Sasha followed them into the compartment, shutting the door, and closing the blinds once more, sitting down on the seat opposite Angelo's mother as Angelo put her down. She set her satchel onto the ground, opening the window a crack in the train to bring in fresh air. She shrugged when Angelo said thanks, "it's no problem" she said "that's what friends are for" she gave him a small smile, as the train started to depart. She figured they would only be a few hours behind Master Jamie and whoever else was going along with the master. They could catch up, help out and head on back to the guild.

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Master Jamie waited for everyone to get on before telling the captian to move on out. Master Jamie didn't sit down, instead watching their path, looking to see when he could see the island, and for any sign of trouble. He eventually sighed, and sat down, clearly troubled.

She looked down at her hands, hating the fact that she hadn't know of this trouble sooner, and wondering if he could have done something earlier. He hated the misuse of magic, and especially over those that can't protect themselves against magic.

It wasn't right, and it was a reason why people distrusted magic, and those that used it. It was a battle magic users had been fighting for the last 100 years. And he wouldn't stand for a step in the wrong direction. Not now.

can you tell me why were going somewhere else after we drop my mom off? it seems a little odd that we cant just stay in the guild hall. or is master Jamie planning something again?" Angelo asked sasha wearily unsure what master Jamie could have up her sleeve considering how much the guy loved swimsuits and girls in them that he figured that she had a weird plan in motion although Angelo wasn't worried about it sasha was defiantly a target for her. Or something much worse was happening and sasha hasn't told him yet since they were dealing with their mother and fathers mess of abuse. Again now Angelo could hold his head up high knowing his mother is safe and his father was beaten to a pulp by his own son and will never see Angelo's mother again now Angelo would be at peace with his past and that made him smile again

Sasha sighed softly, "he just said to come to Aroway island. For Master Jamie to get involved, I'd say it's serious. Angelo, I've been hearing rumors, nothing more, of increased dark guilds. There was one on a job Mayt and me went on. So maybe it's something to so with dark guilds. If it's not...I'm still going there to help Master Jamie and the guild if it's needed." She said, shrugging.

She looked out the window, biting her lip. "Magic is meant to be helpful, protective, not used for wrong purposes. So I'll be there to help, even if the worst I can do is just make people fall over" she looked back to Angelo. "The guild is my home. So I'll be with the master and the others no matter what"

When Wes arrived on the island and pulled his boat on the beach, he was met right away with someone in a cloak who suddenly tried to apprehend Wes through force. From bad experiences from nearly being arrested by the Magic Management Council, Wes was able to quickly dodged the attacker and swiftly knocked him out. He thought for a bit "Guess their not to friendly against strangers. Perhaps if I wore his cloak then maybe I can just disguise myself when I find the village." When he was taking the man's cloak, Wes noticed he had some strange mark shaped like a star, which looked familiar some how to Wes. "Maybe I seen it somewhere during my travels, but what was it exactly." As he thought to himself again. After putting the cloak on over his usual clothes. Wes carried the man to his boat, dropped him inside, used a bit of sleep magic on him to be cautious, and then kicked it off the beach to the water. Don't worry, I'll try to pick you up after I learn a few things here." He quietly said as he rubbed his shoulder where his guild mark of Phoenix Wing was, covered by the bandages that surrounded most of his body.

After some time walking, Wes eventually came across a village where the natives may be at. However, when hegot a better look he could see a dead body on the ground within the village with people looking very distrudisturbed. And there were others patrolling around who wore the same cloak like the man Wes encountered earlier. Still confused, Wes was still thinking what to do next when suddenly a hand grabbed him from behind and it was another person wearing the similar cloak. "What are you doing sitting here, you new or something? Sure one or two of us might be tired, but we're suppose to follow the Twin Enforcers orders. So if I was you, I would start doing something that helps with the unity for the Ragged Brotherhood or else Arkya might not be pleased. Wait... who are yo-"

"Behind you!" Wes said pointing at nothing behind. The patroler quickly turned around, but before realizing that there was nothing there, Wes quickly directed his hands at the stranger and gestured his sleep magic, causing the man to fall drowsy and fall to the ground asleep. Wes pulled him towards a tree to make it appear as if the guy fell asleep by himself. "Hey someone! We got a sleeper here." He called out and stepped back to see this could somehow give him some information as to what was going on. "Ragged Brotherhood, why does that sound familiar?" He said to himself.

