A Captivating Audience[Job][Suki & NightDrivenEn7]

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Ryan continued to try and stand, feeling useless and like a burden to his comrades who were fighting. Slowly but surely, he rose unsteadily to his feet though still had no feeling in his arms.
Having successfully snared the hostages in place with fear, the Dark mage had nothing more to worry about except the unwanted pests. "I've had quiet enough of this." the Dark mage still on the stage exclaimed in an eloquent manner. He held up his right arm, and conjured up another creature, chanting "Sovereignty being of havoc and dismay, always thirsty for the blood of prey. Come forth and serve me well, entity of Kikyomonji." Out came forth from a large magic circle above the dark mage's head, was an alien looking being. It appeared to look like a naga, slithering on it's body and large tail. But it's hands were replaced by large serrated curved downward blades, the tip of it's tail also displayed a fan of razor sharp knives. Yet it's face had no eyes or nose, only a mouth filled with dagger like teeth. It's skin was pitch black, and it's tongue wavered from its mouth nonstop. It stood in front of its master, non-moving without the command. The dark mage spied the injured Ryan out of the corner of his eye, knowing that the mages came to his assistance before. "Go!" He ordered, holding out his hand towards Ryan.

The beast glided through the theater as a fish through water, reaching Ryan within seconds. "W-What!?" Ryan called out, seeing the beast suddenly in front of him. The beast slashed at Ryan with it's two bladed arms, once down and the other horizontally. Ryan managed to jump backwards out of the way from the two slashes; avoiding any contact. He jumped back a third time to get some distance, when the beast glided up to him and slashed at his abdomen with both of it's blades at once. Ryan managed to force his arms to work, and blocked what would have been a fatal blow, taking the gashes within his forearms. Seeing his beast having injured Ryan, the dark mage jumped to the balcony row, before leaping towards Ryan holding out his hand with a magic circle forming. "Obey my command." He ordered, in a ghastly voice unlike his eloquent one before. A pink mist shot forth from the circle and quickly consumed Ryan and the dark mage in a cloud. As the smoke cleared, Ryan's head was facing down; his arms dangling and yet standing with the mage behind him. "Can you fight your fellow ally?" the mage teased, his voice back to his eloquent one as before. Looking at his partner, the maged noticed him doing so shabby. "Tsk. Tsk. Ripper, you really should stop playing with your toys. You look like you are in need of some assistance." The mage mocked his own partner. "It's time to start getting serious, we can't afford to keep playing with these miscreants any longer." Now controlling Ryan, the Dark mage stood behind his summoned beast, as Ryan stood in front of both; raising his hands and turning them into sledge hammers facing his former partners.

Meanwhile, Aian was forced up against the wall unable to push back the torrent of water rushing out from the Dark Mage. "Oh, ready to give up? I thought you would have been some more fun Darling? Don't worry, I will make you drown inside me." She cooed, forcing her entire upper body to turn into a raging spout of water. Aian's shield broke under the strain of the water, as his body was pinned against the wall. Aian tried to fight back, but couldn't move an inch. He was always afraid of water, afraid of drowning. Now he was pinned up against a wall unable to breathe as a never ending flood of water forced him in place. Aian's mind began to haze out, flashing back to a moment he had with his master back in the Canyon:

"GET UP!" the dragon roared, watching his student fail at being able to hold up his foot alone. Aian tried as hard as he might, but couldn't even budge under his master's weight. All he could feel was the pressure of the gigantic dragon's paw pushing down on him with the weight of what felt like an entire mountain. "IF YOU CAN'T EVEN ENDURE SUCH WEAK PRESSURE LIKE THIS, YOU'LL BE CRUSHED! GET UP!" the dragon roared once more, not relenting on moving its foot from on top of his pupil, carrying less if he got crushed or not when he wasn't even trying. Aian continued to struggle in an attempt to appease his master's demand. Slowly but surely, his time lifting up boulders five times his own height finally paid off, as he was able to push back his master's resting paw. Once able to at least stand instead of hunched over against the ground, the dragon removed his paw from his student's body. Aian collapsed immediately, his body aching all over from the strain. "YOU'RE PATHETIC WELP! HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO LIVE IF YOU CAN'T EVEN MANAGE SUCH A SIMPLE TASK!? THE CREATURES YOU ARE GOING TO BE FACING TOMORROW WILL NOT HOLD BACK TO CRUSH YOU!" The Dragon roared once more, unsatisfied with the results of this practice run for Aian. As a response, Aian could only attempt to stand once more for his master. Shaking his head, the giant tortoise shaped metal dragon simply began to march away from his pupil, leaving him to rest upon the canyon floor. "Worthless Welp." He spoke as he walked away.

