One "Family's" Betrayal (Open to SS members)

'foolish girl... you know that the only way to leave Savage Skull is in a coffin... and even that is considered luck. Shame really, she was such a potential member. Ah well.. nothing can be done now, she has made up her mind.... wait'

It suddenly hit Harrigan, the true meaning of Ren's words that is. Something that he should've realized sooner. She was carrying a child, not that there was something wrong with that if it were not for that Warden was the father. The former master Tartarus and one of the most powerful mages that terrorized Era during the attack. Yet that power was lost upon the man's defeat, until now. His offspring now resided in her uterus, no his power now resides in her. A power that Harrigan wanted for him self. It was perfect, a fresh soul for him to mold into his own image. The perfect puppet for his plans. A new weapon of destruction.

With this in his mind Harrigan stood up from behind his desk and grabbed a communication lacrima, only to stand in front of the large window with an iron raster against it. So that he looked upon the marshes of the Spooky Forest. He slowly moved the lacrima in front of his face, just as few inches away from his mouth.
'My dear members of Savage Skull... it seems that we have a traitor in our midst. Someone that we'd least expected to... Ren Golde. All this time she was here to relay sensitive information to those who try to oppose us. And we all know what happens to those who betray us.... they need to be terminated... also the one that brings me her head will be rewarded generously...'

He ended his transmission and put the lacrima back onto the desk. Now all of the members inside the guild, from the top mages to the grunt soldiers would've heard this. Even Ren. And now all would be after her.
'Foolish girl, we will chase you through the end of the world is necessary. Now Garm... come forth!'

As would walk through the empty halls of Savage Skull she could probably the suffocating mood around this place. The silence creeping up on her, and the shadows that started to taunt her. It would be like if the entire guild itself would enjoy the hunt. But in that moment of silence, she would hear the howling from the giant undead wolf like creatures that resided under Savage Skull. Deep down from the catacombs abiding to their master's call.

Kyle was standing just outside of Harrigan's office. He leaned on the wall with his foot up against it. Still wearing the red suit that Harrigan had bought with Kyle's money. His arms were crossed and it seemed that Ren didn't even care for his presence. Kyle though wasn't happy. Then she slammed the door to his office opened. "Big mistake." No ropes. "Seriously?" Kyle turned around to see her confrontation to the fullest then she began to walk away. "Harrigan... We are NOT doing this... I refuse to be a part of this..." He looked him in the eye and open his red eyes. "She's pregnant. Why don't you let her live and have the baby? Then you can kill her." Kyle gripped his fist knowing that his reaction to this is going to wind up with him punished. This was Kyle's main downfall as an assassin. He would always question orders, especially when it dealt with the death of a parent or a parent to be. Then he saw the smirk on his face it was the same look he gave Kyle when he made Kyle join the guild. The same I'll get what I want face. Kyle could only turn around to see the Garm all over the place. "Ren... if I were you... I would take your answer back." Kyle knew that he couldn't question any more. He had faced the Garm before and they were not fun for him. The only thing he could do is side with them.

Sinali had been in her room admiring the latest skull that was part of her collection. The skull of a young girl named Priscilla. She had only known the girl for a few hours, but they had got on well. It was a shame she wasn't an undead. If she had been Sinali would of let her live. It would be nice to have a friend. She shook her head at that thought. She didn't need friends. She needed pawns. Once life was extinct on this god forsaken planet then she would make friends with the spirits and undead that remained. Then her pain would be over and she could live normally and forever. It was as she thought these thoughts that the announcement about Ren's betrayal was revealed. Sinali grinned to herself. Ren would be a nice addition to her genetic collection and a good test of her new abilities.

"Let's go Perry." she said and from the ceiling descended the Parasite Queen that was her pet and her only true ally. She left her room at a walking pace and began to walk the halls. She was in one of the grander areas, as befitted the Keeper of Savage Skull, and Ren would likely have come through here when leaving Harrigan's office. Either to collect her stuff or just to leave in general. As she got closer she saw the Garm and saw Ren as well. It seemed that she was pregnant too. That or just fat. Perhaps she'd been snacking a lot recently. Eating to comfort her about betrayal.

"Wow you got fat. Is that why you betwayed us?" she asked, lisping slightl, tilting her head. Her blind eye was still closed showing she was in a playful mood still. A good thing for Ren really because whilst Ren was a lot stronger than Sinali in terms of magic and physical ability there were few in the world who could match Sinali in terms of her ferocity. Plus Sinali had spent time observing her 'allies' to see how they might be used to make her plans succeed. She knew a lot about each of their magics. Not as much as she'd like, but enough. However, few, except perhaps Harrigan, knew the true extent of Sinali's magic. Even he probably didn't know all of it. Not now anyway. "You didn't even come to pway with me before you left.." she said her voice actually sounding sad.

The smell of rotten flesh and decay was an harbinger of what was to come, their howling piercing through the silence of the guild. It were the Garm, the undead giant wolf like creatures that roamed the catacombs of Savage Skull. Anyone who had encountered them always remembered the foul stench that would creep into their nostrils. Well anyone who lived to tell the tale that is.
And now every single one of them were hunting for one prey, a pregnant woman named Ren Golde. Who in her foolishness had decided to leave the guild. A decision that she would soon come to regret.

