The Fourth Musketeer... and the Fifth, and the Sixth.

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Kiersa glowered in the direction she could sense the demonic energies coming from as he admonished her. “A-all S-Stigmata s-spells d-do this… Wh-what w-would y-you ha-have me do in-instead?” she asked Cirven, her nerves showing even more with this revelation about his magic. A demon slayer… he’s a demon slayer… who uses… Her eyes widened at the possible implications. “P-please… t-tell m-me… th-the d-demon wh-who… i-it… i-it w-wasn’t…” the nun trailed off, unable to finish her question. Slowly she unbound her magic from the downed summoner mage, the chains dispersing into faint motes of light that faded away. Kiersa felt someone put their hand on her shoulder, and relaxed slightly when Aayla’s voice was the owner of the hand. She nodded as she got up with the Water Dragon Slayer’s help.

Turning around the corner came a pair of wizards who immediately spotted the group. They spotted the blue haired girl first and both sent a blast of Earth-Make missiles towards her. “Stigmata of the Arc!” intoned Kiersa, standing between Aayla and the assault, spreading her arms and legs wide. As her wrists and feet began to bleed a great barrier of holy light formed, weathering the earthen storm. The nun grit her teeth as the Earth Mages prepared another assault. “G-go!” she called out to the group around them. “No need to tell us twice.” Said Portha, who along with the other two musketeers pulled out their guns magic and began to open fire at the pair of wizards, using Kiersa’s shield for cover.

He scratched his head as his sister spoke to him about just showing off. It was like she wasn't understanding why he even went about getting his new magic and abilities. He had to quickly push the thoughts and worry out of his mind as the two new enemies appeared from around the corner and instantly attempted to attack his sister. He started to move towards the attacks to block them but Kiersa was closer and stopped them herself with a magic shield.

"Thanks Kiersa. I'll deal with them quick so that you aren't in too much pain for long." He spoke as he rushed by her and towards both men.

He had a limited time on his flames enhancing his strikes so he had to think of another way to attack both men. The Musketeers attacked the men and caused a sort of distraction enough for Cirven's idea to work.

His feet suddenly had magic circles appear below them and he lowered his sword to the ground. White flames then ignited below his feet and he shot off at a fast speed at both men. Leaving a trail of white flames and cutting a crevice into the floor. He moved between both men and stopped behind them suddenly. "Purge Art." He put the Kukan back into its sheath. "Lustration." A blade-like mass of flames erupted from out of the crevice and hit both men. The flames dispersed after but still left small fires. "That was showing off.." He tried to mock his sister for her earlier comment.

"OK second group down. We should get some of us to try and find Sir Townsend fast before the dark mages are alerted of us being here." He kept an eye on the corner to make sure no one was coming as he spoke. "Or does anyone have a better idea?" After scoping out the area and seeing no one he moved closer to Kiersa and spoke to her. "Don't worry. It wasn't your demon. I wouldn't have learned from someone like that. I was actually able to find a demon that is on our side for my training."

Aayla braced herself, water forming around her fists as she prepared herself to counter the Earth based attack. She never got the chance however as Kiersa called forth her shield to protect them. She watched as the same two Musketeers burried their magic bullets in the enemies, while Cirven soared forward and sliced them up with a blade of holy fire. she frowned as one after another, the mages were down, completely KO'ed when the third musketeer sprang into action, using her sword magic to 'silence' both of the dark wizards.

"Tch whatever..."
She grumbled as she swung her arm, a wave of water emerging from a small magic circle and covering the holy flames that lingered behind, extinguishing them before Aayla stormed forward ahead of the group. she walked passed Kiersa without a second work, and passed Trase without a second though, stopping only when the blond musketeer extended her arm in front of the small girl to stop her.

"Stay calm little one. When this is all over you can..."
She stopped when she noticed the glare in the young girls eyes. It didn't seem at all becoming of her, and frankly, the dragon's glare scared her some. She lowered her arm finally, and let Aayla continue on her way, glancing back to the other Sabertooth wizards before following after the young girl...

Aayla was fuming as she walked through the halls, listening carefully for any signs of anyone coming, or anyone following her and the Musketeer. How did he think that training with a stupid demon would do any good? He was going to become the very thing she hated most.  He might be a Demon SLAYER, but you didn't become a slayer without having a part of the creature you trained with... just like he was a Demon, she was a dragon... How could a dragon let a demon protect it? No... she didn't want to be protected... she wanted to be strong enough on her own...

