'Friends' In High Places(Errings Rising Guild intro)

The weather in the mountains was always harsh but it seemed and felt as though someone had kicked it up a notch this day as the wind and cold had forced most people in doors in the area. There were few that would brave the weather but that did not mean some would not do so, especially with a particular goal in mind. A portal appeared above one of the small towns in the mountains and the slender body of a woman hang out of it with the lower half of her feet being left through the portal. She was hanging upside down and looking over the area of the town. "Everyone ready in their positions? I can only remain suspended like this for so long so try to not take too much time. Intel on this place says there are multiple Cor Torva remnants here in hiding." Korvin spoke telepathically to the rest of her group, the Detergers. They were a group of heavily trained and heavily enhanced mages who each had skills and abilities above that of the norm for mages. They were each created to be assassins for Cor Torva, a government funded and ran dark guild that created people like them in order to kill who they felt needed and eventually prevent the destruction of the world by the hands of the Gods. A lot of things had happened over the course of their lives which brought them to creating their own group outside of Cor Torva and aiming to destroy it. Each member besides Korvin, had taken a position around the small town to prevent anyone from escaping it. Each of them reported to the others telepathically that they were ready.

"Let's make this quick. I don't want to be here for long. The weather here is irritating." Nakiya spoke out as she stood in her position and waited for the order. "Is it too cold for you, princess?" Lanis mocked her followed by a chuckle from him. "I will make sure to have Zargan give you a visit for talking to me like that!" She threatened him back angrily. "I should have warned all of you that having a channel open to each other at the same time like this was going to result in those two fighting..." Ves spoke out to the group. "I do wish you did. I would at least have cut myself off from hearing their bickering until the order was given, which speaking of that order...?" Laniiar spoke to all of them. "We will only commence this operation in one way." Cirven spoke to all of them before directing an order directly to Demi that the others could hear. "Reaper, you will lead this attack and start it. We are to kill them all in search of the remnants of Cor Torva here. Remember, anyone near my enemy is an enemy. Simple as that." Cirven gave the order to his subordinate and waited at the entrance of the town for her to start the operation. A grin formed over his face as he though how they would start it and how he saw her throwing her morals away like she did in the past for her mission.

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Demi hadn't used the portal that Korvin had given her to use, she still had business to take care of within the void and elsewhere. She had made peace with what course she had taken and though knew it was likely the wrong action in the long run, she didn't give a damn given she got the thing she wanted. The one she wanted to protect outside of her family was protected at least for now, she had put a few things into motion but that was between her and her cousins. A portal opened on the ground her eyes looking around the area, and rolled her eyes she couldn't help but think this was some sort of cruel joke as she pretty much blended into the snow 'Really Trase, of all places you decide... ugh' she thought all the while keeping her mind guarded 'Kill me now' she thought to herself guarding her thoughts once again as she put nothing past the others at this point, the scene behind her wasn't that of the void but almost seemed like Midi. Had Cirven paid attention he would realise it was a section of Tolgalen, the place they had once called home, she would be wearing a white kimono with a lavender under layer and a matching lavender obi around her waist. She had already sensed around the area and moved quickly without a single word to a decent vantage point.

She watched silently as those within the village she recognised several of them from when she was a child but not from Cor Tova, from the facility but she could have been mistaken but she wasn't about to ask them for details of their employment history. Her eyes closed as she tried to find her balance, she knew this was going to go one way and she really hated spilling unneeded blood. She had done it to often as a child and then there was her 'day' job that had her witnessing the worst moments of peoples life. She wished he would go back to how he once was but knew that wasn't about to happen and she was now bound to him buy the terms of an agreement they came to. She awaited the orders of what they were about to do, it this place really had people like them in the village then they would be a danger not only to them but the things she was trying to keep safe, still she didn't really like it. "I swear to all that is unholy, stop calling me that Trase." she stated her voice as cold as the area they were currently in.

It had taken a moment before she realised the order that had been given, she was expected to lead this attack, this was yet another test to see if she would stall or do as she was ordered without question. She hated that she wasn't as she once was as this would of of course bothered her but at the same time she would have been able to deal with it better as she could have turned that part off better than she could now. 'This is just another task that needs to be done, nothing more, nothing less.' she reminded herself her warm breath easily seen in front of her before her eyes closed and she dashed forward her scythe appearing in her hand. Her kimono changing to a white and black dress making her almost seem like a lolita doll she was just waiting for the quip from one of them, as she ran she however left no trail in the snow, it was like she had never been there which she found was a useful trick when she needed to kill someone and not leave a trace.

Jumping up the wall of a house she crouched on a roof and smiled a little silently listening feeling the life forces around the village 'There are seventy two people here, a fifth of them being children, out of the children and adults sixteen are like us' she sent them to the others through her own telepathic abilities 'I will not kill the children like us Trase, they could be useful in time they are victims.' she said calmly the tone showed she wouldn't budge on the matter, if the others wanted to kill them then she wouldn't interfere, that wasn't her job. Jumping down from where she was dashing forward towards a group of guards swiping her scythe as she slide to a stop she had cut them diagonally downwards. She remained there for a few second the men not understanding what had just happened but as they turned only part did before the bottom part of them fell followed by the top. Standing once more she dashed towards her next targets forgetting everything else, she was now focusing on the task at hand, that was all that mattered right now. She knew one wrong move put them all in the danger and cause this assault to fail, she refused to be the cause of that.

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@Cirven

The wait was over finally as Demi made her move. Each of the Detergers also moved in and fought against what small militia of guards the town had and quickly dealt with them. They were not anywhere close to the level of skill that the group had which was a natural thing seeing as they had been trained since they were children and were some of a handful of survivors from such training. "Number one, I will call you something you will like once I feel you have proved yourself. Number two, age does not matter, Reaper. We were kids once like them and our skills were still above and beyond that of any adult. They need to be dealt with, end of story." Cirven spoke to her and allowed the others to hear it. He did not like how soft she was at all. "Throw away your thoughts of compassion and focus on the orders. Try doing something like the rest of us and make a game out of it." He knew that even though they were only hearing his voice they could tell that there was a crazed expression on his face during the last part of what he said.

Cirven quickly cut down one of the guards in his way using a mix of different elements on his clawed hands after he spoke. A scent came to him that sent him into one of the homes in the town which a few guards were standing between him and it. "Ooooh! I get a welcoming party! I wonder if any of you have presents for me!" He spoke out as he walked towards them and then quickly dashed at them until he used a blast of flames to shoot himself quickly towards them. His speed did not give the guards time to react and in the single burst he cut his way through one of them using his now bloodied, claws. A blue hue came over his limbs as he quickly moved towards the last of the guards and used the same limbs to cut through each of them like butter thanks to his spell. He grabbed the last guard he had cut down and lifted him into the air. "Why don't you be a good resident of this town and show me inside!" He laughed after speaking and then through the man into the door of the home which sent the door swinging open for him to walk into. "Thank you. I wouldn't want to just invite myself in, you know? It is bad manners." A grin was plastered on his face as he spoke and walked into the home to find a man and a woman cowering with the man wielding an ethernano gun aimed at him. "Do-Do-Don't come any closer!! I will shoot!" The man fearfully spoke out as the woman stood behind him for what ever safety he could give her. "Whoa there! Didn't know we had a sharp shooter in the house! I'm shaking in my boots and its not from the cold! Especially after I killed all those men outside who had better weaponry and skills than you! Oh yes, I'm so scared!" Cirven mocked the man and over acted being scared of him by putting his hands up and making faces. He then returned to his overly cocky look with a grin on his face and moved towards the man who fired the gun into Cirven's chest suddenly.

