Job, Cirven, Nimbus, Jiyu.

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The icy winds howled powerful around the mostly deserted landscape of glaciers, the icefield floating within the water isolated from most of the rest of the world and entirely freezing. Most of the life that existed within this land? Actually lived beneath the waves instead of on the ice itself, or lived between the two, the only exception to this really were the subtle signs of some sort of human population in the area. Getting into the space had required ice breaking ships, but afterwards it had been easy enough for whatever group had moved in to make the stone structure they had built into the side of a solid glacier in spite of the massive size of the building. Clearly, there was no town here, it was not some group of people looking to make a life on the ice fields or such, actually from the castle or prison like design of the structure it could easily be implied that whoever owned it had come here to avoid people or hide their activities! Actually it was quiet the alarming structure to set one’s eyes on as it really did look as if the building was designed to be easy to protect and hard to escape. However it was not the building itself that was important right now, in the end the location was simply the place, the setting, what was truly important was one of the people contained within the structure.

Everything in the world was incredibility and painfully dark right now, she despised the dark and had for sometime now thanks to a recent experience in her life. Actually? Recent meant within the last few years, when she had been kidnapped and held against her will for several years until she was rescued in a story she now could not clearly remember trauma had wiped the experience from her brain. At the moment every single agonizing moment of her last experience was slowly coming back to her head and repeating beneath her screwed shut eyelids. Right now she was trapped deep inside her own head in her personal hell unable to escape it, the cold air around the area burning her sensitive lungs as magic cancelling cuffs drained her of strength due to her existence being entwined with her magic. The longer those cuffs remained on her body? Jiyu was at an increased risk of simply dying, since she now required the wind she partnered with to survive and she was currently entirely cut off from in. Right now? She felt more alone than she ever had before unable to hear the whispers she had heard since the day she cast her first spell! It was complete agony and she was unsure how long she could endure this, not sure if it was even worth fighting to endure it anyways, after all she did not have much to look forward to when she escaped.

Kazehime was entirely bare she knew this due to the cold even if she was unable to see herself through the blindfold. This sort of condition? Was stressful enough for a normal person but for Jiyu it was additionally straining due to how close this situation fell to her original capture! She could not even remember how she ended up here. While the gap in memory was strange? Kaze could not focus on it past how much panic and grief was tied up inside of her, right now all she could think about was her last experience being taken like this. Fear ran unchecked in her body she could do nothing except try to fight off the tears she felt coming on, tell herself they won if she started crying. It was depressing she thought that she had cried all the tears she had inside the last time this happened, yet she could barely fight them off right now. Eventually she lost control and the blindfold slowly dampened with her salty tears. Jiyu could smell others in the room and she died of embarrassment crying in front of her captors but at the same time she did not trust her nose since they had not spoken yet, even if she could hear them breathing the hearts of her tormentors beating nearly drown out by her own thundering organ, she didn't feel like anyone was there, doubted herself, questioned her sanity. Of course? A demon's sanity was always in question even if they tried to live like a human as she did since childhood, even living most of her life unaware of her demonic blood.

“So you are still capable of crying MA1.” his voice drifted to her sensitive ears more painful than any torture someone could inflict upon her because suddenly she knew what was coming, the future that she would have to endure. Jiyu did not have to smell the sharp tangy scent of whatever cologne he liked wearing to know who this man was, yet she had no clue what he looked like as she had never spent a single day alongside him without this blindfold covering her face. Had escaping, living her life in Black Rose for a while longer all been some long dream, had she never actually gotten away from them?! The female couldn’t bring herself to do anything except lay back against the ground, feeling herself break to pieces as she flashbacked to the last time she had heard that voice. Burnt flesh filled her nose, well the smell of it and yet she did not feel the pain normally associated with it telling her that right now for the moment everything was just in her head. Somehow? She had ended up right back in the clutches of the men who had abducted her around a year or two before, back then they kept her for three years and she was fairly sure they had intended to kill her the night she escaped. So why would they capture her again, and keep her alive. Of course chances of staying alive were slim, it was doubtful they knew about her body's need for connection with the wind, they would keep these cold magic canceling cuffs on her body and slowly she would die because she was dependant on her element. The last time she was with these people she would have welcomed death, but now she just thought of the people that would miss her, wondering if they would look for her unlike her family, how long they would scratch their heads about it, how long it would take them to notice she was missing. Unlike the last time? They were not taking her right after she was a drifter, she was loyal to Black Rose she had social connections, eventually someone was going to know she had not wandered off for another job binge. Could she hold out that long?