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

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The nun gave a slight sigh of relief when Cirven allayed her worries concerning the demonic tutor he had had. She was still worried though… the last demon she had thought to be “on their side” turned out to be a monstrous manipulator that wound up wiping out an entire village. She pushed the thought from her mind though as right now she could feel the rage coming off of Aayla right now. “Oh Maker…” she oathed softly before looking at the Musketeers and Cirven. “I-I’ll t-talk t-to her…” she said quietly before running to catch up to the Water Slayer. “A-Aayla… p-please… c-calm down…” she pleaded softly before spotting another patrol coming towards them, this time they started to hurl wind magic towards them!

Kiersa tried to erect a shield spell in time, but found herself slammed against a wall from an air-based projectile, and even pinned against the same wall! She struggled weakly to move any of her limbs, but found that she could not. The other mage took aim at Aayla, and began to bombard her with Wind-Make spells of his own.

The Three Musketeers looked at one another and then back at the Water Dragon Slayer. Atma even held her arm out to try and block Cirven from passing. “I think it’d be best to let her handle these two… Unless you want to wind up being on the receiving end of your sisters fury right now?” asked the red-head, nods coming from the other two as well.

It was almost as if him just being around his sister had sent her into a fury. He held back his anger towards how she was acting this entire time because he felt that she would understand after he explained it but he was wrong. If anything she only got worse to him and even to the others.

"Aalya...!" He balled his hands into fists and struck at the wall causing cracks to form. White flames erupted from the cracks but the wall stayed in tact mostly because he was able to hold back some. "What the hell is your problem!"

He moved to confront her but was stopped by the red-haired Musketeer. He understood what she meant by letting her deal with the enemy to get her anger out but it had come to bother him how she was treating everyone. He raised his hands up and walked towards a nearby wall and leaned on it.

"So she isn't liking your new powers at all?" The demon's voice echoed in his mind. Je spoke back with his thoughts. "Not much at all, gramps. Its like she is too stuck on the fact that I left to see that I did this for her and the others." The dog demon laughed. "Maybe you should stop talking then for once, boy." Cirven grit his teeth. "You on her si..." He then stopped and figured out what Inuki meant. "Thanks gramps." He calmed down and waited for the girls to deal with the new enemies.

"Don't tell me to calm down..."
She hissed lowly, not looking at Kiersa since she knew that the look in her eyes might frighten her too. She stepped forward when a new patrol of Wizards showed up to intercept them, causing the young girl to grit her teeth as she braced herself. One of the wind make Wizards easily blew Kiersa away, while the other swung a hammer made of wind towards the young Dragon Slayer. It was too big for her to dodge, and so she brought her hands to her chest and created a Water Lock around her own body. The hammer came swinging down against it with a thud, causing the water inside to shake and vibrate from the impact, but no damag was done to the small girl.

She lowered her Water Lock and created water around her hands and feet, large claws and watery talons forming as she sprinted forward from her spot towards her enemy.

"Water Dragon's Claw!"
She called out in more of a growl as she was quick to get up close to her enemies. The wind make wizards created weapon after weapon, scythe after scythe to try and cut down on Aayla. She recieved  two large cuts on her right arm, and a cut on her back before she managed to dig her claws into the first wind make wizard. Se dug her claws deeply into his chest before kicking him off of her and spinning on her heels, coming face to face with a wind made cannon. She quickly ducked by dropping to the floor as the cannon fires inches away from her head.

"Water Dragon's Roar"
She growled angrily as a powerful stream of water shot from the young girls mouth and directly up into her enemies abdomen, knocking him off of his feet and towards the ceiling. He hit the ceiling before he came crashing back down to the ground.

When all was said and done, Aayla just continued walking...

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The three musketeers just blinked and gawped as Aayla took on both the Wind Mages by herself… and to such devastating effect with her Water Dragon Slayer magic. “So wait… you’re a Demon Slayer,” said Atma as she pointed at Cirven, “and your sister is a Dragon Slayer…” she said, pointing at the still walking Aayla. She looked over at Kiersa who was getting back to her feet. “Does that mean you’re a God Slayer, or are you the only normal one on your team?” she asked.

The nun blushed and blanched at the question all at the same time somehow. “N-no! I-I’m n-not a G-God S-Slayer… s-still t-trying t-to f-figure out why a-anyone w-would w-want t-to s-slay a g-god…” she said before shaking her head. “N-no… I-I’m j-just m-me…” she sighed, the blonde coming over and giving her a brief hug. “Hey, that’s alright. Just means you’re the one that’s gotta keep these two grounded okay?” said Atha, the nun nodding slowly at the older woman’s words. “Now then… let’s catch up to her before she takes out everyone and leaves none of the action for the rest of us hunh? Can’t let her take all the credit.” Smirked the blonde musketeer, the trio running on ahead to catch up to Aayla.

