@Lunarlors34
“Don't listen to the big bully...” Janna said to Angela with a smile, throwing a joking look at the man holding her hand.” You really should stop treating her like that... It's not helping you any, to act like that.” She stated with a smile and turned towards Angela, who was holding onto her hand so tightly that you'd think she was expecting to be grabbed away any moment now.

“Well... if you really wondered...” Janna began saying something to James, but noticed Artur's very clear attempt to not give in to the taunt.” You really should have just said something to him before leaving like that. You should have seen his expression when he realized you two vanished.” The former thief said with a shrug finding an empty seat and taking it.

“No thank you, I will pass on the popcorn. I'm not a big fan of it.” Janna replied to Jessica with a smile, throwing a look at Arthur.” Come on now, stop standing like a pole there~” Janna poked at Arthur.” I know you are trying to make up for you lack of manners earlier, but we already took a seat, so you can do so as well.” She said with a smile, teasing him up for his failing to act like a gentleman earlier.

@Lugubrious
NOLAN

With all the single colored lacrima discovered, he finally arrived at the location that one of his spirits located a rainbow lacrima. It was a candy store with a large, rainbow swirl lollipop hanging above a store named Sandy's Sweets. Nolan arched his brows wondering what challenges would face him once he entered the store. Deciding to not waste time thinking about the ifs and buts, he entered the store and...it was surprisingly what he expected a normal candy store to look like. It was painted pink on the inside with many boxes and other containers filled with varieties of sweets. He wondered if he should bring back some sweets for his friends as a present, he shook his head and focused back on the task at hand. It would be an understatement to say that he felt a bit out of place among the bright colored candies and pink walls while he was dressed in nearly all black. He just needed to talk to the person at the counter and get a move on.

That was the problem; there was no one at the counter! Nolan looked up at the shelves behind the counter and saw the rainbow lacrima dressed up as a lollipop, the thing he needed to complete the challenge. He easily could snatch it off the shelf though he didn't want to get caught and be treated like a thief. Nolan rung a bell that was on the counter and called out, "Hello? I could use some service here!" He tapped his foot impatiently, his eyes darting towards the door.

"Coming!", called out a voice of a young woman from the back room. What Nolan saw nearly made him run out of the store out of pure fear. A gorgeous, buxom woman with long, wavy blonde hair wearing tight clothes that complimented her figure, especially a tank-top with the store's lollipop logo on it. The woman looked perpetually bored, which was caused by having to deal with running her grandmother's store when she was away and having to deal with screaming little kids. Her eyes lit up at the sight of a handsome young man and didn't waste a single moment to try to claim him. She crossed her arms under her breasts and leaned forward on the counter. "Hello, how can I help you today?" She pulled a Dumdum lollipop from a jar and unwrapped it before taking a long lick.

The God Slayer's face must've been glowing red because his face felt like it was burning up. Why did this crap always happen to him? Why did he have to attract the one thing that he was afraid of? It was a sick joke that the gods themselves played on him. "I-I'm a participant in the Grand Magic Games. I'm here for the rainbow lacrima." No, he wasn't going to let her get the best of him! All he needed to do was to get the lacrima and get the hell out of there.

"Oooo, handsome and strong. How about you play some different kind of games with me?" The woman said with a sultry smile, leaning in closer to him. Inside, Nolan was screaming.

Later, Nolan walked out of the store with the rainbow lacrima in his pocket though he wondered if it was actually worth it. Had not for that woman's grandmother walking in on time there was a chance that Nolan would've never gotten the damn thing. As long as he lived he was never going back to that candy store. Never again!

Approaching the gates of the stadium, Nolan saw that Indigo and her remaining clones were guarding the gate. After the little stint in the candy shop, he really had no patience for any Indigo's plans. "Move, now." His words were few, but the weight they carried was abnormal. It was threatening, yet it wasn't a hollow threat. He would follow through whatever decision he would make, even if it meant to bury a blade in a clone or two.

FERRIS
@Caits

He blushed again, but he nestled in closer to her. Yikes, he really reacted badly to that gruesome scene though he should've manned up in front of Jess. She was able to maintain composure while he was almost on the edge of vomiting all of the alcohol that he and Jess had last night. He needed to remain professional, at least for this part. "Looks like Jacob of Iron Enigma is going strong and now a confrontation between Indigo and Nolan is about to happen. Things are starting to really heat up!" He smiled at her to assure her that he was fine.

The Phoenix Wing swordsman's advance met steely faces from the group of identical women guarding the Doma Flau's main gate. Though Nolan's voice held the force of all the anger he felt for himself and the people he feared, the cold fury of Indigo burned hotter. A grimace suited Nolan's visage perfectly, and his voice seldom lacked intensity. One could never say that the Ash God Slayer was “in a bad mood”, for the phrase encapsulated the overwhelming majority of Nolan's emotion. To the spectators of the Grand Magic Games at least, his actions made him seem every inch the remorseless warrior, his good side totally unseen. By now, everyone expected him to be cold and ruthless.