The Dark mage's head rose out of the water, laughing. "You're master must have been pathetic if this is the best he could do." She mocked as she slowly watched Aian drown in her flooding water. A spark ignited in Aian as he heard the insult to his master's good name. Using every ounce of energy, he pushed his way off of the wall, and coated his body in a flexible iron coating. "Oh? Still have some fight in you?" Using the last of the air in his lungs, Aian began to chant in the water. "Tetsuryu no....Hoko!!!!" Releasing a small tornado from his mouth, Aian pushed back the water by a couple of feet, but was unable to hit the mage. She simply laughed as she watched him struggle against her attack. "Is that the best you can do? The mighty roar of a Dragon Slayer being this pathetically weak? I take it back your master wasn't pathetic. But an Absolute FAILURE" This only angered Aian more, pushing him to his limits. Taking a deep breath through his nostrils, he expanded his chest out to it's maximum. "Tetsuryū no..."He began chanting once more, as more air filled his lungs. "What?" The dark mage questioned, watching as the slayer chanted the same spell over again. This time, as Aian shouted out the end of the chant, the tornado drastically grew in size as a loud roar echoed through not only the basement but the entire theater above, "Hōkō!!!"The tornado filled entirely by metal sharpnel forced the water away with ease, tearing through it like a drill. However, out of control, it swerved down to the ground before reaching the mage but striking at her feet. This however revealed a magic circle underneath her which quickly became destroyed as the ground under her was torn away by the force. "WHAT!" The Dark mage cried out as her body solidified without the magic circle's assistance. Still continuing the unstable spell, the tornado swerved quickly upward striking the mage on her stomach. Unable to turn into water to avoid the attack, she was forced into the air, and carried by the tornado, her body being torn to bits by the shrapnel. The tornado carried the mage up into the roof of the basement, drilling through the concrete like it was nothing and slamming the mage's body against it. This began to shake the entire upper level of the theater to accompany the still on going roar that echoed throughout the main hall. Turning once again, the tornado flew down towards the ground again, and slammed the mage's body once more into the hard concrete. Turning one final time,it carried the mage to the other end of the hall, and slammed her into the wall next to the stairs before exploding into a gale around her. Unable to maintain the tornado any longer Aian fell to his knees exhausted, causing the tornado to evaporate and the roar to cease. No longer within the killer tornado of wind and metal, the Dark mage laid against the wall, her clothing torn apart and countless cuts of different scales-though none life threatening- covered her body. In an attempt to move, her arms twitched as her legs remained unresponsive. "H-h-how?" she stuttered, before passing out against the wall, unable to remain conscious from the damage she had taken.

Exhausted, AIan rose to his feet, and looked wearily at the mage all the way down the basement hallway. "N-never....Insult...M-my....M-m-Master....." He sat against the wall behind him, taking his time to recover some of his strength before attempting to join his team mates up above. Aian laid there, trying to regain his strength, and began to think of what had just happened. I never did a roar like that before.......something in me snapped, I hardly remember even doing it....I remember it not being strong enough before....and then this happens.....Did.....Did I lose control? Did....Did I give in to my magic, letting it control me? Aian was unsure of how the roar had been able to move on its own, or how he was able to use it again. The only conclusion he could come up with; was that his anger lit a fuse somewhere that tapped into his magic's real potential and power....though still being at an advanced level he was unable to keep it steady, and that is why it rampaged through the basement on its own.

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Mari could only see part of what was happening because she had to keep her eye's on the Flaming Chain Mage. But she could hear everything happen like a snap of the fingers. "I've had quiet enough of this." the Dark mage still on the stage exclaimed in an eloquent manner. He held up his right arm, and conjured up another creature, chanting "Sovereignty being of havoc and dismay, always thirsty for the blood of prey. Come forth and serve me well, entity of Kikyomonji." Mari felt a chill down her spine as a new creature had been summoned this one felt more powerful then the last. Mari turned to see a snake like creature with blades from arm's, a sharp tail, and what looked like thousands of little dagger like teeth. "Go!" He shouted.

Mark Could do nothing that the hostage was under some kind of spell that leaves the victims petrified them in fear, leaving them open for attacks. The other hostage just looked at him in agony, for something so cruel to happen to him. "You get up stairs, at the end of the hall in the director's room there should be an open window that leads out side. Now go! I'll take care of your friend." He shouted toward the unaffected hostage who started to rush up the stairs. He ran toward the stage to get a better look at things.

"Kaleidoscope!" Shouted Mark with his hand toward the Fire mage. He had gotten surrounded but multiple mirrors covering his entire body. "That should hold him." Mark said to himself. "They don't call me Mr.Ripper for nothing!" He shouted as his chains flew in every direction, slashing and cutting every mirror to pieces. "Your turn!" Mr.Ripper shouted as he launched his right chain toward Mark. Mari rushed over to him taking the hit but the chain rapped around her waist and he pulled back, lunging her toward him. She tried punching him as she got close but he grabbed her fist she tried to over power him, but he tightened his grip, she tried again with other but he tilted his head to the side. She tried to headbutt him but he shoved his whole body back making her miss. Ember was watching Ryan as he was soon getting up by the command of the other Mage. "It's time to start getting serious, we can't afford to keep playing with these miscreants any longer." Ryan in front of both the mage and his new summoning, had transformed both his hands into sledge hammers. "Tsk" He looked back seeing Mari having trouble with Mr.Ripper. He rushed in between them placing his fist on his stomach, with Mr.Ripper smirking as if his attack will do nothing. "Knuckle Shotgun!" Small magic sphere's surrounded his fist and soon shot wide in all directions. Mr.Ripper was pushed back into the air, releasing Mari from his chains grip and landed on his feet with his hand on his stomach. Ember put his arm out in front of Mari and the other pointed toward Mr.Ripper and shot another two bullets. Mr.Ripper lifted his chains in front of him and blocked the other two bullets. He tried sending his Chains forward, but the pain came back and making him swerve to the right missing his hit. "We got more to worry about since Ryan got captured. Hopefully that other mage of ours comes back safely if not we got trouble on our hands." Ember say's breathing heavily.