Angelo listened to what sasha was talking about with dark guilds and to be honest he has heard of dark guild that kill and do bad things almost like cultists but this was the first he was hearing that their were more developing. considering that master Jamie doesn't get involved in anything it stands to reason that its something important or something big at the very least so obvious he would want the guild to go. Angelo couldn't help but smile a little at sasha and her belief that magic should only be used for the right purposes and Angelo believed her completely and in a way Angelo wouldn't be happy unless he went to help the guild master. he knew his mother would be safe at the guild hall so they would need Angelo's masterful lightning bolts to get the job done right! "damn straight, and you can count on me to come. What would master Jamie do without his ice queen and lightning hurler" Angelo said grinning seeing his mother wake up smiling at them
"looks like my boy has found a cute girl to hang on to"
Angelo blushed at that "hey mom" he said embarrassed that the first words to come from his mothers angelic voice was a comment thinking that Angelo and sasha were dating

Kelthar hopped on the boat with nothing more than a sack on his back, he was ready to go. There was a fire in his heart, it was because of people like this that he and his old master were feared by people back then. People who misused magic and forced people to hate anyone who used it. It wasn't even a natural hate, it was a hate out of fear that led them to that. it made Kelthar sick to just think about it. He pulled out his Ukulele though and he started playing a happy song. He knew that anything else would only cause stress to the guild members going, after all they were about to go fight for their lives. He was talking to a few of the other guildies when he saw Damien wave him over.

Kelthar waved at Damien. "Why hello good friend!" he said loudly as he walked up to him. He stopped for a moment though to salute the master out of respect. He came over and sat next to him, "Are you ready for your first mission?" he asked with a grin, "What a way to get everyone to know you and what you can do!" he said, "Yep now you can show everyone how strong you are. Why I had to work on it and challenge a lot of people to fights back when i first came in. Of course that was a long time ago." he said as his voice got more sad. Kelthar remebered the lonely nights and days he'd sit in a corner seething at all of humanity and sometimes other guild members. His facial expression kind of changed to one of sadness because they were his family and treated him better than anyone else. His face then went to a determined look, "They were my family back then and protected me... now it's my turn to show I can protect them." he said very sternly and straightforward.

The skeletons had finished piling up the Lacrima on the wagons and wheel barrows, and Aedius began to lead them through the town, towards the boat. He pondered on where Cordelia was, she said she would get there before him, yet she was nowhere to be seen. 'That Ensign needs to hurry up.' Aedius thought. 'The First will be annoyed if we fail this.' The completion of this mission would give the Ragged Brotherhood better transport, and weapons which could be used in further unity missions. There were already some form of transport which ran on a user's magical energy, but most cultists preferred to use Lacrima as the vehicles' power source, as it preserved the driver's magical energy for confrontations and such.

The town was littered with dead bodies of villagers who refused to follow the Ensign and Arkya's orders. Aedius considered using those bodies to transport the Lacrima., but six skeletons seemed to be enough for now.

Aedius thought back to the time when The First gave him the mission, and provided most of the cultists with small communications Lacrima, there was also a medium sized one on the ship, which would be there for people who remained to protect the ship. He contacted the ship's Lacrima, using his own.

"I've retrieved the Lacrima, but I can't find the Ensign." He said. "Prepare the ship to leave anyway - she can just fly over."

Sasha Shin, Phoenix Wing, on the train to the guild

Sasha smiled at Angelo, amused, "I'm not a queen. More of a peasant, I think" She said, shrugging, looking over at Angelo's mother when he spoke. She blushed, glancing away. "I'm glad you're awake, Mrs Ortega, and that you're okay" She said softly, clearly embarrassed and somewhat shocked that Angelo's mother seemed to thank they were a couple. Sasha had never thought about dating anyone, feeling that she was too screwed up for that kind of thing.

She cleared her throat, "Um.I'm Sasha Shin. Angelo really cares for you. He wants to set you up, safely. Until then, the guild will serve. I'm sure Master Jamie wouldn't mind. I have an extra bed in my dorm room" Sasha was clearly trying to get over the awkwardness, by continuing on as if nothing had happened. She leaned down, to look through her satchel, taking out a bottle of water.