Indigo, meanwhile, was another story. Even if she'd earned a reputation as a crazy-powerful, no-nonsense fighter, she'd maintained so far in her interactions with the people the sort of warmth, friendliness, grace, and poise that characterized her daily life. To see her pretty features besmirched by restrained wrath, therefore, made the bigger impression, and mattered more than what constituted typical behavior for Nolan. Indigo's voice, when it came in reply, came like a razor sliding along tender flesh. ”I'm missing something. A part of me. Until I am compensated, I will not move.” The sorceress requipped Seven Days to Die in her own hands. Clones could utilize a single book with low A-class power each, but in the hands of the original, each book became a portal to vast powers. Indigo cracked open the tome, and instantly the temperature of the area shot up twenty degrees. The air around the women began to shimmer and distort, while overhead, the sun itself seemed to swell in Nolan's perspective. Thirst and overheating would begin immediately, except for the clones, whose bodies Indigo shielded from the oppressive heat. A voice came through the heatwaves: ”Which is indomitable, your pride or the sun? Surrender your yellow lacrima to pay for the one stolen from me, before you collapse.” The earth around Nolan began to shake, ripping in places to spill water whose instant evaporation worsened the mirage drastically.



Ike's sudden transformation and attack took everyone by surprise, but the veterans among the Frenzy Plant soldiers pushed through their shock to react. While Ange squealed and span around to let her back take the hit rather than her face, Joakim hopped backward and with a twirl of his staff summoned a Deep Freeze Fake where he stood a moment ago. As it turned out, neither defensive measure -regardless of potential effectiveness- was required, as Argus stepped in to challenge the wrath-drunk Ike with his own power. The soldiers recovered, maintained the perimeter, and stood with weapons ready.

A few blisteringly quick moments later, the exchange between Ike and Argus ceased, though Jane could not immediately ascertain the damage done. However, the demon ended up only a few feet in front of her. Jane told him, “Lessen ya want yer punishment doubled, stand down now! If Isla's curse turned Ike into a monster, we'll put 'im down ourselves.” She pulled the Privateer's reload lever, filling its chambers with scatter arrows. ”Fire at will!”

Immediately, Jane, Leixia, and Chester fired their weapons, sending scatter arrows, a normal arrow, and a shotgun slug at Ike all at once. The next moment, Joakim's call of ”Winter Warhead!” and Ange's call of ”Comet Shatter!” sent exploding blasts of ice and glass at the same target. The soldiers attacked with all their strength; to them, Ike appeared to be nothing less than a demon.

@Lugubrious@Raijinslayer@Caits

Ike Tsugi

Ike growled a bit when Gabriel stepped in between him and his supposed friends and tried to calm him down. For a moment it was working too, Ike was sielnt and looked at the ground. ".... Maybe.... maybe you are right Gabr- Gahhh!!!!" Ike shouted as his leg was cut but to Argus's surprise, it wasn't cut clean off. "You tricked me? Why are you all turning your backs on me!!!" Ike said pushing away from Gabriel to focus on Argus again. " You know, I can feel your power growing kid. I can also feel my anger slowly drifting away. Yet are you hoping to get strong enough just off that? Let me give you a lesson on my magic, Its based off my mood. Green is my happiness, red would be my anger, blue my sorrow. And black.... my negativity, or you could say its what ones feels when they just care about nothing in this world. So go ahead and eat away at my anger for Isla all you want. It won't surpass my negativity's overwhelming power."

To show this he let the shockwaves hit him which sent him falling backwards, twitching a bit as he got back up and looked at Argus who did a roar of sorts. Ike gripped the ground and stood right in its trajectory, his grin growing as he let it envelop him and vanish. It was unsure if he was even hurt besides from the clear cut on his leg. "Not bad, but I shouldn't be giving you props. You are using my own power against me and even that's not enough, go on dig deep within yourself and try all means to kill me, or else you are going to have a bad time.... Face it Argus, you chose the wrong side to help." So when it felt like Argus finished his little series of attacks he took a step and started to raise his arm.

He ignored whatever Jane said and would growl when a series of arrows laid into him, before yelling when a slug went through his arm. He glared at the the culprits and started a dash towards them only for glass and ice to hit him and sent him crashing to the ground. He started slamming his hand on the ground roaring. "No no no no no!!! I have to be stronger, or else it's like I'm stuck in that fucking painting again! Helpless to even get myself out!!!" Ike stood back up on his feet and just positioned his back horizontally. "Ebony slaughter." The spiky objects on his back would then shoot out in every direction. Inside his mind he knew this was wrong, but he just couldn't stop it. He knew attacking his guild members was wrong but he also wanted his revenge which they denied him. He just had to let it out somehow. By now they would see a difference in the beast form he made, it was shorter now which was its sign of being hurt and losing its energy.

A big buzzing city laid perfectly around her as she walked down the street of Crocus. It was sure a sight to behold, the once great city where the famous Fairy tail guild had once laid and that a town that had endured so much yet stood here more glorious than ever before. The sensation was enough for Lufie for a moment feel very small in such a big wide world, yet as if were by instinct she let herself be lost in the true magnificence of this town.