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(The following seen takes as Aian is about to defeat the female Dark mage. As for a final record, the last section of any post is the most recent event going on, and that is where most replies should be focusing on for remaining actions as well as their respective fight scenes.)
The Dark Mage continued to observe the fight between Ripper, Ember, and Mari; finding the odds unfair. "Why don't we assist them huh?" He spoke to Ryan, who began walking to his old team mate, Ember; hammers at the ready. As he continued to look about the room, he noticed all the hostages beginning to leave. "Pet, be a dear and kill those attempting to escape...There is no one here to stop you anyway." He ordered his beast, who quickly escalated onto the wall, crawling its way quickly towards Mark and the stairs leading up to the still escaping hostages. The mage laughed to himself, feeling confident into their victory.

Suddenly, a loud roar echoes throughout the entire theater, as the ground begins to quake immensely. "W-What is this?" The dark mage tried to keep his footing, as it felt as though the theater was crumbling at the seems. The Beast along the wall continued to try and climb it's way through, but fell onto the seats stopping its advance. Ryan also collapsed, falling onto his knees to try and keep balance. The entire above ground theater continued to shake as the roar echoed throughout the hall. "Where is this coming from?....Lucille!" The mage called out, realizing that the cause was coming from the basement of the theater. As the quake and roar stopped, the Dark Mage couldn't help but sneer down the door way leading to the basement. "Ripper, I don't care what you do; but kill that runt quick and get down there!" The mage ordered, taking control of the situation, frustrated at the event that had just occurred. Ryan got back onto his feet and continued walking towards Ember with his sledge hammers held up. The beast appeared to be temporarily stuck in the seats, trying to free itself.

Ryan still under control of the Dark Mage, charged at Ember when he became close enough. He began frantically swinging his hammers: swinging at her chest, abdomen, clap his hammers between her head, slam both hammers down at her shoulders, spin around and slam his right sledge hammer down onto her, Swinging his left hammer in an uppercut motion upwards, before jumping up and slamming his hammers down once more onto Ember at the same time. His swings were frantic, and had no form of control in them; simply meant to deal as much damage as possible to Ember.

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A large roar shook the entire ground beneath everyone's feet. Ember and Mari looked at each other with widened eye's, as they turned to Mark who couldn't hold his ground and fell on one knee, he looked back only to shrug. "What was that?" Asked Ember curiously. "A dragon's roar." Mari replied with her face perking up with a smile. She knew there was something odd about him and she wasn't going to let him get away with all the fun. "Where is this coming from?....Lucille!" Shouted the dark mage near the serpent creature who fell into chairs that were placed around the main hall. "He must of gotten rid of one of the mages! We might have a chance! Strike twice as hard guy's we can still win this!" Shouted Ember getting ready to continue. "Ripper, I don't care what you do; but kill that runt quick and get down there!" The mage roared with Ripper only to shrug back. Ryan gotten up and started walking toward Ember, with his hands still the forms of sledge hammers.

"Ryan Stop! We are a team remember!" He said as Ryan started getting closer with lifeless eyes, lifting his hands and started to bash down on Ryan. He began frantically swinging his hammers swinging at her chest, pushing her back a few feet and abdomen, making her fall onto her back. He clapped his hammers between her head but she flipped back and onto her feet. Slammed both hammers down at her shoulders, but she side stepped out of the way. And he spin around and slam his right sledge hammer down onto her, she dodged rolled out of the way. Swinging his left hammer in an uppercut motion upwards, she pulled her chest back letting it fly past her and he flew jumping up and slamming his hammers down once more onto Ember at the same time. Ember jumped back landing on her feet. "Come on Ryan! Snap out of it!"

Mr.Ripper looked toward Mari who was breathing heavily and also looking toward his direction. Her fists were clenched and her chest pumping, and sweat dropped down her cheek. "Aww, I guess we know who's stronger. To bad I have to stop playing around and finish you off." He said dashing toward her. He spun his chain around his wrist in which started to cover his whole fist, the chain's started to blaze with fire. "Take this!" He said punching forward. Mari dashed as well once he started. She punched her fists together creating a red magic crest in front of her. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Her right fist became engulfed in flames and she raised it up behind her. Ripper's eyes widened at her courageousness but held a smirk on his face as they both punch and clashed their fists. An explosion appeared within seconds of impact creating a large smoke and the destruction of the floor boards. They both flew out of the smoke both in separate directions. They both touched the ground with their feet, but Mari took this chance and dashed again for another attack. She started to angry with these mages and started a fury of punches toward the mage. He quickly blocked two before she tried kicking him but missed and jumped back. Placing her hands on her knees breathing heavily.

