"Blaze! If you want more action join in!" Iggy laughed as he ran up the steps created for him by Iggy. "But first! You better take Torie and get back a bit!" He called out as he and Torie moved higher up. "With a Flame on my right hand!" He began his spell which was likely to tip Blaze off. "And a flame on my left hand!" He jumped off the final step into the air over the large group of grunt and smirk. "When you combine the flames together!" He brought his two hands together and the flames that had ignited fused to form an huge ball of flames. "FIRE DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME!" He shouted as he brought down the flame on the enemy which would cause a very massive and destructive explosion. What would remain of the enemy forces would be less than 10%. Which would literally be less then 10 people, the rest all unconscious. Of course, these were just the grunts. Even if the Fairy Tail mages didn't know it. And the real battle had yet to begin.

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Feeling the rumble of the explosion Kinzoku's head perked up. "Well. Isn't this just dandy." He laughed a bit. Rachel was a bit more concerned, and yet still excited. It had been a while since they'd gotten any real action.

Noticing the familiar casting stance and the whole "flames on his hands" focusing speech, Blaze was more than quick to rocket into the castle, grab Torie, and GTFO before the place exploded, sending the remaining grunts flying and putting the vast majority of them out of commission. Yet another awesome Natsu-esque display of destruction... Now, Blaze and Torie were just idly hovering high above the castle, sustained by the bright fiery wings pouring out of the former's back. Now that she thought about it, there wasn't all that much challenge in getting this far. But then they probably went a bit overkill with Aurora and Iggy's area-spread attacks. ...It wasn't over yet, was it...?

"Welp, that's that," Blaze dared say. The kid was actually hoping there was more to this. Besides, she hadn't punched anyone yet!

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In the main hall of the castle, still untouched by Fairy Tail's assault, Reaver waited. He wouldn't go out there and fight them himself - he had subordinates to do that for him! Rolling his eyes over to Rachel, he shrugged and waved his hand casually. "By all means, go crazy. Those kids out there are going to cause me a headache..."

With all of that over Iggy looked around. There was really only one person left standing in the room who was conscious (Sayto). "Well. Looks like everyone in this guild wasn't a total waste of space." He said with a small smirk. "Now you've got a choice to make." He said before the ceiling above him was broken through and Kinzoku came down slammed Iggy face first into the ground. "You're right kid. And it's gonna be tough." The iron dragon said with a smirk. "Kill you all or just beat you until your wish you were dead." He said as he grabbed Iggy by the hair and threw him out of the building sending him skidding across the floor. "It's such a hard decision to make." Rachel then said as she dropped down. Kinzoku kicked a few unconscious mages out of his way as he and Rachel walked outside.

"Oh look. A flying rat." She said as she caught a glimpse of Blaze carrying Torie. Two guns requiped into her hands and she licked her lips before she began firing at that two. "Fuck..." Iggy said as he shakily got to his feet. He wasn't so much hurt as he was kind of out of energy. Maybe he jumped the gun a bit. Still... The scent of a dragon slayer. The guy who hit him hard too. He was willing to bet he was an iron dragon slayer. And the female gun mage. She was pretty powerful. But what about that other guy. He hadn't even done anything yet. "Blaze! DODGE!" He shouted. Torie could make a shield, but the magic shots were powerful. He might need more than a few thin layers.

Sayto watched as the Fairy Tail Mages continued and finally finished off the rest of the grunts in the main hall. He smiled as he watched this happen, although he still knew that the worst was yet to come. He listened as one of the mages addressed him, telling him he had a choice to make. That was, until the boy's face was promptly slammed into the floor courtesy of Kinzoku. It was strange, it was as though Sayto could somehow feel the attack coming. He watched as the boy was tossed through the doors and outside again.

Sayto stood from his chair, he could tell these wizards would need his help if they were going to survive this encounter. He closed his eyes for a moment, gathering his magic power, he clenched his hands which began to crackle with black lightning. Finally, when he thought he was ready, he muttered under his breath "Lightning Step." And immidiately his body tranformed into a bolt of lightning which soared across the room and out of the open doors. He re-materialized mere feet from Kinzoku. He stretched out his hand, almost touching his former guildmate and said "Lightning Storm." Although the bolts would normally spread out, since he was so close to his target, it was likely that most of them would hit their mark anyways.