Cirven took the shot and then fell to the ground seemingly motionless. "I-I-I did it...?!" The man exclaimed. He was not sure exactly how he did it but looked on to see he had proof that he did. "We need to get out of here. Go and get the kids from where they are hiding so we can go, Kera. Go, go go." He told his wife who quickly ran off and up the nearby stairs. He then moved towards Cirven's body and used his foot to kick it over to see the front of his body but when he did he saw the face of someone else. A face of a completely different man was there. A face that caused the man to back away from the body wide eyed and scared. "That guy really did a number on us back then." Cirven's voice spoke out from behind the man, who was too in shock to respond. "He and his assistant made sure that we all had our adequate mental training in when we were finally able to go to sleep. They didn't care for the nightmares they gave or the other kids that never woke up. They only cared about the end result with creating the best of the best." Cirven continued as the man managed to get a grasp on himself and remember it all. "I'm sorry! We were under orders to do so! The discoveries we made doing it were great and there are always sacrifices for things like that..." The man spoke but knew he had gone too far with what he last said. "Griften, you went too far with that. Why would you call one of your experiments a sacrifice? We are all family here aren't we? I mean, that is what we were taught anyways, right?" Cirven's voice became cheerful and friendly suddenly and he grabbed Griften and hugged him. "Yes, yes! We are family! I gave that all up to make things right and do good with the world here!" Cirven released the hug he had on the man and smiled at him. "That's great to hear! I was one of your biggest fans, you know?" Griften's face lit up hearing that. "I would have never guessed that!" Cirven nodded and the two continued to talk back and forth about their time in Cor Torva but as they did Griften would realize subtle things about the surroundings not being right with spurts of white flame appearing in the background or sudden sensations of heat around him. It wouldn't be until it was too late when he would find out that he wasn't talking to anyone at all and the whole situation was a complete illusion while his home and family were burning away around him. He'd let out screams of fear and more after realizing it and Cirven sat outside his house wide eyed watching the house burn up with a grin on his face. "It looks like things really got heated in there, huh?" He said to himself and then burst out into laughter before turning away from it to contact the others.

"Everyone report on their progress." He'd order the others and be told by each that they had finished with their side of the town and their were no survivors. All he was waiting for was Demiari to speak on her progress before they continued.

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Demi continued moving quickly and without fault from one enemy to the next making quick work of them, she already knew that they hadn't went through the training she and the others had, they were completely innocent and just happened to be living in the wrong place. Still this didn't stop her from following her orders as she once had, white snow she once blended into now stained crimson with the blood of those she gave final death to. Her eyes closed as she placed her scythe into the snow for a moment she knew there where others around her but they were of little consequence, it wasn't like they really could kill her or any of them really, they made sure that the elite unit they so desired was just that in every factor. "This was not my wish." she whispered placing her hand forward towards the bodies of the dead, what could only be described as marbles of different colours coming towards her. One by one she took them and placed them into a pouch she wore on her right side, she had to kill them but that meant now she was also the one responsible for the souls going through their re-cycles. As soon as the last one was in the pouch she picked up her scythe and was about to go to her next target when she stopped feeling something in her shoulder and leg restricting her movement.

This made her stop in her tracks and look at both the affected areas seeing several arrows in each "Really?!" she sounded beyond annoyed and was loud enough that it didn't matter where in the village you were, you would have heard her "This is my favourite dress and you ruined it!" the one who had hit her made the clothing turn another colour and it wasn't red, well at least not at that moment. "Y-you're not natural..." he managed to stutter out making her turn around and tilt her head her face void of emotion "I am plenty natural I assure you, the way I look is because of my race..." she said her voice calm as she walked towards the man who started to back away from her only to fall on the dead bodies of people he had once known "I am sorry about your friends, but, orders are orders... bad things tend to happen when people misbehave..." she said backing the man against a wall, she scratched her head as she was trying to remember what she was talking about previously before she got side tracked "Oh yeah natural..." she said with a small smirk.

"I was born of a race that naturally lives outside the cycle of life and death but like many of my family we where taken from our natural one and had a lot of not so fun things done to us..." she said bringing up her scythe to his neck "And well it killed a lot of us..." she continued pressing it onto his throat making him gasp for breath "Those of us that survived that hell, we got more of the not so nice things done to us and well some of us are less than sane due to it." she said taking the scythe away from the man allowing it to fade. He was surprised by her action but was thankful by it that was until he watched her take out each and every arrow she shot at her out of her body "I'm one of the sanest people in my family and you ruined something I liked so the rules for you have changed." she said her voice cold as she watched the other stuttering to try and say something "I don't use arrows personally so I think I should return them to you." she said her tone made the area seem like a tropical climate, the man shook his head only for the arrows to land within his throat. "Idiot..." she said walking away not even bothering to collect the soul to her he could wander in torment until a hunter found him, she would deal with her twin or any other of his branch that would try and say something.

She started to run towards the last two life signals in her area and looked through the window seeing a little girl that couldn't have been any older than three years old, white skin like her but there was something not normal with her. The hair colour was wrong it was a deep spring green and the eye colour wasn't natural either as they matched 'Oykai, I'm going to leave someone hidden... I need you to take them to our cousins... she's like us but something's not right' she sent to her twin once more using channels that only those like her could. She quietly opened the door and looked at the woman who looked like she was ready to scream "Don't or I kill you both here and now." she said she was through with today already and it had just begun, that seemed to persuade the woman to settle down. "You were the head scientist of Cor Torva and remember if you lie I will kill you both but I will make you watch as I slowly dissect the girl." she said her tone and facial expression were neutral so the woman didn't know if she was lying or not "Y-yes, b-but..." "Shut up I don't need an explanation." she yelled her eyes narrowing "Hide the girl, instruct her to remain quiet and that a friend is coming to take care of her and remind her you love her..." she said walking forward "Try to run well you know what we're like, say a word of her existence to the others and they will kill her... well they'll have me kill her because I'm the only one that can with what she is." she instructed watching as the woman picked up her daughter and kissed her on the head.

"Mommy loves you, I have to go for a little while okay; someone will come and look after you while I'm gone..." she said trying to push back her tears wanting her child not to worry "But I want you to play hide and seek with them so I'll put you in the special hiding place... remember you can't make a sound." she said kissing her head once more hiding her in a secret compartment in a wall activating a rune to keep it locked 'All but one here and reaper is a job not a name Trase and not all children are like us either.' she sent to the other dragging the woman out of the house and towards the others "She was their head scientist, I didn't kill her because she can be useful after all you seem to want to destroy Rui's confidence in people even worse than it already is... her life energy runs from the same line as one Sol Terumi." she informed him pushing the woman to be at Cirven's feet "I didn't want to do it... please... I.." "Will you shut up or I'll kill you regardless of worth." she snapped at the woman once again

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@Cirven

The Detergers had arrived to meet with Demiari as she was the only one left to check on the progress of. They did not need to discuss it telepathically as they all were uneasy with her asserting herself as part of their group again under the terms they used like in the past during their sparring sessions. The fire Cirven had started was raging throughout the city and would soon engulf it all in flames. Cirven liked the idea of it all being burnt down to ash completely with all of the ex-Cor Torva being there who had ran all their tests on them. It was a sort of karma he felt that they could serve to those who took such great care of them in the past in that hell hole they were forced to live in.

