@The One @DragonKingUk @Maria 127

'I suppose we have no choice then...' He nodded at Isabella, "We will go with your plan then." As he spoke Cinder rose up from the pile of ashes he had left earlier. He rustled his wings restlessly pushing off the ash from his delicate wings. Leval's two butterflies flew in slow arcs around each other making sure that each was okay. He followed Isabella to the new location, Rika in tow. Isabella gave them directions to the other students and moved into the room. Leval nodded his head at her wishing her luck. Before he left to travel his own path, he handed one of the pieces of rubber soles he had used to remove the shock collar. "The masked man made a shock collar appear around Isabella's neck earlier this will help provide some, however small, protection. I am also going to send Cinder with you, he can speed the healing process and some of the others may be injured. It's probably better to use him rather than your own light magic."

Leval turned and followed the Kitsune's instructions going towards Yoshihiro and Zephroth. He arrived just in time to see Yoshihiro fire the Luna Beam at the rather ugly creature. He quickly turned the beam invisible making it harder to dodge. He threw out several more threads of magic, one making an illusory globe of darkness around the creatures head hopefully preventing t from seeing and filled the room with the sounds of Zephroth's roars and growls to try and disorient it further.

@DragonKingUk@The One@EurmalEye

*Argentina Rhosphrus*

Zephroth watched Yoshihiro carefully as he began to attack the beast. Zephroth's clones had already sustaned a considerable able amount of damage and there are only so many he can summon in a day. He watched as Yoshihiro frose the floor just as he and the rest of the clones jumped out of the way of his beam attack. When he landed he had his claws out in order to stay standing on the ice all the while he created earth spikes in his direction.

Argentina was a little groggy but she could move so she did, she proped herself up to a sitting position and took a look at her new surroundings, needless to say she was a little pissed off. She was in a cell and it seemed as though there wasnt much she could do so she sat there and considered her options.

@EurmalEye @DragonKingUk @Maria 127

As Yoshihiro attacked Leval appeared and made him unable to see as well as make the attack invisible. Then disoriented him using growls and roars. With all this, the attack cut him in half, making him roar loudly before falling to the ground dead. At that point, a spirit flew over towards Leval, Yoshihiro and Zepthroth.

"Well done, I am a spirit send by Isabella. Yoshihiro, Zephroth go left from here then turn left again and go straight until you reach Kai and Senina. Leval, you go straight on and then turn right, keep going until you meet Kuro and Yoruichi."

With that the spirit disappeared. Meanwhile, Isabella watched as Kong was quickly taken down, she motioned for Cinder to go heal him then she stepped forward past Kong to protect her. She grew her nails back to extend all the way over her body to make tough armour. Then she extended them forward to grow claws. She gave herself the spirit of a wendigo, allowing her to move even faster then ran off towards the ape. She jumped over him and turned around, slashing his back, the Ape's eye's opened wide but before he could do anything she shot a large spirit energy blast at his back, sending him flying him forward. He fell to the floor in which she ran and grabbed his staff off him, she threw it to the side and then shot another energy blast as he was getting him up, killing him. She sighed and looked to Kong. For now she would wait for Cinder to heal him.

Kuro

Yoruichi ran in front of Kuro, she stood firm as the wizard shot an energy blast. Yoruichi stood in front of it and used her psychic powers to hold the blast still, she wouldn't be able to hold it for long. Kuro stood up slowly, he used this time to attack. He closed his eyes and send a huge energy wave at the magician but as he did it teleported away, then shot a quick fire spell at Kuro, it hit his back and he was sent forward. Kuro got himself up and sighed. Yoruichi ran forward towards Kuro and then looked to the magician.

"Kuro, are you aright?"

Kuro sighed softly and stood himself up. This fight was difficult, he wasn't sure how he was going to win.

"Yeah, but we can't beat this thing on our own. It's too fast and you can't do enough damage."

He stood up slowly and stood back. He had to keep trying. He couldn't give up now.

Red and Rika

Red watched as Keith fought, she stood up and quickly created a scythe from paper. The wendigo flew off into the sky however, it's tail dug into a tree, using that, it span around and went even faster. It roared loudly, deafening Keith a little then attempted to land on him with it's claw stabbing his neck. It would then bind him with it's tails to make sure he could not move. Red went to slash him with her scythe however as it hit the paper scattered, and it did nothing. It was still not hard enough.