Torie hung limply as Blaze flew, not exactly used to flying. Looking down, he saw the besieged fortress, and couldn't help but smirk and admire their handiwork. That is, until he saw Iggy come flying out of the building and skidded across the floor. That was bad. Then another mage showed up and looked up at them. That was bad. Then she started shooting at them with magic guns and Iggy was yelling at Blaze to dodge. That was REALLY bad. In a desperate attempt yo shield Blaze and himself as they were still flying, Torie erected several panel-barriers in the way of the bullets, all within an inch of the other. That would at least slow the bullets down enough to be harmless...hopefully.

Looking down, Torie reached his hand out and plucked his his helmet from his Re-Equip space and placed it on his head, adjusting the visor to see well, before saying: "Now for the big show..."

"This is more like it!" Blaze cheered as magic bullets began to zoom past or impact with Torie's barriers. Suddenly bobbing and weaving through the air, the two dived toward their gunslinging foe with the intent of smashing Torie's barriers right in her smug Dark Mage face! The shots got closer, the time to dodge got tighter as they closed range. "Torie, good luck! Guns mages can't fight for shit up close!" Blaze confidently called out before letting Torie drop straight at the woman from above, ...because he could totally handle this by himself, right? Only then at ground level did the Phoenix Mage realise, ...there was more than just two of these guys.

One of them seemed to be fighting his own comrades, so that was a positive... As long as he wasn't helping the Iron dude beat the snot out of Iggy, all was well! There was a magical presence above the castle where Blaze couldn't see, and another man had dropped into the ground floor battle...

"What's wrong, Sayto? Couldn't stand us? And I thought we were such a fun bunch to hang out with," Mike snickered as one of his arms became engulfed in morphing flesh, the end result forming a scythe-like blade made of blood. "Looks like the numbers on each side are even - who's killing who?" he quite casually questioned as the fighting broke out.

Another figure flew down behind Blaze and prepared a wind spell in her hand, grinning like an idiot. "Make up your minds, everyone~" she chanted whilst the red-haired girl turned to face her.

"...And here I thought this'd be an easy run." Blaze admitted as she stared down the cheerful-looking wind mage. Happy as the lady looked, her eyes were insane. For once in her life, Blaze actually felt pretty intimidated. "Who to go after, who to punch first~?" she whispered to herself, trying to mask how she felt.

(Probably on a lower end of quality, but phone posts do that! And sorry this took so long...)

"As much as I hate to admit it, I'm not the best at fighting without my guns. Just like that girl said." Rachel commented as she noticed Torie coming down on her after blaze had sent him in to fight her. "Still, I don't mind getting a little hands on attention from boys like you." She said as she licked her lips before jumping back out of the way so she wouldn't get hit by Torie.

(Yup... That's gonna be her for most of the fight. XD)

Seeing Sayto Kinzoku chuckled a bit. "Just sit back. I want the little..." He was cut short upon the release of Sayto's attack. "The fuck was that?" He asked with an angry glare. Of course, he'd avoided more of the attack. However, the lightning that had hit him hadn't done much. He'd actually activated his iron dragon scales and than stomped his foot into the ground sending the lightning running down and out of his metallic form. "Now, as the scales disappeared from his body and he straightened his form he sighed. "I can't say i didn't see this coming. After all, you were down here and didn't help a bit." He laughed calmly before his sight locked back onto Blaze. "Still. As I was saying before you so rudely interrupted me. I want the flying runt." He said with a smirk. "You're boring ass can play with Mike or Kaze or whatever the fuck you want." He snickered a bit. "And that goes for you too Kaze. Step away from the runt with wings. She's mine." He made sure it was known. As a dragon he had a special need to take on the phoenix.