However there was other things to do here than simply enjoy the view, such things as look in each store and each café and restaurant to see if anything fell to her liking. After all this was one of the big cities and had much more to offer than any smaller town with few exceptions. Taking some time and care Lufie chose a café that served their freshly baked things according to fairy tail traditiona... Whatever that really meant. No matter it did sell well and seemed popular enough to try out, and with that decided she entered the café. F

Finding a table was hard at first but soon one became clear for her to use. She took it and sat down to browse the menue while the workers cleared it out for her. Then she ordered the special menue that had a bit of everything to taste along with a coffee. Enjoying the peaceful ness while it lasted, Lufie sat back and relaxed while she could.

She was excited to get to see the grand magic games of course as well.

Carrie
@oblivion666
"I'm not apart of your guild, and I'm a council mage. I don't need to be carted around like an invalid!" Carrie said in annoyance. "I already said to find him yourself" She looked away, crossing her arms in annoyance, her struggles fading away. She didn't want to go to Masahiko, and so she wouldn't make it easy for Zephyr.

Gabriel
@liferusher@lugubrious@Raijinslayer
Gabriel threw up his hands in annoyance. People that should know better were acting like kids, and that was just plain stupid to Gabriel, and on top of it all, he barely seemed to be noticed. He had thought he was getting through to Ike, before someone attacked Ike. Couldn't they see he was merely trying to stop the fighting, before something bad happened?

He closed his eyes, drawing in a breath. Finally, Gabriel had had enough. He opened his eyes, and fury seemed to spark within them. "Fighting without the full story? Yes, we have our orders, but damn it, this is just ridiculous! WE ARE MEANT T BE REPRESENTING FRENZY PLANT! And you are all squabbling like children throwing toys at each other!"

He summoned Dragon, once more thinking he would have to give names to the spirits, and the dragon appeared, twisting in the air, letting out a roar. And then he had absolutely no idea what to do from there, but the dragon had ideas of it's own, as it twirled, letting out another roar that seemed to bring a force, and Gabriel found himself taking a step back.

Jessie
@Hatakekuro

Jessie smiled at Ferris, before continuing with her announcing, "Well, it was bound to happen! Some people like to take advantage and let others do the work, I suppose! Ah, but where is Krystal of Riders Blade? I imagine we will hear something from her soon!" She leaned back, watching the lacrima screen in front of them for a moment, glancing to Ferris, and smiling again.

Penny and Sasha
@Silver Fox@CirusArvennicus
"Hey!" Penny growled, reaching to snatch Karn's hands away from her chest, thanking every higher power out there that there was no way Damian could have seen that. "Not fair? I'm sorry nature screwed you over, in both worlds, but you don't go grabbing peoples breasts!" Perhaps the only reason why Penny didn't beat the crap out of Edo-karn was because it was still Karn. "There's damn vision lacrimas all over the place! Jeez, I hope it didn't go on screen! What if Damian saw that?" her eyes widened at that thought, and she looked about, as if expecting to see the scene on one of the screens, but was spared that.

As her sister seemed to become panicked for a moment, Sasha decided to take over. And there was one question she wanted answered, "Who did this to you both?" It seemed like an important question that needed answering, so they could find out how to prevent Karn from being pushed out of existence. She didn't expect Edo-Karn to react well to her, but right then, Sasha didn't care.

@Caits

"At the moment. I can't say I really care. It's distracting. Plus, apparently, 'I' practically stripped some girl in the middle of the arena, in front of everyone, yesterday. On accident though. Still, quite the feat. But if your worried about your boyfriend, just let him grope them bare." Karn said in a blunt manner, eyes flickering over to the laughing Pen, snickering black haired Lazarus and smirking Edo Maddox. Watching as Pen went up behind his double and promptly started what looked like groping her from behind. Of course since the hallucination was just in her head, nothing was actually there touching the red haired woman.

"You know what we need? We should totally bone all these beautiful women around us! I mean look at them! We are literally surrounded by them." The idiotic black haired man chirped up.

Karn rolled her eyes a bit. "Oh yes, I'm sure they would just love to do that. Sure. Sure. They probably haven't done it once, they would totally be down having a fivesome." she thought sarcastically before rubbing her temples to calm her frustration to the hallucinations within her apparently damaged brain. "So yeah... Shut up." she thought irritably.

"Awe don't be like that. Think about it. You could get drunk, have a good time, forget your worries and have a little fun." the Viper spoke with smug grin.

"Why are you even saying such ridiculous dumbass things? These are dumbest ideas." she thought as she pressed her sharp nails.... claws? Against her temples. Huh... this world her fingernails were like claws of a animal. Weird.

"Mhmm maybe it's because your hurting, your just trying to logically numb the pain from the truth by not thinking at all? Or maybe, it's because one of your favorable plans didn't go your way and you ended up like this! A eternal torment instead of death. And you thought the death route was the least favorable! Too bad! Too bad you didn't live and I took away your precious..." The black haired Lazarus spoke as he stepped up beside Sasha, casually wrapping a incorporeal arm around her.

Karn twitched and glared with a low growl she was unfamiliar with. "Shut up!!" she snapped out loudly at the hallucination but blinked when she realized she said it out loud. Taking a deep breath, she rubbed her temples to keep herself calm and collected. No breaking down. It was not allowed. She was not allowed to completely lose it. Not yet anyway.

