to the fallen dog and formed his arm into a blade where he slammed it into the dog's body and then slashed it across it. The dog let out a yelp but that it still had a lot of fight left because even though it had just been attacked it grabbed Cirven's leg with its mouth and pulled it so that he fell on his back. The dog jumped on top of him with its front paws on Cirven's shoulders to hold him down. It then opened its mouth and moved towards Cirven's head to bite it off.

He took in a deep breathe and fired off a blast of shrapnel at the dogs face which sent the dog flying through the air again but this time it was bashed against a nearby wall from the attack. Another yelp of pain could be heard from the dog as it hit the wall. Cirven winced in pain also while he leaned up from his downed position and tried to get up on his leg that had the dogs fang marks now engraved into his leg. The pain did not help matters as he tried to stand up but the dog did not fair too well either as it was having trouble standing up, at least at first.

The dog seemed to brushed off the pain with a primal growl and then rushed towards Cirven again. It had the advantage with Cirven's leg being in the position it was in. It limited how the man could react and forced him to 'dodge' with another attack. The dog's mouth grew larger and larger as it charged until it grew a size to where it could take out a huge chunk of Cirven's body. This was done by magic that the dog had some sort of control over. Cirven quickly turned his arm into a large black drill that spun to life and jumped up using his good leg, in order to just narrowly dodge the dog's large fangs and slam the drill into the dog's head. A sound of metal drilling into metal enveloped the floor and the attack collided with the dog's head. The dog's head slammed into the ground from the drill's attack and made enough of an impact that the dog's fangs started to break causing the dog to yelp out in pain hysterically even after the attack ended.

The final attack ended and Cirven huffed in some air of relief from his accomplishment as the dog laid unconscious from the amount of pain it had endured. A bloodied and scarred Cirven stood over the dog and pet it as he sighed. "Good boy but I'm sorry. I have to live up to my word. Kind of all I got."

He then looked towards his partner to see how she fared against her opponent and if she had gotten the clock piece yet.

Spells in Sequence:

This time her instinct was right as she pulled his hand away right at the moment that a large wolf like dog tried to take a bite out of him. Her blue orbs were wide as she looked at the wolf. It had grey fur that shimmered like silver under the light. It might had been a really pretty dog if it weren’t trying to hurt them.

Quickly scrambling away from the dog the girl stumbled down the few steps of stairs that led up to the pedestal. She wasn’t exactly a friends to dogs that tried to bite at her. Landing on her rear from stumbling down the stairs the girl hadn’t predicted that there would be another wolf like dog behind them. This one was a pure white colour. It nearly glowed in the light of the room and seemed pretty alluring. They had been trapped in the room without a way to get out and unable to grab the clock piece. The blonde haired girl looked directly at the wolf. She was scared. Her heart beat rapidly in her chest just looking at the wolf in front of her.

She could hear the jokes from the man behind her and wanted to roll her eyes, this was not the time for jokes. But, his next sentence was not joking. It was an order. Distract the wolfy thing and grab the clock piece? Why? Couldn’t he distract and grab the thing? Grumbling a bit the girl glared at the dog. She wasn’t exactly in the best of moods now.

Slowly making her way to her feet the girl continued to make eye contact with the wolfy. This was now nearly an act of dominance. Her narrowed now stormy blue eyes nailed their way into those of the wolf’s red ones. She began her slow assent up the steps back to the clock piece, passing the black haired man on her way up. For a moment it seemed as though the dogs hesitated in trading places, but quickly shook it off as the white one followed Aliannah up the steps and the grey one followed dog man down the stairs.

She slowly made her way around the back of the pedestal but not once did she actually touch the clock piece, she knew that the moment that she did the wolf would lung at her and there would go the only chance of doing both, getting the clock piece and defeating the wolf in front of her. The man that she was paired with also seemed to talk too much. Thinking that maybe that was just the way of a pirate. A small scoff escaped her lips and she laughed slightly to herself.

But that was enough, that sound and motion was enough for the white wolf to lunge at the girl. With a squeal the girl ran around the pedestal several times with the wolf at her tail until the wolf had had enough of their games at jumped onto the pedestal its paws avoiding the piece of clock work under it.

Its red eyes glared at her, like a hunter stalking its prey, and it was obvious who the prey was.

“I Call Upon thee Lucifer’s Hell!”

The girl screamed out as a ball of pure black material appeared in her hand and she threw it at the wolf, well, rather in the wolf’s general direction, completely missing and sailing over the head of the wolf. Her eyes had clenched shut in the time so the girl slowly began to open them and the wolf looked at her rather concerned. It was as if it was confused as to what was going on. Scanning around slightly the girl noticed 7 more balls of black mass around her. Her eyes shifted from the wolf to the balls and back to, slightly picking together what was going on.

Reaching out to grab another ball the blonde plucked it out of the air and waved it in front of the wolf like creature, she watch as its eyes followed where the ball went. She quickly threw it at the dog and it jumped into the air as if to catch it only for it to explode in the face of it. Eyes widened the girl knew that she had only so much time. Grabbing another ball from the once floating around her she threw it at the wolf having it explode against the wolf again. She did this again and again until the dog was down, laying on the floor panting and slightly in pain.

The female looked at the wolf, feeling back for it. It was a dog at heart, loving and playful. Looking at it sadly the girl reached into her bag and pulled out another ball, this one was real, she didn’t know why she had it, but she did. Reaching forwards gently the girl pet the dog softly and carefully before placing the ball near it.

“I’m sorry. I know that you were just trying to do your job, this should make up for it. Enjoy it okay puppy?” A soft smile appeared on the features of the girl before she stood up and walked over the the clock piece, grabbing it swiftly and looking back at the man who seemed to have defeated his dog, though not as kindly as she had. They had the piece and they were done.

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Spells:

Cirven raised an eyebrow to the girl who had just defeated her dog. She had given the beaten animal a ball that she seemed to randomly have in her bag. He was going to question it but decided it was not the time to do so but instead to just let her finish up and grab the clock piece so they could get out of the area before anything else came their way. "Lets hurry up and go. This place might not give us the extra time we would like to get out of here before rushing us with multiple more obstacles." He watched as she grabbed the piece and then made his way to the ladder up to the next floor.

His leg was in pain from it being gnawed on by the dog but he didn't let that hold him back from getting out of the building and finishing their job and they did just that too. They emerged from out of the building and made their way quickly to a meeting place where all of the Black Sails members agreed to meet after their jobs were done. They could not get caught up in the battles raging around the castle anymore than they had because that would risk losing the clock piece.

As the two made their way to the meeting place all Cirven could think of was who Aliannah really was. Was she really the girl near him or was she his old friend? Was she even somehow both of them at the same time? He needed answers and planned to get them after this entire event ended and all of the Black Sails crew was safe.