His laugh was rich but it made her shiver in disgust as he touched his fingers to her cheek, brushing them up to the soaked blindfold where his hand cradled the side of her face almost gently. How this man treated her? Was so different from the last time, she could tell he was kneeling to be level with her, one of his hand’s combing through her hair. “You’ll have to forgive our inadequate holding the first time, we had not been fully briefed little bitch.” he removed the pig tails she had been wearing, the last articles of ‘clothing’ that had been on her person. “We’ve since found out much more about you, it's a shame Akane had to run away you could have gotten a good life little Kazehime, had your father not been human.” how they did they know her mother, and how they did know her father was human! Wait been, was her father dead?! Had these men killed him! Nothing made sense, especially the way he moved his hand gently down to her shoulder’s and then moved one hand to trace her guild tattoo. What was he going to do to her, she could not think past the sheer terror. “Now, you behave this time and you won’t get hurt like the last time, you do hold some slight value in spite of your impure lines MA1.” wait were they promising that if she simply behaved and cooperated with them that she could avoid being injured this time? Did she trust that someone was coming for her that much, enough to go along with such vile things in order to keep herself safe until someone could rescue her. In her past? Jiyu had never waited for someone to save her, she had always been self sufficient because she had spent years as a run away, if she could not make it on her own she would have died. However something had changed after she escaped the last time, she had changed not only becoming an Inugami, but changed as a person.

Could she behave until whoever was hired to or went after her finally found her? It would be disgusting, she would never want to barely even look at men after this, heck she would want to kill every person beneath this roof but she could behave for a little while! At least than if she started fighting? She had more energy to do it, she was rebellious and strong headed, but Jiyu was far from stupid. His hand’s skated uncomfortably down her body and she chose to just lay there instead of trashing like she once had, tried to take her brain somewhere else besides where she was. While she could force herself to behave? She couldn’t stand being there consciously when they did what she knew they would do to her, when they reminded her that she was dirty and just something to be used by them for whatever they wanted to use her for. “Damn we must have really broken her last time, she didn’t even fight this time, none of us have a scratch on us.” they laughed because if they had done their research they knew she was incapable of harming them anyways without her magic, physically she was too weak, though her captors were wrong, mentally she would remain resilient. Playing her part? Was something the girl was very good at, she had always been able to do that, it was how she had made it this long back when she was on her own.

“Take the cuffs off her, she’ll die if we don’t plus the bars are magic proof she can’t cast through them nor by putting her hands through them.” apparently he knew quite a bit and had an interest in not causing excess damage except for the needle he jammed in her arm. While she couldn’t see it happen? The mysterious man had drawn her blood. “Also get her some nicer accommodations, maybe a blow up mattress and blanket, if she is going to be cooperative we don’t need her dying from hypothermia.” with that she could hear his footsteps fading away, but they didn’t remove the cuffs quiet yet, likely waiting until they got the demanded items so they did not have to toy with the risk of her deciding to fight back too much. These people were more organized and wiser than the last time they had held her, last time they had not considered her threat enough to cancel her magic out, nor had they held her somewhere so isolated, she could hear flowing water, sounded like the ocean, unless someone was looking for her they would not find her. Shockingly? Jiyu had faith someone was looking for her this time.

As she was left to lay there and think, the female slowly started realizing that she could still use her Inugami senses, the cuffs might only cancel her magic. Did they think her shapeshifting was linked to her wind magic?! Was it still possible she could shapeshift since she could hear and smell as normal. Once she was sure no one was watching her, than she would test that.

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One of the many airships representing the West Fiore Trading Company took off into the air hours later with multiple members on it in order to help their leader with a new assignment. A assignment that seemed to come out of nowhere for them but not to the dual-eyed demon. It was something he had always felt would develop in some way and lead to something bigger and more disastrous in his life. He looked over a note sent to him anonymously over and over again.

"CEO of the West Fiore Trading Company. I know who you are. You are the failure of an experiment and a failure of a son that killed his own mother. You think that this world will be fixed by killing her? You would be a fool to believe that in any sort of way. You are only but a small grain in a field with the success you think you have had. If you want to truly stop us then I request you to come to the Silent Glacier headquarters that you thought you had destroyed. Time heals all wounds and rebuilding what was lost is much easier than you think it would be."