Harrigan on the other hand, was still standing in his office. Staring out of the window that overlooked the guild's courtyard. Beneath it stood Ren, among the corpses of those who had fallen in the vortex that surrounded her.
If she would look up at Harrigan, she could see his conceited smile. And with it see his true nature. A twisted personality that enjoyed the sight of people in despair. Someone who enjoyed hunting her down.

Kyle gripped a fist as he was ignored. He fiercely walked into his office grabbing a book from the shelf then tossed it so that it would land square in the back of Harrigan's head. "Have you gone mad?!" Kyle shouted with a glare revealing his red eyes. "That woman out there is PREGNANT! Meaning that her life is not to be taken as lightly as you seem to have taken it." Kyle pointed out the window then stomped his foot to the ground. "Once you kill her, you break the balance. Meaning that my family will be after you, then my family will be after me. Bringing down the punishment of the Threads." Kyle noted that the man was far too busy in his urges to take this woman down. "My family's numbers grow every day. They are strong and they will send as many people our way if you go through with this!"

Kyle paused as he looked at his hand then the book on the ground. He knew that he had made a detrimental situation for him. He was also in the position where he couldn't beg for mercy if Harrigan's anger was thrusted down upon him. His breath was heavy out of the nervousness. Kyle had yet to go on his mission to get more information on his target and one more thing he was probably going to die because he struck his own guild master.

Sinali was to be honest quite shocked and quite pissed off. She'd arrived and spoken to Ren and been completely ignored. It just wasn't right or fair. Plus she was now playing with the garm instead of her. And now Aedre was joining in. Everyone had ignored Sinali entirely. She leapt through the window her blind eye now fully open. She was no longer in a playful mood and there was an animalistic look to her. Her mouth opened and her tongue moved to lick her lips before rapidly extending and splitting into three 'tongues' all with spiked protrusions. She now had full control over them and was able to extend it up to 50ft in length. Controlled by thoughts they were deadly weapons. All she had to do was make sure they weren't hit by the water arrows and that was easy for her. It was a joint assault from the Garm, her and Aedre. A powerful combination.

"Today you die." she hissed her words distorted by her tongues a bit. It was at that point that Perry descended next to Sinali who shook her head causing the bug to hiss. She didn't want interference from her just yet.

Hungry Tongue:

Magic:

Harrigan adverted his eyes from the sight of battle beneath him and turned his face towards Kyle. It was despicable face, on it there was no remorse. Even with the knowledge he was about to take the life of a unborn infant as well. For matters worse there was a corrupted and conceited smile upon. Clearly enjoying the spectacle.
'Do you really think I'd care about that abomination of a child. No this is something that Ren has called over herself the moment she decided to lay with Tartarus Master.'

The tension between the two mages was so thick that you could feel it's presence clearly, on the other side of the office was Kyle whose emotions were rampant. Anger, unbelief maybe even fear. All mixed together. While at the other side of the office Harrigan's calmness collided with it. Then the tension suddenly broke the moment Harrigan let out a huge sigh, as if he started to get bored by this event. The truth was off course that Harrigan knew that Kyle wasn't going to budge after all the man had his own set of values and principles.

'Allright, if you really have a problem with this then we need to find a different solution to this problem. So I propose this, we make her deliver the baby. After it can be of some use to us, however seeing that your are so keen on preserving life all of a sudden you should do it. How you do it is up to you, but I suggest you hurry. For there is something far more dangerous coming this way..'

"Tch..." He turned his head and walked further into the office. This time shocked he wasn't tied up. He opened the window and put a foot on the window sill. "I'll gift you with a baby that you can do what you want with then your beloved slayer will die." He opened his thin eye. The pupil moved to Harrigan's position so that Kyle was only looking out his peripheral sight. "By my hand." He reassured himself as he jumped out the window. He walked up to the battle with his hands in his pockets his head bent down.

He looked towards the dead girl and gave a smirk. "Sinali, do what you can to preserve the baby. Aedre..." He took his hands out of his pockets then posed himself in a combat stance. "We need to hold her down." He moved his left foot through the sand on the ground and it began to form into a ball around him. He looked at Aedre and gave a wink that he knew what he was doing helping her with an H rank mage. "I know a good way to keep her busy. You just have to do me a favor and limit your water attacks with my magic."

A vortex was forming as her tongues shot towards Ren. Many wind techniques had a suction or blowing effect. Sinali guessed, quite correctly, that it was a suction technique. It would draw in all of the attacks heading towards her and prevent them hitting. Her position as keeper meant she had some knowledge of members of the guild. Yet there was little she could do about it. The tongues were dragged in, but due to the fact they hadn't reached their maximum length when the vortex began she was not pulled in. She merely extended the tongues further. Sure, when the explosion occured it damaged the tongues, but not enough to destroy them, not quite. She quickly retracted them and reformed them into one tongue. It was now about 3ft long and hanging from her mouth.

