Appearing in a wake of flame followed by Logan reforming through foggy mist. Both he and Sephinroth wait in the main hall of the tower when moments later they were joined by Colossus shimmering into their presence. Looking at the two, he sees Logan ringing out his cape pouring water all over the floor.

“Did you retrieve it?” Colossus asked with an odd look of inquiry, showing him the part as she pulled it from her cleavage Sephinroth waved it up.

“Yes we got it, and with relative ease,” said Sephinroth

“Easy for you to say you weren’t ripped in half by a kraken” Logan added rubbing his waist in memory of where he was ripped.

“Oh I don’t know why you’re still on about that you can’t die anyway” she said

“I maybe can’t die by I still felt the pain of the overbearing thrust that snapped my spine in two, although killing and feasting on those mermaids and mermen was sure satisfying, ah the sweet saucy taste of immortal blood; it’s like chocolate” Logan replied smiling a sinister smile

“That is disturbing and gross” shrugged Sephinroth as she hands Colossus the third portion of the sword,

“Excellent!” he says grabbing it, when suddenly a zealot enters the room

“Sorry to disturb you master but he has returned” it says

“Good bring him here,” commands Colossus and with a look of confusion on Sephinroth and Logan’s faces they see Drakon now enter the room,

“Oh what the hell is this, were working with Drow now,” said Logan

“Just when I thought we couldn’t get any lower then dirt” smiled Sephinroth looking at Logan “Now we’re going lower than dirt, the Underdark, how quant”

“Enough!” bolted Colossus “Drakon what have you to report”

“After they infiltrated my cavern, I left them for dead but they escaped with my prisoner, they match the description you gave me in the letter Colossus; they’re the three you seek” Drakon explains

“Where is the prisoner, where is Artanis?” snapped Logan

“Clean the water out of your ears better, didn’t you hear me I said they helped him escape” Drakon bolted and throwing his sword into the wall of the tower in a quick yelling cry of rage he turns back to Drakon

“You were supposed to bring him to me immediately after you got possession of him”

“My orders from Colossus were more pressing at the time” Drakon shouted back

“Kiss ass” said Sephinroth

“Damn you I need him back” Logan sneered and started to pace

“Oh calm yourself Logan we will get your little run away equity back” Colossus added

“What is so important about this member of your club anyway” Sephinroth asked taking a seat to Colossus’s throne. Logan takes a seat at the main table and plants his feet upon it leaning back on the chairs hind legs.

“He is an elite member of an order I created in my clan. I take on new recruits periodically and the ones with powerful auras are put into a group; I give them missions to do and after the mission is completed I erase their memories until I need them again to prevent revolting and backstabs. I erase the memories because I give them my combat expertise with the weapons they hold making them masters overnight and rivaling me but under the power of mind control, I didn’t have to worry until him”

“Him, oh the suspense is killing please go on” Sephinroth said sarcastically while eating some grapes from a bowl levitated to her mouth and giving her a look Logan continued

“Artanis was part of a Zen cult that was strong in the ways of mind manipulation and had resistance by the control I tried and as he grew far in distance his connection to my hold weakened. Artanis was one my best assassin’s to the unit I made but most operations were near by and relatively secure until the last one, so when he got my skills and the target it was the farthest I had ever lead him off too and when the connection broke he kept up the act until the moment was in his favor. The sneaky demon waited till he was out of harms way from me; killed the other members of the unit I had with him while they slept and told the target what was happening and then ran off” starting to laugh hard Sephinroth spoke up

“Oh my so let me get this straight; this juvenile delinquent got your sword swinging ability and told your enemy of your plans to kill him”

“This is no laughing matter he not only has my abilities but my memories as well including how to kill me and where I keep the dagger, if he gets to it I’ll be finished” Logan explained having anxiety set in.

“See that’s why I trust no one fully” Sephinroth said finishing the grape bowl with a burp, “Except men (Shrugging) and that’s only for sexual reasons…actually not even then, I mostly have to do the work myself to get the ending I want so…” “Enough!” Colossus pleaded staring at her, and looking to him she cocks her head “What’s a matter, jealous?”