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The dark mage looked at his beast, who was still stuck. "Get up!" he ordered, no longer even attempting to make him sound eloquent, annoyed and infuriated that Lucille had obviously fallen in battle. With that, the beast Finally managed to roll over and stand effectively again. The Dark Mage looked at Mark, pointing at him. "Kill him!" He ordered, the beast appeared to do nothing, looking towards the stairs instead to finish it's old orders. "I said Kill Him!" The mage repeated. The beast turned around hissing at its master, unable to complete the old assignment it was given before falling. "Obey me subordinate of Kikyomonji, I said Kill Him!" The beast taking in it's new command, and rushed straight to Mark, diving at him with it's jaws wide open as though it was about to bite his head off. It landed in front of Mark, diving at his stomach with it's mouth open, raising it's blades to cut him in half in order to draw out as much blood as possible from Mark's body.

Ryan ignored his partner's words, continuing with his assault. "He won't listen to you anymore, he only will listen to me until he drops dead." The mage held out his hand once more towards Ember. "Crush Her!" And like that, Ryan began swinging his hammers again, attempting to pulverize Ember into nothing but pulp; swinging relentlessly with both of his arms. The attacks were wild, not having any distinction of location compared to before, but they didn't stop once in an attempt to keep Ember from having a moment's amount of room to counter attack, pursuing her if she were to run away or dodge to stay in front of her.

Aian made his way slowly towards the stairs, reaching them before falling down onto his knees to catch his breath. "I am so weak....what can I do?" he complained to himself, but continued to force his body to slowly crawl up the stairs, using the wall and railing to keep himself stead on each step. The thought of letting his team mates down was enough to keep him going, but only on that determination alone. He had no energy left from his roar, nor did he have any iron to consume, yet he forced himself to not give up.

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Mark watched as the serpent like creature was disobeying his master and took this chance to try and strike back but it was to late. "Obey me subordinate of Kikyomonji, I said Kill Him!" Shouted the mage in anger and the Kikyomonji jumped toward Mark, landing right in front of him with its arm's widening and his jaws opening ready for a strike on Mark. With Mark stepping back a bit from fright from the monster's surprising speed. The monster slashed toward Mark and it was to late before he could do anything, the serpent slashed at him making a large cut on his chest, where blood started to fall. "Ugh!" Shouted Mark as he fell onto his back.

Ember still trying to get Ryan back to his sense's as Ryan was also trying to kill Ember. "Come on Ryan! We're best friends! You can fight this!!" She shouted at him. "He won't listen to you anymore, he only will listen to me until he drops dead." The mage shouted with his hand out "Now Crush Her!!" He shouted with Ryan lifting his hands, which were still in the form of sledge hammers. Ember was hit in her shoulder and hip by Ryan's flailing but was able to dodge the rest of his rampaging attack by spinning around. Having her back on his, she put her attention onto the mage controlling him. "I bet if your gone he'll come back!" Ember shouted. Her hands were in the of guns and started to shoot multiple bullets toward the mage.

Mari and Ripper were still at a stand off. Ripper lunged on of his chain toward Mari slapping her cheek cutting it. And threw another but Mari was able to dodge this one and pushed herself to dash toward him. Mari was losing strength and she didn't want to release her lineage because that would only cause more trouble for them to worry about then the mages themselves. She was still able to move and she pushed herself more to be able to get in another few punches. She punched forward but he grabbed her hand and held it tight. She pushed her knee forward trying to aim for his stomach but he moved his body back. Though she used her leg, by opening it and throwing her foot toward his face, making him release her hand and left a bruise on his cheek.

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The Dark Mage rose his arms in defense upon being shot at. Two bullets simply missed their target, while he was able to block most of the rest; with only one shot making a mark on the Mage's stomach. "You are going to have to do better than that girl, A lot better, if you want to take me down." The dark mage rose, showing how little of an effect the one bullet had done in damage to him. "I may not be the fighting type like Lucille or my pale Jack there, but I guarantee you that I have just as much endurance as either of them when it comes to pain." The mage looked at his pet's damaging blow to Mark, but uninterested into taking control of him like he did Ryan, the mage let his pet the satisfaction of draining Mark of his blood. However, the mage was looking rather displeased with Ryan's inability to stop or harm Ember, as she refused to fight him like he had hoped the two would do. "You are becoming a very annoying girl though, so if you will be so kind; drop dead so that we can continue with our plans."the eloquence back in his voice, the mage held out his hand in a friendly offer to her as he requested her surrender.

Aian had finally made it onto the stage, looking at his comrades: Ryan was fighting Ember; under some sort of control, Mari was busy fighting someone who appeared to be not even budge an inch despite what she threw at him, Mark was now wounded and in front of this monster that was raising it's blades for a final blow. "Mark!" Aian called out, getting a burst of energy for the need to save his comrade, and rushed to his aid. As the beast let out a satisfying screech as it thrusted it's blades towards Mark, Aian grabbed the two arms holding the blades; keeping them from stabbing into Mark. However, Aian was still drastically weakened, and fell to one knee upon the impact; but still managed to keep Mark safe. "M-Mark...y-you...All right?" Aian asked, trying his best to hold the beast still as it tried to free itself; growling at Aian for interrupting the kill. The Dark Mage looked over to see that his pet had been stopped by a frail looking mage covered in iron. "You must be the one who defeated Lucille...I applaud your achievement of being able to take one of us down; you must be stronger than the rest of these pests...But, you saved us the trouble of hunting you down when we were done with your petty team mates here...Now you can die with the rest of them."Like that, the mage snapped his fingers as he spoke to his pet. "Kill them both!"With the order still allowing the monster to kill its previous target, it began struggling out of Aian's grip even more to satisfy its unending need for blood.