"Sorry. That wasn't directed at you." Karn said toward Sasha, looking at her for a moment before glancing away to look toward the sky. Letting the rain hit against her face. Not exactly ready to look at her properly.

"Someone. I don't know who. They wore a mask and just carried me around everywhere after stealing me and shoved information into my subconscious. And freakishly huge Neko man who spoke to me when I woke up." she answered.

Oh, well. That certainly worked. And... hey, it was raining. She didn't really mind rain, herself, so she didn't really let it bother her before, but now that she gave it a moment's thought, something was strange here, wasn't it. And it seemed like Karn had been getting ready to walk right out into that. Penny seemed to have caught on first, and began their confrontation.

And off they were to a FANTASTIC start. "Is this how you greet people!?" She turned to look at the guild member Karn had been talking to. "Did he do this to you, too?" When she turned back to Karn, his eyes were shifting about and he started rubbing his temples, before finally giving a rather strange outburst. It was concerning, but who knows what kinds of side effects there would be. Having two souls in one body.

Anyway. "Neko?" Trinity frowned, cradling her jaw in her hand as she thought for a moment. "The only person I know like that... they didn't mention any names?" She gave him a moment to remember, glancing worriedly at Penny and Sasha.

Jacob switched into another bird form as he exited the old building, and he took off high into the air before diving towards the final spot marked on his map. He hoped that the last lacrima that he needed was here, or else he was going to have to pillage it from someone else who had already gotten it. When he got there, lo and behold, there was a lacrima, but it was another rainbow lacrima. He scoffed, and left it behind, figuring that’d make it a lot harder for one of the other contestants to find it. From here he had no idea what he should do, but it had to be something. Cursing his luck for not being able to et all eight differeent lacrima he needed, he began to walk around the city, asking everyone he saw if they had seen any nearby lacrima. None of them gave an answer he was looking for, and he sighed as he took to the air one last time. He would land a couple blocks from the arena, and begin asking around again.

Fortunately, his luck turned out better this time, and someone had happened to have seen one of the indigo lacrima that were hidden around the city. Moving quickly, he found it was, in fact, for sale in a store. It took him a good two minutes of haggling, and a few thousand jewels, to secure it, and as he left he made a silent vow to force his guild master to pay him back for money lost in this event. From the store, Jacob walked back towards the arena, almost out of magic power at this point. He made a note to himself that after the games were over he needed to practice being able to transform more times at once. That was the same problem he had faced against Merlina a few days prior.

Jacob stopped as he saw Nolan and Indigo squaring off, and he slipped back a bit, hoping that they were more interested in each other to immediately notice him. He walked around the arena with a curtain of buildings between him and it for a couple blocks, before changing into a sparrow and flying up and trying to get over the wall of the Arena into the main floor, so that he would’ve officially completed the event.

Ike his defence against the circle surrounding him was bursting a pillar of darkness up into the sky. It however vanished quickly and put Ike to a quick hold up by the immense use of power it seemed to have used. Isla was a bit shocked by seeing how strong he actually was or at least to her knowledge, had become. A set of goosebumps passed by her whole body as she looked at the battle from a nearby three. Her hiding spot was still rather close to the fight but it already took a lot of energy to get here in the first place. Ike only got more mad at his guild members when they tried to stop him from murdering Isla.

The madness went so far that Ike his second form broke out and changed him into a demon like creature. A second of thought went by thinking on how she would be ripped into tiny bits if she was somewhere close right now. It seemed that the Frenzy Plant members had kind of sided with Argus for the moment to beat Ike. Isla would only make profit from it if she helped out defeating him. It seemed like she had just the right idea to make him shiver in fear or make him even angrier. She still grinned and mixed her paints. While the fight was continuing. Isla started painting violently and overheard something Jane had said. A frown was lifted upon Isla her face as she looked at them from behind the tree "Curse? Keep giving me the blame." She shook her head disappointingly and continued on painting. Despites Ike having been in the painting for such a long time and having resisted the will to give up he had already drained most of Isla her magic power in only the one day he had been in there.

It already took such a toll on the girl by her lack of stamina but when she would use her last big of magic power she would be done for. She did not care however. If it would put Ike down she at least didn't have to be worried about being killed. She would likely still get captured but that wasn't of importance now. Isla released a happy smile from her face as the creature sprung to life "Go, get Ike down if you can!" She cheerfully smiled at the creature and it happily went off to fullfill it's mission. Isla dropped against the trunk of the tree and began panting lightly "That's enough magic for today." She closed her eyes for a moment but had already gave herself in to the will of sleeping.

An average sized animated rabit passed by the Frenzy Plant members and hoped along next to Argus. The small black creature looked up at argus and stood on both it's back legs. It sniffed his leg a little but hoped happily along towards a few other people. The black rabbit had a golden crown on it's head but wasn't any stronger then the rabbit that had been holding Ike in his painting for such a long time. In fact it was a lot weaker then before. But with the help of the Frenzy Plant members and Argus it would most likely all work out. Once it had reached Ike the rabbit sneezed just once. Only a few second later it started acting weirdly and would keep growing with the pace of heart beating. Muscle grown and blood lines all over its body. Red eyes started sparkling as it let out a loud growl. The creature immediatly took a big swing at Ike and aimed for Ike's head.