“Hardly; I’d break you in half if such a time occurred” Colossus said waving off the topic, Drakon also explains to Colossus that the king of Silverspire is calling forth some help to defend the city.

“Drakon I want you to gather forces necessary to attack the city against these new allies, do not let the ambassador have troops moved there or taking the city will be much harder than I first thought” stated Colossus

“I will join with you so I can take care of the little maggot with them” bolted Logan

“You will do no such thing! I will not have your blinding vengeance put my plan I have worked on for years into plain sight of their eyes,” Colossus shouted

“He’s is a threat to me” Logan lashed to him

“And they’re a threat to me but I’m not going off blinded as you are, he will be back in your grasp in due time fear not my dear Logan, but we need to hold, and use my steps for caution” Colossus issued back at him.

“Fine” Logan walked over to Drakon and handing him a crossbow bolt “Use this on him and I won’t have to worry anymore”

“What is it?” pondered Drakon as he gazed at the unique design of the bolt that held a Kriss blade look.

“It’s a bolt that is cursed, so make sure it hits him and know that due to knowing my tricks he can re deflect arrows and bolts from crossbows pretty well” Logan cautioned

“Logan I want you to go to the earth elemental plane and retrieve the last part of the sword, I entrust it shouldn’t be too difficult for you to move through this realm by yourself” says Colossus and with agreeing both Drakon and Logan depart.

“And what about me; do I get the day off boss” smirked Sephinroth

“Hardly, I have needed your assistance to decipher where the locations to the three evil essences are and to this there are some books from your tower I still require”

“Those will cost you,” she added

“You will be paid in full for your efforts,” Colossus said as he walked up behind her, placing his hands just above her breasts. Pushing away his grip and pushing off from the table she was leaning against she walked some distance between them and turned to him.

“Lets get something straight here Colossus I already got what I needed from you and just so we are on the same field, I’ll never bed you no matter how enticing your…manhood is; I’ll get you your books and meet you in the library” she ended and in a wake of flames she disappeared.

“Maybe not me but I think I still have use for your bedding abilities yet” he smirks to himself and shimmers to the library.

Getting into the Drow encampment that is located deep underground and his appearance altered to that as one of his scouts, Drakon moves through the camp toward the Captain’s tent. He enters and looks upon a rather tall imaged Drow dressed in shiny bright steel armor that is draped with a midnight black colored cape with a bright silver spider stretched across the back, he had very keen elven sharp physical features and a brooding dark look of emotion on his face wearing a headband made of blue metal. His bed head hair lifted still with his back turned to the mage and with one move he drew his sword holding it firmly toward his throat.

“Why the hell have you come back Drakon you know your tricks won’t work with me wearing this headband of true seeing?”

“Nice to see you too, Aries” Drakon said moving back away from the blade “I’ve come to-“

“I don’t care why you’re here just leave before I have you killed” Aries interrupted

“Fine if you don’t want revenge on your sister and end the tainted line of blood cursed upon your family that’s fine with me” Drakon said and walked out of the tent, following him out he stops Drakon

“Wait! You mean you know where she is?” Aries asked

“Perhaps and in aiding me with my problem gets rid of one in your side for a long time, I need your squadron to attack an ambassador ship liner coming into dock at Silverspire, there will be an elite force guarding them and in that force is your sister” explained Drakon

“When will this be happening” Aries questioned

“It needs to be TONIGHT!” stated Drakon, Aries motions a maiden to his tent wearing only a skimpy bra and a thong, “Interesting servant” says Drakon with a cocked eye. Aries tells her to inform the commander to ready his strike force for action tonight and without question she leaves.

“I’ll be ready and together we will destroy this threat” Aries said smiling and returning the smile Drakon disappears.