However, a familiar smell drifted off of the beast that rushed into Aian's nose. I-Iron?! the thought rushed to his head, as he glanced at the creature's blades that he was preventing from puncturing into Mark behind him. "Iron..." Aian whispered in a satisfied tone, his eyes going pure white as a sadistic smile formed across his lips. The need to consume Iron rushed over Aian like the beast's need for blood; and now he had become a predator of his own will to feast on the beast's weapons. The beast managed to pull its blades out and began slashing at Aian, missing with one swing with the other on its mark. Aian grabbed the blade coming down at him and attempted to bite the free moving blade's metal. The beast backed its arm away as a reflex; however, Aian quickly turned to the blade in his hand and took a large bite out of the metal. The beast wailed in pain as it tried to free its arm to save it from being devoured, but Aian refused to let go and continued biting the blade until it was nothing more but the stubby flesh of the beast. Chewing on the iron as though it was nothing more than food, Aian swallowed; feeling his strength return in a rush. However, he still hungered for more. The beast continued to wail as it backed off, aiming its tail at Aian and thrusted the multi-pronged utensil for stabbing at Aian's chest. Aian's armor protected him from suffering a major wound, as the blades hardly breached his skin by only an inch. Aian grabbed the base of the tail, removing it from his body as he started to consume the blades upon the end, finding them not to be of Iron but steel. This made eating them a bit more difficult, but he managed to consume the blades for the most of it; removing any threat of them being even the slightest bit dangerous. Aian swallowed the steel as the beast broke its tail free and continued to slither back away from Aian, wailing in pain constantly. "What!?" The dark mage howled, watching his beast; a beast meant to shred anything in its path and soak an entire battlefield in blood, back away in fear as though it was nothing more but a mouse caught by a cat. The dark mage growled, regaining his surprised composure,"So this is the magic that defeated Lucille....another Slaying magic..." Pondering about what to do next, he watched as the odds began to turn against them in this fight. Aian turned around to Mark, some of his energy being restored but continuing to pant lightly. "Mark, you all right?" Aian asked again, checking the severity of Mark's wound.

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"Tsk, this isn't good. I need to get closer to do some real damage." Ember said while breathing heavily, on one knee with her hands still pointing in the direction of the mage. "You are becoming a very annoying girl though, so if you will be so kind; drop dead so that we can continue with our plans." The mage said confidently with his hand out. Right after he finished speaking, Aian had finally reached the main hall of the theater.Mark was now wounded and in front of this monster that was raising it's blades for a final blow. "Mark!" Aian called out. Ember could hear the voices of Mark crying out and the second mage that had just reappeared. Ember got onto her feet walking back into the arm's of Ryan who was still under control of the mage. She quickly jumped out and faced toward him. Ryan started to spin wildly with his arm's stretched out. Ember jumped back dodging a whole spin of his, from both hands. But as he arm swung around it striked her in the face, while his other hand missed. But that didn't stop him, as he continued, but she dodged his next by ducking down, and as she raised up his other hand striked her in the shoulder. Another two strikes came by hitting her shoulder and turning her back toward him. "Dam it Ryan! I don't want to hurt you!" She said relaxing her hands making the magic balls disappear. She faced him, with her eyes filled with tears and she pinched her lip before turning her face away from his dead eye's. "I'll dodge you till we can save you again! So just hang in there!" She shouted. Bending her knee's for the next attack.

Mari lifted herself from her knees and wiped the sweat from her face, and clenched her fist. She looked toward Ripper and how he was still standing with out even looking like those attacks didn't hurt, he stood there with his arm's by his sides and his chains lazying about on the ground attached to his arms and hands ready for the next attack. "Looks like your running out of juice. I always knew a legal mage wouldn't have the power to take on one of us, even if you were stronger." Mari couldn't take anymore of his voice as she started to get irritated from this horrible fight she was in. Not only was he stronger but she's letting the others get hurt, when she said that she'll protect them. She couldn't take much more of it and decided to use what she hoped would be a last resort. "I hope they won't look at me any different...." She said under her breath. "Glory of the Slayer....Activate." She said again under her breath. Ripper started to laugh loudly holding his stomach and began to walk closer to her. "Aww did she give up I wonde......" He stopped in his tracks from the difference in magical power as before. "Oh ho, so you do have some beast in your blood don't you!" He said encouragingly. Mari looked up to him with an evil smile on her face. "Don't you know it!" She replied as fire began to engulf her fists.