It was then that Aedre made her next move trying to crush Ren between two walls of water. A good idea, but it likely wouldn't be enough to defeat the H rank mage. They needed to weaken her somehow. Sinali had a technique ideally suited to it, but it was getting the technique close enough that was the issue. It was powerful, but fragile at the same time. Perhaps it was time to kick things up a notch. "One plus one." she said and then there was a loud scream as suddenly her body seemed to tear in two before forming two Sinalis. The first still had the hungry tongue active, but the second did not. Instead its eye had expanded making the savage skull emblem much more prominent.

"Equals fun." they said in unison. With that a beam of red light in the shape of the savage skull emblem was launched at Ren. It was a light speed attack, but linear in direction. It wouldn't do much damage, but she hoped to weaken her opponent with it. It was aimed at the thigh. She wanted to slow her opponent down, even a bit, The real Sinali, the one with hungry tongue active seemed to fade away, almost completely invisible. However, she was slowly walking around the edge of the area, moving slowly, trying to get behind Ren to launch a surprise attack.

Magic:

While Ren was smirking at Aedre and Sinali a familiar face appeared behind then, that was equally smirking right back at her. It was the conceited face of her former guild master Harrigan Crawford. Who had finally decided to join the fray himself.

At first he was just standing there looking straight at her, and it appeared that he wasn't going to do anything at all. But nothing was less true, during the short time he and Ren were staring at each other Harrigan was locking onto Ren's own magical power source.
And then with a sudden conceited smile, that showed the true evil and pleasure he took in this. A painful shock would be would be send through Ren's entire body that originated from her side. It was an invisible attack that only occurred in Ren's body herself. At her left side Harrigan was pressurizing Ren's own magic to such a point that it would explode inside the body itself. Dealing her a crippling pain that would also send her a shock feeling up through her entire spine.

However it didn't stay with that single attack no, just a mere moment after the first rapture occurred another one happened. And following up on that another one. After that it would keep coming and coming until a total of 30 raptures had stricken her randomly all over her body.
'Oh Ren, you never should've even thought of leaving us. But...now that you do it is to late for you. Even if you manage to escape the facility you will never be fast enough to out run him...'

The ground resonated the moment Harrigan uttered his last words, a slight vibrations with a rumbling sounds. It was on it's way.

Spell use:

Kyle backed off from the fight. His eyes opened out of shock as he jumped back. Kyle did not want to get into the middle of Harrigan's attacks. He has felt the pain of his torture all over his body. He went back to his closed eyes manner as his sands began to surround him. "Harrigan... You seriously sent us out to do your dirty work and then you wan to join in the fight. Wonderful Harrigan."

OOC: Sorry so short. I just thought it would make sense if Middy just posted and we left it between Harrigan and Middy.

The Fake Sinali who had fired off the eye spell was hit by the second orb and sent flying with the explosive force. The blow was enough to completely destroy the copy, but the real Sinali had not yet begun her attack. She smiled as she re-appeared within range of the weakened Ren and fired off her hungry tongue technique aiming to stab her target. Yet that was not all. From the tongues came 12 mosquitos. These were special ones and all twelve of them went straight for Ren. Not to drain her blood. No, that would be boring. These would drain her magic power further weakening her. Sinali was aiming to end it or get it close enough to the end that anyone else could end it.

"This was fun, but now its naptime." Sinali said with a grin, her voice marred by her tongues being extended. Though her voice was still childish in nature and able to be understood. Once the insects had drained some magic they would explode, or even if they didn't they would still explode. A potential of at least 12 c ranks worth of damage could be caused, it not more with just those bugs. Plus draining magic power, plus hungry tongue damage. In her weakened state from harrigan's assault it seemed unlikely she would be able to dodge it all.

Spells used:

Kyle smirked as he found an opportunity. "Big mistake!" He shouted up at her and put his hands together with his index fingers extended. A huge tan circle appeared about the battlefield and began to spin around. "Sand storm." He said silently. Upon finishing his words, the circle began to propel sand around all of the participants. The wind spells only thickened the storm even more, making it hard for anyone to see. His eyes then changed from red to yellow. "I unseal the beast within me. The demon that lurches in the sands. It lusts for the blood of man and mages. It is... The Sand Demon." The sandstorm became even more fierce. His body changed into sand and he disintegrated into the storm. Sand flew around Ren faster then he reappeared in front of her. The sands revealed her location. "You know, your kid is going to be fine, but as for you...."

Kyle smirked as he held his hand in front of him creating a scimitar. He held it with his thumb on the hilt of the blade. He then sent a slash across her throat diving the blade deep into her neck, severing the tracheal tube. "I was ordered to take you down." The storm suddenly stopped. The last thing Ren would see was the closed eyes mage tossing the weapon to the side then positioning her body so that he would cradle her as they landed. Blood seeping out of the slayer's throat. Kyle put the body down on the ground and looked at the rest of the mages in the area. "You wanted her dead... she's dead." Kyle said. His eyes returned from yellow to red. He kept a stern look and began to walk away. "Someone better save that child..."