Kiersa looked over at Cirven for a moment. “Wh-why’s A-Aayla s-so… angry?” she asked the older brother. “I-is it a S-Slayer th-thing?” she asked before moving to try and catch up to the group after Cirven answered her.

"How would I know?" He scoffed as he pushed himself off of the wall. "She hasn't been herself this whole time. Its like she just doesn't care much anymore." He walked towards Kiersa and continued walking and passed her. "Sorry Kiersa. We will have to help her get back to her regular self from what it looks like." He spoke as he passed her.

The group followed behind Aalya close enough to be able to spring into action and help if they were needed. The Musketeers stood between him and his sister and looked like to be a sort of barrier between them. A barrier that wasn't all that needed at this point but they kept it that way just in case.

He hated to leave her ahead by herself but he knew she had some questions that she needed to get figured out in her head. It was the same for him and thats why he avoided confronting her. The words Inuki left him could only help so much.

"Aalya.." He mumbled as he thought of how she was just before the incident that injured her. She was still her innocent self even with what had happened in their past. She was strong through all her nervousness and shyness but now it looked like she was letting things affect her more. He thought he could be wrong with what was wrong with her but either way he knew it was his fault for how she was acting.

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Aayla suddenly stopped when she heard more chatter up ahead, she frowned as water began to once more gather around her arms, getting ready to take out these new opponents. Suddenly however, she felt someone grab her arm and looked back quickly, her angry glare falling as a slight fear washed over her eyes, only to find the blond musketeer holding her watery arm.

She raised a finger to her mouth to shush Aayla while she carefully guided the young girl into an adjacent corridor, slipping in between two pillars so that the oncoming mages wouldn't see them as they went by.

"I've got a distraction that'll make this a lot easier..."
Aayla whispered to the blond who raised an eyebrow.

"Enlighten me."
She asked while Aayla smirked.

"Zinnath."
Aayla said just as softly once more, bringing her fingers to hr lips and whistling into them. The sound was almost non existant, however, all of a sudden, there were shouts and cries of anger coming from outside.

The two wizards stopped, looking between one another curiously.

"The hell was that? We should go check it out. This hallways clear anyways... Move it!"
He told his partner, nearly shoving him to get him to get going towards the source of the disturbance.

The musketeer laughed as she ruffled Aayla's hair.

"Good thinking kid."
Aayla smiled brightly at the compliment before the pair slowly crept out of their hiding place to continue. Hoping there wouldn't be as many enemies now that Zinnath was providing the distraction.

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Kiersa thought the same as Aayla and the others, that all the enemies would be busy with Zinnath’s distraction. Only, it wasn’t quite what they had hoped for. There was another pair of wizards coming standing outside a pair of doors that the nun could see making her frown a little. “H-how d-do we g-get p-past them?” she asked quietly, looking at the group for any ideas. The Musketeers looked amongst themselves for a moment before they each started to play Rock Paper Scissors. Portha sighed as she threw Rock but the other two Paper. “Your turn.” Smirked the blonde. “Yeah yeah.” Muttered the brunnete. She did up her ponytail a little higher, and unbuttoned a few from her top, and even hiked up her skirt a little before she slowly walked out into view and towards the guards.

They both looked at the incredibly gorgeous woman strolling up towards them, her eyes seeming to beckon them over to her. “Hello boys~” she cooed, as she strolled up to them, resting a hand under their chins as they merely stared at her assests that were practically on display. “The boss thought you were doing such a good job guarding the prisoners, that he thought you could use a little… bonus~” Portha said with a wink, both men dropping their hands to their trousers before finding their heads smacked against one another. They fell to the floor slowly as Portha grabbed their collars and lowered their unconscious forms to the ground.

The nun was blushing throughout Portha’s performance. “Come on, they’ve got to be in here. It’s the main suite.” Said Portha as she fixed herself, the other musketeers joining her by the door. “Ready?” they asked once the Sabertooth team were beside them. Kiersa nodded. They opened the door, ready for anything.

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Cirven was surprised that Aalya used Zinnath for a distraction like that. He knew the serpent could handle herself but against multiple men trying to attack her at the same time might have been a different story. He knew she could just fly around and avoid them but for how long? The situation forced him to think that they now needed to hurry up even more so that they could deal with the enemies outside and save the Townsend family.