(Yup... Kinzoku wants to play with Blaze. And... Hurt her... This is the level of asshole Kinzoku is... And he'll be even worse than Magicka Kinzoku Jake ;P Enjoy x3)

"Crap..." Iggy grunted angrily. "Blaze! I need a little nourishment." He said calmly still tired after the mass of magic he'd used and the sudden attack delivered by Kinzoku. But he could still fight. But there was someone else here. Someone who hadn't joined the fray. Why? The Leader? Possibly. Maybe he was the one who held the power that the Villagers had talked about before they came to face the dark guild. So to free the villagers they had to get him. But there were four enemies here and only three members of Fairy Tail in action plus one defector of the dark guild. If he left it'd be 4 on 3. And he couldn't possibly know how strong the guy was or if he was actually on the Fairy Tail side. He looked at Blaze unsure if he should risk leaving the fight to them to pursue whoever else was in the castle. She knew him well enough to get the message without the need for an explanation.

Torie impacted with the ground with the series of barriers crackling and shattering beneath him. Pulling his foot from the pile of rubble now under it, he flicked his wrist and the shattered remains of his barriers disappeared, though his shield remained on his arm. Tilting his head slightly at the woman, he asked: Well now...what's a pretty lady like you doing getting involved with guys like these?" He adjusted his gloves, tightening them on his hands. "...Doesn't matter though" Snapping his fingers once, he erected several barriers around his snapping arm, forming a long, 4 ft. polygonal blade.

Pointing the blade at her, he said: "So...what's your name ma'am?" With his free hand, he adjusted the visor of his helmets to see the lady, even as he tilted his head down slightly. Theatrics were everything in a confrontation like this...that and he figured this'd give him enough time for a snappy one-liner to use at the end of this.

(Kinzo's actually pretty awesome in Magicka though! Anti-Heroes FTW!)

"Yeah, yeah. Just remember this means I have to go a little less wild - whatever you're gonna do, make it count!" Blaze replied before shooting above Iggy and throwing a sizeable sphere of flames down at him. Immediately after doing so, she rocketed towards Kinzoku. By swiping at his head with her fist for a fake attack and quickly maneovering with a spin closer to the ground, the intent was taking him off his feet with a dual kick to his shins. Flight meant she could strike anywhere but from underground, and fast at that - this was gonna get chaotic! "Dragon Slayers that ain't from Fairy Tail are overrated, you iron bastard!" she taunted Kinzoku with a big game-on smirk.

Rachel smirked keeping her eyes locked on Torie. "Flattery will get you everywhere." She giggled lightly at the words 'pretty lady' as the machine guns vanished from her hands. "Still if you must know I just enjoy what I do. No special reason. And I found myself enjoying the company of the people around me." She explained before she requiped two hand guns. She held them in a fairly casual manner. "Oh and my name is Rachel. What do you go by?" She continued to reply in a rather kind manner. It was actually pleasant despite how bad this could get. "I'll give you thirty seconds." She then said after a brief moment. "Well maybe thirty is a bit much. I'll be kind and make it fifteen seconds. Make sure to say goodbye to the things you love in that time young man." He tone and expression gave off a confident, yet somewhat sadistic feel. Once she got his name she was gonna come at Torie with the determination to kill him.

"Heh... Looks like she's still playing around." Kinzoku commented on Rachel with a small laugh as he charged at Blaze. Still much to his surprise she came at him. "You're pretty confident huh?" He asked before jumping up avoiding her attack. The position he held would cast a shadow over Blaze and cause his face to be darkened quite a bit only his eyes visible in the darkness. Of course, they seemed to be glowing red as the Dragon slayer held up his arm. "Iron Dragon Sword." He announced as his arm formed into the shape of a large, jagged steel blade with spikes along the blade's edge. He swung his arm down. Still there wasn't much killing intent behind this attack. Almost like it was a show of power. Like he wanted to toy with Blaze before he actually fought her seriously.

Iggy saw two battles in the midst of beginning and soon felt the sizable ball of flames collide with him. He smirked. Blaze always knew just what he was thinking. As the flames enveloped him he could be seen sucking in the flames. His stomach and body seemed to expand with the sudden intake of nourishment, before compressing once more converting the flames into his own magical power. "Right." He replied to blaze just before she began her own battle. He wiped his mouth after his 'meal' and then charged forward past the enemies who were pretty preoccupied with their own situation. He was heading for the castle. Whoever was there was in the top of it. "Let's show these bastards why they shouldn't underestimate their opponents! Especially when their opponents are FAIRY TAIL!" He shouted to his comrades as encouragement before jumping high towards the castle. Flames blasted from his feet propelling himself forward towards a window. It wasn't hard to get in. Once there he landed and looked around. "YO! Where are you?!" He called out.