The now demon CEO of the West Fiore Trading Company and Captain of Black Sails felt uneasy about the request in the letter sent to him.  It wasn't a job but that didn't bother him or even the note sent to him by the nameless person, even though it should have been. It was the area that he was being asked to go to. The snow covered area of the Silent Glaciers. All he kept doing was looking over the magical paper in front of him over and over as his mind wandered over his past. All he could see was flash backs of being there in the past as practically a willing hostage while his sister was held captive by Cor Torva. The Silent Glaciers held one of the dark guild's many headquarters at the time but now all that should be left of it was ruins of what was after Cirven destroyed the place as he did most of the Cor Torva buildings. He wanted to take the darkness of his past and destroy every trace of it though it was not like he was simply trying to just hide it from anyone. He was forced to kill back then and would have done it again because his sister's life was on the line. The only difference now would be that he would find a way to keep her alive.

"Sir..." A voice called out to him and broke him away from his thoughts of the past and returned him to where he was. He looked around the room he was in and realized where he was. He was in his office-like area of one of the West Fiore Trading Company's airships where he sat behind a desk. The person who called him and now stood in front of him was Alisha. Alisha was the popular bar maid turned into a popular secretary after the disappearance of the first Captain of Black Sails and her close friend, Anastasia. Alisha had been a great help to Cirven during his transition to taking over the guild and even helped in hiding the guild members from people finding out about the guild's guise as the masked pirate/mercenary guild.

"Oh, hey Alisha. Sorry about that. Whats going on?" Alisha gave Cirven a concerned look because he rarely called her by her name like that unless something was going on. The demon usually called others by some sort of nickname that he thought up, especially when he knew he would be around them for awhile. It was his way of getting them to like him because it showed it took him actually paying attention to them to give them a name but it usually ended up with them disliking him. His usual nickname for Alisha involved how voluptuous she was which seemed to strike a nerve with her until Cirven went back to calling her by her name. He never failed to bother her first before calling her by her name though. "No random nickname about my breasts or anything?" Cirven grinned at her and opened his mouth to speak but Alisha quickly spoke out before he could. "Captain, we are coming up over our destination now. We will be patrolling the area to try and find anything suspicious like the note said. Should be a simple job." Cirven nodded his head to Alisha and looked back down at the paper in front of him. Alisha moved closer to Cirven until she stood just in front of the desk. "Cirven, what is going on with you?" The demon broke away from staring at the paper again to look at Alisha. "It's... It's nothing. I just need some fresh air." He forced a smile onto his face and folded the paper up before placing it into one of the pockets on the inside of his coat then standing up and making his way out of the room. Alisha knew something was wrong but did not exactly know what to say or do to get him to come out with it.

Cirven moved through the airship with his hands placed in the pockets of the pants he wore which was typical but his eyes were looking at the floor in front of him like someone who was lost. He only broke from this gaze when other members of the guild called out to him to say hello which prompted him to do the same back. Not too long after Cirven found himself on the deck of the ship and looking out over the area of the Silent Glaciers below them. There wasn't much to see at all just mostly a white ground with ice protruding from it in various areas. The job seemed like it would be a very boring one as not many things could be seen in the area because no one really lived in it due to the cold weather is harbored. It didn't help that all it caused Cirven to think of was his time as that willing captive of Cor Torva and then the deaths that he caused, even his own sister's. "Cirven. The men said you looked different today also. what is going on?" His thoughts were interrupted again by the same voice from earlier. The dual eyed demon looked at his secretary. "This place isn't the best area for me. I have a sort of history here." Alisha raised an eyebrow to her Captain. "A history? Like what?" Cirven turned his head and looked back at the ground below them. He was going to continue speaking but something caught his eye. There was a building below them. A building that should not have been there at all. "Alisha, keep the men on the ship. I'm going down there. I will call you if I need any help otherwise stay here. Simply have the ship patrol the area. Do not send anyone down there without my permission." Cirven then quickly jumped off the ship and into the air where he used his ability of electromagnetism to fly down to the ground. "Captain!?" Alisha called out to him even calling him captain while they were not supposed to be known as pirates but he was too focused to listen to her now.