Standing back, Owen watched the fight, his breath steady as he ran a quick self-examination to see if his interception of Argus' attack lastingly damaged his muscles. In a normal fight, nobody would have time or focus to spare in order to check for wounds, but when cooperating with fellow Frenzy Plant soldiers, someone like Owen could duck out for a moment to make sure he'd be fine, trusting his comrades to cover for him. After finding no damage beyond soreness and a caustic tingling left over from exposure to the demon's potent Crimson God Slayer magic, Owen rejoined the perimeter circle, but withheld his blade for now. When Gabriel decided to talk rather than contribute, Owen called to him. ”Yeah, callin' names will solve this mess right quick! You mighta not heard, but we know the story plenty well. D'you even see what we're dealin' with? If we tried talkin' it out, we'd all be paste by now! This is serious, kid, not whatever squabbles you're used to.”

Behind this declaration came an immediate proof: the roar of the Dragon, even if the soundwave pushed the very air, went totally ignored by everyone present. All focus lay on Argus and Ike, and with greater or lesser degrees of experience the Frenzy Plant soldiers blocked out the useless noise. The next moment, Ike crashed into the ground, and as he beat it in rage his worried guildmates set their collective sights on him. Owen yelled in response to his cries, attempting to reach him, “Ain't nobody stronger alone than with pals! Frenzy Plant is yer strength! We're with ya, but ya gotta calm down!” He watched as the spikes coating Ike's back burst outward, and the circle of soldiers around the combatants grew much larger as each retreated a few steps to avoid excessive acupuncture. Joakim, however, opted to rely on his Deep Freeze Fake as a defense instead, not imagining that a spine would slide right through it and tear a gash through his clothes and hip alike. He fell over backward, his staff unable to support his weight, and gasped in pain. He reached down to freeze the wound and stop it from bleeding. Simultaneously, a spike missed Leixia's head by only a few centimeters, taking off some hair, a bit of her hood, and her left earlobe instead. Blood spattered across her shoulder and cheek, but at the moment her adrenaline rush prevented her from feeling it. Owen, however, noticed that Ike seemed to be faltering, but a spike required him to use his shield to block rather than his mind to capitalize on the situation.

At that moment, Isla's rabbit appeared next to Ike and began to swell, like an insect bursting its pod. Sinew bulged all over its body as it rocketed upward in size, ready to swat Ike down as his traumatic memories of it tortured him. Without Isla to control it, however, the rabbit was nothing more than a dumb beast, and failed to notice the quarter-sized magic circle appearing behind its shoulder. Out of nowhere, a steel rapier blade extended from the circle, pierced the monster's grotesquely muscular arm, and exited out the other side to puncture its torso and ribcage as well. All eyes fell on Owen, who held his rapier up like a conductor's baton. With deadly precision he whipped the blade back and forth, creating a field of magic circles surrounding the monster as it stood transfixed by the initial blade. Each arcane sigil appeared in a silvery blink, letting out a small chiming noise, and in only a few seconds they swarmed around the killer rabbit like wasps. ”Stand back, folks...Million Stab!” He thrust forward with the rapier, and a matching blade thrust from each magic circle at the same time. All at once, the rabbit's body became a grisly and very dead mass of black and red paint, like a piece of meat jammed with a whole box of toothpicks. Feeling triumphant and dangerous, Owen called, ”Last chance for you two to get yer crap together! Fightin' any more will only make it worse for ya!” As much as Owen hated the idea of sending both rebellious members to the witch doctor, he would give the order in three seconds if neither Ike nor Argus stood down.

Penny shivered at Karn's look, as if he...she was looking at someone else, and Penny glanced about, as if there was someone behind her. She looked back when there was nothing, and the outburst proved that, but Penny didn't say anything, as that would probably serve to make things worse.

Sasha watched Karn, shifting a bit awkwardly. It wasn't the first time she had thought there was something between Edo-Karn and her edolas self. Edo-Karn didn't seem to wish to look at her, and Sasha could understand why. She had slapped her in perhaps the last time Sasha had seen her. She was not going to apologise for that. If it made her a bitch, so be it. But that didn't mean she didn't have a heart.

She couldn't image waking up in a strange place, in a strange body, with strange people. "Where? In Karn's room, or somewhere else?" She asked softly
@Silver Fox[@CirusArvenicus]

@Caits@CirusArvennicus

Karn glanced toward Trinity at her outburst, emerald eyes still expressionless but were slightly trembling. Perhaps because of the side effects, perhaps because control was getting more difficult. "Not usually." she answered, lips pressing together and twisting into a mild frown before eyes narrowing in a glare. "I'm a girl!" she growled before stopping and the glare softening as she glanced away.

"Well... Physically was. Wonder if that makes me a transsexual now?" she said, trying to play the mood off as a joke but it didn't really make her feel any better either.

"No names. Yes Neko. It usually means cat but it can also depict creatures that look exactly like a human but have animal ears and tails like a animal. Red hair, eye patch." she answered.