Moving and fussing as the cloak draped thick and uncertain to his look Artanis gazed upon the mirror. “Cloud I don’t know about this” he said back worried

“Artanis trust me this is the going to work”

“Yeah but making me your lieutenant surely there is someone in your division that is better suited and less of a you know…demon”

“Your race has no concern to me or the King, your help by showing us the inner workings over the past week and a half of bringing down the rest of the scattered Nod clan presence has proven not only trust but respect from me and the men that I lead”

“I know but lieutenant?” Artanis said again

“I think its great” complimented Dawn

“Me too” replied Alisianna and shifting around in the uniform he turned to Cloud

“I want to still be able to wear my wraps after this arrival ceremony” whined Artanis

“Fine but you have to wear the cape with them” said Cloud

“Agreed” said Artanis and they all leave to go and get ready for the arrival.

“I can’t believe I let Cloud and Dawn talk me into wearing this stupid robe” Rain complained to himself in the mirror “They’re going to be sorry; I don’t look good in red”

“You might be able to pull off the look if you actually smiled once in a while” said a female voice coming from the door, looking over he saw Elanee in her Ambassador robes. They were blue velvet with gold detailing all over the corset style top she normally wears and a matching skirt that draped to the middle of her thighs, she smelled like sweet wild berries in early spring and had blue Lillis in her hair, and as the wind blew from the open door it rushed past her into the room. Elanee’s hair was pulled to a ponytail that held curls to it as it draped covering down to her neck.

“Wow” Rain said in a stun “You look…” Rain held no other words,

“Speechless I see, well coming from you I’ll take that as a compliment” Elanee smiled

“What are you doing here anyway” asked Rain

“Cloud wanted me to check up on you to make sure you didn’t run away or anything like that”

“Wouldn’t want to miss Prince perfect coming to town” Rain mouthed

“Rain” giving him a bit of a glare

“He just sounds so pompous and high ended” Rain says abruptly with a hint of caution,

“Is this Rain showing concern…for a girl” she said covering her mouth.

“Don’t tell anyone I don’t want to wreck my arrogant public face” he said to her

“Well with the combat moves you’ve been teaching me I should be ok” she said smiling, for they have been training for a week after the stalker incident in self defense.

“Which brings me to a question, why me train you; why not Cloud, Artanis or any other muscle bound brute with a messed up history of fighting?”

“With Cloud training his own men and Artanis always on the look out for the Nod clan members they were to busy. Besides Dawn told me you did basic and advanced hand to hand combat training anyway and with being stuck in your books I thought why not see if you would, and I thought you would jump at the opportunity to beat me around a bit” she concluded smiling “You do it with words so why not a hand or two”

“With how fast of a quick study you are it’s getting harder each day; you’re improving greatly”

“Wow two compliments I’d better sit down because I think I’m going into shock” she said laughing as she saw him struggle with his robe collar bow

“Here let me help you with that” coming close to him to tie it under his chin. As she finished tying it she gazed to his look,

“How does it look” Rain said back as he followed her eyes watching them drop to see the entirety of his look. Elanee moved her eyes up to his face to see a lock of hair out of place, licking her fingers she resets it back, she stared to his face and into his eyes; Rain only stared back saying nothing but felt heavy to his breath as she felt her blood begin to rush.

Boowong! Came the loud horn signaling the final approach of the Ambassador’s vessel to port that snapped back both to reality and caused them to spin from one another’s sight.

“Well we’d better get out there hey” she said patting her chest to calm herself down and grabbing his staff he shook his head to bring himself back to reality. Rain followed her out to the rest of the group, and taking to their positions they waited for the ship to anchor.