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Mari's flames grew onto her arms and shoulders roaring with rage, as she slowly started to walk toward ripper. Her eye's started to become red from the outside of the iris to the center, her hair started to look more spikey then straight. She licked her lips, slowly and gently, giving more a seductive feel then one out of hunger. Ripper took a step back crunching the chains with his hands, and smiling back. Mari crushed the ground beneath her as she dashed forward at ripper. He took a side step leaving her flying toward the wall punching right through, making her arm stuck. "Haha you can't even control yourself!" Ripper said laughing. She turned her body to him with her hand still stuck and smiled. "Tsk that these!" He said lifting his chains and lashing them toward her. the first strike hit her above the eye, on her forhead. Blood came running down her left side of the face. Ripper suddenly felt a slight raise in power coming from her. But he ignored it and threw his chains at the same time towards her. She grabbed them both with each hand and pulled him toward her with full strength. He flew through the air and noticed her lifting her leg, he twisted his body in the air, dodging her drop kick, crushing the ground have chunks of wood fly through the air, she spun around trying to kick him again but he tilted his back dodging it as it flew horizontally. He stood back up and noticed her fist flying toward him and he grabbed her hand. He felt the crushing blow and held in the pain noticing the strength change. She tried kneeing him but he slapped her thigh, moving her leg to the side. He released her hand and jumped back, he looked at her licking the blood near her lips. "Are you done!!" Shouted ripper with a smile, and his arms spread out. Mari punched her fists together and a large red crest appeared in front of her. Separating and holding her hands out, large balls of fire sat there. She lifts them above her head joining the flames and they lash out, creating an even bigger ball of fire. "FIRE DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME!!!" She shouted, running a bit before jumping towards him. Ripper clenched his fist and his chain started to magically spin around his fist, in a drill shape. "Chained Fire Drill!" He said charging into the ball of flames as Mari placed it in front of her colliding both of the attacks. "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!" Mari shouted strengthening her attack and once they collided they exploded in all directions taking out half the stage and floorboard beneath them. Ripper flew into the wall that was back of him dug into it, burnt and bloody with his mouth open. He started to peel from the wall and fall toward the ground face first unknown if he was ok or not, not moving an inch. Mari was shot toward the other side near the stairs, again dug into the wall but she pulled herself out. Her power grew a bit more from the blood that started to fall from her body and from Rippers.

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Aian continued looking over Mark, before noticing Ryan attacking Ember. He landed several blows but Ember refused to fight back. Aian looked over at Mari and the other dark mage to find them both laying on the ground slowly pooling blood. "Mari!" Aian carried Mark over to Mari, checking over both of their injuries. "Ember, you going to be all right?" Aian was watching his team mates falling, but didn't know how to exactly handle the situation.

The dark mage snarled, looking at his failed summon. "You served one purpose, getting that first fool; but fell being useless after....Begone!" The mage unsummoned the beast, letting it dissolve into air. The mage looked down at Ryan, his anger growing. "And you can't even handle her! Worthless, you should have been done with her long ago!"

Aian looked up at the dark mage, before looking back down at his injured partners. "I will be back to help you guys later." Aian then moved to position to engage the dark mage. "This needs to stop, there is no way you can beat us all by yourself; your partners are down and so was your beast; and You can't control Ryan forever and protect yourself. Nor will Ember fall prey to your game."
The dark mage laughed before staring down Aian, "You honestly think that I am going to fall like the others? Lucille become over confident, and Ripper played around too long and got himself killed....Your friends are on their last legs, and that girl can't withstand every attack Ryan throws before having her skull crushed. Even if you can be a match for another creature I can summon; the two on one odds will tip them into my favor; and you yourself will fall victim like Ryan. I will then have the pleasure of sending you to finish the remaining pests. After that, I am sure you both will have no objection to killing the hostages cowering in the corner over there, before fighting to the death as I walk away. You don't have a chance boy, admit it."

Ryan continued his assault, facing Ember without remorse in his actions; raising his hammers to prepare for the next attack.
Aian flinched looking back at Ember and her desire to no longer fight against Ryan. "Ember, you have to do Something to stop Ryan. I know he may be your friend; but you have to understand this is not him fighting, you need to either knock him out or bring him to his senses...but you can't stand around taking hits all day and expect him to change." Aian attempted to encourage her, knowing he would need her help in order to finish off the dark mages.

Ember's motivation on saving Ryan was getting limp as he wasn't able to get his mind back into place on his own and even with her helping, it must have not been enough. Her heart was still on the side of trying to save him but slowly started thinking negatively about the position she's in. "Ember, you have to do Something to stop Ryan. I know he may be your friend; but you have to understand this is not him fighting, you need to either knock him out or bring him to his senses...but you can't stand around taking hits all day and expect him to change." Shouted Aian toward her, but she wasn't able to bring it to heart, it was either do what she thought was best or go with the plan, saving the hostages. "UUUGGHHHH FINE! I guess I have to!" She said tightening her hands into fists as she screamed. She faced Ryan and sent a barrage of punches hopefully enough to do something to him, but shutting her eyes as she wished she didn't have to resort to this. After four punches she threw in a side kick as well.