@Fenfeir@EurmalEye@Maria 127@DragonKingUk

Kai watched as the monster jumped out of the earth once more it screamed while lunching a barrage of ice spikes at both Kai and Senina. Kai flew at the monster seeing an opatunity his drones shot down the ice spike while he flew into the monsters mouth. Kai fle though the monsters body slicing it up from the inside using crystal shards. Kai soon dug his way though and cam out of the other end notacine he was now under groun he dug his way out useing what was left of his shards and flew into the sky once more.

@PharaohAtem As Kai sliced the monster up, it seemed to work for a moment, as the monster came out from the earth, slithering in pain until it died. However, another popped up and roared, then went back into the ground, then two popped up, then three and four. It seemed it was duplicating itself more and more.

@Fenfeir

Rika nodded and went on ahead to Red and Keith, once there he saw the Wendigo. He looked to Red, then over to Keith before finally to the Wendigo. He created a large fireball in each hand before placing them together and making a huge flamethrower at the Wendigo as it was coming down at Keith. It screamed loudly and was knocked back. He then looked back to them with a smile.

"Hey, it's me Rika. I'm here to help you get out of here."

He then turned towards the Wendigo and sent a barrage of attacking, ice, fire, wind, earth, lightning, he sent everything at it, constantly firing at it.

Kai sighed when he saw this monster could duplicate itself as well he was hoping to new but instead its just the same old tricks. Kai crated a dozens of crystal drones all targeting the ground ready to shout down the clones as soon as they show themselves.

@DragonKingUk @Maria 127 @The One

Leval breathed a sigh of relief as the creature collapsed. The less time spent finishing up the battles the better. He watched the spirit from Isabella appear and update him with new directions. He nodded his head at it in understanding, then turned to face the werewolf and the saber tooth. "You can trust the spirit, she's with me. Sorry to help and dash, but we have to move fast." Leval was about to sprint towards the next pair in need of his help when he hesitated in front Zephroth. "The masked man took Argentina too didn't he? That's why she isn't with you. Don't worry we are going to get them all back and out of this damn maze." He gave Zephroth a comforting pet across the head and then ran out in the direction the spirit had told him.

Leval made sure they rubber sole was still secured around his neck and concealed under an illusion. 'Just in case. I won't be taken by surprise there.' He moved forward using his staff now to propel himself forward, wasting no further time. He burst into the clearing, landing in a crouch, left hand on the floor to steady himself. He looked over at Kuro and Yoruichi smiling, "Got your call, sorry I am late took me a bit to find the place." He looked over at the enemy they were fighting and, face now serious, whispered to Kuro, "Get ready to attack." Through his staff, he threw two threads to the side of the room. Two giant, boney demonic hands, modeled after Rika's, came from either wall clear with the intention to smash the enemy between them. Leval teleported to the opposit wall ready to attack if the enemy fell for the feint and teleport towards his location. He also hoped that Kuro was prepared as well in case he teleported forward rather than back.

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Cinder hovered the unconscious Kong, following Isabella's orders as per Leval's request. However, the injuries were rather extensive and the healing process would be slow without additional aid. The Pheonix butterfly began to feed off of Kong's own fiery energy, using it to fuel the healing process, accelerating it rapidly. The only noticeable effect was that Cinder's wings temporarily flared with fiery magic as it rested upon Kong's chest. Cinder stopped feeding when it felt Kong begin to stir to conscious again.

@EurmalEye Kuro nodded to Leval and Yoruichi smiled, happy to see him. When he quickly acted, Kuro got in position, charging up another powerful spell. The wizard screamed, seeing Kuro starting to charge, it teleported towards him, and as predicted, behind him, just as it did Kuro span around and fired, sending it flying, then Yoruichi shot a moderately powerful magic blast from behind it, crushing it in between two spells. The wizzard screamed and teleported towards Leval to try and attack him, now weakened considerably.

@EurmalEye When Cinder had finished, Isabella smiled brightly. She decided it was best to go to Kai and Senina. She was just about to go when she stopped for a moment, she turned towards Kong and spoke to him quickly.