The ship docks and an impressive sculpture covers the front of the bow of a man holding a bow pulled back with a bolt of lightning in the string, it had three masts and a double deck body equipped with ten ballista’s on each side. When the ship came to a stop the boarding planks went out to reach the docks and men in chain mail uniforms colored in blue with gold trim came off. Following them was the ship herald announcing both the Ambassador and the head Captain of the army from the city of Stormguard. First the captain gets off and is greeted by Cloud and Artanis the Captain is dressed very similar to the bar expectations of a normal Captain, full suit of armor, cape draped on the back with the same colors as the men with a cloud imprinted on the blue background with gold etching along with a bolt coming out of it, as well as a long sword strapped to his side. He is announced as Captain Tristan Dole. The second is the Ambassador being announced as Lord Namor, and coming off very upscale like, he is dressed with a full robe equipped with a collar covering his back portion of his neck and around the sides with colors matching the Captain’s cape. Namor had gold rings on his fingers, and an amulet hanging around his neck with a pendant that a family portrait of could fit into. He had gleaming platinum blonde hair that was raised up perfectly in half and had wavy rooted bangs draped to either side in the front of his face. Namor’s face was promoted with godlike features and he acted as such in his walk down towards the Captains. Trailing after him was a beautifully colored and shaped white tiger that when met with the Captains went to the side of Tristan. Rain looked at Dawn and Elanee of his group who were gawking at the ambassador like young girls over brooding muscled soldiers. With men of each city single filed down the edge of opposite sides of the dock towards the King, Elanee anxiously awaited the arrival of the ambassador to her and the King. They get to them and the King gives a speech of the gods giving good passage to the voyage and an introduction to the group. Starting with Elanee and explaining that she will be his counterpart through their time spend there he kneels and kisses her hand and glorified at her radiant beauty he almost completely ignored the introduction of the rest of the group the six have formed until the King told of Rain and him being a sorcerer.

“Did you say he was a mage?” Namor questioned again

“Yes” replied the King

“Does that bother you” asked Rain staring emotionless into his eyes

“No it’s just that our mages in our land have but one task which is to imbue weapons for our men, and important events are hardly worth mentioning, I myself who don’t require a weapon have no use for them at all” he explained staring back at Rain

“And do these mages imbue weapons that change the tides of battle to your favor for a victory?” Rain inquired

“Yes” Namor said

“Then I would say they are of great importance to mention, not caged up down in a cellar like a beast” he sternly said back giving an even deeper stare, breaking the stare off Elanee grabbed the arm of the ambassador and escorted him into the castle. Watching them walk off Elanee passed by Rain housing a look as if to say, don’t blow this. His concentration is broken up by the hand of his sister touching his. “Hey don’t worry about his opinion we all know what you’ve done for us and that’s all that matters to us, now do me the honor and escort your stunning sister to the castle” she said smiling, taking her hand he contemplated all the power in that city wasted on making just a few weapons glow.

A couple of hours pass while they are taken on a tour of the castle and the city highlights and getting settled the captains of both cities as well as Rain, Artanis, Dawn and Alisianna are taken into the discussion courtyard. A few minutes pass and they are accompanied by the King and Elanee on the arm of the ambassador. And sitting down the king says “And now to business at hand”

“Well by order of our king he has laid onto me a manner of assessment of what I deem necessary to send to your aid based on facts and proof of your threat” said Namor

“Well now that he knows that were here the attack from Colossus should be immanent” replied Rain

“You mean you’ve never confronted him” asked Tristan

“No, kind of hard to do that when he is dead to start with” said Rain

“Rain!” added Cloud

“Wait a moment, are you saying that were dealing with a ghost” asked the Ambassador

“Not anymore, the mage inside of him transcended his spirit into a warlord leader of a Minatare clan and using his body to be alive again he has revised his ability to get rid of us” said Cloud

“Us…you refer to only you three Drow” Namor staggered in disbelief

“Yes” Cloud said

“So I’m suppose to send an army to fight a battle which you three are only involved in” questioned Namor

“No we will need them because he will attack this place just because we are here in the first place, whether we are here when he does attack or not” speculated Dawn

“My dear I think the forces of Stormguard can defeat one wizard” boosted Namor with pride

“I don’t think you understand what you’re up against here-”Cloud said

“I have been fighting battle since before your conception my dear boy and this one is no different” Namor interrupted