Although she heard Sasha, Karn didn't bother looking toward the dark haired woman. "I assume so since I was in the hotel this morning and you all apparently say that I was there last night." she answered, listening to the voices within her mind but trying her best to ignore them.

"Is there really a point answering these questions? Not like they give a real shit or can actually do anything to help. After all.... you're the villain here. Unlike back home where you helped them, they won't raise a hand for you. In fact, this little look alike called your whole family cowards! Even when they sacrificed everything for her! Including you! And it's so true! All you and your Guild are, is cowards. You don't have the guts to do what really needs to be done like they do.... Kill. Cause in the end... that's the only solution to a problem. Murder, killing..... Isn't that hysterical? They won't let you go home, they won't help you see your family again, they will keep you allllll alone and let you die. Let you get wiped from existence~ Hahaha! It's quite a joy really! You! You should just do the same. Not care anymore! You could of by now! But because of your precious morals, your precious stupid weak guild, your dear 'family' so you call, the teachings of your pathetic disguised leader Jamie... You can't. And in the end you won't. And you know who's fault it is? These Earthlanders! If they had never came to Edolas, if you and your Guild hadn't had to change plans and attack head on instead of waiting for those machines of yours to finish... then you wouldn't have to go to war! And you wouldn't have died! Seems your pathetic good will, your kindness, gets you something worse then death! So in the end..... I was right. I was always right. Even Maddox.. was always right. You and your pathetic guild, only won because of your stupid persistence, your pathetic tactics, and your magical hoity toity secret weapons. But in the end, it got you nothing but pain. So maybe... finally.... you'll resort to the true nature of the world. It's kill, or be killed." Pen smirked in amusement.

Karn twitched but shook her head to rattle her brain a little. If she hadn't finished the frozen treat, she'd totally give herself a brain freeze right now. "Anything else? Or can you just leave me alone?" she asked.

"If you're a girl, then you should understand why we're upset!" She sighs softly, chiding herself inwardly. She shouldn't lash out like that. "Sorry. You must miss your body."

So, Karn actually as a woman, instead of just looking and acting like one? Only, this personality was strange. Well... that made a certain kind of sense, she supposed. It was the Edo-Karn's soul that was in Karn's body right now. Hey, now that she thought about it, she had a little experience with soul binding, didn't she? Well, Fleo did. Since Jarvis was nowhere to be- wait a minute. Duh. She'd have to try the communication lacrima.

Later. She looks Karn over thoughtfully, silent for just a moment before she speaks. "I suppose you want to go home?"

@Caits

Zephyr Hardt

"I never said you were, are you being that stubborn to only listen to parts you wish too? I said myself being a part of a guild just couldn't let you work yourself to death. I could never forgive myself nor face my guild again. And apparently you do, because you are too stubborn too see when your own body is telling you to stop. Geesh you call me a man child and you are pretty much a woman child!" He stated and just sighed when she was dead set on being stubborn. "Fine I will, I'm sure I will run into him eventually. Hell if I gotta I will just go back to the arena and cause a hugeeee scene. I have no fear of people laughing at me, don't know if you don't have that fear." Zephyr said and despite how silly he was, he most certainly would do it as well. Like he told Zev before, he has literally zero fears residing in his body and mind. He quite literally fears nothing.

@rivaan
Angela Arthur James Jessica
Arthur took a seat hastily all the while glaring towards the seemingly calm James.
After a while Angela spoke up as she dangled off the edge of her seat.
"So what's going on? Who's winning?" Angela asked playfully while she chucked a couple of pieces of popcorn in her mouth.
James smiled briefly towards Angela. How would he explain this?
"I believe Phoenix Wing are still in front. Not too sure. They seem to be playing some sort of scavenger hunt." James replied shortly and bluntly. He slowly crept a little closer to Jessica before she jabbed him in the ribs with her elbow.

@CirusArvennicus@Caits

"That would be one reason why I did it." Karn answered calmly to Trinity's outburst. Eyes narrowing a little at the apology and statement. "Waking up with extra baggage between the legs is a bit of a surprise. Walking and natural movement is a bit different." she answered bluntly. She now had a better understanding why men didn't normally wish to do the splits. Of course she could imagine but it was a little different when one could actually experience it. This body seemed more flexible compared to other males. She could only imagine if she had been stuck in a bulkier build like Damian or Jarvis. Ugh.

At the question with a obvious answer, Karn's emerald gaze narrowed. "I'm sure just as much as the Earthlanders did when they came to visit. Difference is, there's a bit more consequences for that thanks to this circumstance and some other factors." she answered, a slight bitterness. She really did just want to go home. Back to her friends and family. Do the things she wanted to do after the war was done. Yet the problem with Karn... She always thought through things... And with this information she had and the many possible outcomes.. Well. None were happy for her.

Not wanting to exactly turn the discussion toward this direction, unsure if her sanity could take it, nor her more human emotions, she turned away and started walking. "Now if we're done. Just leave me alone. Go find the damn cat if you want to know more. If your worried about your Karn.... He's fine for now." she said.