"I destroyed it. It can't be here." He mumbled to himself as he came closer to the building. He landed in front of the tower where he looked at the entrance. The tower would seem like it was out of use by those who simply used their eyes to look around it but his super senses could hear and catch the scent of living things present inside even before he got to the door. Cirven pulled out two of his knives from under his black cloak and on his belt around his waist, created an aura of black electricity and purple magical energy around each knife but stopped in his advancing when he heard a loud cluster of electricity near the tower along with the sound of some sort of yell from someone. This was followed by the sound of a thunderbolt crashing into the building and exploding causing the side of the building to blow away. "Does someone else have an issue with this place like I do?" He mumbled to himself as he floated into the air and flew to the new opening created by the person who attacked it. He heard muffled voices as he flew up to the hole but by the time he got there there was nothing but destruction left in front of him.

Whoever had attacked the building had made their way deeper into the building and gave off a familiar scent to the demon; Something God-like which made him even more confused about what exactly he was getting into with the remnants of Cor Torva he was possibly dealing with. After his inspection of the room he was greeted by the sounds of multiple feet clanking against the floor coming towards him. Two giant guards and four average sized guards burst into the room from a nearby door. Cirven smiled and gave a wave to the group of men. "Yo. I know this looks bad but I didn't do this." His words fell on deaf ears and the group of men attacked him with their spears from the four regular sized guards and the giant clubs from the bigger guards. Cirven jumped around the room dodging attack after attack finding openings in the smaller men first where he dug his electrified claws into as soon as he found that opening. He didn't care who they were or what they represented. The men here were not anyone he saw as humane anymore because of who they were working for. They were nothing more than monsters who wanted to help in the creation of the monsters and ruin lives. The bigger guards were a sign that what ever was going on there was being used on the guards themselves to make them bigger and stronger.

Cirven blocked one of the clubs over his head with both of his hands, preventing it from slamming onto him. From his left side another club came flying towards him and slammed into him sending him into a nearby table and into a wall awkwardly. "You are faster than I thought but I don't mind a challenge. You had a chance to make this easier on yourselves." The demon had black electricity dancing from out of his mouth as he finished speaking and then he took in a big breath of air. Both giant guards rushed towards the demon with their weapons held high, thinking that the stance their enemy had taken was a opening. Before their clubs could come down onto the demon a massive blast of black electricity shot out towards the two of them, quickly leaving barely anything left of their bodies as they had everything caught in the blast scorched away. "This place still brings on more death..." He mumbled out loud and looked at the destruction he had added to the room. He started to follow the scent of the God-like person who came before him but stopped once a certain scent came into his nose. The feminine scent of someone he knew from back when Black Sails was first established. "Jiyu...?" He mumbled out loud and then felt like he had an added goal for his current list of objectives.

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They seemed somewhat hesitant to leave her all alone, whether it was because they wanted to keep abusing her or because they worried she may try to escape she was unsure. Jiyu did not have the energy left to really evaluate what was going on, her body was hot despite the ice, almost as if she was starting to run some sort of fever. Could she really be getting sick so soon into captivity? Well, it would not be the most shocking thing in the world, she was exceptionally weak, to begin with. Kazehime may have been born a fierce fighter but eventually, everyone reached their limit, after so much torment and tweaking, someone eventually became unable to take any more and once that limit was reached that individual became exceptionally weak as if beckoning death to take them away from that pain. However she had found already that demise was not such the sweet oblivion it was for everyone else, in her case she came back after some time regenerating in a strange foreign place, but she could still feel the pain of her last death. Living with that extra pain? Made life even harsher, truly she did not want to meet another end in the cold and alone, heck she had only regenerated like once she didn't even know if that would happen again, she just assumed! Maybe if she died the pain from her last death, falling to pieces, would finally leave her.

The Inugami simply lay there thinking and slowly giving up as they came in, able to clearly hear them setting up some sort of inflatable bed and tossing her onto it before throwing some ragged blanket atop her. Apparently? They did have some vested interest in keeping her alive this time, while the last time it had seemed they could not care less if she died. "Keep hanging strong, Jiyu." suddenly a soft french accented female voice filled her sensitive ears, but she was confused because seconds ago she could have sworn that she was the only woman in the cell, yet the feminine strawberry scent that filled her nostrils clearly belonged to someone else, an entity that had not been there seconds ago. Kazehime also knew it was not one of her captors speaking to her as they called her MA1 not by the name she had chosen for herself, whoever spoke to her had empathy and sympathy towards her situation, they were not the same as the men laughing at her! Briefly, she wondered if the existence was a ghost, as none of her captors seemed to react to it, as if they didn't know the other female was there.