“No different huh (laughed Rain) this mage Colossus is not going to meet you on a field of green grass, talk truces, and then fight. He will come when your men aren’t ready and will wait for months for you not to think of him as a threat and then he will attack. And not by mere men but by demons and dwarves and other Drow and others that we don’t even know exist. Your magical weapons will only delay the inevitable if he is allowed to gain this power”. Rain bolts

“And what great power is he massing?” asked Tristan

“You really think anyone knows what he’s up to, that is what makes him so dangerous” replied Rain

“I will not help a cause if there is no proof of a conflict and threat to my own land” the Ambassador shouted

“Yes that’s right! Colossus only has been planning something for twenty years for the soul purpose of taking over this little piece of rock, come on Ambassador wake up! His power will consume this realm as well as yours in a manner your men have no way of defending against, and after I’m dead and my spirit is floating around in the sky I will surely enjoy watching you die by his very hand” Rain snapped

“Rain that is enough” Yelled Cloud

“Permission to leave the room” Rain barked as he got up and walk out slamming the doors as he left.

“I’ll go speak with him” said Dawn swiftly following his trail.

Sitting on a hill outside the city Dawn joins her brother, “This kind of evil is a lot for a new realm to understand at once Rain”

“For not embracing magic or at the very least believing that it exists, that idiot in there will never understand, maybe I should show him” Rain said getting up and making the motions to removing his amulet from his neck.

“RAIN NO!” Dawn shouted grabbing his hand away from his own chest “You know that will draw us to his vision and into his reach”

“Yeah so, at least that fool will see for his damn self the proof that he requires and what will kill him”

“Yeah and us in the process, I would like to exist a little longer if you don’t mind, at least until we have the combined strength to finish him off” added Dawn

“You really think we can Dawn”

“I know we can Rain, deep inside of me I feel our purpose and it is strong” she clenched her hands together and held them to her chest; Rain came over and put his hands over hers and apologizes for his rash actions. Talking about the past a little bit to pass the time to ease Rain’s mind foot step brought both to see Alisianna.

“Well should I start packing up” asked Rain

“No” said Alisianna “Cloud and the King were able to calm him down and convince him to stay for the course of the next few months but you are to stay away from him and you’re not permitted to any more meetings while he is here”

“That’s unacceptable Rain is a hero for saving this city from Braxis –”and stopping his sister in mid sentence he nods in agreement to the terms. Alisianna nodded with his answer and went back to tell Cloud

“Since when do you take words like this lying down Rain” asked Dawn

“I won’t but I need to show restraint if we have a hope to get an army from them and an army we will need for nothing else but to slow him down” Rain explained

“Well I’m going to go see the plan until our demise happens ok” Dawn ended and kissing Rain on the cheek she went off to the guardhouse. Staring by the river bordering some woods nearby on the other side of the hill, Rain glances hard at some motion in the air but seeing nothing he shakes his head and goes to his room.

Appearing where Rain was looking Drakon uncloaks his invisibility with Aries at his side. “Damn that was close I thought we had been spotted for a second their” said Drakon, Aries motioned to his men to get in position for the attack. “Don’t make a move until I say got it, we only have one chance lets not blow it.

“Fine but don’t make me wait too long old man, I lose patience fast” Aries bolted and hid back amongst the bushes while Drakon goes cloaked again to move in. Finding a good spot to cast from Drakon throws a fireball into a concentration of scout guards on the gate front area, they are thrown and killed in the air and landing away from the door Aries’ men move in to open the gate.

Cloud and Rain along with the rest of the group are in the center chamber with Cloud interrogating Rain for his actions earlier. While giving a lecture to Rain Cloud is interrupted by a guard telling him the center gate is open and the guards are dead. Hurrying out to the site Cloud and the group gaze upon the fireball force of Drakon, looking through the scorched and scolded Cloud finds one who is still alive. Rising up very slowly he tells Cloud through coughing and a speech impediment that men came through saying they need to take out the ambassador. Giving the order Cloud orders his men to reach the west tower of the castle and aid the ambassadors’ men in their defense while telling Dawn and Alisianna to remain here and heal and help who they can.