He flew through the air nonchalantly as if there was not much of a care at all on his mind for what could happen to him or any of the others for what they were doing and honestly he did not care what happened to them or himself. All he cared about was cleansing the world and having fun in doing it. Simple as that. He landed on the ground near where he found Demiari's scent to find that she had dragged out a woman from one of the homes and claimed she shared blood with Sol Terumi, one of Cirven's aces while he was a part of Onyx Moon. "Sol's relative, huh?" He moved in close to the woman and eyed her over while catching her scent. "You are right. She wrecks of the smell of lizard breath. Ugh!" He pretended to gag from her scent but he picked up something else in her scent also. The scent of someone else. Another female. The scent came from Demiari too which caused Cirven to think on something. "This is just hilarious!"His face contorted into a villainous smile. "You are offering up Ruvel for the sake of someone else? Is it a little girl?Does this mean Sol is an uncle?" He laughed out but just as quickly as he laughed it was cut off and he became serious again. "You do know you not following my orders is breaking out terms, don't you? That would mean that I get to go and test little old Ruvel with or without your permission. Maybe I'll use you as an example of what will happen to him if he stands against me? Would you like that scene? Ruvel crying over your corpse as it slowly dissolves away into nothingness and him having absolutely no power to stop it. Only having the ability to watch as his wannabe savior disappears. I wonder if he would fight his dear big brother then." His voice was serious and harsh as he spoke. He did not care what she thought or what she did. All he cared about was getting his way with this and she was not cooperating which would lead him to getting his way either way so it was a win-win for him.

"Yeah, there is a part of me that cares about pale and quiet you but that just makes it all the more fun to watch you wither away. I did kill my sister and mother after all so where do you think you stand!" His eyes widened towards her flashing orange and then the grin returned to his face as he stared at her. "Where. Do. You. Think. You. Stand?" He asked her again slowly but this time the energy around them shifted showing that he was willing to take the next step if he felt it was needed.

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Demi looked to the group and almost hugged her scythe in her left arm, she didn't need to me telepathic to tell how they felt and her eyes narrowed slightly "You might not like or trust me at the moment, but you are going to have to put up with me as we're needing to work together." she was getting irritated by this constant thought of betrayal when she had done none, at least not to them. "My twin took me away the second time now if you have a damn problem with me voice it, get it out in the damn open. Let me take whatever stupid punishment I'm meant to have so we can move on." her eyes went wide as she couldn't believe that she had voiced such feelings, it wasn't that she was going soft it was more she was sick and tired of being the outside, the traitor, the one punished for something they had no power over. She was still trying to work out why this bothered her so much and the only thing she could come up with was she felt like she had been disowned and it hurt her more than anything else could.

Demi nodded to his words on the woman being related to Sol remaining quiet from her outburst, that was until the child came up. It was true the order was to kill everyone within the village but killing that one person was just something she couldn't, it wasn't because she couldn't kill children she had done so in the past without a second thought. It was different now though what was her stability was removed. "You want obedience, stop treating me like a damn outsider." to her it was as simple as that, she would have never went against what he wanted in the past because of just how close they were, they worked as a single unit but how could she would like that when she felt like she was being quarantined by the others "I let a child live and I have done in the past many times Trase and never once did you question my loyalty to you or our family." she reminded him her arms crossing "She isn't like any that I've seen of my race, I wanted to know why." she admitted, she knew it was stupid on so many levels.

He listened to him more her eyes never leaving him as she blanked out the rest of the world around them. She moved to stand in front of him as she was asked where she stood and took his hand gently placing it at the back of her neck where her crystal was after moving her hair "You think I betrayed you, end me.." she said her own eyes seemingly dull but there was something deeper within them, almost like an ember fighting to live in a way "I stand by your side Trase as I always have and always will, I didn't fully disobey an order and for the life I refused to take I gave you something of equal value." she said motioning towards the scientist at his feet "I could have killed her and sent the child away, you'd have believed both dead but I was honest with you. You want his monster released you will need her, if his monster is released Rui will be forced to exile him to save the company's name" she said awaiting his judgement "If needed I will go kill the child and fulfil our agreement," her tone and eyes showing that she would indeed follow through if he gave such an order this time around.

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@Cirven

If his grin could wrap around his face then it would have by how the situation was working out. She trusted him so much that she would put her life in his hands completely and utterly without any remorse it looked like. She was taken to such a level that she put the one thing that could cease her from being in the world near his clawed hand. A rush of excitement came over him in the form of a hot sensation in his stomach but with that came the thoughts of her not being around anymore. She is a pawn to me. A pawn that would listen to his every beck and call that he preferred to keep around but if she was not listening then what good was she? But she would be gone then. But she wasn't listening so she deserved to be gone. But she would be gone then. She is a pawn that doesn't listen! Kill her! Don't kill her! Do it! Don't! His mind constantly raced between both sides of the spectrum of what to do but the entire time his face was coated in a smile and happiness until a single tear started to move down it. Before anyone could see it his entire body lit into flames burning away the tear and his clawed hand cut across her crystal, scarring it but not breaking it. The same hand was brought to be facing the building where he knew the child was and lit it into white flames abruptly. "If you at any point in time disobey an order again I will break that crystal and leave your body hung up for everyone to see. I'd have a nice decoration to show just how far I am willing to go and I will go even further, baby." He spoke out and burst into laughter again for a short time before stopping and looking towards Korvin. "Put Miss Terumi in one of your pocket dimension cells. She will be an asset in some way to us." Korvin nodded, not wanting to question anything and did as she was told.

The rest of the Detergers stayed silent also as they knew just how far their leader had gone and what he had gone through would not keep him from killing any of them for speaking up against him. He put his head to the side of Demi's. "If you want trust, Miss Tall, Pale and Dark then you will have to earn it by listening to me. Otherwise you will end up like the rest of these bodies with no respect at all from any of us." He turned her around and forced her to watch as the house holding the girl in in burned down. "That will be you if we show you mercy at all. A death that you see coming but you get time to think about it. Slow but at the same time merciful, at least for my standards." He let out another laugh after he spoke.

Korvin returned shortly after to receive another order from their leader. "Now, don't you think its about time we went and made some friends?" He turned his view to the top of the mountain and grinned. Korvin created a portal for each of them to go through and Cirven nonchalantly went through, not waiting for the others.

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Demi remained calm or at least it seemed like it on the outside, on the inside she was trembling as she kept his clawed hand by the one thing she kept protected against the world. She had killed people for less, for daring to get anywhere near her neck but here she was letting him touch it. Her eyes closed for a moment as she went through just how this could play out, she knew this wasn't the same person she was raised with but yet it was the same person she guarded all those years ago. She might have been afraid of the situation but a healthy dose of fear now and then reminded people to tread carefully, if she was to die there and then she would have done so fully at peace even though she knew it meant that she would never be reborn again. She should have been trembling externally but she wasn't she would happily give him her all if it made him happy, she wanted to slap her head and tell herself to stop being a damned idiot there was just no way especially not now that would happen.