"These guys don't stop popping up." He spoke as the Musketeers played rock-paper-scissors to find out who would be dealing with them. He was surprised to see that Portha had lost and chuckled at the sight. He was more surprised though that she had made herself look more attractive by just simply messing with her clothes and hair so much so that it alone dealt with the guards.

"Good.. Good job." He said as he tried not to look at her more revealed assets.

He heard some footsteps running towards them from around a corner as they were about to get into the room where they hoped the family was. He swung open the door quickly. "Hurry up and get in..!" He spoke as they rushed in and then shut the door behind him.

"Umm.. Who are you peo.." A older man spoke out from where he sat with his wife and two children on a bed. "Atma, Atha and Portha! You came for us!"

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From the corner of her eye, Atha noticed Aayla moving on without the rest of the group to another room. She looked back to the family gathered in the room and brought her hands up in front of her, bowing her head slightly before speaking.

"I"m glad you are ok. You and your family should get out of here quick... I'm sorry but I have to go look after the little one..."
She apologized before slipping out of the room only to find Aayla backed up into a wall while two Earth Make wizards had spears imed at the young girls throat. She blond glared at the two dark mages, kneeling down as she pulled a sniper rifle from her back and aimed it carefully at her enemies. She aligned the rifle at the firest earth make wizards head, firing and quickly taking him out.

The second earth make wizard didn't waste time before driving the spear straight towards the young dragon slayer who flattened herslf against the ground to get away from the attack.

"Stay down Aayla."
Atha called to the young dragon slayer before dropping the sniper rifle and pulling out the two hand pistols from underneath her skirt and firing at the second wizard. Two, three, four hits into the side of his body and head and the wizard crumpled to the ground.

"Quick... get inside these doors... I'm sure they heard that."
Atha said as she put her pistols back under her skirt before picking up her sniper rifle and running into the next room with Aayla.

"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to be a burden..."
Aayla grumbled before running towards the next room behind Atha, carefully opening the door and peering inside.

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Kiersa gave a short bow to the Townsend family upon seeing them, frowning as she heard the gunfire outside the room. "W-wait here please..." she said before looking out the room and blinking as Aayla and the other Musketeer were about to go into another room. She bit her lip and dashed over towards them, trying to yank Aayla back to the room with the family. "W-we s-stick t-together..." she said softly, hoping that her words reached the Slayers ears before she slammed her with her Water magic out of battle instinct. The nun would then look at the family once the group was all back in the room with them, trying to recall the map they had been shown.

The nun rubbed her chin in thought as the family asked of their friends what was going to happen now. "Th-the D-Dark M-mage l-leading them... W-We'll t-take c-care of them... y-you M-Musketeers g-get th-the Townsends o-out of here a-and to s-safety." she suggested, earning looks of doubt from the trio of women. "Y-you're th-the b-best p-protection they h-have r-right now..." she said before looking at Sir Townsend. "S-sir, d-do you k-know wh-where th-their l-leader is?" asked Kiersa.

"He's set himself up in the central ballroom. Be careful young lady, he can appear anywhere and strike you from anywhere." he warned, the nun giving a low bow to the noble. "Th-thank y-you sir... I-I'm sure w-we'll b-be f-fine." assured Kiersa before looking to Aayla and Cirven. "L-let's go... Umm... wh-where's the b-ballroom s-sir?" she asked, blushing slightly. "Head to the end of the corridor, second door on the left, can't miss it. It has a lovely open roof for moonlit events." said Sir Townsend, earning another bow from the nun. "Th-thank y-you sir." she said before nodding to her team-mates. Both groups moved out, Team Holy Tempest for the ballroom, and the Musketeers to get the Townsends out of harms way.

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Cirven stayed silent as Kiersa set up their next part of their plan. Separating to get eh Townsends out of the mansion while his team dealt with the leader of the dark mages that swarmed through the area. "Hell yeah! We can get more serious now that we know that the hostages will be taken care of." He moved with his team towards the door first. "Have your government or whatever send men to deal with the small fry once you are far enough away. We will deal with the leader."

He was still distraught over how his sister was acting but he knew they had to keep pushing on through the job until the end. He avoided speaking to her on their way to the ballroom nearby but stayed close to her in case of anything attacked them. They moved around a corner at the end of the hallway where they saw the huge ballroom.

"This place is kind of too big isn't it..?" He said as he looked around as they started to walk in.