“Elanee’s with the ambassador now” Rain ended short bolting to the keep tower with Cloud and Artanis behind him.

They reach the door to the tower to see men of their own as well as the Stromguard guards on the floor with their throats cut.

“There are not a lot of them” replied Artanis

“How can you be sure?” asked Cloud

“Because men that go for throats and key points to render instant death travel light in numbers, to avoid detection” Artanis explains

“We’ll their doing a good job” Rain stated and hearing two more swords clang to the ground they hurry towards the sound to catch up with them.

Hearing these sounds the Captain of Stormguard, Elanee and the ambassador barricade themselves in the chamber of the ambassador while men outside fight off the incursion of Drakon’s force, seconds only go by before they hear a spell being chanted and the door blasting it open. Standing in the opening of where the door was, was Drakon starting to laugh “I was kind of expecting more of a fight from your men seeing how this city went to the trouble of calling for you, but I see now that this attack was for nothing”

“How did you beat my men, their weapons should have cut you down” bolted Tristan

“Oh they did hurt the first two of them, but after I gave them immunity to magical weapons, your men were pretty easy pickings” smirked Drakon “And now it’s time to finish you off; Oh hello, Elanee isn’t it, I hope that my shadow didn’t cause you too much trouble”

“You son of a bitch, that was yours; I hope you rot in hell for that” Elanee spouted off

“Indeed he will” said Cloud’s voice being heard from behind the forces of the drow

And turning around quickly Drakon looks to them “You’re no match for these soldiers” and looking around for Aries he spits out again “Damn that man he takes revenge on his sister too seriously”

Cloud putting together quickly what Drakon just said tells Artanis to go check on the girls and without hesitation Artanis bolts to the exit of the tower. Engaging the forces of Drakon, Cloud and Rain along with six men fight the seven Drow assassins while Drakon is bombarded by attacks from Captain Tristan.

Back at the gate only a quarter of the men were saved by the druid and priestess, healed as well as they could be. Alisianna was about to move on up to her feet when a thud was heard behind her, she looked to the ground to see Dawn face down in the dirt with blood trickling down to the ground from the back of her head. She continued to turn to see the hilt of Aries’ sword smeared with the same blood and with a quick move Aries throws a dagger into the man Alisianna was holding killing him off.

“I see Drakon missed a couple” Aries said laughing “How are you sister, still playing in the woods I see”

“Aries?” she shockingly said setting down the dead guard and drawing her bow.

“In the flesh, I hope I’m not intruding on anything I just had to drop by and finish what I started” Aries continued

“Please brother there is still time to turn from this path and join us, father didn’t want this for you” she said

“FATHER”S DEAD!” he shouted “he was weak and a fool not to mention a disgrace to the family name of Drow, but happily after his death by my hand I have partly corrected that mistake I only need to finish you off and my rebirthing into the good name of the Drow will be cleansed” he continued

“Please brother I don’t want to kill you” she sympathized

“Well now I have heard that you’ve grown in power and in looks I see too, maybe I’ll go a round with that body after I knock you out before I run you through” and lunging toward her she blocked the first couple of attacks but disarming her bow from her hands he laughed again “You really think that a bow against a sword is logical” and removing her cape she exposed a scimitar sword that she unsheathes and saying a word the blade suddenly fills with flame “Not overly but I think this will even the odds a bit” she replies and lunging back they engage in a battle.

Back in the tower Tristan is hurt in the battle between him and Drakon and severely cut in the arm leaning against the wall in a corner of the chamber room. Drakon leaves him to finish off the Ambassador and putting a fatal stab into the last Drow Cloud looks calling to Rain who has a lightning bolt ready, he pauses in his strike for a second while witnessing the mage holding the Ambassador upon his knees about to run him through.