"Kong, go north from here, then take a left turn, got north again then a left and a right then north again. This will take you to the exit of the maze. Once outside, head still to Arken and the academy, tell him what's happened here. Cinder, go find Leval and return to him. Once there, heal Kuro, he'll need it."

She nodded and then transformed into her fox form. With that, she ran quickly towards the Kai and Senina. Once there she stopped for a moment and smiled. She looked to Yoshihiro who would be there by now and then to Kai and Senina.

"The thing you're fighting, it's underground right? It also multiplies, has got ice and energy manipulation. Yes, I know this creature well. I fought against it a long time ago. Follow my lead."

With that she got herself ready to fight, waiting for the creature to pop up again, well, creatures at this point.

@The One

Leval smiled, pleased that Kuro had managed to hold his own against the wizard. He tightened his grip on his staff still prepared to finish him off if needed. So when the wizard appeared in front of him attempting to strike him, Leval teleported forward only slight to close the distance and attempted to stab the sharpened point of his staff through the thoroughly weakened wizard's body. Leval had learned something through these continuous battles. By himself his power was limited, there was only so much he could do. But with allies at his side, fighting together, their power did not add together, it multiplied. He put that realization, his old frustrations at his own weakness, and even his guilt over what had happened to Shela into the strike launched at the wizard.

Irvine glanced over the three cells again to see Argentina getting up from unconscious state. The collar had sat rather snug around the thin layer of shadow that had pressed against his skin as he was turned to Shela with a final warning. "Unnecessary..." Irvine referred to the collar in objection. "But trusting." Irvine looked over to Argentina with a puzzled expression. He tried to mouth the word 'help'. He'd managed to stall the situation twice already with his own abilities to deceive, convincing enough so to still be trusted to get the job done. However now the focus was too heavy and he couldn't attempt to act out in an 'irrational' manner again and still be able to act freely outside of a cage of his own. As Irvine is pushed by the masked man he begins to make his way over to the cages, he timed his pace to be as slow as he could without making it obvious. "You never did say why you couldn't do this yourself? Why would you imprison and feed someone you want dead? Seems backwards." Irvine asked, remembering one of his first questions which this masked man appears to have deliberately avoided. Well there was that and the glaring obvious that Irvine couldn't reach a simple conclusion on his own. @The One@Maria 127

@EurmalEye The wizard screamed loudly, then fell to the ground and died. Once it had another spirit of Isabella's appeared. It spoke to them quickly so they could all get a move on.

"I am a spirit of Isabella. She has gone over to aid Kai and Senina. Rika is handling the Wendigo who's fighting Red and Keith. So return to Arken immediately and inform everything that you know that has happened here. The exit from here is towards the right, the north from there, take a left turn then north again. That will take you out. Don't worry about showing Isabella the way, I shall follow you there and then return to her to let her know where the Academy is so she can meet you there."

With that, the spirit waited. Yoruichi stared at it for a moment before looking over to Leval. She wasn't sure who Isabella was and honestly wasn't sure if this spirit or her could be trusted.

"Do you know this Isabella? Can this spirit or this Isabella be trusted?"

Kuro stepped up slowly and stood beside Leval, he panted softly, he was out of magic power, and so could not heal himself. He needed to get back to the Academy so he could rest.

"I don't know, but we need to get back to the academy quickly whenever we can."

He looked over to Leval before looking towards Yoruichi to wait to see what their final decision would be.

The masked man noticed his attempt to cry out for help, then noticed him stalling. He was not stupid, and clicked his fingers and electrocuted him, he then opened the door where Shela was at and shot her in the head with a small magic blast, killing her instantly.

"Because, I can just bring her back just to kill her again. Haven't you heard of torture? Well, you're about to find out, dear child. Next time, you will learn not to stall and do as I ask immediately without question."

He continued to shock Irvine until he passed out. In which he would throw him in a cell next to Argentina. He smiled, before looking over to her. He walked up for a moment and stared her in the eyes.

"Do you like your friends? Then you better answer my questions, because if you don't I'll torture every last one until they die, then I'll torture them again but, if you answer me honestly, I may consider releasing you all. Now, where is the academy located?"