She sat back up, offering the bottle to Angelo's mother, "You should drink a bit, Mrs.Ortega. The potion may have healed you, but you should still monitor your fluids. Dehydration isn't fun" She smiled. Most of Sasha's knowledge was from experience, rather then book learning obviously. She did whatever she could to seem knowledgeable, and like she knew what she was doing, that she could be useful.

Master Jamie, Phoenix Wing, on the boat to Aroway Island

Master Jamie was preparing himself for what could be a fight to come. She had a lot of magical energy, yet some of her abilties sucked up a lot of magical juice. Master Jamie was normally a happy, joking sort of person, yet the guild Membes would see another side of her today. Her expression was serious, her demeanor one of determination.

He nodded in response to Kelthar's Salute, before rising as the boat seemed to slow, reaching its destination. Her gaze settled on the island, as if she could sense what was going on there. "We protect each other" He said, turning to the guild membes, hearing Kelthar talking with Damien. "And we protect those who can't protect themselves" there was a soft bump as the boat landed on the dock, and Master Jamie kept her balance.

She turned, to leave the boat, and power seemed to radiate from her, a small bag by her side, with the communication Lacrima and other tools in it. He shuddered, feeling the power from those that did harm here, the utter disrespect for human life. And anger coursed through her. "Lets move it, quickly, quickly"

Damian nods in agreement, tapping the hilt of one of his cutlasses and smiling. "I may be new, but I plan on doing my best too. If there's one thing I learned while living with my parents in the Royal Army, its that we should protect and help each other, not lord ourselves over each other." He shakes his head and his hand grips the hilt of the cutlass til the knuckles turn white. "And wizards who would use their magic to kill and entertain themselves like they're gods...they're worse than your normal murderer." Feeling the boat come to a stop on the island, Damian stands and draws his cutlasses, heading for the ramp to the pier right behind Master Jamie.

They're like monsters in human form, using the power they were given for their own selfish needs. It's wrong and it shouldn't happen. Stepping onto the pier, he summons four sword blades that hover in the hair behind him, waiting til the time when they'd be needed. If there was one thing Damian knew, it's that his battle senses didn't lie, and right now, they were screaming to prepare for combat.

"This has gone along smoothly." Aedius said to his skeletons. They didn't really understand, nor did they have the ability to reply very well. But it was still nice to talk to them every once and a while.

He received a another call from the communications Lacrima. It was one of the cultists who was watching the citizens of Aroway. "Sir, what about the citizens? We have nowhere to put them, and we've already killed their leader." There was an extremely long pause. "Sir?" The cultist asked.

"...Kill them all too." Aedius replied, in a flat tone. He felt they had outlived their usefulness also - assuming they had any. The main goal was to retrieve the Lacrima, and Aedius had done that. Had the villagers sided with the Brotherhood, they would have been allowed to live, and would have been better off in terms of resources, with the addition of the Brotherhood's protection.

The cultists then executed the villagers one by one, regardless of gender or age. Once this was done, Aedius gave another order. "I asked Arkya to prepare the ship, but she hasn't replied. One of you do it."

The cultist accepting the communication Lacrima calls went over to the boat, and began preparing the boat for departure. The rest also went to the boat, and one was forced to drag along the cultist who had strangely fallen asleep.

Arkya had been walking around the boat. She had no clue how to prepare a boat. She had never driven a boat before, so this stuff wasn't common knowledge for her. She sighed, and sat back down in her usual spots. She had an unusual feeling, but it may had just been her curse. Throwing that feeling aside, she heard footsteps. A cultist had appeared, and stated "Aedius said to prepare the boat". "I don't know how to do that." She said, peeved. The Cultist began to prepare the boat, fearing that if he talked to Arkya again, she would attack him for no particular reason.

As the cultist began to prepare the large boat, Arkya had jumped off to the shore to stretch her legs. It would have been bad if she couldn't walk properly. As she walked, she heard the screams and wails coming from the villagers. I guess they started to execute them, she thought. Still, that feeling was still there, and she couldn't seem to shake it.