Mari fallen into a pool of her own blood, started to raise on all fours and spews blood from her mouth onto the ground beneath her before laughing out loud in a menacing voice. She slowly started to get back onto her feet, with the scorches and cuts on her body from the fight with Mr.Ripper. As she stood on her feet, she gave a scary stare in all directions, once her Lineage is activated, she is in a berserk state which allows her to become more powerful but have no control over her actions. As her eye's swerve around she notice's the big mouthed dark mage spewing nonsense from his mouth, which made Mari grunt. She started to walk toward him, kicking aside any chair's and rubble that was in her path. She stopped about a yard from his position before stopping and raising her hand and signaling him to make the first move, as she smiled.

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Ryan didn't even attempt to dodge the punches, seeing the first one miss. He went to counter when he was hit by the next three and the side kick that caused him to stumble slightly away, however he faced Ember again and changed his fists from hammers to round metal balls slightly larger than his fists. He charged and began punching Ember back with the mini wrecking balls. The attacks were faster than with the sledge hammers, making him able to fight in a boxing style, jabbing with his left then heavy hitting with his right, followed by two large hook body blows into an upper cut with his right hand; making him strike both sides of Ember's ribs and her chin.

Aian however, tended to Mark and Mari's wounds when she stood up once more. Aian noticed the crazed frenzied state that he was all too familiar with from having seen Kamuy;that Mari was no longer herself. He watched as she made her way towards the dark mage, Aian left Mark knowing Mari's wounds would cause her to suffer sever damage if she moved too much about, grappling her from behind with what strength he had left and attempted to pull her back. "Mari, snap out of it; you are in no condition to fight!" Aian argued to get Mari to come back to reality, hoping she would listen and revert to her normal self. She was bleeding out too much to be able to fight in such a state and not suffer major wounds if not come close to death afterwords when this state wore off.

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Ember threw her fists toward Ryan, without holding back even a bit. She felt his skin and hard bone with everyone strike. She opened her eyes to see that he had taken the hits, that left small bruises. She jumped back shocked and hurt as she just attacked her friend and it didn't even help. He lifted his hands as they transformed into balls and tucked in his arms before charging at her. "Dam it Ryan! We are trying to help you!......Aian help me! Leave her she obviously into that mage, let her finish him!" She shouted, before getting her face pounded, and making her spin a complete 180 and he hit the back of her head . She fell toward the ground completely speechless as she looked back she saw him coming to strike her while she was down and spun away leaving him crushing the ground

Mari felt a tug on her back, making her stop where she stood. "Mari, snap out of it; you are in no condition to fight!" Said Aian. Mari gave him a senseless stare before giving him a gentle smile and grabbing his wrists. She started to pull slowly feeling the strength of his as he tightened, but surely she was able to slowly pull them away and held them out in each hand and dropped them She started to look back toward the last mage. "Mari isn't here right now.....So stop getting..... in my way" She said in a lifeless voice. And continued to walk toward slowly, to the mage.

- Within her subconscious

Mari laid on her back looking toward the sky which entirely black with a circle hole shining a bright white light down onto her. She wakes from her slumber slowly opening her eyes, and tries to sit herself up before feeling a slime like texture around her stomach. She placed her hand on it to see that it was blood, but darkened to the point to look black. The blood wrapped tighter and pulled her back onto the floor with her face toward the sky. "Wha...whats happening!" She shouted before engulfing her hands in flames. Soon to be covered in blood as well and her flames disappeared. She could hear a faint voice that came from the exit in the sky. It resembled the same voice as Aian's and it seems he's noticed that she isn't the same anymore. A tear ran down her cheek as she bit her lip and slowly more blood started to cover her arms and legs. "Ugh, just finish the job! You dam monster!" A loud and menacing laugh surrounded the whole area. "Don't you mean.....you..." the voice replied.

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Mari broke into a dash toward the mage, as she crushed the ground giving herself a little jump at him. Spinning her hips around and letting her leg swing out before punching her fists together, creating a red magic crest. "Fire Dragon's Crushing Talon!" She shouted as her foot became engulfed in flames and kicked down toward the mage.

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Aian struggled to hold Mari back from her rampaging, but due to him being so weakened and drained from a fight before; he found himself slowly being pushed back with his grip on Mari. Finally she broke his hands free from her and threw them down to the side before turning around to utter, "Mari isn't here right now.....So stop getting..... in my way" her voice seemed lifeless which frightened Aian not because of the tone cause he thought it was because her own body was so weak from being heavily damaged. But before he could try to go and attempt to stop her once more, he heard Ember call back from behind him "...Aian help me! Leave her she obviously into that mage, let her finish him!" Aian turned around to see her get bashed in the face and sent spiraling. This put Aian in a difficult position: Save Ember from Ryan as he was simply over powering her due to her lack of want to fight, or attempt and get Mari's senses regained knowing she could hurt herself more and cause her to get killed once this surge was done within her. Aian stood in between the two groups trying to think of which action to take.