He stared at her seriously, ready to shock her if she didn't answer honestly.

@akirashadow@Maria 127

Kong

Kong awoke soon after and when he did, he awoke to see the other ape dead. He slowly got himself up and listened to Isabella, whoever she was she had helped him. He huffed, clenching his fist slightly. He didn't like it but he had no choice to follow her orders for now. Besides it gave him a chance to get out of this damn maze once and for all. When she had left he made his way out following her directions and it turned out that she wasn't lying as he came to the exit. Kong boosted himself with fire, flying towards the academy as fast as possible, once there he told Arken everything he knew, that the maze had trapped him and inside and monsters had attacked him. However he did not know there were other students within the academy even though Cinder was there and did not tell him anything about the mask man.

Yoshihiro and Senina

Yoshihiro watched as the mutated werewolf creature, with the combined effects of Zephroth, Leval and himself, died. He smiled then saw a spirit come up. He wasn't so sure of it after being misled although after hearing that it could be trusted from Leval he nodded. With that he rushed on ahead to Kai and Senina. Once there he stopped and smiled.

"Hey guys, I'm here. What are we fighting?"

Soon after though Isabella came and quickly confirmed everything. He nodded in understanding and got ready to fight himself. Senina didn't want to fight but at this point she saw it as useless. They had no choice but to kill this creature.

@DragonKingUk@The One@akirashadow@EurmalEye

*Argentina Rhosphrus*

Zephroth had noticed Leval enter the room but he didn't see how he helped but he was grateful nevertheless, when the creature was split in half he was a little surprised as he had expected the beast to dodge the attack.

When he first saw the random spirit he was very cautious but he listened to the spirit carefully as it seemed as though it would be leading them, to the other's. When Leval said that they could trust the spirit he relaxed a little but wasn't going to let his guard down.

When Leval stood in front of him and showed compassion for his lost friend he purred and nuzzled his leg in a way of thanking him for his kind words. This would also show Leval how much trust he had in him.

After that he would head off in the directions the spirit had given them in order to find Kai and Senina. Zephroth was just behind Yoshihiro and he got ready to fight, his duplicates already surrounding the eorm like creatures.

Argentina was getting hungry, she needed to hunt if anyone was going to save her so she begain to bang her fists on the glass pannel of the cell, but it seemed she didnt have to as the masked man electrocuted someone till they passed out before locking them in the cell next to her. She had seen him mouth help but she was confused and disoriented and couldn't react in time.

The masked man promtly turns to her cell and wasn't very polite to her but she listened to what he had to say regardless before spitting in his face. "Why on earth would I tell you after you hunted us like animals when you could have just sent us a message? Your a pathetic low life that neither deserves my respect or honesty. DO. YOUR.WORST. " sh hissed at him before spitting in his face again.

Kai listened to Isabella and quickly recalled his drones to his side with ice and energy manipulation this monsters could effectively neutralize or absorb any attack he threw at it and he could do the same to the monsters attacks. Kai sighed realizing this could become a long, boring and tedious battle Kai reluctantly looked to Isabella ready to follower her lead.

@Maria 127

The masked man laughed before clicking his fingers, suddenly, goul and extremely dirty water appeared in front of her. He then spoke to her once more.

"Very well, then."

He then shocked her again until she was on the verge of passing out. She would be very weak and confused. She would also have a very strong migraine. After that he walked up to Shela and clicked his fingers. The wall turned into glass, allowing Argentina to see Shela, then he revived Shela.

"I'll try again, where is the Academy."

Shela shook her head, refusing to tell him once again.

"I won't tell you. You can't make me. I am a nobody."

The masked man agreed and then laughed a little. She couldn't see Irvine or Ceres from where she was. So she had no idea that they were still here.

"You are nobody! Ceres is caged like the dog she is, and another student of yours, Irvine, he decided to kill you. You see, even your fellow students don't care about you."

He laughed knowing Shela couldn't hear Argentina even if she tried to tell her otherwise, of course Argentina could hear everything. She looked up to him and spoke again.

"I am nobody, I am just one person. If I died, it wouldn't make a difference. Everyone would forget about me and live on."

The masked man nodded to her, continuing to laugh.