It was then she picked up thoughts though it was like it was inside a wind tunnel so she couldn't really make out the words but she could tell there was an internal struggle. 'Trase...' she thought to herself sadness seen in her eyes as she continued to look into his own orange ones, she hated herself for hurting him like this. Her hand moved towards his cheek once more cupping it, it was true that his flame would hurt her but she lacked the ability to feel pain and so continued as if it hadn't even happened. That was until she screamed out in pain suddenly as she felt the claws cut into her life essence, not enough to kill her or cause any severe damage but enough to make his point clear, he was not to be disobeyed. The scream was blood curling and echoed in the now silent city, she fought back the tears that weakness would never be forgiven by any of them. With a few breath sharp breaths she stood straight, she knew it would heal if she could get back to the void but something told her that wasn't going to be allowed anytime soon "Understood Trase." she said her voice calm once more.

Feeling his head on her shoulder she looked to him from the corner of her eye, the others might have known what he went through but she didn't. She wanted to understand but while there was the distrust she never would, part of her just wanted to go through what everyone else did but she was afraid of losing herself at the same time as this time it almost seemed as if the memories given were of less than stable people "I apologise for faltering in my task, it will not happen again I assure you." her tone had returned to what it once had, before she had been taken from them the first time. She had to find a way to push her compass aside like she had when she was a child, she guessed her time within the facility changed things and being with Ruvel didn't help. He was a gentle soul that in her opinion needed protecting from the harshness of the world he now lived in. She was brought out of her own thoughts as she was turned towards the house the child was in watching it burn to the ground emotionless "Understood, I won't falter in my orders again." Her eyes scanned the area for a life force or a soul and found either 'Oykai, did you get her on time?' she sent to her brother 'I made it swift, she felt no pain.' he sent in return her hand began to ball up but she stopped herself "Death comes to all and we are the instrument that bring it." she said he voice clear and concise as she spoke, it was as simple as that to her now she was raised to be a weapon and even now as a reaper she was taking lives. She just wondered why she was trying to fight the former if she was still a killer in the latter, of course the reason between the two were different but that was neither here nor there.

Demi listened to Cirven's words her eyes going to where he was looking giving a slight nod to Korvin before hand "Trase, you don't make friends... you look for ways to destroy things in the funnest way possible." she said just before she walked through the same portal he had calmly wondering what was coming next in this unending roller coaster.

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@Cirven

The devil was happy and sad that Demiari had started to give into his dominance completely. It was fun for him to toy with her and a a part of him wanted to see what she looked like suffering against what he could do to her. Her cries of agony put him in a state of bliss in the back of his mind but there was something else that he felt when it happened. Something that he did not want to embrace and put deep in the back of his mind. He didn't look back at her when she spoke of how he was with his friends but just by the atmosphere the entire group could tell that a twisted grin was on his face. "Maybe. We will just have to see how they take being my play things. Who knows, they might just enjoy it." A laugh escaped from him as he went inside of the portal and it closed off, cutting the laugh off prematurely.

The portals opened near the front of a large castle that was placed at the peak of the Mount Hakobe Settlements. A place that Cirven had never gone to but he heard much about it. Especially with their previous owners. "It wasn't too long ago that I thought I would be destroying this place alongside Onyx Moon, masquerading as an emotionless clown with my movements and actions mimicking that emotion. Oh, how times change, huh?" He could not help but speak out about his past desire to utterly destroy this place due to the old owners attacking his country just to get to Sol Terumi and the deserters that were with him. The others came through portals as he was saying his comment which they knew a little about from him telling them some of his past experiences while they were gone. It was almost unrecognizable that the man in front of them was the leader of a company that wanted to save the world piece by piece while having their own hidden agenda like some sort of 'Robin Hoods'. "Oh, how the times change..." He spoke out again as he eyed over the castle more. It was a massive spectacle for them to see. They were used to facilities where they were forced to be trained in but most of those were hidden underground in some way or were not fully visible due to being built into some type of land mass so seeing such a large building was completely new to them, even to Cirven. "Let's be good guests this time and not kill everyone, at least not yet. If the intel is true about this place, we should find some like minded individuals here. The things is, you know how I like to scope out my areas and surroundings so Reaper and I will go make friends while the rest of you keep an eye on the place and us. We don't want to be walking into any traps, no matter how fun they would be to rip to shreds with our skills. Before you go, Korvin." He spoke to them and each of them, besides Korvin and Demiari used their magic to either form into something or disappear from sight as they made their way to separate positions around the castle.

He looked down at his tattered military uniform from the destruction of now multiple areas and sighed. "These clothes just aren't going to work at all for what my idea is. We will need something that looks a bit more tourist-y." Korvin nodded and opened a portal for them to go into where they would be able to change into something much more fitting of his idea. Minutes later he would come out of the portal dressed in a large hooded white tiger fur coat with black pants and boots. He would wrap his arms around himself getting into character of someone who was freezing in the cold weather of the mountains and the snow that was falling all over them. Once Demiari had changed he would put her hand out to her for her to hold and the two would make their trek through the snow filled mountain peak to the castle's entrance. "Don't get any ideas now. I am a delicate flower that does has not been let to bloom yet." He teased Demi while speaking in a higher pitched voice like he was some sort of damsel and then chuckled. It was like each jest he did showed more and more that his sanity was in tattered like the clothes he wore not too much earlier before.

The duo would make their way to the entrance of the castle, figuring out that the area seemed to be lightly guarded by their own view and the view of the others who each had eyes on the area in some way. Arriving to the entrance showed them that the castle at least had some sort of personnel watching over it with four guards standing between them and the door. "Who the hell are you two!? Get out of here before I take my sword and shove it where the sun doesn't shine!" One of the guards spoke out angrily as if he was trying to assert some sort of dominance to start off the conversation. "Oh! I'm sorry! I could not see you there! We are looking for shelter! We decided to climb up this mountain as a sort of honey moon after getting married recently. We wanted to, well, you know on the top of a nice mountain to really solidify things between us." Cirven spoke out knowing that the situation would make Demi feel very much so embarrassed which he enjoyed the thought of. "You just came up here to.." One of the other guards spoke out but Cirven explained it by putting out both of his hands, one in the shape of a circle and the other with only a finger up and put his finger into the circle his other hand. The guards did not look pleased at all but Cirven had a full smile on his face from his antics. "This is not a place for you to do that at all! Leave before I make you leave!" Another guard yelled out and took a step forward. "But, sir. We have come fro-" The guard cut Cirven off. "And the forceful way it is then!" The guard quickly moved forward and pulled out his sword and stabbed it through the air towards Cirven who steppe out of the way of the attack and quickly slammed his hand into the chest of the guard, firing a blast of black electricity and sending him flying back into the other guards and then the doors. This sent the doors flying open and left the guards convulsing from the large surge of electricity that had hit them. "Second time today that someone was kind enough to let me inside of their establishment by flinging their bodies completely into it. I honestly, can get used to something like this." His demeanor changed back to that of the devil from the goofball tourist and he walked into the castle and stared over the bodies of the men he had just attacked. "Maybe next time you should offer to join in on the fun rather than prevent it, huh?" He laughed out causing his laugh to be heard through the castle a bit and then started to look around it for any sign of anyone else. He had new friends to make after all. "Saraphina! I am looking to talk to you with an offer!" He sang out to any who could hear him.