"So it looks like we had some intruders this entire time. No wonder why a random flying snake was bothering my men outside." A man with slicked back blonde hair walked towards them from the opposite end of the ballroom with four other men. "I wonder if you are strong..." He disappeared suddenly after he spoke and appeared behind the three Sabertooth mages and swung his foot out to kick Kiersa in the back, her planned to teleport back with his men even if he missed. The other four mages used their earth magic to pull up pieces of the floor and throw it at the three of them also.

Aayla didn' strike out at Kiersa, however when she looked back at her, she had an angry look on her features once more. She wanted to tell off the nun, but bit her tongue before looking back at Atha who gave her an apologetic look before ushering the girl back towards their group.

"I hope you three will be okay... try to send us a signal if you need one of us to come and help."
Atha told the group, gently placing her hand on Aayla's shoulder and squeezing it lightly before stepping away from the girl and off towards her partners. Atha and the other musketeers then aided the Townsend family in their escape of the mansion.

"They look like real good friends..."
Aayla muttered to herself before silently following her team towards the ballroom. She took a sniff at the air the instant th door opened, quickly catching the scent of the man thy were going to be fighting. She opened her mouth to reply to the man when he asked if they were strong, but found he had all of a sudden disappeared and re appeared aiming to kick Kiersa.

"Leave her alone!"
She demanded of the man, though barely had time to move before a long earthen spear flew right passed her head, missing her by only inches.

Kiersa cried out as she got suddenly kicked in the back and sent sprawling to the floor, which ironically made the earthen attacks aimed at her miss as they sailed right over her. The nun slowly got back to her feet and looked up to the open aired roof before looking back to the others and the enemy. Kiersa took a slow breath before holding her hand outwards, the rings gem pointing to the sky above. "Clad mine flesh in thine vestments, sacred shield of the Dragon of Divinity, sheathe to the sacred blade of Arturia! Lend me thine light, and grace mine allies even as thou damn mine foes! Shine forth, Avalon!" chanted the nun, the air suddenly whipping around her in a vortex, the ring glowing with a bright blue light.

A pale yellow magic circle appeared beneath her feet, before an eruption of near-blinding light shot forth from it, seeming to consume her. The wind grew fiercer around the pillar of light that reached for the very heavens themselves, the skies above the lavish home darkening with clouds that seemed to have formed from nowhere. The Earth-Make mages all cried out as they tried to shield their eyes from the over-powering light that now blinded them, their leader acting similarly as well.

The clouds split open and began to gently rain down on the area through the roof with the blessed rain. As the light dispersed and she stood there in the armoured raiment of the holy relic, she turned her attention to the two Slayers. “Go! I don’t know how long they’ll be blinded for.” Said the nun even as she turned her attention to the Dark Mage ringleader. “Stigmata of the Seraphim!” she called out, sending bursts of Holy Magic to both slayers and their limbs, cladding them in divine shields.

No blood came forth from the young nun. “Stigmata of the Penitent!” intoned Kiersa as she went down into position and immediately began to bind the leader in place with her divine chains, taking advantage of his temporary blindness. Again, she did not bleed.

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Before he could speak up to the man he disappeared and just as fast as he could turn his head to look behind himself the man was there. The leader of the dark mages swung his foot out and connected with Kiersa and was able to disappear again before he would have been hit by Cirven's blade. "Damn this guy.. UGH!" He yelled out as a earth spear slashed the back of his arm. He glared at the other dark mages and noticed that their leader was back with them.

"Its not looking too good for your strength there kiddies." The man laughed. "It is looking like this will be another three kills for Jugren but you three can call me 'Maker'." He then gave them a overconfident grin.

After Jugren's little speech Kiersa chanted for Avalon and caused the same blinding light that the team had seen when she first saw it. Cirven didn't like the light that Avalon gave off so he was ready for it by covering his eyes as she chanted. The five dark mages weren't so lucky though and were temporarily blinded by the light.

"Wow. You really don't know how to put on a first impression. Let us show you how its done." Cirven spoke out as he ran towards the group of men. "Kukan." He started to channel his flames into his sheathed blade and caused it to shine brightly all around it. "Slayer mode: Agneya." The weapon emerged from the light with a black hilt and sheath. A small cross hung from a chain at the bottom of the hilt.

He quickly slashed out the blade showing that it was already covered in white flames that made its attack radius longer. The flaming blade connected with Jugren and his two men to the left of him. "Absolution." Cirven then jumped back a few feet to let his sister attack without worrying about harming him.

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