"What about the blindfold?" she was poked at with what felt like a sword, blood trickling from the location due to how tender her flesh was. "Leave it on her, all we have to do is toss the key to the cuffs through the bars to her, if she doesn't want the fold or cuffs off it's not our problem." it was also possible that hearing how she escaped the last time her guards this time were just as cautious as last time about her seeing them, it was easier for her to identify them if she escaped when they didn't have a blindfold on her, though she trusted her nose and ears more than her eyes to be honest. Seconds later she heard the door click and felt the key hit the side of her face, causing another laceration and beginning the formation of bruising. Jiyu couldn't pull herself to move, laying on the air filled bed where they had left her, limp.

She could feel a rough calloused yet gentle touch along the side of her temple, as if someone was trying to soothe the wound she had endured, stroking her hair as if they were trying to comfort her. "Come on its time to get up child." she felt the strip of fabric around her face loosen and slither off, realizing her head was laid in someone's lap she shot up, but when she did nothing was actually there and for some reason, she was reminded of a violin. Within seconds she realized the french voice was like that of Astrids only more confident! Was this some ghost related to her childhood friend? "You shouldn't just give up like that Mikka." that sealed it, only people who came from Peace Village or at least knew someone who was aware, could ever know that her name was actually Mikka! She stood up shakily, bare feet going numb as they touched the ice floor of her cell, tiny hands picking up the blanket, unable to make out where the ghost was but still able to smell the strawberries. Truly it was a bit too early to give up, especially since she could see three thousand more ways to escape than she had seen the last time. However it was too soon for her to enact any sort of plan, so the female restored to returning some of her dignity by wrapping the itchy blanket around herself like a one shouldered dress of sorts. This time she was not some run away who had just joined a guild, this time someone was looking for her, and she couldn't just lay here and rot again.

'it looks like its almost time for me to make my move' the thought hit her head when she heard sounds which could easily be interrupted as the keep being attacked, detected the panic in the soldiers as they ran around. Kazehime listened intently as her guards switched, they didn't mention anything expect small talk, not one word about if they had her key or she had it! She now had several plan's opened to her, but she would wait to hear the condition of everything on the outside to make her final decision about how to begin with escaping from their clutches. Even if it was not some ally come to save her, the enemy of one's enemy was their ally in the end, so one way or another she was getting out of her in the next few hours before they could abuse her again.

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They showed no interest in getting the 'key' back from her even though it was clear by now from the bellowing shout that the invaders were here to rescue someone or just kill anyone who was actually associated with running this place. When this was considered the wind user doubted the cuffs on her where the actual reason for the silence of her element, the absence of her magic pressing against her. Yet, she only felt the touch of anything she didn't think should be there on her wrists, thus the wind user suspected there was something else on her wrists beneath the basic cold cuffs freezing her wrists or they had given her some sort of shot to prevent the usage of her magic for a set period of time and would just give her more the longer they held her. For the moment, the wind user focused simply on fiddling with the key they had tossed her for the cuffs, hoping to get them off so she could do something about the sticky blood she felt trickling from her side and right beneath her left eye, slender fingers struggling with the metallic object. Almost every attempt ended with her getting the chain between the cuffs instead of the hole, it was a blessing she had been able to wrap herself in the blanket blinded as she was, but she was used to being blind. Realizing that she was used to blind she finally had the sense to stop aimlessly looking for the hole and lifted the cuffs in front of her blowing through them and listening for where the wind passed differently, finding this spot she knew that it was the key hole and used one hand to fix the key into it and than her mouth to turn it so she could help the cuffs off in a way that didn't caff her wrists.

Once she had the cuffs off her body? She could still feel something on her wrists so she assumed her guess of bracelets or something to restrict her magic was correct. Honestly the female was rather infuriated by the lack of her element, but she couldn't do anything about it for now, first she had to get out of the cell and out of captivity. Normally someone with their magic sealed would be unable to do something like this, but the female realized that anything that may be reliant on her status as a canine, as an inugami may still be working. In a world of magic they had not counted on natural innate abilities due to her species to be any bit more effective than disabled magic.