Angelo sighed a little as Lucia my mother took the water drinking it slowly "I know he does, I always tried to keep him safe from his father's influence. My good boy, learn to be a better man then his father ever was and I couldn't be more proud. " She said softly smiling drinking more before saying "I appreciate your kindness sasha, be good to this one Angelo don't want to lose this one" she winked and Angelo blushed harder "not helping mom" Angelo sighed softly laughing a little

Master Jamie sensed more then saw the boat, as the wizard was approached by the cultist. He growled, a ugly sound, beginning She heard the screams and hissed, charging towards the screams, seeing the slaughter of the islands people.

She didn't hesitate. She raised a hand. But he was already too late, the people slaughtered and Master Jamie roared in fury, and shouted "property change!" She had never done anything on this large a scale before, the wind picking up violently, taken from somewhere, where a storm was brewing. He was careful not to let his guild members get the attack, but a wave of exhaustion flooded over him. Property magic was a taxingf magic, but Master Jamie was beyond angry. "Don't let them get away. Find them!"

This blanted mass murder, the way the people didn't seem to care...it made Jamie furious. Murder shouldn't be easy. "Try and destroy their boat! Show them what it means to face the wraith of Phoenix Wing! And what it means to be true wizards!" Master Jamie began to search out any of this raggered brotherhood on the island.

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Sasha blushed furiously, "um. It's not-we're not-it's not like that" she managed to stutter out, grateful when she felt the train stop, rising, slinging her satchel over her shoulder. She led the way out the train station, and to the guild hall, clearly wanting to get there as soon as possible, to try and catch up with Master Jamie and the others.

She spoke with Jarvis, asking him to provide Angelo's mother with food and drink, and to put it on her tab. She'd pay it at the end of the month, with the rent. She went to her dorm room, opening it so Angelo could take his mother in. While Angelo was doing that, she went to the request board, reading slowly the request for help, and Master Jamies writing

Angelo smiled as he carried his mother to the guild hall letting her lay down on a bed in sashas room to rest and relax letting her know she would be safe here. We kissed each other's cheeks saying our goodbyes as Angelo went downstairs to find sasha and he found her at the request board and he went over and asked "so sasha what did matter Jamie say about asking everyone to join him? Are we on a war path?" Angelo asked cautiously

Sasha nodded to the emergency request. "Something a going on on Aroway island. A guild calling themselves the raggered brotherhood is causing trouble. They're killing" her hands curled into fists, and she turned, to start heading out. "Jarvis, can we have some water and sandwiches? We're going to go help out, if we can. And a wet cloth" when Jarvis complied, Sasha smiled and said thank you, turning to Angelo, she passed him the cloth "you should clean your knuckles, make sure you didn't split the skin open hitting him" she out the drinks and sandwiches away in her satchel, trying to think the quickest way to get to Aroway. "Let's see if we can find some horses"

She headed out the guild, looking about. She knew where a stable was, but she looked back, waiting for Angelo. She didn't know if they would make it in time, but they had to try.

"On my way." When the screams of the dying villagers had reached his ears, Damian was already in motion, heading for the village to try and save someone, anyone, from such unnecessary slaughter. Unfortunately, he couldn't make it in time, so instead he shifted course to head for the beach, his cutlasses held out behind him as he ran and the four sword blades he'd summoned orbiting him and spinning like the hands of a clock, waiting for the order to attack, but holding position as a defense. This Ragged Brotherhood had no respect for human life or magic. You could be damn sure that he'd teach both to them.

He kept his sprint up until he felt his feet hit sand, then he slowed down enough to be able to keep his footing and react quickly if he were attacked by an enemy wizard. He went north along the beach, hoping to run into some of the Brotherhood's thugs. After all, he needed information about their guild and who better to beat it out of than a peon? Spotting a group ahead, he lines his four blades up in a line in front of himself and then has them attack. All four blades found their mark and sent the group flying.

Before they could recover, he was in their midst, slamming his hilt onto the head of the one nearest him. The blow not only put the man back on the ground, it knocked him out cold. The next one got a slash across the chest, knocking him into a tree and leaving him unconscious with the force with which his head hit the tree. The last one tried to run but couldn't, six blades ringing his neck with the points awfully close to it. Damian approached him. "Why are you here?"