Torie tilted his head back a bit before looking up at the sky for a moment; still trying to come up with his cool-guy line while trying to look as awesome as possible. Naturally, once the lady had said her name, then requested to know his, he obliged, looking back to her and saying: "Torie. Torie Derringer. I would say its nice to meet ya Ms. Rachel...but heroes of Justice don't lie." Silently, he high-fived himself, because really, image mattered the most in his debut as a hero of justice...or at least just beating a bad guy with dry wit and an impressive entrance. Of course, she had guns on her side. But that was cheating.

"Wait...15 seconds to what?" Was all Torie could think to say...she didn't mean 15 seconds to- Oh shit she did. Bracing himself, Torie took a leap back and erected barriers 6 ft. high between him and Rachel; he needed time to gauge her, see if she had anything more than just guns.

"Children, huh? Well, it's better than nothing. I was getting bored here, with nothing to feed my power..." Reaver murmured eerily from the middle of the main hall, his face still turned toward the floor. Darkness magic enveloped the scythe rested against his throne before he calmly took hold of it and got to his feet. Either this guy was overly confident, or he really was good enough to just not give a damn about the Dragon Slayer staring him down.

"Everything exists to feed my power. Unfortunately I haven't eaten nearly as many mages as I'd hoped to by now. The townspeople filled the hole as it were, but.. still not enough." Reaver chuckled, "I wonder what will happen... when I add a Dragon Slayer to my collection of souls...?!" he taunted with an insane flash in his eyes.

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A jacket was caught by the Iron Dragon Slayer's attack, being zipped cleanly in half. But the owner?

"Yuh missed!" Blaze chanted as she quickly flew 180 degrees around Kinzoku and made a flaming swing of her boot for the back of his head. In the childish mentality Blaze had, this was 'one awesome game!', and she expected her opponent to play nice and play fair... Despite the fact that he had a massive chainsword where his arm was a few moments ago. Playfighting with deadly weapons and magic was still playfightning, right?

"Now you're probably thinking you should be cautious in case I have more than guns." Rachel snickered as she charged forward. "but really guns are all I need." As she charged she fired off a few rounds from her hand guns. they seemed to pierce through the barriers, but only had enough strength to make it through to the second to last barrier. "Very good barriers." She said as a huge gun appeared in her hands in place of the hand guns which seemed to fade into nothing. She fired the large weapon only it was aimed at the floor. This served to propel her upwards over the barriers. As she began her descent he grin widened and she requiped another large cannon of a weapon. "Lets see if you and your shields can take this." She said before firing three explosive rounds. Literally. Upon impact they would cause a fairly large explosive. Almost as if the display their power she shot once more this one aimed at a tree. When the explosion diminished into nothingness all that was left was a sizable crater in the cround where the large tree once stood.

Seeing all this Kinzoku whistled as he dove forward. His hand returned to it's normal state and he press off the ground. he smirked as he turned bid air and aimed a kick at Blaze. "You've got some nice moves." He said with a confident smirk plastered on his face. As he approached her with his leg aimed at her it glowed a bit. Soon where his leg had been was an iron club. "Iron Dragon's club." He said quickly as the powerful kick extended towards the young girl.

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"The way you're talking right now I guess it's safe to assume that you're this dark guild's leader huh?" Iggy asked as he cracked his knuckles. "To be honest I don't know what the hell you're going on about. All this 'feed my power' crap is kind of just weird and idiotic to me." The young dragon slayer spoke calmly, though his actions didn't match his words. "But I do know that if I wanna help those villagers i'm gonna need to kick your ass just like my friends are gonna beat down your little flunkies." He said as his fists ignited and he began to launch multiple flame imbued punches at the man. The high speed fists were even joined by a flurry of flaming kicks thrown into the mix. Iggy didn't have a big plan. That was a bit of a mistake. But he wanted to take this guy down. And he wanted to do it fast.