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Demi hadn't been taken off her feet like she knew it should have done, this was from pure sheer will and the fact she had her braced herself for whatever was to come from Cirven's anger. Given the damage she had just received she knew she should have been flat on the snow covered ground, whining and crying like a beaten dog, she blatantly refused to give him the satisfaction of seeing her in such a state. She would want to be put out of her misery if she ever got to that point because she knew she wouldn't be strong enough to survive, not to 'their' standards anyway. She couldn't help but wince a little as she tried to adapt to the pain surging through her body, she had recently told Sol during their last encounter he would need to work through the pain even when his body was telling him not to. How could she expect him to manage to this if she couldn't then again it wasn't like she felt pain in her body, only when her crystal was touched or harmed so protected fiercely. Even within the compound of Cor Torva and the facility she had absolutely no qualm killing the scientists who tried to touch it after the first time she felt the pain that came with it regardless of punishment that came. Unfortunately the latter placement meant that Ruvel got a lot of painful punishments but she didn't care she knew after that one time instinctively that it shouldn't be touched for her survival.

Her eyes narrowing at him as her returned to a steady pace, the pain was still beyond what a normal person would be able to manage but she wouldn't let it slow her, she would listen to the orders given to her because she had to but strangely not for her own sake. He might have thought that she was becoming compliant but she had her own game of chess going away from his eyes, a game that she started the moment she spoke to her cousins within the town she considered filled with demons, in truth it was just a regular city with normal people within it hidden from the world around it. She knew she was playing with fire but even if found out she wasn't breaking the rules of their agreement, she was making no contact in any way with Ruvel as was stated in their terms. It was one of the reasons the person who shot her with the arrows annoyed her so much, the dress she was currently wearing was a gift from the one person in existence she could have absolutely no contact with. She couldn't get it mended or even get a replacement without outright breaking the agreement "Trase, I need to get my dress fixed." she stated calmly before they entered the portal "Only problem is Rui made this for me and by our terms I can not interact with him in anyway, can I give it to one of the others to take it to him so it can be mended or a new one given?" she said wondering if the other would allow this, since she wouldn't be making the contact and the others wouldn't dare defy him so no secret message could be given. She had never thought about her clothing being damaged before but then she never thought she would be going down this path again.

Oh hearing his words she knew he was smirking to her comment about what she had said about him and making friends. "Please Trase, you keep people of use and discard those who are not like a child with adhd." she said with a sigh it wasn't always the fact but she knew they had really done a number on his mind so didn't blame him for being like this, she had to wonder though was who he once was trapped within that psychotic mind? Sure she was telepathic like everyone of her race but she wasn't even thinking about jumping into that maze without being prepared, their minds were traps thanks to the original training to keep people like her out but could still navigate them with little issue but the rules of their game had changed and knew if caught in areas of his mind she wasn't allowed their would be consequences. This was something more for her cousins to deal with due to their unique abilities. She exited a few seconds after him listening to his words, her blood ruby eyes looking to the castle at the peek of the mountain. "Times do change Trase..." she turned her head away for a moment as she closed her eyes, she was fighting over something internally but didn't really know what it was 'Enough of this foolishness. I decided to walk this path and come what may I will see it to the end.' she scolded herself internally her eyes opening once more as she looked to him she was about to say something but stopped as the others seemed to now turn up.

Given her current day job and the tasks she was sent on for Cor Torva regularly she wasn't awestruck like the others around her, in fact she raised an eyebrow for a second and shook her head "We've seen these things a thousand times before in the missions we done for Cor Tova, stop acting like innocent children that are out on their first mission." she scolded the others seriously wanting to slap them upside their heads. "I swear even Rui didn't act like this when he first escaped home." she said with a sigh, the reason for this was the fact that he had, had an encounter with a dark mage who seemed intent on dragging him to a dark guild from what she had been informed. She didn't know what would have happened if he had been dragged to such a place, it may have changed his path completely but then due to how he was he wouldn't have made any progress he would just be serving a new master. She didn't like the thought of him in servitude her hands gripping the pole of her scythe to the point her nails were biting into her hand allowing an unnatural coloured blood fall from her palm. He was a gentle soul when things were kept in check but then that brought up another worry "Fuck! How could I forget about him?" she muttered quietly but it still wouldn't have been quiet enough for Cirven not to hear her. Their was something just below the surface that was created through the pain and anguish Ruvel had, the scientist of home had manage to bind it but it could break free if it was guided or if Ruvel felt enough pain or fear. The latter she never wanted to happen because nothing good ever came from it.

She was brought back to her senses and away from that worry as she heard Cirven speak once more "Well I'm sure the owner would be much obliged if we didn't." she said with a small chuckle, her eyes looked to him, she didn't like the thought of having more people like them around even if it was just like minded that was dangerous enough in her mind without having the members of her unit joining their ranks. "Well it's just smart to know what we are walking into." she agreed with him, in fact this seemed to be the sanest thing he had said in a while by her opinion so wasn't about to argue with it. It was then she clicked onto the rest of what Cirven had said, she didn't want to make 'friends' hell with the friends she currently had she didn't need enemies. Then again this was more like a family quarrel that needed rectifying at some point but right now wasn't the time or place. "Trase, I'm not a people person..." then again she had yet to meet one of her race besides her cousins that were. "Why not take one of the others, they would be more adapted to this." she knew her protest would fall on deaf ears regardless "You know what... fine... lets go make friends..." she was just fed up and wanted to get it over and done with, she watched as the others changed or vanished to comply with their orders. This left her, her sister and Cirven and had a sinking feeling in her stomach she didn't like where this was going.

"You can't be serious Trase..." were the first words out of her mouth when she heard his plot looking at herself "I look like a Yuki-onna there is no way I'm getting mistaken as a tourist in this climate." she said stating the obvious, she just needed to wear white and close her eyes and she'd blend in to the snow completely and the three of them knew it. She couldn't believe that she was even thinking about doing this but walked through the portal to what was their families walk in closet thanks to the portal Korvin had made. It had been years since she had been in this place and so wandered around it as if it she was seeing it for the very first time. Korvin chuckled watching her "Now who's acting like a child Wr..." she stopped herself before completing the designation knowing better than to go against Cirven. "I haven't been here in years Korvin, not since I was sent away to home" she said her voice saddened as she touched one of her outfits "That was your decision" Korvin replied which had Demi glare at her "Don't make me hurt you Korvin, it was either I play scapegoat or Trase would have been..." she cut herself off as she couldn't bare to say the last word her voice fluctuating as she spoke the last few words she couldn't stop the glistening purple tears that ran down her face as much as she tried, though all trace of it vanished from sight within seconds "We protect each other because they sure as hell weren't going to Korvin and dare to say I ever wanted to leave again and I don't care the punishment that comes my way I will kill you and make it look like an accident." she was through with her loyalty being questioned especially from that time given everything she had to go through when she was taken from them.

She calmed once more and started to look through the clothing once more with a flick of her hand her hair became more ornate though still covered the back of her hair and turned from white to a pale blue moving to an area away from their sights she changed from the dress she adored into a red lower kimono covered by a pale blueish-white layer and a lavender obi. She wore a thing cloak that was elegantly designed over everything, in her mind she already looked it she may as well dress like it too. Taking her own dress she opened a portal back to where she rested within the void and placed the dress inside making sure it closed before she walked out and looked at Cirven "I feel like a fool." she said clearly unhappy but fell silent when she felt warmth in her own hand, she looked down and seen his hand inside her own. Her first instinct was to pull her hand away because she was unsure about this given everything that was going on but decided not to read to much into it as they were just playing parts like they had done so many times before. Listening to his not to take advantage of him bit she rolled her eyes "Trase even if I wanted to, I've yet to be touched myself so we'd be on equal footing there; besides I'm not that crazy to try anything." she said as she started to walk up the mountain with him, she was wondering if she was going crazy complying with this but pushed it from her mind her eyes going to their joined hands a small delicate smile on her lips as her eyes softened for the briefest of moments.