Nidhogg watched the events of the games with a padding interest from the Phoenix wing stands, having found it to be the best place so far to watch the games. He wasn't quite sure if such an action was necessarily illegal or not, but he really didn't care either way. If it was and he was caught, he'd deal with that problem when it cane time, but right now, he was eager to see the Frenzy Plant woman wipe the floor with the God Slayer, who would probably put up a good show at the very least.

Another reason for him to be in the area was the woman sitting in front of him, who carried the upon her the faint musk of undeath that was impossible to miss, for the souls of all undead is drenched in sin. For such a creature to be a member of a light guild, and for that guild to be Phoenix Wing, made her a very interesting subject. I wonder what her story is. . . how fun would it be to pull them from her, but that would draw much undue attention that I can't be bothered with right now. A pity, humans are oh so fragile most of the time, and to have an undead to torture would be quite the experience.

A sigh escaped his lips as he mourned the missed opportunity, but he didn't let that stop him from reaching over to tap on her shoulder, his public persona slipping over him with a kind smile and friendly, if mischievous, eyes as he decided to converse with her. One did not meet many undead, so best to make the most of the chance encounter.

"Who do you think is going to win the fight, that Nolan guy or the Frenzy Plant woman? My money's on the woman, she looks like she's in no mood to play around, plus she's an S-class. A scary strong one too, if her magic is anything to go by."

@Shikaru



Argus clenched his teeth to keep himself from telling Jane to stop yelling at him like he was the fucking instigator in all this. All he was doing was keeping the psycho from skewering Isla, and then trying to help the rest of them bring him down. Still, no matter how he felt, he knew that the best thing he could do right now was to shut up and keep out of it as best as he could. He was already in who knows how much trouble for being involved in all this, and he didn't need to add not following orders to the list of offenses he was going to hearing about later.

However, he soon found himself forced to hit the deck as Ike sent out a barrage of spikes at those near by, cursing under his breath as he turned towards where the psycho was, the combined temptation of his own anger and what he had absorbed from Ike making it hard to resist launching himself at the idiot. While he was trying not to show it, what Ike had said about Argus borrowing his power had gotten under his skin, and he was eager to show him what he could do with just his own power. However, before he could lose control of himself again, he was faced with a strange black rabbit that seemed to come from nowhere, looking at him for a second before hopping off towards Ike. Argus followed the creature with a confused look, but his attention was drawn from the creature over to a somewhat familiar face that he couldn't quite place.

The boy was yelling at the others, whining like the child he claimed them to be as he summoned a dragon to vent his frustrations. Listening to his words, Argus shook his head, rising himself off the ground and taking a breath to clear his head. While the affair wasn't at all the childish affair the naive mage seemed to think it was, what he had been about to do would definitely not be the best for the situation. He wanted to call out the boy on the realities of the situation at hand, but now wasn't the time, and honestly, he didn't really think it would accomplish much in the long run.

Turning his attention back to Ike, he raised his eyes at the sight of what must have been the rabbit from before, wondering who had so thoroughly eviscerated it, before turning his eyes to Ike. He could somewhat empathize with him, now that he had time to calmly think of why he was rampaging as he was. The fact that he was willing to attack his own allies and friends with not even the slightest bit of hesitance was very telling of the depths of rage and dark emotion he now found himself in.

With nothing else to do, Argus backed away and let the others handle it, summoning Mehrune's Chain just in case Ike launched a final offensive in his direction.

@Lugubrious

@Oblivion666

@liferusher

Carrie
@oblivion666
"the difference is I don't have a guild master who will come down at me for embarrassing a council wizard, do I? I can stand against Masahiko. Can you stand against your guild master?" Carrie asked with a slight smirk, sure that would prevent f Zephyr from going to the Arena and essentially make him merely carry her anywhere but. And she could probably get enough strength back to escape. If her head would stop spinning.

Sasha and Penny
@silver fox[@CircusAvennicus]
"you mean Prince from Dragon Fang? He's an odd duck" he was the only cat creature that seemed to fit the bill, here in Crocus at the moment at least. "we might have to find Master Jamie"

Sasha frowned. "you've a right to be bad tampered, but you were so in Edolas too" well, to her at least. And Sasha could probably take some of the blame for that, but then being thrown into a strange world, in a world that just seemed to wish to lay down and die, had ticked her off. Perhaps she hadn't been able to see the bonds between the counter part guild because she was looking for the same bonds as here, in the same way but of course they'd be different. "but, and I'm more then sure I've said this before in a different way to you, that doesn't mean you get to push us away. A guild sticks together, you still wear our mark, and that's enough to make us work hard to help. We sacrificed a lot to find Wes, to help your world, and we did it because we are Phoenix wing."

Surely there was some way of finding answers, of making things right for both Karns, of bringing happiness. And if not, then they would simply make it so. The guild tended not to take no for an answer, after all.

"so tough Luck, you aren't getting rid of us that easily"

Gabriel

Gabriel just sighed and pressed his hands against his eyes, amazed at the behavior here. What if it was all merely a misunderstanding? He was tired of fighting. All be bad wanted to do was comeback to the camp, and help question the mystic beasts. Well, he'd stop them killing each other and that would be all. He whistled, and Dog came to his side as he narrowed his eyes, watching.