Torie kept his eyes on the woman the whole time, and was relieved to see that her guns could only get through a couple of the barriers. At least until she pulled out a bigger gun. A MUCH bigger gun at that, which she used to rocket-jump over, then pull out an EVEN BIGGER GUN! Torie couldn't help but wonder just how many guns she had in her space before he braced himself to see what she'd do. What else could she do with a gun besides shoot anyways? Reacting quickly, he formed layered panels to block the shots, stopping them a bit of a ways away from him, though the explosion still kicked in. Getting blown back a bit, Torie tumbled and managed to return to his feet by skidding against the ground, steadying himself on his hands. Looking at the tree, he felt a tinge of fear at just how powerful the bullets were, before looking at her and forming 4 panels, and throwing them at her like he was throwing frisbees. "This is bad...I gotta keep her in range...no, I gotta get right up to her!" was all he thought as he started running back to where he'd been before.

As fast as the Fire Dragon could dish out his magic-enhanced punches and kicks, Reaver was spinning and swinging the pole of the scythe to guard against the assault. A sly grin grew on the dark mage's face as he continued to defend, not fighting back or using any deadly force that he was more than capable of dealing. He was taunting the teenager.

"All exist to feed our power, Dragon Slayer. You have no idea what magic is really capable of, do you? The true nature of magic is dominance over the weak." Reaver chuckled, treating it as if he was starting a friendly conversation.

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"Why thank you for noticing, Ironman! You missed again~" Blaze teased Kinzoku as she flew back from the kick. Suddenly his damned leg grew into a massive metal bat, which grew into Blaze's stomach, sending the cocky kid flying back into the gunslinging dark mage's back. Not that the woman would budge with such a light collision. Might be a nice distraction, though...

"Oof, sorry - wrong fight!" Blaze said through gritted teeth before kicking to her feet and taking to the skies. She kept her attention on the lady with the guns, but Kinzoku was the one she wanted to knock out. Focusing, she launched a steady stream of flames from her hands aimed down at the Iron Dragon.

As the panels came at her Rachel smirked. She ran towards them and requiped two hand held guns. The first she fired had enough power to blow one of the panels away like nothing. Still she continued forward. She jumped and shot at one of them as she neared it. She kicked off it shattering it after having weakened it with the shield piercing round. He movement continued across the other two... Or at least it would have. Why stop you ask? Some flying phoenix brat hit her back. Of course, it wouldn't have done much had she been still and in a position to accept it, but she was moving and the collision caused her to fall forward off the last panel face first into the floor.

Rachel grit her teeth as she leaped back to her feet and immediately aimed her weapons at blaze. However, before she could pull the trigger she felt the cold iron slam into her gut and knock her off guard. If there was ever a time to hit Rachel it'd be now. "What the..." Rachel grunted upon impact.

The one who'd knocked her back was her ally... Kinzoku had dodged Blaze's flames and attacked Rachel before she could fire at the phoenix. "I said the phoenix is mine." He said before leaping into the air right at Blaze and throwing a kick at her. abdomen. "Don't get confused now. I just wanna beat you down myself kid." He said with a somewhat sadistic smirk on his face. That was one way to follow up a "good deed".

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Iggy grit his teeth. "I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that you bastard." He said as he leaped back. "FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" He shouted releasing a torrent of flames on him. Whether he guarded or dodged didn't matter though. Under the cover of the flames Iggy was charging again fists blazing to deliver more powerful blows and hopefully land one.

Aurora

Tried to wake up. Her eyes slowly began opening. She could barely hear anything but the sound of 'Hmmm' her vision was blurry and could barely see anything. She tried to move her head but it took time to. Looking around pieces of a castle? Where was she? Her memories began regaining but not enough to remember where she was. Her hands drooped down next to her pink pigtails. She tried to stand but her body ached. Weakness filled her. She stood there miserable. She tried to gather her mana but she could barely do anything.

Slowly she drifted off back to sleep.