Travelling up the mountain she did take note on how few patrols there were and just how few people were inside them. She wanted to believe this was to give a fake sense of security but something told her that this wasn't the case in any way. Getting to the entrance she allowed Cirven to take the lead to talk to the guard but was completely off guard by the first sentence alone though focused her mind so she could play her part "I told you this was a bad idea... We shouldn't have came here..." she said holding onto his sleeve almost looking if she was trying to tug him back because she didn't want any trouble. That being said even with her mind focused there was a blush on her cheeks, she never expected this to be the way things went in all honesty and it did make her more than a little off balanced. Seeing the hand gesture Demi blush deepened "S-stop..." she said her voice high pitched unable to stop it from it happening. Her eyes went to the guard when he spoke about removing them forcefully though embarrassed still she still chuckled a little "You just made a stupid mistake." she said watching as Cirven made short work of him her hair losing it's blue hue going back to it's natural colour but not how it was done. "Well kinda hard when you want to take all the fun" she said with a shrug following him into the guild hall to find its master or in this case mistress.

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He looked at Demiari blanky to her comment. "My comment was to the guards. I was meaning for them to join us in, you know.." He did the hand gesture he had done earlier again but this time had multiple clones of himself appear around Demi when he did it and had each of them do it with him. "Get it?" He and the clones each spoke out and then each of them laughed before the clones dispersed leaving their lone master left laughing. Cirven had noticed someone dressed in some classy clothes was nearby when he did it which was why he did it to embarrass Demiari in front of them because he would not be embarrass by something so small, at least in his new mind it was. He stopped his laughter and responded to the man. "Sounds good." He nodded back with his face holding onto a grin.

They did not wait too long for the young, self proclaimed queen to show herself to them. She asked who they were and why they killed her guards to which Cirven looked over to the guards and could hear that they were still alive. He was about to question her on it when he noticed the woman was pretty much checking them out like she wanted to find some sort of companion. He was not exactly used to that so he looked at her peculiarly before answering her. "First thing, those guys are not dead. I simply hit them hard. Very hard." He stopped speaking upon seeing one of the guards move and then reach for their weapon near them. "One second." He put up one finger to Saraphina and put his attention on the moving guard. Anyone who looked at his eyes would see them flash to an orange color before he spoke out. "You, who is moving." The guard stopped suddenly and stared at Cirven like a well trained dog waiting for an order. "I'm busy over here so please kill your friends and yourself for me." The guard silently nodded to Cirven's order and picked up his sword then stabbing it into the bodies of each guard he was with and then his own chest then dropping to the ground. "And now you can say they are dead." He spoke out with a smile on his face and then let out a chuckle as each were killed. "And now we can get to business here without interruptions hopefully." He eyed the man who seemed to be some sort of servant for Saraphina before speaking. "You do not like the government of this world, right? You think their rule is not satisfactory at all? Filled with holes and promises that will not be fulfilled?" Each sentence he spoke to her was a question directed at her views and possible wants. He had to test her in what she wanted of the world a bit and see if they could coexist. "I need to know this before I can make my offer at all to you because it matters oh, so much." His last sentence he spoke out as if he were a mother talking to their child to make sure they knew they needed to know the next thing they said before they possibly ruined something.

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Demi raised an eyebrow at his comment as it hadn't originally clicked in as to what he could have meant "Trase, no one in their right mind wants to join in with your games." she commented back to him, that was until she was surrounded by several clones doing the same hand gestures as he had done before her eyes going wide as to the implications that he had been suggesting "TRASE!" she yell at him, her hand going forward to disperse the clones but before she could he had already made them vanish and was laughing like a lunatic. Was she embarrassed? Sure she was but that was dwarfed by the need to slap him upside the head for thinking such a thing, in honesty she was more upset that he would joke about such a thing. "Trase, I swear to all that's unholy don't make such vulgar jokes." her voice seemed less than happy with it, he would be able to tell her subtle undertone was showing she was hurt at such a thing. Her blood ruby eyes going the the servant that had greeted them, for the moment she gave him a silent nod in acknowledgement, she could tell this wasn't the life he was born into but one he was forced into.

"Thank you, Trase isn't known to have the longest fuse when it comes to waiting." she replied to the male who had spoken to her, in honesty at times it made her wonder just how they managed to have so many successful missions as they did. Then she remembered the punishments that came with failure and how they tried to avoid it at all costs. She listened to when Cirven said that the guards weren't dead and she nodded to confirm his statement, a few of them were teetering on the edge of life and death but they were all alive at current. She sighed a little hearing Cirven's order to the guard that was moving "You just enjoy giving me work don't you Trase, it never ends..." she said looking to him not even bothering to look back at the massacre that was happening. Her eyes then went back as the killing came to an end, her hand going to the bodies as coloured orbs came from them as if she was gently ripping them from the husks on the floor. Within her hand laid five orbs that she placed within a side pouch "I'm going to have to explain this..." she groaned, then again if they had meant to die at that point it could have meant another one like her had got the orders, she done nothing more than the harvest.

She again went silent for a moment, she could feel the eyes of the mistress of the castle looking upon them both. She could already tell what she was wanting without needing her psyonics "He's more crazy than you can handle, I assure you." her voice didn't seem the least bit amused that someone would want him like that then she double blinked 'why the hell am I acting like that? It's not like he and I are in a relationship... why the hell am I acting jealous?' she thought to herself shaking her head allowing her snow white hair to dance around her body almost like the snow falling outside on the mountain. She moved over to the servant and smiled at him "Hi, I'm Demiari." she said taking his hand "How about you give me the tour, I'd love to cook something for you." she said sweetly the boy blushing not expecting it nodding a little before looking at his queen realising what he agreed to.

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A chuckle slipped through his lips as Demiari seemed to get jealous of the other woman. It showed him that Demiari was more under his control than even she knew as he could feel that she was not being completely honest with herself. He was excited to see exactly how the little seed he planted would grow. He watched Demi as she left with the servant to go and see the Throne room and get a sort of tour. The idea she was leaving made things a bit easier for him over having a sort of side kick putting her two cents into everything he said. She had not been around much after he had been kicked out of Cor Torva so she did not know that he preferred to do most things alone now. "I gotta say, I like your idea of how to take the death of your members. Sorry about that. I have gotten a bit too used to people knowing me by my face after being a guildmaster and pretty much a leader of an entire country that was built under mostly under me." His words were meant to sound pompous for her to latch onto before he spoke. It was a tactic in order to get those you spoke to to see you as a big thing. "My name is Cirven Mizune, the Devil Jester. I am the ex-guildmaster of the WFTC among other titles in some other guilds." He bowed to her as he finally introduced himself, only lifting his body back up straight as he heard her speak about Erring Rising's outlook on things.