The man spat at Damian. "To unite all magic users under a common banner." Damian growls and the pressure against his neck increases.

"And you accomplish that by killing those who can't fight against you? With MURDER?!" Disgusted, he pulls back and slams his fist into the mans face, knocking him out as well as the blades begin circling Damian again. "Now to find-crap. I should have asked him that..." Shaking his head in disappointment, Damian continues down the beach, still looking for the boat.

Kelthar got off the boat as he saw what happened and inside he roared with anger. He chased after one of them as he saw. The man started running toward another part of the beach. He chased after the cultist as the cultist ran toward the other end of the beach. Finally the man stopped and turned and with a grin started laughing at Kelthar. "I have you now!" he exclaimed as he got ready to fight. "You are separated from your friends, and that is exactly what I was trying to do, and now you are gonna pay for your ignorance!" he said.

Kelthar glared at the man, "You've made a fatal flaw in choosing me." Kelthar said in a mono tone voice, the man looked back at him puzzled not sure of what he meant. "It's simple really, now people won't be able to hear you scream in pain when i'm done with you!" Kelthar said. That only angered the cultist as he charged at him yelling something, but as he yelled he suddenly stopped running. He tried yelling again but nothing came out. He looked up at Kelthar who was smiling. "You can yell, but I can yell better." he said. Kelthar Yelled as it echo'd throughout the island. A shockwave came out of his mouth as it smashed into the cultists stomach. The cultist went flying backward. As he got up Kelthar yelled again this time the blast hit the man in the shoulder. Kelthar walked up to the man who had been knocked a considerable distance back from his original starting point. He looked down as the man squirmed to a kneel, Kelthar watched as he tried to say, "I yield!" but no sound came out.

"Oh I'm sorry!" Kelthar said, "I can't hear you what was that?" He teased, but his voice suddenly became very serious as his eyes narrowed on the cultist, "All I can hear is the sound of the innocent being slaughtered." he said. Kelthar pulled out his Ukulele as he looked at the man in the eye, "You made one fatal flaw in your little plan, you see, yes you separated me from my friends, but you also separated yourself, so now no one can hear you cry." Kelthar said as he violently strummed his ukulele, which sent out a blast of sound that echo'd through the island, but a shockwave was released the hit the man in the chest knocking him out. Kelthar spat on the ground as he continued to search for anymore of these cultists he could by running down the beach.

Angelo sighed hearing that the dark guild was killing people as he went and did as she said about the cloth and started to clean them seeing that my skin was split slightly as he touched it, it stung his knuckles but he didn't care about it considering he would mainly be throwing lightning bolts unless he was forced to make his lightening armor and after a few minutes if cleaning his knuckles and wrapping bandage wrap around his knuckles he went outside following sasha "horses?" Angelo asked skeptical about it being faster then a train

Aedius arrived at the boat with his skeletons and Lacrima in tow. He waved to the cultists which were at the boat. There were four now, meaning that two had gotten somewhere. It didn't matter, they were nameless, faceless and expendable, and there were many more to join in on future mission. For now though, the collection of the Lacrima was the highest priority. Aedius issued another order - this time to his skeletons.

"Load the Lacrima onto the boat." He said. The skeletons obeyed, and began to load the Lacrima onto the boat, they would be done before long. He called out to Arkya. "Did you ready the boat?" He asked. It was actually the second cultist which was preparing the boat, but Aedius has forgotten this in the time it took to travel from the town to the boat.

A storm was brewing. Arkya had no clue what was causing it. Perhaps it was some form of magic, since a storm couldn't randomly appear. Arkya had seen a bunch of cultists begin to run to the boat. The boat was a good 3 minutes run away from where she was. She quickly grabbed one's cloth robes. "Why are you running?", she asked peeved. "There's a guild!" Arkya dropped the cultist. The cultist stumbled away, and ran to the boat. She took out a small communication Lacima, and began to speak into it. "We have some uninvited guests." She said. Arkya took a deep breath, and quickly dashed to the highest peak she could see. She climbed up a tree, and looked down upon the area. She had seen cultists being attacked by a guild. It was what she had expected. She gave a small laugh, and leapt down from the tree. She leaned against the same tree, and waited for someone to come around, to show how the Ragged Brotherhood's Enforcer would deal with this thing.