"This is getting bad...I'm not even slowing her down...." was all Torie could think as the fight continued, he couldn't react faster then her to catch her off guard...but given that she was a dark mage, she had to be tough. She could probably get the best of him in a battle of attrition, given his inexperience with fighting other mages. Really, the odds were not looking in his favor with this woman; though he couldn't let that get him down. Not now. He didn't have anyone to back him up after a-

...Scratch that. Blaze just provided the perfect chance for him to end this quick; in one blow if possible. About halfway between him running up to her and forming barriers, he thought for a minute about whether it really was alright for a self proclaimed "Hero of Justice" to hit someone while they were caught off guard; a lady, nonetheless, but then he remembered he was a part-time hero of justice. Which warranted a bit of leeway in the morality department whenever it was kind of convenient for him. This, being one of those convenient times.

As he continued to run towards Rachel, he quickly ran his left arm over his right, getting rid of the barriers there, and reforming them into the exact shape of his arm, though much larger, the barrier layers connected were actually thicker than his torso. Not letting the opportunity slip by, he slammed Rachel as hard as he could in the back, yelling: "BARRIER MAGIC: HAND OF VINDICATION!"

"Oh please. You say that like it's possible!" Blaze laughed, the wings of flame beating once to put her underneath Kinzoku. She prepared to cast an advanced Phoenix spell, but~ suddenly her wings disappeared, leaving her stranded in the air with an oh crap expression plastered on her face. She fell without causing any damage to her opponent, and luckily landed on a high roof instead of plummeting all the way to the street below. Would've broken something if that happened!

Still, after recovering the girl shook her head and motioned for Kinzoku to bring it on. Dragon Slayer or not, this wasn't over until he was a stupid smoking pile of beaten mage. Blaze was low on magic power, but she could still fight conservatively. Against this opponent however... This was win or die.

"I hope Iggy is having better luck..."

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The spinning scythe dispelled the roar as the flames made contact. It stopped however when Iggy came closer, as if Reaver didn't want to harm the kid. He took one clean hit to the gut, sending the dark mage sliding to a halt at the end of the hall. He'd finally been displaced... "I've been thinking... You're on Kinzoku's level. I could use another powerful dragon slayer... Your rewards could be endless as our influence spreads," Reaver tried to tempt the boy.

"I'm offering you a job as my right hand - my enforcer. If you don't take it, ...I'm finally going to start using magic against you. If you recall, I haven't used it once yet, Dragon Slayer... You won't win. Feed my power, or become my ally. Decide."

Rachel never saw the attack from Torie coming. She was so out of it she couldn't even regain her senses, before the impact of the attack came rushing down on her. The pain was too much. No... Way... Was Rachel's last thought before going down. She had virtually no defenses and when she hit the floor after the attack it was clear she was out.

"Geez... I hit her once and that was enough to make her go down?" Kinzoku said. Still this didn't bode well. Now the barrier brat could move in on his fight with the phoenix girl. "Oh well." He said as he kicked off the ground his leg extending into the iron dragon club once again to give him an extra lift. "Let's finish this phoenix girl. Make it fun." He fully intended to come at her with the intent to kill. But it was noticeable that the fight was of more importance than the dark guild. Though the lack of loyalty may have been a defining point for a dark mage.

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Iggy huffed and stood up straight while staring down Reaver. "You just keep going on about feeding your power. And you don't even seem to care about what happened to your guild mates. Not even the ones still fighting." He spoke in almost a whisper the anger evident in his tone of voice. "Just what the hell do you think lives are? What do you really think magic is?!" He grit his teeth. "I was taught the value of lives. And that magic was a tool to build strong bonds and protect what was important to you." Iggy clenched his fist annoyed. Not just with Reaver. Not just with the fact that the man hadn't used magic once. But more so with the fact that so many had suffered because of this guys twisted mind. AND HE DIDN"T EVEN CARE!

"To even consider joining you would go against everything I believe in." He paused for a moment. "But I should at least tell you who I am before what's left of your guild goes down." He took a breath and exhaled calming himself a bit. He'd gone in too hot. It wasn't good. His mind was clouded and he'd underestimated this dark mage. "I'm Igneel Dragneel, a mage of Fairy Tail and the guy who's gonna beat you down and free all the people who've fed that sick power of your's." After his little introduction he smirked. "Oh and don't worry about forgetting any of that. I'll be sure to burn it into your memory." And there it was.The decision Reaver had asked for.