He shrugged hearing her say that he should leave for asking her what he had just asked and even though he listened to all she had to say he turned away from her and started to walk away. "Looks like I won't be welcome here for asking such a question then." He waved his hand at her as he walked away but just as he made his way through the doorway his body would dissolve into dark magical energy and out of Saraphina's shadow would come out another of him. "That guy was a idiot, huh?" He spoke from behind her with a full smile on his face for her to see. He loved to play his tricks on people, even if they were friends but even more so if they were foes. "My proposition for you is a simple one. I'm here to join you in your endeavors against the governments of the world. They should all be destroyed, which will be fun to do and then rebuilt under better rule. Just know that I am a packaged deal though. With me comes five others not including that pale beauty I came in with. We have each been trained to kill and each have our own abilities that I have no doubt will come in great use to you." As he spoke about the abilities he and the others had that could come in great use to her both of his hands lit up with black lightning and white flames while his body let off a reddish aura that caused the ground and walls around him to start to deteriorate just from being in his presence. It all stopped after a few seconds after he finished speaking but was replaced by five portals opening up near him and through each of them a different member of the Detergers came out. Cirven had telepathically ordered them to make their presence known. He knew that if anything were to happen now that they would have full advantage over the situation so he was fine with bringing each of them in. "I also have a plan I will be conducting soon where I will be adding many more to my little group but for now you will have all of us at your disposal. You will have the Detergers to use at your whim, that is if you agree to having us join you on your crusade." He moved closer to her and put out his hand to shake her's in a sign of agreement between them.

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Demi closed her eyes quietly standing next to the apparent butler, that was until the supposed mistress of the castle spoke. She only opened a single eye revealing a blood ruby orb looking towards her "Trust me, at that moment they weren't dead... I have a natural sixth sense when it comes to that kind of thing." she commented rolling her eye a little, she wasn't about to tell the other white haired woman what she was born to do. She disliked doing it and the last thing she needed is for it to be any more exploited than it already was. Hearing how little her own guards lives meant to her she couldn't help but let out a silent sigh, she thought this part of her life was done with but nope she was dragged back into it. She already knew she was a weapon and there was nothing she could do within this life cycle to combat that fact, she had come to terms with it but unlike the others she took no pleasure in ending the lives of others. She had to wonder if she ever had the taste for it, she couldn't remember, perhaps it was something that was removed when she was at 'home' thanks to the experiments when she had originally gave up her immortality so Ruvel couldn't pass to the other side or she herself was suppressing the memories.

She found herself wondering if she had been cruel allowing Ruvel to live and go through everything he had while at home and still was going through now when it could have ended years ago. This thing burdened her, she had never really found peace with the decision but she was scared and didn't want to be alone so done a selfish act that caused another to suffer. She only could wonder what Cirven would do with that type of knowledge had he got it now. The woman that found peace and balance with everything she done now burdened by a single act she continued to question. It was then the mistress of the castle spoke "There is your type of insane and then there is ours.." she began her voice calm and holding an unmoving tone "Believe me.. you don't want to see ours, it never ends well I've found." She didn't know if she should be more concerned that this didn't bother her or if it was so run of the mill that it could be considered normal for her and her family; she just decided either way it was messed up.

She went quiet once more as her eye closed as she still requested that Cirven answer her question on who he was, she was just glad that she wasn't being asked that question. She had the name that those within her family knew her of, her designation that was given to her by Cor Torva and then the name she guarded with her life, that name that gave power over her that she couldn't ignore as much as she would try and fight it. The name that only other reaper's would know and call her by, even then they would never do it within the presence of those not like them but that name was a secret in itself. Hearing that she was being given permission to go to the throne room she looked at Cirven briefly 'I kept a single soul in one of the bodies so I know what is going on Trase, I'll send others to scout around the inside of the castle as well so we know the layout.' she sent to him as she nodded her head in thanks to Sara for allowing her a tour of sorts "I will end up in the kitchen mistress of the castle. I am sure I will find it more interesting than the throne room, besides, I have a family that requires food and would like to provide for them." she said with a smile as she turned to walk down the hall after the butler without another word or allowing Sara to argue with exactly where she was heading wither she wanted/liked it or not.

She walked down the hall after him looking around the hallway all the while keeping an ear on the conversation between Cirven and Saraphina so she knew what was going on. She opened the small pouch and allowed a few souls to escape and go in different directions though only a reapers eyes would be able to see them "The decor is a little gaudy for my tastes but then I don't have to live here." she said with a gentle tone not caring who heard what she said, she had to listen to Cirven and her loyalty would always be to him and her family over any other, even what was to be her soon to be guild master it would seem. As they walked she doubled back seeing the kitchen and smiling "Okay, I'm good here." she said walking in surprising the man who was walking with her, he was in a small panic given that he had been instructed to take her to the throne room "Madam, I was instructed to take you to the throne ro-" "And I told her I was going to the kitchen to make my family something to eat, I'll take the punishment you're fine." she said her clothing changing from the rich kimono to that of a regular maids outfit which surprised him even more "You're a servant to that man?" he asked unsure what was going on. She shook her head starting to look around for pots, pans, utensils, etc to start cooking "No, I was raised with him and five others." she explained as she started to prepare food.

"Then why?" he asked walking over to help her peel some of the vegetables "Why what?" she asked looking up to him "You're clothing." he replied making the albino look to herself "Oh my casual clothing? It's comfortable." she said with a smile making the other blink unable to really comprehend what was being said to him "Casual clothing? You dress as a maid as casual clothing?" he stuttered as he tried to comprehend why anyone would want to degrade themselves to such a level if they didn't have to "I do, for many reasons." continuing to prepare the meals for those within her family as if this was just run of the mill stuff "I really do hope she doesn't upset them, it would ruin lunch.." she said with a sigh making double blink, it made him think she was crazy given they had come into a guild of mages and she was talking as if the guild members would be nothing more than an inconvenience for them to kill if it came to that, he had to wonder who were these people and if they were really as skilled as she seemed to think they were or bat shit insane, he guessed only time would tell with that one.

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"Glad to know that you can see power when it is around you. It is a good thing to have when you are in a position of power." He gave her a satisfied grin. "We will not let you down. We are full of surprises after all. Think of us like a group of performers where each performance involves those we see as enemies and their lifeless bodies after that." He let out a laugh while the others around him reacted in their own ways. Most were paying attention to the white haired, Queen of the castle and the others were paying attention to their surroundings. Both things were signs of their training as they were always taught to work as a unit to stay ahead of anything that could get to them. Cirven was the same also; he might have been speaking to Saraphina but that did not mean he was not paying attention to things around him with his heightened senses. "The throne room? Already? At least buy me dinner first. I prefer a movie too usually." He let out a laugh and followed Saraphina and her servant to the Throne room with the others closely behind him. "There are multiple people around us here. Be ready for up close and personal skirmishes." Lanis spoke into the minds of each of the Detergers, including Demiari. "We will be fine. We are altogether here so if anything happens we just fall into formation and rip the place apart. Simple enough." Korvin replied back continuing the conversation. "I am getting kind of bored with just recon so it could be nice to bash a few skulls in. I feel like an actual fight will be fun unlike the village earlier." Nakiya added her opinion to things just as the group followed behind Saraphina.

Cirven did not question the woman's singing as he knew every person had their quirks but also did not do it to avoid making a bad impression or something worse like causing a full on fight. He also saw it as a potential test for him and the others to not question her at all. He chose to smirk and stay quiet the entire way to the throne room while the others spoke to each other telepathically. Most of their chatter was usually blocked out by him as most of the time it was Nakiya and Lanis arguing over nothing important with how much they disliked the other.