Inside Aian's head he could hear Kamuy try to surge through; filling his head with dark whispers. Save one. Condemn the other to death. This is why you are a child! No matter how hard you try you will NEVER be able to save everyone, you will always have to face the fact that you will always be a factor in death with all you meet because of your desire to protect.
Aian cupped his ears in a futile event to try and silence the voice within his head. You're wrong! he argued back to the dark whispers in his head, I am not a child because I wish to protect; It is the right thing to do to help others as best as I can.
But this isn't questioning the best of your abilities; here you find yourself in a situation you refuse to see from before. One mission partner is being beaten to death because of their lack of strength to fight back against a physically superior opponent; someone YOU can easily take down even without magic. And then there is the other who has thrown themselves so deep within their own desire and power that they are neglecting their own safety; almost becoming a walking corpse as their blood is quickly drained from their body as they head into another fight. You can easily help stop the bleeding and be able to help her take down the enemy as a team; but if you do that then the other will be found beaten to death because you choose to abandon them. Yet, at the same time if you choose to protect the struggling mage, by the time you are done you can find your Dragon Slayer partner nothing more but a corpse laying upon the ground because you gave up on trying to help them recover. Bound to the choice of one or the other, YOU, will be the ultimate factor of either person's life! YOU WILL BE THE ONE CONDEMNING ONE OR THE OTHER TO DEATH!
Aian fell to the ground onto his knees, trying to ignore Kamuy's words as the reality of the situation slowly sunk in. N-no...I can help them both! They will be-
GROW UP, YOU MISBEGOTTEN-ILL ADVISED-FOOL HEARTED- NAIVE- BASTARD OF A CHILD! YOU REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT YOU WILL BE THE CAUSE OF ONE'S DEATH BECAUSE OF YOUR OWN DAMN FEARS! NEED I REMIND YOU THAT NOT TOO LONG AGO YOU KILLED DOZENS OF PEOPLE UNINTENTIONALLY WHEN YOU WERE ON THAT MISSION TO SAVE SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE!? NEED I REMIND YOU THAT I AM WHAT YOU TRUELY DESIRE AND THAT THE VILLAGE WE BURNED TO THE GROUND CONDEMNING ALL TOO DEATH WAS WHAT YOU ULTIMATELY WANTED!? You delude yourself with these child like fantasies that everything can come in a happy ending; yet here you are refusing to take action in a situation that requires you too choose; THUS CONDEMNING BOTH OF THEM TOO DEATH! If I told you once, I told you a thousand, thousand, thousand-thousand-thousand-thousand times! You, a person trained by the Iron Dragon himself, ARE NOTHING BUT A TOOL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION! You are so naive that I doubt you really realize what exactly happened downstairs, did you? Your own anger, your own hatred and desire to live fueled you to the point where did you even check to see if that Dark Mage was even alive? NO! You just ran by ignoring her!
Aian simply shook in place, tears rolling down as he couldn't stop Kamuy's points; realizing he was right. S-S-Shut U-Up...
YOU, A PERSON WHO DOESN'T WANT TO KILL, HAS ENDED THE LIVES OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE MASSACRE!
"Shut up...Shut up....You're wrong...shut up..." Aian mumbled to himself, his hands griping his head as he sat there kneeling on the floor; no longer paying attention to his surroundings.
YOU ARE NOT A GUARDIAN!
"Shut up!" Aian screamed, still not aware of what is going on around him.
YOU ARE A WALKING EMBODIMENT OF DEATH!
"Shut up!!! Shut up-Shut up-Shut up-Shut up-Shut up-SHUT UP!!!" Aian screamed to himself, trying to get Kamuy back locked away in the depths of his mind.

The Dark Mage watched the scene before him: Ryan was finally starting to harm the girl he had set him out to do, their only reinforcement is now locked away in his own world suffering from some form of mental combat-but is ultimately no longer useful in his current condition, then there was the one that his beast managed to seriously wound before being interrupted; slowly bleeding out, the hostages his team had acquired before hand were still huddling in fear due to his pharamone magic, and finally the female slayer who had taken serious wounds from Ripper was now walking towards him; appearing to still be bleeding from her previous fight. He watched as the girl came rushing towards him, jumping into the air, swinging her leg out and punching her fists together before trying to land a flame engulfed kick; a move he had seen her perform against Ripper. The mage simply smirked and jumped away from the kick, landing up upon the second floor balcony. "You really are going to kill yourselves aren't you? And all of this could have been avoided if you had never shown up, or if this young fool here had not activated such a rash move of losing her sanity. Pity, the fun is just almost gone....Though you all were amusing as you did take out my two partners; wonder if they are still alive- Ripper, Lucille...However, I do have one tactic to make things interesting once more." He contemplated, snapping his fingers. Suddenly, Ryan stopped attacking Ember and stood perfectly still on the stage. "You are so eager to fight and or kill someone correct?" He asked looking down at Mari, before looking at Ember. "And you are so concerned for your team mate while at the same time not wanting to harm him too badly, why not make this fun." He looked at Ryan with a devilish smirk across his face. "Fight the girl." He ordered, pointing to Mari below. Ryan quickly jumped off of the stage and walked towards Mari, obeying the command. "If you refuse to be entertaining," he once again looked at Ember as he spoke, "Then let's see if you are willing to not fight an actual team mate, but fight a complete stranger to save your child hood friend. If you do, I might just free him and let you both leave with your injured partner over there. All you have to do is just get this girl to die, or become so damaged she cannot move; and leave both of these annoying pests to their death. What do you say?" The Dark Mage continued to look upon the scene with renewed interest, as Ryan began rushing towards Mari, throwing out a heavy punch with his Iron ball fists.