"Yes, exactly but I can give you what you always wanted. I can make you strong. Make an impression, be who you always wanted to be."

Shela shook her head more, not saying a word. The masked man sighed before shooting a limb off. She screamed loudly, then he shot another, and another until she died of blood loss. With that, he clicked her fingers and she came back to life.

"Now, relive the pain until you change your mind."

He clicked her fingers and suddenly felt the pain of all her limbs being shot off, screaming loudly as she did. He laughed evilly and slowly walked away.

The worms burrowed under ground, each one covered in hard ice, one quickly came up and as it did, Isabella tranformed to her Kitsune form and then held the worm in place, holding it's soul. She then had the soul of a elephant appear, making it into a physical form and used it so destroy the ice. Now completely defenceless she used her nail manipulation and stabbed it right in the heart. The worm fell to the floor and died.

"That's one dead."

Just as she said that the worms combined into one, and burrowed away. Going back to the masked man knowing it could not win this fight with so many here. Isabella sighed and shook her head gently.

"Damn, we scared it away. Let's head back to the Academy. I don't know where it is however, I can take you to the end of the maze and then you can lead me. Leval should be there soon to explain the whole situation to Arken."

She nodded and then walked off, leading everyone else out the Maze. She would send Rika and his team when they were done the location of their nearest exit. After a few minutes of walking, Isabella and everyone else reached the exit of the maze. She nodded to Kai, Senina, Yoshihiro and Zephroth before looking back to the front waiting to be led.

@The One
*Argentina Rhosphrus *

Argentina knew she was going to be punished for what she said but she didn't care. She wasn't surprised when he decided to electricute her. She screamed in pain at first before gritting her teeth her to stifle her screams and giving him a sly smile before saying. "You'll have... To do better... Than that!" She stutters before finally passing out.

@The One

Cinder fluttered back to Leval's arm, spreading it wings in joy and relaxation. Ash, on the other arm, fluttered off of Leval and moved over to Kuro where she began to heal Kuro's various injuries. Isabella's spirit came in and relayed its final set of instructions to Leval. He breathed a sigh of relief. 'I can finally get us some help. Shela, Argentina, and Ceres, since you weren't mentioned when Isabella told me who was still in the maze, I am coming. Just hold out for a little longer.' He shook himself out of his gentle reverie and looked down to Kuro and Yoruichi. "Yes you can trust Isabella- I broke the seal on her myself. It's been a long day and there is a lot to go over, but for now you just need to trust me. Without Isabella I never would have been able to find the two of you." He looked down to Kuro, seeing the boy's exhaustion. He sighed and knelt down showing his back with the symbol of his family upon it. "Climb on. We need to move quickly and it will be much faster this way." Hopefully they would accept his offer, though if not he would have to leave in either case in order to make it there without wasting time.

Leval used his staff to propel them through the maze, extending it on a hedge and hooking onto it, before rapidly retracting it, sending him and any passengers rocketing forward. With a leap of joy in his heart, he finally saw the exit to the maze. He passed through it quickly, not waiting to see if any hedges would attempt to block his way again. The Academy was not too far away, but still Leval needed to move quickly. Now that his line of sight was, he began a series of teleports back to the Academy, making extremely quick time. Finally arriving inside the Academy, he made his way to Arken with a gasp of relief. The journey while extremely quick had suffered an equal cost of energy, exhausting him for the second time today. He looked up at the incredibly powerful man, all to aware of the vast gap between their strengths. He spied Kong in the room as well, presumably also telling Arken of the events.

"Arken! We need you! There is a man in the maze wearing a mask and he is kidnapping our students! He took Shela, Argentina, probably Ceres, and who know who else!" Leval hurriedly rushed through the rest of story detailed the bizarre events of the maze from the sudden quake, to his battle with the masked man, to the breaking of the seal of Isabella and the energy source he had taken, and of the other fights had with different monsters. "We finally got out just now! Hurry, I can't find them without you! The masked man is too powerful- he can teleport, create objects out of thin air, create monsters against us, create seals that last over 10,000 years, and... he can use the same reversal power that you can. We need to get them out quickly!" Leval's face was near panic, not bothering to conceal the worry and guilt he had felt since Shela had been taken.