Switching focus she glanced at the four guards outside of her cell, laying down on the air mattress within her cell, starting to consider how she was going to take them down from where she was. If she had to fight them she would be done for, but the female knew that battle was not always required, she just had to find some way of getting around them. Though she would like to have the bow and arrow that one of them was holding, those would be useful weapons for her, one of the few weapons she could use efficiently. The wind user focused on the one with the key, walking forward to the bars of the cell so she was very close to them. Once she was there? The Inugami stopped trying to hold back the bad energy associated with her species a light bulb breaking instantly. Jiyu took advantage of the darkness instantly reaching her pale arm through the bars while they were distracted and pick pocketed the guard with the keys to her cell. "What happened?! You guys watch her I'm going to go get someone to fix this." one of the guards thus willingly left, the one with the large club. Kazehime looked around seeing better than them in spite of her limited sight considering a dogs night vision was better than that of a human.

Now was when she got to the tricky part, her slender hand moved the blanket over her mouth, hand moving to further cover her nose. In the past? She had managed to change her scent in order to avoid being tracked or such, now she was wondering if she couldn't possibility do the opposite, change her scent to something truly rank. After a few moments the soldiers started complaining and eventually passed out from the sulfur scent she made her body start producing. However now it was seeping through the blanket and she wouldn't have long before she too was disabled so she quickly moved to unlock her cell, and take the bow from the guard who had it and the arrows required to use it. Jiyu ran from the hall swiftly as she could, things breaking or failing in her wake due to the natural aura of bad fortune she held as an Inugami. After a while she escaped the area where the scent could affect her, since she had shifted her scent back to normal.

Jiyu was unsure about what she was doing right now, the female had never used her Inugami powers for anything expect minor shape-shifting of her body. At the moment, she was using her strength for everything and even letting her aura flare however it wished, reacting to her racing heart beat in destructive pulses. "Wow this is cheaply made." she grumbled the comment as she felt along the bow she had secured, taking one of the arrows from the quiver she had, knowing that soon she would likely find herself in the middle of some fight. In the distance she could hear the shouts about how she had escaped and them sending a pack of dogs after her. Were they really sending canines after a canine? She knew every way in the book to trick those, they would be beyond easy to deal with!

The three massive guard dogs were quick enough to find her scent trail, her captives must have kept her clothing or something, gave them a scent sample. "Try this on for size, they can't track me if my scent isn't what their tracking." the female changed her natural scent to one of roses, still easy to track but it would buy her quiet some time as the dogs wouldn't be able to realize what happened, thus they would only find her by chance after that.

Rolling, rolling, rolling. Keep the enemies coming.

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The two scents seemed to be coming from separate ways that would send the devil deeper into the building. He could follow the unfamiliar scent that reminded him of the Gods he had been around down a flight of stairs or he could go after the familiar scent of an old friend who was a past member of Black Sails that seemed to be coming from a hallway. The choice was pretty easy and obvious for him as he started to move down the stairs that lead him closer to the scent of Jiyu. Her scent was not a heavy one meaning that more than likely it was a lingering scent from when she was in the area or something but his nose was stronger than most due to his lineage as a devil dog so he was able to follow it easily. The hallway he moved down did not have any guards in it which would have thrown him off if there wasn't already someone wrecking the place and causing a ruckus for the guards to quickly go and deal with. He figured it had the scheduled personnel moving to go and deal with the threat that was posed over everything else which the devil could use to overshadow his presence to them. The hallway lead him to a stairway that circled downward and the sound of boots slapping on each step caused the devil to jump into one of the shadows and wait for them to each come up the stairs.

Eight more regular guards wielding more elemental weapons and two more giant brutes came from up the stairs where they stopped once at the top as a group. "We need to confirm who and what the enemy is and quickly deal with him by any means necessary! We have our orders to make sure to quickly dispatch of any enemies so that we can keep this place secret! Our jobs are on the line here!" One of the regular guards spoke up who happened to be wearing some pins on his uniform showing that he had some type of authority over the others. "Let's go and do what we do best!" He ordered out after his little pep talk which only got him semi-confused nods from the others of his group. "Maybe you should work on your pep talks there." Cirven spoke out from the shadows which quickly caused each of the men to go on high alert with their weapons drawn. "Who..? Where are you? Come out now!" A snicker came out from Cirven after the man called him up. "I have been out this entire time." Cirven's voice came from above them causing them to quickly jerk their heads up to look up at the devil who was standing on the ceiling of the hallway looking down at them. "Yo." He spoke out and waved his hand.