“RAIN NOW!” commanded Cloud and releasing the bolt hitting Drakon center in the hands dropping his sword, Drakon looks to Rain, “This isn’t over” and disappears in a mist and throwing his sword to stab him Cloud is surprised that his sword goes through the mist and into the wall behind him.

Rain walks up to the ambassador who is comforted by Elanee and looking at Namor he stares at him “I hope you remember that today you were saved by a spell at the hands of a sorcerer and not some stupid sword, turning to Elanee with a look of disgust that she would go to his side first Rain leaves the room. Getting up and following in his wake Elanee yells to Rain to see if he is ok and turning around again to show a cut on his eye and a blooded up mouth he says “Nothing my sister can’t fix” and continues walking away. About to say something she stops, leans up against the wall in the hall and closes her eyes, taking a deep breath she returns to the room to aid the Captain and Namor.

Driven to the bloodied dirt Aries looked over his sister, her flaming sword knocked from her hand, Alisianna shifts her hand to form roots at Aries’ feet but jumping back extending metallic claws from his gauntlet Aries shreds the roots to mulch. Alisianna reaches for her sword but her hand is stopped at the wrist by a whip lashing around it, she looks to see Aries holding the other end firmly with a grin.

“Do you think I became Captain of the Matriarch’s army by useless little tricks” he smirks staring to her bloodied face that he caused, he then moves his eyes to her torn leather suit from the battle showing a part of her front, she pulls it up holding a half scared look while staring back to him.

“Aries please, why have you become this, this raw hatred to me; I don’t understand what I’ve done” she pleaded to him

“What have you done?” Aries shouted “You were born and ruined my life you nature hugging bitch!!” Aries spat at her. Finally gripping her blade she swings upward to cut the whip holding her bond, Aries retracted the whip back and lashing it again he cut her across the face, she went down as the cut was near her eye and assaulting again he wraps up her one leg twisting it with a violent thrust which brought her to the ground hard and on to her back. Alisianna glared to his heavy boots that strutted closer to her; looking up she saw him with his blade resting on his shoulder.

“You are seriously pathetic, but a nuisance that I can finally ride myself of” he smiled and raising the blade high to the air for a fatal blow she acts, summoning roots to grip both sides of the sword he had in the air, commanding them down as soon as they wrapped to it the blade comes down into Aries’ shoulder piercing his armor and wedging in deep to his shoulder.

“AHHH!” Aries cried in pain as the blade indeed goes deep, he moves slow to pull it from it’s holding, gazing around he notices Alisianna already on her feet and with her bow in her grasp holstering a arrow pulled tightly back aimed at his head.

“Your blade is indeed sharp to penetrate that thick Armor brother, well made if I do say so myself”

“Nature made whore! I’ll never repent to your side! Your tainting of our family will hold me hunting you forever!” he yells at her while attempting to grip to his weapon.

“Then I am done trying to save you in this life brother, I will save your soul the only way I can now” She’s says sharpening her vision while gripping her bow for a fatal strike.

“Go to hell Bitch” bolted to her ears, being struck by a fist to her face knocking her again to the ground the arrow releases shooting off into the night air. Alisianna shakes her head to see the mage sprinting passed her and upon touching Aries the two vanished via teleport. Artanis rushes to her side seeing the bloody mess she was in and Dawn awakes shortly after with all the noise and tromping guards shortly after.

“Alisianna are you all right?” Artanis questions her

“No, No I’m not” she says staring at the place her brother was standing. Artanis gets up and moves to the side of Dawn who is just starting to come to.

“Ouch what happened?” Dawn asked

“You were knocked out by Aries” Alisianna explained

“Are you ok Alisianna?” Dawn inquired

“I’ll be ok” she said smiling and helping Dawn to her feet while limping herself they get back into the guard house. The rest of the night went by with Cloud, Rain and Artanis bringing the dead to the graves dug for them and Dawn and Alisianna performing the services for them as best as their conditions will allow. After the memorials they discuss where to find out in the morning what had gone down tonight and attempt to find Drakon and Aries first before he attacks again.