A pair of double doors ripped off their hinges was the only thing between him and the others from going into the throne room which he carefully looked over. "Destroyed entrances is a common thing here? I'm happy I could contribute to the norm." Cirven spoke and let out a chuckle as he walked into the throne room. "Let me guess, they did not want to come to terms on the look of the place or most importantly who would be running things and you took it upon yourself to show them?" He questioned the young Queen as they walked in. One of the first things he noticed was that Demiari was not there. He had known she was not there by her scent not being as strong on the room or the path they went for the most part but had a feeling that things might get a bit loud shortly. "So do you have a special way of doing things with new recruits here? I had my own thing where I brought new members to a near death experience when I got new subordinates. Was always fun to see the looks on their faces like they had been surrounded by hungry large beasts. That also did literally happen for some of them at one point. I wonder if I should have let some of them die for how weak they were later on even when they were my mentees..." He rubbed his chin in thought after he spoke and stared up at the ceiling which further shown he had departed on his own train of thought.

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Demi continued moving around the kitchen, she cared little for the goings on around her it would seem, in truth she was surveying the guild from the inside thanks to the souls she had released to wander for her. She couldn't be sure about the correct amount of people within the guild as she knew like Cor Torva there would be people coming and going but she was sure there had to be over a hundred people within the rickety old castle. She had finished cutting the vegetables and placed them into a pot with some liquid "You wouldn't happen to have any chicken or beef that is still warm would you?" she asked the male that was to escort her to the throne room, at current he looked somewhere between interested and mortified that she would disobey his lady. What he didn't know was her upbringing and the hell she had to go through just to keep breathing, even worse than the fighting and annoyance of the lessons was Cirven's terrible jokes and puns but she made sure to block her thoughts on that "Y-yes... we should have some chicken I think..." he said moving to get what she had asked for "Thanks" she said listening to the arguments between some of the others.

She wished they would shut up at times but this was exactly how they had always been, her eyes went to the door as the souls seemed to return one by one and opened her pouch to were they returned back to soul spheres and went dormant. 'I have the layout of the entire castle, current locations of those within the area.' she sent to the others with the information the souls had given her so they would know what she did, sure she could hold her own in a fight, could destroy or assassinate with the best of them but these weren't what she specialised in. For all she was the odd one at least in visually outward appearance she was also the one who could gather information the easiest, she also came off as a delicate person in service so it would have been hard to have seen her in any negative way. She watched as Bertrand returned with some cooked chicken she smiled doing a small curtsy "Thank you.""A pleasure, but what are you making?" he asked watching as she started chopping the warm chicken "Chicken and vegetable broth. It's cold out there after all." she answered the other as she moved to put the chicken and the seasoning into the pot before covering it.

Once that was done she moved to wash her hands and looked to the nervous man "I said that you wouldn't get into trouble and I am a person of my word." she said with a smile but this didn't seem to put the male at any better ease given that he had disobeyed thanks to Demi being in the kitchen instead of the throne room like she had told to go to. She wasn't under his ladies service and so she seen no reason to listen to the little snow girl trying to play queen. "So I'm guessing she expects nothing but the best and has stupidly expensive tastes..." she said tapping her cheek for a moment because it was unlikely what she was making for herself and the others would win the 'queen' of the castle over, after all broth in most cultures would be seen as the food of lower casts. She really wished she could kidnap Ruvel right now as where she could cook it was more his speciality and she she knew it. It was then she moved to get some flour and a few other things that were in the kitchen her hand going into a portal to grab out a ornate jar. "Okay one expensively ornate doughnut..." she stated making the other blinking "You can't think she would eat such a thing." he said with a voice of disbelief.

"Well, you see..." she said turning to look at him her hand flat on the delicate jar that should have seemingly broken given it seemed like her entire weight was on it but it didn't even budge "One of the places I was raised, lying could get you severely punished so I tend not to do it..." she leaned forward eventually and grinned "Guess what that means""You weren't joking""Nope, you want jokes go talk to Trase." she said with their quick conversation before turning back to start making the batter for the doughnut. It was then she started to make frosting and put some of the golden dust in her jar into the frosting making it look like gold, it was then she started to make small petals, flowers, ivy and butterflies in white chocolate. After a moment she moved to finally make the doughnut, while it was cooking she moved to make chocolate spirals dusting it in the same golden dust she had placed in the frosting, though braking a few while she attempted this, when ready she moved to get the doughnut and let it cool on a tray as she started to get the filling ready before pulling a small crystal jar out of the portal she pulled the first one out of.

She blinked for a moment before going to check on the soup before looking to the person who was currently her escort "So, do you have alcohol?" she asked having him double blink at her "You want a drink?" he asked making her blink looking at herself for a moment before looking to him "Do I look like the type to drink alcohol? The unit I belong to are highly trained and were we can drink and not be affected, I don't think any of us do outside what is needed to finish a job." in honesty she had been separated from them for so long she was truly unsure on it, just one more thing she would had to rediscover from them. While she was thinking to herself he had left and returned with what she had asked for, she had already started making the cream filling and popped the champagne in, she hadn't even noticed that the other seemed interested in what she was doing after all this was something she was doing to make sure he didn't get into trouble while she 'scouted' the inside of the castle, that could have of course been done in the area she had been designated but she was actually feeling hungry and guessed the others may have been too so wanted to use the kitchen. To her there was nothing wrong in doing both as it served everyone's purpose doing this.

Taking what looked like a syringe and filling it with the cream she started to inject the doughnut with it's filling, before putting it on one of the ornate plates she had found and started to put on the golden frosting, the small flowers were next to be placed on with the edible diamonds in the centre before she began to assemble the larger white lotus like flower on top occasionally saying something in a tongue the other wouldn't understand as it wouldn't sit just like she wanted. Had the others heard her they would have likely laugh or snickered which would have resulted in her throwing a knife at them. after some fiddling it would have finally sat how she wanted before she placed a large edible diamond in the centre adding the gold covered white chocolate twists with the ivy leaves and butterflies at the end. When it was finished she turned to her escort and smiled "What do you think?" she asked with a smile watching as he blinked "I wouldn't think much of that is edible had I not seen you make it." he replied "Ah, okay. Lets get going she's likely already throwing her toys out of her pram for me not being there." she exclaimed picking up the plate turning the heat down under the soup so it was on a simmer and wouldn't burn.

She looked to the male that was with her and smiled walking down the hall beside her, she already could imagine the comments that where about to come given her current way of dressing, before to long they would be inside the throne room "Your Highness, I apologise for our tardiness." Bertrand stated "It was my fault, I wanted to use the kitchen to make something for myself and the others." she said before holding out the dessert she had made for their hostess "I thought as you were so kind as to let me use your kitchen to make some soup I would make you something worthy of a queen as a thank you." she said with a grin though she was unsure how Sara would take it. 'Seems like you've been domesticated since we last seen each other' Lanis sent with a chuckle making her closing her eyes 'You're lucky we're having to put our best foot forward Lanis or I'd be putting you through a wall, now shut the hell up before I do it anyway.' she warned the other his snickering coming to an end as he seen black and red wisps coming from her body which was often a warning to back off. Opening her eyes once more her smile returned once more as she waited to see what was done next "And no, I am not a maid I just find the clothing comfortable." she added knowing that was something that would likely come up next. "I have my... specialities... like the others." she said not wanting to go to much into what those 'specialities' actually were.

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