He knew he wasn't a match for any of the other wizards. But that didn't mean anything. Anyone could stop a murder happened, if they really wished to. What he wanted to figure out is what exactly happened. Ike was apart of the guild, and he would defend him, but he wouldn't stand by and let Argus and isla be beaten to the ground. Stop them at all cost, bring them in. Orders he should follow, but they were orders he couldn't make himself follow. He would perhaps help bring them in, but he wouldn't let them be taken in with undue force.

He didn't trust his guild mates to stop when they were down. They seemed too fired up now, and all of this just seemed uneccessary. If they had left well enough alone, Gabriel knew he had been making headway with Ike, but they hadn't and now things were just worse. If he could just get Ike to calm down, maybe things wouldn't be bad.

He nodded to Dog, sending the spirit to essentially hound Argusand keep the Mage in line, watching Ike. "Don't do this Ike, please, revenge gets you no where, and if you continue, you'll be harming the guild" the words were out of Gabriel's mouth before he even thought to say anything, and he was surprised at the depth of emotion in then, at the wave of it that crashed through him.

He wouldn't let harm come to any of his guild mates.

@CirusArvennicus@Caits

Karn stopped and turned her head to glare toward Sasha. "You were also the one to basically say my Guild was different, and I distinctly remember several reasons why I was bad tempered when it came to the possible safety of my family. Namely Ben and Sammy. Back then, you didn't even bother to understand why we did things. You thought we weren't trying. You thought we weren't willing to sacrifice. You made your own assumptions. But in reality, you never had a right nor the knowledge, nor the thing that made us a family. The pain, the happiness... That's why I was bad tempered. Because my family was in danger, insulted, the people who sacrificed just as much to help you, just because you didn't see what they have done. Also the life time of war kind of makes you cranky. I know what happened to me, to Jamie, to Sasha.... they all suffered. And they all tried their best, even if you don't see it. Don't pretend you wouldn't or feel the same way if I said the same thing to you back when you were in Edolas. You can make as much excuses as you want. But your guild is NOT mine. We may have the same face, we may have the same mark, we may even have the same name, but that does not make us the same. Your guild does not have the same memories, the same people, the things that had us bonded. Nor do you have the same ideals that was apparent by your Guild's actions." she said coldly before fully turning toward her and moved closer, speaking softly so it was harder to hear.

She knew she shouldn't lose her cool like this, despite how calm she did sounded, she could feel just... inner turmoil. Perhaps because she knew she was truly alone. Despite what this Sasha said... Sasha wasn't alone. She couldn't understand. She even had the love of her life beside her. Despite how much he was a idiot. Karn had no one. In a sense, she was happy. She was happy her friends and family were home. Not trapped in unfamiliar territory. Yet a part of her wanted to be selfish. Wanted someone.... anyone of them... with her. She wanted Jamie... and Jarvis... to tell her it would be okay. Even if it was a lie. She wanted Trinity to cheer her up when she was feeling down... she wanted Mayat to talk some sense into her.... she wanted to Ben to ask her questions... she wanted Sammy to put flowers in her hair... she wanted Sasha...

They weren't here though. Just ghosts.

"Your Karn, he needs my soul. He never really died because of his sickness. He just kept dying because he died years ago, and he would just keep dying. The one who is helping him, just never gave him the medication because dying of sickness was better then dying by burning alive, shot through the head, skewered through the heart, or worse. His soul is weak, he has no will to live. While mine, I do. I want to keep living for my family. If my soul leaves his body, so will all that determination to live, and he will die. My soul is supposed to work well with his because I'm his counterpart and the most like him. The process isn't fully completed but it's a type of forbidden magic. But in a sense. One of our souls will eventually devour the other. Your Karn didn't put up a fight, but I have enough control not to completely devour it. Karn will be fully cured if his soul devours mine. I will be erased from existence, basically used as a sacrifice to replace his death and resurrect him. Or make it like he never did die. At least, that's what I think most of the magic pixie dust I heard was. In return, it will be like I never existed, no one will remember me. If I take over, he's wiped out. Though it will be more like I take over his life, so in the end, I still won't exist. But I'll live." she explained, eyes narrowing slightly.

"There are three choices. Your Karn devours my soul, I devour his soul, or we try and coexist and live with the side effects for however long we can. And, it's always possible someone of this world will try to take advantage of my soul being made into a conduit. After all, if there is a chance to bring someone back, someone probably wouldn't mind sacrificing a life they would later forget. Even if it's less likely to work compared to this set up neatly constructed. As for returning home, your Guild Master will say that it's best not to reopen the world to Edolas. That last little adventure about ripped the two world's apart. No matter what, Jamie won't risk their family and the entire world. Just like I won't risk mine, even if I want to go back. And even if I could get home, I'd be condemning your Karn to the same situation I'm in." Karn said, voice calm but arms were tightly crossed in front of her chest.

"So, tell me Sasha. If you really want to help. Tell me how you can? What is the answer?" she asked directly. Seeming to be actually be waiting for a legit answer. Or any answer.