His greeting was cut short by a blast of fire coming from the weapon of the leader's sword that was shot towards him and scorched his body leaving nothing left. "Now was that polite at all?" Cirven's voice spoke out from behind the group after their false victory. Before they could react, multiple knives floated up around their position. "I'll say hello your way." The knives quickly flew through the air and cut their way through the group of men. Some of them managed to block the blades but those were quickly met with another type of attack from Cirven himself as he dashed into the group and attacked them with his limbs that were covered in purple electricity that formed them claw-like or blade-like to amplify his melee attacks in two ways. "Separate! We will be harder to attack that way!" The leader called out and each man attempted to move away but one of them was not so lucky as a few of the knives forced him to dodge into the range of Cirven who quickly cut his way through his enemy, leaving him on the ground with a new injury. "Separating? Could possibly work but..." Cirven sent out the knives to attack each man while he himself rushed towards one of the brutes with one of his knives flying near him. Each man seemed to be too distracted by the knives to help each other, at least help each other fast enough.

The knife moving with Cirven moved ahead of him and forced the brute to move to his right where the devil moved to strike and cut his claws across the body of the brute but the man took on the pain and reacted quickly by swinging out his large mace with both of his hands. The mace slammed into the ground where it just barely missed the smirking devil. The knife that was used as a distraction early flew through the air and stabbed into the brute's leg which caused it to stumble but it held its footing still until Cirven quickly attacked the brute's other leg causing it to fall to his knees where Cirven gave the finishing blow to the brute thanks to his claws swiping across the large man's throat. The devil then was grabbed by the other brute who bear hugged him causing him to lose his concentration over the knives which had them drop to the ground and stop moving. "I will get rid of the threat!" The brute yelled out to his companions who took some time to relax from being attacked. The brute continued to squeeze the devil tighter and tighter and the other members of their group moved to look at Cirven's face as he was wracked with pain from the hold. The brute then let go of his grip around the devil when he felt that he had done enough damage and used his strength to slam the devil into the ground below him, destroying the stone floor where he was slammed. The brute was going to continue his attack but the devil's smirk after all of the pain caught him off guard. "Wha-" The brute started to speak but was suddenly enveloped in a wave of purple electricity that traveled out from Cirven and even hit his allies which stunned each of them from the surprise attack and the devil quickly jumped up from his 'stone bed' and cut across the brute's throat like he did the other one. Cirven landed on the ground and his body healed through his healing factor which caused the last seven men to become much more uneasy. "Hmm... Do you guys want to give up?"" The guards were about to lower their weapons but something made them lift their weapons again. "I'd be the same way." A purple net of electricity came up from underneath each man and left them being electrified by the devil's attack that he had set up earlier when he was laying on the ground. Each man fell to the ground with purple sparks flowing through them still but their bodies had stopped moving.

Cirven didn't waste much time making sure each man was dealt with and continued down the stairs that each man had come up after getting his knives off of the ground. At the bottom of the stairs he was brought face to face with a well armored man with a long sword in a sheath on his side. He was accompanied by four guards and a chained up Jiyu who the well armored man pulled around by a chain connected to her neck. "I take it that you are the one causing the ruckus in my building? You don't look like much at all but I know looks are usually deceiving in these times." He pulled Jiyu in front of him. "I am William Bekrim and I will kill this girl if you do not stop this attack. No hesitation at all." Cirven chuckled. "This is rich! Would be a great plan and a great way to trick me if that was really her but her scent is completely different. Honestly it is a disgusting smell compared to her's." Bekrim glared at Cirven and let go of the chain. The Jiyu dropped their disguising magic which changed her into a man. "No wonder the scent was bad! You are an ugly one!" Cirven spoke out and the man jumped forward but Bekrim grabbed the chain and stopped him from moving. "Stop, you idiot!" He yelled out as he knew that it was a tactic to get the man to rush alone forward. "Got a smart one here, huh?"

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